i prefer muffins » Mods

Forge

is a mod API/loader that a lot of mods, including Zyin’s HUD, depend on.

Installing

  1. Go to the Forge website.
  2. Determine the Forge version you want; usually, this will be the Recommended version on the front page (it needs to match the version of Minecraft you’re running).
  3. Click the Windows Installer link to download, then run the installer.
  4. Keep the “Install client” option selected and click the OK button.
  5. After the installation finishes, start the Minecraft launcher.
  6. Click the green arrow next to the PLAY button and choose the “forge” profile entry.
  7. After installing the Forge mods you want, you can click the PLAY button to launch Minecraft with Forge.

Updating

  1. Download and install the updated version of Forge like you did the first time (steps 1–4 above).
  2. Start the Minecraft launcher.
  3. Click the menu icon in the top right, then select “Launch options”.
  4. Select the “forge” entry in the list.
  5. In the Version drop-down, it should show the version of Forge you were previously using. Open the drop-down and select the updated version.
  6. Click the SAVE button.
  7. Click “News” or the Minecraft logo at the top to get back to the main launcher screen so you can start the game.

Zyin’s HUD

is a UI mod (or a collection of mini-mods) that was originally made by a friend some of us used to play Minecraft with. More recently, it’s been kept up to date by some guy called cyilin on GitHub.

Installing

  1. Go to the Releases of cyilin’s zyinhud repository.
  2. Determine the mod version you want; usually, this will be the latest release (again, it needs to match your version of Minecraft).
  3. Click the .jar link under Assets to download.

  4. Put the file in your Forge mods directory (you will probably have to create the “mods” folder yourself):

    %appdata%\.minecraft\mods

    (or C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\mods, probably)

  5. Start Minecraft with the Forge profile as described above to use the mod.

Using and configuring

The feature you’re probably most interested in is the Safe Overlay. To use it, just press L in the game; this toggles the display of yellow and red Xs that show where it’s dark enough for hostile mobs to spawn.

However, you might also want to look through the other features, configure them, and maybe disable ones you don’t want:

  1. Open the game menu with the Esc key while in a game.
  2. Click the “Options…” button (not “Mod Options…”).
  3. Click the “Zyin’s HUD…” button in the upper right. This opens a menu where you can enable/disable and configure all the mini-mods.
    • If you can’t find the Zyin’s HUD button, make sure you opened the game menu while you’re in a world, instead of clicking Options from the main menu you see just after starting Minecraft.

I like to turn the opacity for the Safe Overlay up to 100%, and these are the mods I like to have enabled most of the time:

Updating

To update Zyin’s HUD, just download the new .jar file into the mods directory and delete the old one.