Overflowing Bars guide for FTB Skies 2 1.20.0 to 1.20.1

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

Overflowing Bars is a HUD mod. It expands your health, armor and armor toughness bars past what vanilla can show, and it keeps them compact and easy to read. The pack includes version 21.1.1 for NeoForge on Minecraft 1.21.1.^[1][2]

What it does

• Instead of adding extra rows of icons, it stacks bars into layers. Your HUD stays small even with very high health, armor or toughness.^[1]
• When a stat goes past the vanilla limit, a row counter tells you how many layers you have. You don't have to memorize a color scheme.^[1]
• It adds a dedicated armor toughness bar. Vanilla doesn't show that stat on the HUD.^[1]
• Colors stay simple: the vanilla color is the base layer, and one highlight color marks stacked layers. There is no rainbow display to decode.^[1]
• It includes a chat compatibility fix, so chat messages don't cover armor-related HUD elements.^[1]
• Positioning, stacking behavior, counters and display options can all be adjusted to suit your HUD setup.^[1]

Who it is for

It's for anyone who ends up with more health, armor or toughness than vanilla was built to display. It's a client-side convenience, since the mod needs to be installed on the client. It doesn't add items, recipes or progression content of its own.^[1]

Unverified Where Overflowing Bars fits in the pack's progression is unconfirmed. No quests involve this mod, and it isn't on the ATM Star path.

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

Good news: there's nothing to craft here. Overflowing Bars is a HUD mod, so there's no first item to make and no setup to do before you play. It changes how your health, armor and armor toughness bars are drawn on screen.^[1]

What you'll notice

• Health, armor and armor toughness stack into compact layers instead of adding extra rows of icons once you go past the vanilla limits.^[1]
• A row counter shows how many layers of health, armor or toughness you have, so you don't need to memorize a color scheme.^[1]
• Vanilla colors are used for the base layer, with a single highlight color for stacked layers.^[1]
• You get a dedicated armor toughness bar, a stat vanilla doesn't show on the HUD.^[1]
• A chat compatibility fix stops chat messages from covering the armor-related HUD elements.^[1]

Tweaking the layout

Config files live in the config folder and are named after the mod id, ending in client, common or server depending on the type. Not every type exists for every mod. The HUD options are the kind of thing you'd expect in a client config, but I can't confirm the exact file name or option names in this pack.^[1]

Unverified The mod's page recommends AttributeFix for proper support of armor and toughness values beyond vanilla limits. Whether this pack includes it is unverified.

Unverified No quests in this pack involve this mod, and no recipes produce its items, so there is no in-pack progression or crafting to follow for it.

Overflowing Bars doesn't add machines, multiblocks, power, fluids or item automation. It's a HUD mod. It changes how your health, armor and armor toughness are drawn on screen, so there's nothing to build or pipe here. What you get is a much clearer view of your defensive stats once they climb past vanilla limits.^[1]

How the stacked bars work

Vanilla gives you one row of hearts and one row of armor. When your stats go past those limits, Overflowing Bars doesn't pile on extra rows of icons. It stacks the bars into layers that take up far less space, so the HUD stays compact even with very high values.^[1]

When you have more than one layer, a row counter shows how many layers of health, armor or toughness you currently have. You don't need to memorize a color scheme or guess which layer you're looking at.^[1]

The colors are kept simple too. The base layer uses the vanilla colors, and stacked layers get a single highlight color instead of a rainbow of shades.^[1]

The three bars

• Health: you can stack health beyond ten hearts without adding extra rows to the HUD.^[1]
• Armor: high armor values are displayed using only as much space as they need.^[1]
• Armor toughness: the mod adds a dedicated toughness bar, so you can see a defensive stat that vanilla doesn't show on the HUD.^[1]

Extras and requirements

The mod includes a chat compatibility fix that stops chat messages from covering armor-related HUD elements. Its project page also says layout, positioning, stacking behavior, counters and display options can be customized.^[1]

The mod has to be installed on the client. The project page also recommends AttributeFix for proper support of armor and toughness values beyond vanilla limits.^[1]

Unverified The pack has no config files for this mod, and the available sources don't list its option names or default values. Whether the pack changes any layout or stacking settings, and whether AttributeFix is part of the pack, could not be confirmed.

FTB Skies 2 1.20.1 ships Overflowing Bars 21.1.1, using the file OverflowingBars-v21.1.1-1.21.1-NeoForge.jar. The mod was already in the pack as of FTB Skies 2 1.20.0 or earlier.^[3]

Mod changelog

• v21.1.1-1.21.1 (2024-09-30): Fixed. Elements are no longer rendered when the HUD is hidden with F1. This is the version your pack uses.^[3][4]
• v21.1.0-1.21.1 (2024-09-29): Port to Minecraft 1.21.1.^[4]

In practice, the F1 fix means that when you hide the HUD for screenshots or recording, the bars won't stay on screen.^[4]

Unverified No pack changelog entries for this mod were available, so what changed for Overflowing Bars between FTB Skies 2 releases is unverified.