Better radar icons for Xaero's Minimap. A small client-only Fabric mod for Minecraft 1.21.1 that does three things:
The same icons appear on Xaero's World Map, which draws the minimap's radar. Models in the world are not changed, only the radar icons.
The icons are small pixel-art sprites in the style of the Xaero icon packs, one texture pixel per sprite pixel, with Xaero drawing the black outline. They cover the mobs of the Nytheria modpack, including the bosses of The Twilight Forest, L_Ender's Cataclysm, Bosses of Mass Destruction, Aether, Eternal Starlight and Astral Dimension, all 102 Tide fish, and the vanilla and Vanilla Backport mobs. Mobs of NeoForge mods that the modpack loads through the Sporran mod (Cataclysm, Astral Dimension) are included.
| Mod | Mobs |
|---|---|
| Tide | 102 |
| Astral Dimension | 88 |
| Minecraft (vanilla and Vanilla Backport mobs) | 86 |
| The Twilight Forest | 59 |
| L_Ender's Cataclysm | 39 |
| Eternal Starlight | 34 |
| AdventureZ | 28 |
| The Aether | 21 |
| Creeper Overhaul | 16 |
| [Let's Do] WilderNature | 16 |
| Simply Swords | 15 |
| Clutter | 14 |
And 23 more mods: Friends&Foes (11), Illager Invasion (11), Deeper and Darker (8), Eternal Nether (8), Better Nether Remastered (7), Galosphere (7), Better End Remastered (6), Bosses of Mass Destruction (Beta) (4), It Takes a Pillage Continuation (4), Variants&Ventures (4), Oh The Biomes We've Gone (3), Ecologics (3), Supplementaries (3), Goblin Traders (2), [Let's Do] Meadow (2), [Let's Do] Vinery (2), YUNG's Cave Biomes (2), Artifacts Remastered (1), [Let's Do] Beachparty (1), MmmMmmMmmMmm (target dummy) (1), Dusty Decorations (1), [Let's Do] Furniture (1), Winter Overhaul (1).
resourcepacks folder, remove it.For a part of the mobs (83 use Icon Xaero's, 53 use Icon Fresh) the built-in pack uses the hand-drawn sprites of Icon Xaero's 1.22 and Icon Fresh 1.3. Those packs are All-Rights-Reserved, so their sprites cannot be copied into this mod; the built-in pack only points at them. The mod works without them, but then those mobs get the generated fallback icon described below instead of the hand-drawn one. So keep them enabled if you already use them, below the built-in pack.
Xaero builds an icon by tracing the mob's model. That fails for mods that render mobs differently (GeckoLib mobs), for some Fresh Animations models that draw nothing, and whenever a renderer throws. Icon packs can also point at a sprite that is not there, for example because the pack is switched off. In these cases the mod draws the mob with its own renderer in a neutral pose (no fire, no hurt tint, no name tag), reduces it to pixel art and shows the head from the front, or the whole mob if it has no head the mod can find. Xaero adds its usual outline and keeps the icon like any other.
-Dxaeroiconfix.fallback=false.Icons that Xaero builds itself, icons from packs whose sprite loads, and item and dot icons are left alone.
Xaero builds a radar icon by tracing the live renderer of the entity. For players that goes wrong with some mods:
The mod draws the head (8x8x8, skin UV 0,0) and hat (the same cube inflated by 0.5, UV 32,0) itself, with the skin the game downloaded for exactly that player, through a separate buffer that these mods cannot hook into. The hat is left out if the player turned it off in Skin Customization. Icons are cached per skin and hat setting, so two players never share an icon, and an icon made before a skin finished downloading is replaced when the real skin arrives.
Xaero's flat skin faces for tracked (party) players outside the loaded radar range are not changed.
Without Xaero's Minimap the mod does nothing: it applies no changes, registers no icon pack and writes one line to the log. The Fair-Play edition of Xaero's Minimap is detected the same way.
The mod is client-only. Put the jar in the mods folder of your client. Nothing is needed on a
server, and no resource pack has to be installed.
Client commands ask Xaero for the radar icon of every registered entity type, the way the radar
does, and write <game dir>/xaeroiconfix/icon_audit.txt with one line per living entity type
(OK, DOT, FAILED and a few more statuses, with the icon source, and fallback (xaeroiconfix)
for icons made by the fallback). The built-in pack was made from such a report.
/xaeroiconfix audit creates each entity type on the client without adding it to the world and
asks for its icon./xaeroiconfix audit live (singleplayer only, use a test world) also summons every living
entity type in the integrated server, 8 at a time in front of you, with no AI, silent and
invulnerable, and asks for the icon of the real entity. The camera turns towards each batch and
bosses are summoned too, so do not run it in a world you care about./xaeroiconfix audit live all does the same and exports pixel-exact portraits of every living
entity (front, side and head) to <game dir>/xaeroiconfix/portraits/. By default the live audit
exports portraits only for mobs whose icon failed or is a dot. They are rendered with the normal
entity renderer, one texture pixel per image pixel, and are a good base for radar sprites.An unattended audit that opens a test world, runs the live audit and quits is available with
-Dxaeroiconfix.autoAudit=true (report ends with # RESULT: COMPLETE); it is off unless you set
that argument. -Dxaeroiconfix.audit.portraits=all and
-Dxaeroiconfix.autoAudit.timeoutMinutes=<n> (default 30) change its portraits and timeout.
xaeroiconfix instead of
silently drawing broken icons, and the mod needs an update. Made for Xaero's Minimap 26.5.0; other
versions are untested.MIT. Free to include in any modpack, no permission needed.
