JAWA - Just Another WAILA Add-On
What are you looking at? Blocks, mobs and container contents on your HUD.
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Overview
You're staring at a block. You know it's some kind of stone. But which kind of stone? Deepslate? Tuff? Andesite? Regular stone that's been sitting there since chunk generation, minding its own business? You don't know. You've never known. You've been mining mystery blocks for years and honestly, at this point, you're too afraid to ask.
JAWA fixes that. Point at literally anything and get its name, namespace, block states, tags, and more — right there on your HUD, in real time. No menus. No wiki tabs. No squinting at textures trying to figure out if that's granite or polished granite while your friend judges you silently.
But we didn't stop at blocks. Look at an entity and you'll see its health bar, armour rating, active status effects with durations, and whether it's tameable, tamed, a baby, or what item you need to breed it. Look at a chest? Here's what's inside — all 27 slots rendered right on the overlay, without opening it. Hoppers, furnaces, brewing stands, droppers, even donkeys with saddlebags — if it holds items, JAWA will show you what's in it. Because apparently opening a chest is too much effort now, and honestly? We respect that.
The whole thing is stupidly customisable. Pick from over a dozen hand-crafted frame styles — everything from a classic tooltip to diamond-encrusted flex frames. Adjust opacity. Change position. Set different positions for when you're sneaking. Toggle individual features on or off. Want block states only when sneaking? Done. Want entity effects hidden entirely because you don't care that a zombie has Fire Resistance for some reason? Also done. There's even a dark mode for the container UIs, because apparently we're that kind of addon now.
Server admins get their own panel too. Set the defaults for new players, and lock settings you don't want people messing with. Because we all know that one player who'd set their overlay to 0% opacity and then complain it doesn't work.
JAWA is what happens when "What Am I Looking At?" meets someone who took the question personally.
Features
- Block info: name, states, redstone power, harvesting tags, namespace
- Entity info: health bar, armour rating, status effects with durations
- Live entity portrait rendered on the overlay
- Entity tags: baby, tamed, tameable, breedable with correct item display
- Container preview without opening - chests, shulkers, hoppers, furnaces, and more
- Entity container preview - donkeys, mules, llamas, chest/hopper minecarts
- Dropped item display with icon preview
- 14 hand-crafted frame styles from classic tooltip to diamond-encrusted
- 9 display positions with separate sneaking position
- Per-feature visibility controls (always, sneaking, never)
- Adjustable frame opacity and light/dark container themes
- Configurable update interval (1-10 ticks) for performance tuning
- Admin panel with lockable settings for server control
- Per-player settings that persist across sessions
- No Beta APIs required - achievement friendly
How to install
- Download the addon package (.mcaddon file).
- Open the .mcaddon file with Minecraft, which will automatically import it.
- When creating or editing a world, add both the "JAWA" Behavior Pack and Resource Pack.
- No Beta APIs required - achievement friendly!
- Load into the world and JAWA appears on your HUD automatically. Use /jawa:config to customise your overlay, or /jawa:admin for server operator settings.
Changelog
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v1.0.2 Latest
Fixed
- Fixed item display race condition causing locked duplicate items in slot 17 at low tick intervals
- Fixed dropper/dispenser container UI rendering outside the overlay frame
- Fixed "Empty" container label rendering outside the overlay frame
- Fixed brewing stand and jukebox container UI alignment
Works with Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.0+
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v1.0.1
Added
- Configurable Update Interval: Performance slider (1-10 ticks) so players can balance responsiveness vs CPU usage
Works with Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.0+
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v1.0.0
Initial Release
- Block information: name, block states, redstone power level, harvesting tags, namespace
- Entity information: health bar (normal, poison, wither, frozen), absorption hearts, armour rating, status effects with durations, entity tags (baby, tamed, tameable, breedable with item display)
- Live entity portrait on the overlay
- Numeric health mode for compact HP display
- Container preview: chests, shulker boxes, barrels, hoppers, droppers, dispensers, furnaces, blast furnaces, smokers, brewing stands, jukeboxes, copper chests, donkeys, mules, llamas, chest minecarts, hopper minecarts
- Dropped item display with icon preview
- 14 hand-crafted frame styles
- 9 display positions with separate sneaking position
- Per-feature visibility controls (Always, When Sneaking, When Not Sneaking, Never)
- Adjustable frame opacity (0-100%)
- Light and Dark container themes
- Per-player settings that persist across sessions
- Admin panel with default values and lockable settings
- No Beta APIs required
Works with Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.0+
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