Jade 🔍 guide for All the Mods 10 0.32 to 0.50

Jade is the information HUD mod in this pack: a modern continuation of Hwyla/Waila. Point your crosshair at any block or entity and a small tooltip appears telling you what it is, saving you a trip to JEI every time you meet an unfamiliar machine or ore.^[1]

The pack ships Jade 15.3.4 for NeoForge, and it has been part of the pack since version 0.33 or earlier, so it is there from your very first world.^[2]

It is a quality-of-life mod for everyone, but it earns its keep hardest in a kitchen-sink pack like this one, where you are constantly running into blocks from mods you have never touched. Jade can be installed client-side only, but a lot of its nicer readouts (item storage contents, brewing stand fuel amount, bees in a beehive) need Jade on the server too. In this pack it is bundled for both sides, so on a dedicated server everyone gets the full set of readouts.^[1][2]

Default keys

• Keypad 0 opens the configuration screen, where you tune what the HUD shows.^[1]
• Keypad 1 toggles the overlay on and off.^[1]
• Keypad 2 toggles liquid display, so you can target fluids instead of the block behind them.^[1]
• Keypad 3 shows recipes for whatever you are looking at, and Keypad 4 shows its uses. Both need JEI.^[1]
• Keypad 5 narrates the target for accessibility.^[1]

Jade is highly configurable compared to older HUD mods, so if the tooltip is showing too much or too little for your taste, the config screen is the first place to go rather than uninstalling anything.^[1]

There are no quests tied to Jade in this pack and it is not on the ATM Star path: it is pure convenience, not progression. That said, having block names and machine states on screen at all times makes every other progression line faster to follow.^[1]

Unverified Which specific Jade addons or mod integrations are enabled in this pack is not confirmed by the available sources.

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

Jade is the info HUD in this pack. It shows information about whatever you're looking at, so it's the first thing to learn before you start exploring all the other mods. Once you know what a block or mob is, you can decide what to do with it.^[1]

Unverified No in-pack recipe or quest involving Jade could be confirmed, so there is nothing to craft or complete to get started with it.

Learn the default keys

These are Jade's default keybinds. If the tooltip doesn't react the way you expect, check your Controls screen, because the pack may have rebound them and I can't confirm that from my sources.^[1]

• Keypad 0 opens the configuration screen. Start here.^[1]
• Keypad 1 toggles the overlay on and off.^[1]
• Keypad 2 toggles the liquid display.^[1]
• Keypad 3 shows recipes and Keypad 4 shows uses, both requiring JEI.^[1]
• Keypad 5 narrates your target.^[1]

First steps in the config screen

1. Open the configuration screen with its key and look for the display mode setting. It controls how the tooltip behaves and how the show-details key works.^[1][3]
2. Pick a mode. Hold-key mode needs you to hold the overlay key. Toggle mode turns the overlay on and off each time you press the key. Lite mode shows further information while you hold the details key.^[3]
3. Turn on the option that shows which mod an item comes from. In a big pack this saves a lot of guessing.^[3]
4. Optionally enable the setting that shows the target's coordinates, or the one that shows your distance to it.^[3]

If the tooltip gets in your way, there are options to hide it on most GUI screens, on the debug screen and on the player list. You can also turn the tooltip off completely with the global switch. If you prefer to hear information, Jade has a narrator and accessibility features for showing more detail.^[3]

Jade is the information HUD in this pack: a fork of Hwyla/Waila for modern Minecraft that shows you information about whatever block or entity you are looking at. Point your crosshair at something and a small tooltip box appears with what it is, and the mod's plugins fill in extra lines on top of that basic identification.^[1][4]

Display modes and the details key

The overlay has a master switch for whether it collects data and renders the tooltip at all, plus a display mode setting that controls how the tooltip behaves normally and how the show-details key interacts with it. That gives you three broad ways to run it.^[4]

• Hold key mode: the overlay only appears while you hold the show-overlay key, so your HUD stays clean the rest of the time.^[4]
• Toggle mode: pressing the show-overlay key switches the tooltip on and off.^[4]
• Lite mode: a trimmed tooltip is always up, and you hold the show-details key to expand it with further information.^[4]

The show-details key matters beyond lite mode, because several plugins can be set to stay quiet until you press it. Energy storage and fluid storage both have a detailed option that hides their readout unless details are held, and item storage has separate limits for how many items to list when details are pressed and when they are not, plus a threshold for how many items it will show by name instead of just icons.^[4]

What the plugins read

Jade's built-in plugins are what turn the tooltip into a diagnostic tool. Beyond the block name, they can read energy stored in a block, fluid contents, and the contents of item storage such as chests and machine inventories, which is what makes it useful for checking an automation setup without opening every GUI.^[4]

There is also a fluid fallback option that only shows a fluid when there is no other target, so looking at a machine sitting in water reports the machine rather than the water.^[4]

The vanilla-facing plugins add smaller but handy readouts: enchantment power of a block, harvest tool information (with an option to show it in creative and spectator mode too), the note and instrument of a note block, whether a block is waxed, a warning for TNT that ignites when hit, and the time until the next entity drop such as an egg or an armadillo scute.^[4]

A separate group of options covers the technical details you usually want while debugging: the target's coordinates (with a relative mode that requires holding Ctrl), the distance between you and the target, the face of the block you are touching, registry names including special IDs like BlockEntity and Fluid, and which mod an item comes from on its tooltip.^[4]

Keeping it out of the way

The overlay can be told to hide itself when the debug screen, the player list, or most GUIs are open, and its position can be mirrored when your main hand is set to left. An animation option morphs the box as it appears, disappears and changes size, and a reach distance setting increases how far away a target can be and still be read.^[4]

Client, server and mod integration

Jade can be installed on the client alone, but many features need it on the server side as well, including item storage, brewing stand fuel amount and bees in a beehive. On a pack server that is already handled for you; it is worth knowing if you ever join a server that does not run it.^[1]

Support for modded blocks beyond the built-in plugins comes from the companion mod Jade Addons, which is distributed separately for NeoForge and Fabric. Compared to Hwyla, Jade's selling points are a redesigned API, more vanilla addons, higher configurability and better accessibility.^[1]

Default keybinds

• Keypad 0 opens the configuration screen, where every option above lives.^[1]
• Keypad 1 toggles the overlay, and Keypad 2 toggles the liquid display.^[1]
• Keypad 3 shows recipes for the target and Keypad 4 shows its uses; both require JEI.^[1]
• Keypad 5 narrates the target.^[1]

Unverified No Jade config files from this pack were available while writing this section, so the exact default values the pack ships for these options (display mode, item storage amounts, reach distance and so on) are not confirmed here. Open the configuration screen in game with Keypad 0 to see what your install is actually set to.

There's no Jade config file for this pack in the material I have, so I can't tell you which values the pack changed from the mod defaults. I won't guess at them. What I can confirm is how Jade's configuration is reached and what its defaults look like.^[1]

Opening the configuration screen

Jade has an in-game configuration screen. By default it opens with Keypad 0. Jade is described as highly configurable compared to Hwyla, so most of what you'll want to tweak lives there.^[1]

Default keybinds

These are the mod's default keys. I couldn't confirm whether the pack rebinds any of them, so check your Controls menu if one doesn't respond.^[1]

• Keypad 0: open the configuration screen.^[1]
• Keypad 1: toggle the overlay.^[1]
• Keypad 2: toggle liquid display.^[1]
• Keypad 3: show recipes (requires JEI).^[1]
• Keypad 4: show uses (requires JEI).^[1]
• Keypad 5: narrate the target.^[1]

Unverified The pack's specific Jade settings, such as which info is shown by default or whether any option differs from the mod default, could not be confirmed from the available sources.

All the Mods 10 0.50 ships Jade 15.3.4 for NeoForge (the 1.21.1 build), and the mod has been in the pack since 0.32 or earlier. Below are the notable changes from Jade's own changelogs, newest first.^[2]

Unverified No pack changelog entries for Jade were available, so any change the pack itself made to this mod is unverified.

15.3.4 (current in 0.50)

• A new accessibility plugin arrived, with extras like showing slime size and showing whether an ender portal frame has an eye.^[5]
• Hints now show in chat instead of as a toast, and errors print a stack trace in the console log.^[5]
• Villager mod names now change according to the villager's profession.^[5]
• Fixes: the progress bar width displaying wrongly, some mob poses not being supported, and an incompatibility with Wilder Wild.^[5]

15.2.1

• Added an in-line icon mode, improved item amount alignment and reduced the line height of small item icons.^[5][6]
• Fixed "Loot not generated yet" not showing.^[5][6]
• More modded trapped chests are now hidden.^[5][6]

Earlier fixes and features

• 15.1.1 added a shearable check based on a block's loot table, a fallback fluid mode, an unhide from GUIs option and an anchor point adjustment.^[7][8]
• 15.1.2 changed the server ping packet id so players are not kicked.^[7][8]
• 15.1.3 fixed the "Hide from GUIs" option not working correctly.^[7][8]
• 15.1.4 fixed the wrong tool being shown for Bamboo, and 15.1.7 fixed an incorrect tool tier being shown.^[7]
• 15.1.5 fixed the client locking up when trying to draw a progress bar with a width of Infinity. The changelog words this as "hopefully" fixed.^[7][8]
• 15.1.6 targeted NeoForge stable, and 15.1.8 allowed empty view groups.^[7]

Porting history

• 15.0.4 ported Jade to 1.21, and 15.0.5 targeted the latest NeoForge.^[5]
• 14.2.3 was the port to 1.20.6.^[6]
• 14.0.2 was the 1.20.5 release.^[7]