Jade is an information HUD mod for Minecraft: Java Edition that names whatever you are looking at and shows what matters about it: mob health, furnace progress, crop growth, chest contents. It runs on Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt, works client-only, and shows more when the server has it too.
Point your crosshair at anything in Minecraft and Jade puts a small panel at the top of the screen telling you what it is. A block, a mob, a fluid, a machine from some mod you installed three modpacks ago. Jade names it, tells you which mod it came from, and adds whatever is worth knowing about it right now: how full the furnace is, how much health the creeper has left, whether the wheat is ready.
It is the kind of mod you stop noticing after a week and then badly miss when it is gone. Jade is maintained by Snownee and is a fork of HWYLA by TehNut, which was itself a fork of WAILA, the same lineage of "what am I looking at" mods going back years, carried forward to current Minecraft versions.
The contents change with whatever you are aiming at. In vanilla Minecraft, some of the more useful cases:
Modded blocks depend on the mod. Many mods ship their own Jade support, which means their machines show energy, fluid levels and progress with no extra setup. Mods that do not may be covered by Jade Addons instead: a separate download, covered further down. Neither is guaranteed for any given mod, so a modded block showing only its name is normal rather than a fault.
This trips people up more than anything else about Jade, and the short answer is that both halves are optional but they do different jobs.
Jade draws the panel on your machine, so installing it on the client alone is enough to use it. Names, mod sources, health bars, status effects, crop growth, fluids and most block states are all read from information your game already has.
What the client cannot see is data the server never sent it. The contents of a chest you have not opened, the fuel level in a brewing stand, the number of bees in a hive. That state lives on the server, and it takes a server-side Jade to hand it over. On a single-player world this is invisible, because your game is quietly running both sides at once. On a multiplayer server it is very visible: Jade works, but the container previews are simply absent.
There is no failure mode here worth worrying about. A missing server-side install costs you a few features; it does not throw errors and it does not stop you connecting.
Jade's version numbers are not a single line that counts upwards. Each Minecraft version gets its own branch, and the branch is named after the Minecraft version it targets. As of August 2026 the current builds are 26.2.11 for Fabric and 26.2.9 for NeoForge, both for Minecraft 26.2, both released on 15 August 2026.
So "Jade 26.2.11" means "the eleventh Jade build for Minecraft 26.2", not "Jade, eleven versions after 26.2.0 of the mod". Older branches carry their own numbering entirely: builds for Minecraft 1.21.11 sit in the 21.x range. The practical consequence is that there is no single latest Jade to go looking for; there is a latest build for your Minecraft version, and that is the one you want.
Jade is published for Fabric, NeoForge, Quilt and Forge, which is what the Loaders row on this page lists. Not all four exist on every Minecraft version, though, and that is the thing to check before you go hunting for a file that was never built.
Builds are not interchangeable between loaders, and they are not interchangeable between Minecraft versions either. Both have to match.
This differs by loader, and most write-ups get it wrong, so it is worth stating exactly:
Jade's controls default to the number pad:
On a laptop keyboard with no number pad, none of these do anything by default, which is a common reason people think Jade has broken. They are ordinary Minecraft keybinds and can be reassigned under Options → Controls → Key Binds like any other. Numpad 1 is the one worth rebinding first, because an accidentally toggled overlay looks identical to a mod that failed to load.
The configuration screen itself is reachable from the Mods menu as well, so you are not locked out of it by a missing key. Jade is unusually configurable once you get there: individual information providers can be switched off, blocks can be added to an ignore list, the panel can be moved and re-anchored, and there is a narration option for accessibility.
Jade Addons is a separate optional download from the same developer that adds integrations for specific mods: Create, Lootr, Supplementaries, Artifacts, Tinkers' Construct, EnderIO and Modern Industrialization among them. It is not part of Jade, it is not required, and Jade is fully functional without it.
Three things to know before you go looking for it. It ships as two separate projects, one for Fabric and Quilt and one for Forge and NeoForge, and you need the one matching your loader. Its latest supported Minecraft version is 1.21.1, so there is currently no Jade Addons for the 26.x branch. And it is released under All Rights Reserved rather than Jade's Creative Commons licence. The two projects are licensed differently, which matters if you are assembling a modpack.
Jade is one of three mods doing broadly the same job. The One Probe takes a different visual approach and can require a probe item in hand for a more survival-flavoured feel; WTHIT is another fork of the same HWYLA ancestry. They overlap almost completely in purpose, so modpacks generally pick one. Running two just puts two panels on your screen showing the same thing. Utility mods that do not overlap with it at all are a different matter: Litematica for building from a schematic and VeinMiner for clearing an ore vein in one swing both sit happily beside Jade.
If you are arriving from WAILA or HWYLA, Jade is the branch of that family still being updated. Be aware that Jade rebuilt the plugin API rather than inheriting it, so add-ons written for HWYLA should not be assumed to work.
Jade is a Minecraft: Java Edition mod. There is no Bedrock version, and there cannot be a direct port: Bedrock uses add-ons rather than Java mod loaders, and the two systems are not compatible. That also rules out consoles and the Pocket Edition apps, which all run Bedrock. Any site offering "Jade for Bedrock" is not distributing anything from Snownee.
Almost every failed Jade install comes down to downloading the wrong file, and there are three things to match rather than one. Work them out before you open a download page.
Jade-mc26.2-Fabric-26.2.11.jar, with the Minecraft version sitting right after mc.With those three settled, the Download section on this page is the shortest route: filter to your Minecraft version and loader, and the matching row opens the official Modrinth file. CurseForge is official too. The author is Snownee, so a page crediting anyone else is the wrong place.
This is the step people skip. The current Fabric build of Jade lists Fabric API as a required dependency, so Jade alone will not start the game.
.jar files into your mods folder: %appdata%\.minecraft\mods on Windows, ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/mods on macOS, ~/.minecraft/mods on Linux.The NeoForge build has no required dependencies, so this is a single-file install.
.jar into your mods folder.Server-side Jade is what makes chest previews, brewing stand fuel and beehive counts appear for players. It is worth adding, and it asks nothing of the people connecting.
mods folder. On Fabric servers, Fabric API goes in alongside it.Players who have not installed Jade are unaffected: they see the server exactly as before. Players who have installed it get the full panel instead of the reduced one.
Look at a block. If a panel appears at the top of the screen naming it, Jade is running. If nothing appears, work down this list before reinstalling anything:
If the panel appears but chests and brewing stands show nothing on a multiplayer server, nothing is broken: that is the server-side half of Jade missing, and it needs the server admin rather than a reinstall.
If Jade never reaches the mod list at all, our guide to mods that will not load covers version and dependency mismatches in more depth.
No builds match these filters.
Both, and both are optional. Jade draws its panel on the client, so a client-only install works and gives you names, mod sources, health bars, status effects and crop growth. Features that read state the server holds (chest and shulker contents, brewing stand fuel, bees in a hive) need Jade on the server too. On a single-player world you get everything automatically, because your game runs both sides.
On Fabric, yes. The current Fabric build lists Fabric API as a required dependency, and the game will not start without it. On NeoForge, no: that build has no required dependencies at all. This is one of the most common reasons a Jade install fails on Fabric.
Only on older versions. The newest Minecraft version with a Forge build of Jade is 1.20.4. Anything newer is Fabric, NeoForge or Quilt. If you are on Forge on a current release, there is no Jade build available for it.
Yes. There is no separate Quilt download: the Fabric file is published for Quilt as well, so install the Fabric build and treat it exactly as you would on Fabric, Fabric API included.
No. JEI is optional and only powers two keybinds: Numpad 3 for recipes and Numpad 4 for uses of whatever you are looking at. Without JEI those keys do nothing and everything else works normally: no errors, no crash.
Start with the overlay toggle on Numpad 1, which is easy to hit by accident and impossible to press on a laptop without a number pad. Rebind it in Options → Controls → Key Binds. If that is not it, check the Mods list on the title screen: if Jade is not there the file never loaded, which almost always means the build does not match your Minecraft version or your loader.
Because the server does not have Jade installed. Container contents are server-held data, so a client-only install cannot show them however it is configured. Everything else keeps working; the fix is for the server admin to add Jade server-side.
It is a separate optional mod from the same developer that adds support for specific mods, including Create, Lootr, Supplementaries, Tinkers' Construct and EnderIO. Jade works completely without it. It comes in two editions (one for Fabric and Quilt, one for Forge and NeoForge), and its newest supported Minecraft version is 1.21.1, so there is no build for the 26.x branch yet.
The one built for your Minecraft version, because Jade numbers its branches after Minecraft rather than counting upwards. For Minecraft 26.2 the current builds are 26.2.11 on Fabric and 26.2.9 on NeoForge. There is no single "latest Jade", only a latest build per Minecraft version.
It comes from them. Jade is a fork of HWYLA by TehNut, which was itself a fork of WAILA, and it is the branch of that family still updated for current Minecraft versions. The plugin API was rebuilt rather than carried over, so add-ons written for HWYLA should not be assumed to work with Jade.
No. Jade is Java Edition only, and there is no Bedrock equivalent from the developer. Bedrock uses add-ons rather than Java mod loaders, so a .jar file cannot run there, which also rules out consoles and mobile, since those all run Bedrock.
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