Vanilla Pings v1.7

New features

Quality of life

• Pings now show the direction they're from in the players action bar (close pings show up red and distant ones green)
• Command to remove old pings /vanillapings removeOld

Settings

• Specify a range for direction messages
• Specify a range for entity ping chat messages
• Automatic ping removal is configurable

For the exact setting names check out the README on Github.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/crossy-l/VanillaPings/compare/v1.6...v1.7

Release v1.6

New features

Quality of life

• Added the amount of items laying around within a certain range of an item ping into the ping message
• Fixed typos on the modrinth and GitHub page

Release v1.5

New features

Quality of life

• Made pinging living entities apply glowing to them directly instead of creating a normal ping (suggested by wallysaurus on discord)

Release v1.4

New features

Quality of life

• Made pings in shorter range to the player more precise. This way you can ping through slabs or any other block that has a smaller than one block hitbox (but only up to a certain distance for performance reasons)

Allowed pings below water and lava

• When outside of a liquid you may ping it, when inside of one (for example in the ocean) you can ping right through it

Release v1.3

New Features

• Added new property to allow server admins to set a cooldown for pings (this should prevent ping spamming)

Bug Fixes

• It's no longer possible to ping entities through walls

Release v1.2

Performance improvements

• Limited max ping range on the horizontal axis to 32 chunks
• Limited max ping range on the vertical axis to build height
• Switched to from Minecrafts raycast system to using a custom raycast algorithm for finding ping positions

Issues and future planning

So far I haven't found any issues please post any bugs or errors you find as well as feature requests you might have. I'm happy to implement more settings and tweaks in the future. The chat messages will likely be reworked to only be visible to players nearby.

Release v1.1

Added

• ping range setting
• documentation on how to change settings and the config file can be found in the mods description or the Github page
• troubleshooting on the description and Github page

Features

• pinging blocks
• pinging entities
• support for more languages

This is the very first version of this mod. Improvements and updates will follow.