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Mod Features: Quality Of Life, Visual Tweaks
Mod Side: Client
tModLoader Version: 1.4.4
Language: English
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Block's Better Bars

Block's Better Bars is yet another mod about improving boss bars, and health bars in general. Over time, it has been improved and added upon with the ambitious goal of becoming the last boss bar mod you'll ever need. Read on for more details:

New Boss Bar Style:
The bread and butter of the mod, improved boss bars:
  • Support for simultaneously displaying bars for multiple bosses at once!
  • Dynamic HP fill color that changes the lower health is
  • Shake and chip effects to make the boss bar a little more lively
  • A bar fill animation upon initially engaging a boss
  • Larger text display for HP, which also includes the boss's name
  • Many different appearances, based on world difficulty by default

Sidebars:
A unique, optional feature; 'Sidebars' are special, minature boss bars that temproarily appear to display the status of recently-damaged foes:
  • As their name implies, Sidebars are positioned on the side of your screen, adjacent to your minimap
  • They have most (though not all) of the same features of standard boss bars

Common Enemy Bar Improvements:
It's not just boss bars that get better with this mod! (Otherwise it'd still be called Block's Boss Bars):
  • Another optional feature that offers an enhanced version of the common enemy health bars (The ones that appear below damaged enemies)
  • Comes with increased size/length, and a text display for HP
  • Much more customizable than its vanilla counterpart

Player Widget Bars:
Yet another additional feature; you can now add stat bars to your player, like how other players appear in multiplayer:
  • Show bars below your player as an extra display for health and mana
  • There's also a flight time bar which can be set to appear above your player!
  • Like the enhanced enemy bars, these player bars come with a larger size and text displays
  • You can also enable text displays for multiplayer health bars!

Configuration:
Block's Better Bars has a massive amount customization options that allow you to fine tune the behavior of all its features:
  • Adjust the position, color, and size of bars and text displays
  • Customize how many boss bars/sidebars can be displayed at once
  • The boss bar and sidebars come in many different styles to choose from. This stacks with the different difficulty-based appearances of boss bars!
  • Boss bars can also be set to use unique appearances based on the boss. This feature supports all vanilla bosses by default
  • Modify the logic of the boss bar, allowing you to count optional boss parts on certain bosses, like Skeletron!
  • Toggle extra displays for stats other than health
  • Toggle and adjust bar shaking, chipping, and filling effects
  • Whitelist NPCs to make them draw boss bars! There's also a special whitelist for adding minibosses!
  • And more!

Mod.Call:
  • Modders can add custom boss bar logic and appearances to their bosses using Mod.Call!
  • If you want to add Mod.Call support to your mod, refer to the Mod.Call Guide discussion thread!

Open Source
  • This mod is open-source under the GNU GPLv3 license. In short, you’re allowed to view and utilize code from the source if you’d like, but if you want to publish any work you did with it, that project will have to use the same license (GNU GPLv3). The mod's LICENSE file contains the full details of terms and conditions, etc.
  • You can access the source-code using tML's extract function (Found in-game on the mod's More Info page in your Mods List).

Special Thanks:
  • Flashkirby; creator of the aforementioned 1.3 mod 'Yet Another Boss Health Bar'. YABHB heavily inspired this mod, which was created with the goal of being an unoffical successor for modern tML. Additionally, some bar sprites (namely those of the YABHB-Style) are adapted from YABHB's own boss bar sprites.
  • gotest; creator of another 1.3 mod, 'Unleveled'. Its enemy health bars were the basis and inspiration for the 'Sidebars' feature.

Please first read the pinned discussion 'FAQ Thread: Compatibility, Known Issues/Bug Reports, Roadmap & More' if you have any questions!
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JJ's Place 28 Sep @ 11:53am 
Ok I didn't know there was a Boss Bar Blacklist
BlockCrusader  [author] 28 Sep @ 6:27am 
@JJ's Place, I believe that's because of the archaeologist's extremely high HP. The mod has a system where it automatically adds a Miniboss Healthbar for any entity with sufficiently high HP.

To resolve this, you can adjust some of the mod's config settings. You can either increase the HP threshold for Miniboss Bars, or - preferably - add the archaeologist to the Boss Bar blacklist.
JJ's Place 27 Sep @ 6:49pm 
So small interesting issue with SOTS mod one of their NPCs the archaeologist has a health bar that persists at all times with in a decent sized radius around it. but there is no boss bar for said NPC in the vanilla style old with the mod's boss bar.
BlockCrusader  [author] 13 Aug @ 6:29pm 
@The TRUE SLAYER Dude, I won't be personally adding integrated support for other mods, but other modders can add custom boss bar logic for modded bosses by using Mod.Call.
There is a discussion thread on this steam workshop page that details how to use Mod.Call to add support for this mod.

If you'd like to see another mod (in this case, Calamity) add support for this mod's boss bars, I'd recommend making a request to the mod's devs.
Alternatively, if you or someone you know is willing and able, doing it yourself and making an add-on that implements the cross-compatibility is another option.
The SP00KY POSTAL Dude 13 Aug @ 3:09pm 
Anyone know how to make this mod work with bosses like Slime God from Calamity? I would preferably want it to be one cumulative bar of all the Paladins' HP.
BlockCrusader  [author] 10 Aug @ 6:03pm 
Preview images are finally up-to-date
BlockCrusader  [author] 10 Aug @ 3:16pm 
NOTICE: v1.3 - the (presumably) final update - is here!
The mod has been renamed to 'Block's Better Bars', as it now does more than just boss bars.
Once the patch notes are posted on the workshop, I'll (finally) start working on updated preview images.

...somehow the description includes the word 'boss' less times (17) than it did before? The word 'bar' is used 31 times, though! :steamhappy:
BlockCrusader  [author] 8 Aug @ 9:59am 
@thyhm, lol. That count will be higher once the next (and hopefully last) update comes out.
thyhm 8 Aug @ 9:42am 
you typed the word boss 28 times
BlockCrusader  [author] 6 Aug @ 4:54pm 
NOTICE: Recent updates (v1.2.X) over the past few weeks have added a TON of new appearances for boss bars.
As of writing, there are now 54 unique bar sprites total! (108 counting the 'long' variants!)

This - in addition to other new features - has, of course, left the workshop page's preview images super outdated, unfortunately.
Just wanted to acknowledge this fact so that ya'll are aware that I'm aware. I intend to make a bunch of new preview images once I'm done making new content for the mod. There's still a little more I wanna add, so bear with me!