Render

In the enhanced edition the menu has no Render tab. These modules are listed in the enhancements tab: FullBright, NoHurtCam and DamageEffects under screen, Cape, Pentagram and ChinaHat under cosmetics. Ping is on the appearance tab's hud page. Hide the enhancements tab (Interface → HideEnhancements) and the Render tab comes back with them in it.

FullBright default off

Lights everything at full brightness while enabled, whatever your brightness slider says, on Lunar, Forge and vanilla alike. Your own brightness setting is left as it was and comes back the moment you switch it off. Shader packs do their own lighting, so it has no effect under a shader. No settings.

Ping default on

Your ping as a number on your own TAB row and on the HUD, with a rolling graph, and other players' average ping on their TAB rows.

Your own ping is the figure the server sends for you when that figure is real, as it is in Hypixel's lobbies. In Hypixel games the server hides it (it sends 1), so fkdr shows your Aurora average instead: the mean of your daily averages over the last 60 days, the same figure OthersPing shows for everyone else (asked on your Aurora key when you have one). If Aurora has nothing for you, fkdr measures it every few seconds with the same ping the multiplayer server list sends, on a separate connection. Nothing is sent on your game connection. /fkdr ping shows the live figure.

Other players' ping comes from Aurora (OthersPing), because Hypixel hides every other player's latency in TAB. Their row shows the average of their daily average pings over the last 60 days. A player Aurora has no recent data on, and a nicked player, gets no number. It works without a key; with your Aurora API key (Configs → api keys, see Anti-sniper keys) the lookups use your key instead. The numbers sit in a straight column with or without Stats on.

The module also raises the packet-loss alarm: when nothing has arrived from the server for longer than LossThreshold, fkdr warns you once, then at most once every 3 seconds while it lasts.

setting	type	default	description
TabPing	toggle	on	Show your own live ping as a number on your TAB row.
OthersPing	toggle	on	Show other players' average ping on their TAB row, from Aurora. Works without a key; uses your Aurora API key when you have one.
ShowMs	toggle	off	Write 43ms instead of 43, on your row and everyone else's. Off keeps the rows short.
HideBars	toggle	off	Hide vanilla's five-bar ping icon.
OwnPing	toggle	on	Show your own ping on the HUD. Drag it with /fkdr hud.
Graph	toggle	on	Draw the last thirty readings under your own ping. Visible when OwnPing.
Smooth advanced	toggle	on	Show your average ping instead of the latest raw reading.
PacketLoss	toggle	on	Warn when nothing has arrived from the server for longer than LossThreshold. May not work on every server.
LossThreshold	200–3000 ms	500	How long the server has to go quiet before it counts as packet loss. Nothing below 200 ms is accepted, from the menu, /fkdr set or a script, since shorter gaps are normal between packets. Visible when PacketLoss.
LossIgnoreLimbo	toggle	on	Stay quiet while there is no sidebar scoreboard (limbo sends almost nothing). Visible when PacketLoss.
LossAlert	Chat / Notification / All	Chat	Where the warning goes: a chat line, a notification card, or both. It repeats at most every 3 seconds while the silence lasts. Visible when PacketLoss.

If LossAlert is set to Notification but the HUD or its notifications element is switched off, the warning falls back to chat rather than going unseen.

Diagnostic: /fkdr ping (your live measurement, and for OthersPing how many players have a number and any problem with your Aurora key). HUD element: ping.

Cape default off

Wear any cape from the catalogue. Client-side only: nobody else sees it, it is never sent anywhere, and it does not touch your Minecraft account. The catalogue comes from fkdr.dev, so new capes arrive without an update. It includes Blue Creeper, drawn from the Minecraft Dungeons II cape, which has no Java texture yet, the capes shown on every player at Christmas 2010 and New Year 2011, the MINECON 2011 cape vote designs that were never released, the April Fools 2023 caeps, the Xbox 360 capes and a few of Mojang's cape test textures.

setting	type	default	description
Cape	dropdown	None	Which cape to wear.
Search	text	empty	Type part of a name to narrow the list: minecon, mojang, 2016. Typing also selects the best match live.
ApplyTo	Self · Everyone	Self	Wear it yourself, or paint it on every player you can see.

A cape of your own

The module has two buttons under its settings:

• use my own cape → choose… opens your computer's own file dialog. The picture is checked, saved and worn straight away.
• my capes folder → open shows you that folder, for adding several at once. A file you drop in appears in the list while the menu is still open.

It stays on your computer. Nothing is uploaded, and only you ever see it.

What it takes: a PNG, twice as wide as it is tall, with both sides a power of two (64×32, 128×64, 256×128), and the cape itself in the top-left corner (the top-left 22×17 is the part the game draws). A 32×16 is doubled for you, and a square sheet is read as the 64×32 layout inside it. Anything else is refused with a line saying exactly what was wrong, and a file that is not really a PNG is refused whatever it is called.

Diagnostic: /fkdr capes.

Pentagram default off

A slowly turning five-pointed star on the ground under you, with an optional ring around it. A wall in front of you hides it, and it hides nothing.

setting	type	default	description
Size	0.4–4.0	1.4	How far the star reaches from your feet, in blocks.
Speed	0–5	1.0	Turns per ten seconds. Zero stands still.
Ring	toggle	on	Draw the circle the star sits inside.
OtherPlayers	toggle	off	Draw one under everybody, not only you.
LineWidth advanced	0.5–6	2	How thick the lines are, in pixels.
RGB	toggle	on	Cycle through the spectrum.
FollowAccent	toggle	on	Use the menu's accent colour. Visible when RGB is off.
Colour	colour	violet	Used when RGB and FollowAccent are both off.
Opacity	10–100	85	How solid the lines are.

ChinaHat default off

A wide conical hat over your head. Client-side only; nobody else sees it.

setting	type	default	description
Size	0.2–1.6	0.65	How wide the brim is, in blocks.
Height	0.05–1.0	0.25	How tall the cone is.
Quality	Umbrella · Low · Normal · High · Smooth	Normal	How many segments. Umbrella is deliberately faceted.
Spin	toggle	on	Turn the hat with your body.
FirstPerson	toggle	on	Draw it in first person too, where you see its underside.
OtherPlayers	toggle	off	Give everybody one.
RGB	toggle	on	A rainbow round the brim.
FollowAccent	toggle	on	Use the menu's accent colour. Visible when RGB is off.
Colour	colour	pink	Used when RGB and FollowAccent are both off.
Opacity	10–100	80	How solid it is.

DamageEffects default off

Floating numbers where somebody lost health, and a few sparks with them.

Only health lost is shown, never healing, and a player or mob that has just come into range shows no number for its first change.

setting	type	default	description
Numbers	toggle	on	Float the amount over whoever took it.
Particles	toggle	on	Scatter a few sparks at the same place.
Self	toggle	on	Show your own damage too.
Lifetime	400–3000	1200	How long a number stays, in milliseconds.
Rise	0–2	0.8	How far a number drifts upward before it fades, in blocks.
Scale	0.4–2.5	1.0	How big the numbers are.
Minimum advanced	0.1–5	0.5	Ignore drops smaller than this, in half-hearts.

Your own damage is red; everyone else's shades from yellow to orange with how big the hit was.

NoHurtCam default off

Sets how far the camera tilts when you take damage. The game tilts it by 14; while this is on it tilts by Multiplier instead, so 0 takes the shake away and a negative number tilts the other way.

setting	type	default	description
Multiplier	-40–40	0	How far it tilts: 14 is the game's own, 0 is none, below 0 tilts the other way.

HUD elements

The music readout lives on the HUD rather than being a module of its own. Drag it where you like in the HUD editor.

now playing shows the song your music app is playing: the album cover on the left, the title and the artist beside it (a paused song says so and its cover dims). It works with most music apps and browsers; the table below says what it can read on each system. It draws nothing when nothing is playing, and if it ever stops showing, it comes back on its own with the next song.

The cover comes from your player when it shares one. When it does not, it is looked up by artist and title on Apple's iTunes search. Only the artist and title are sent.

What it can read

It asks the operating system, not any one app, so anything that tells your computer what it is playing shows up.

	Windows	macOS	Linux
Spotify (the app)	yes	yes	yes
Apple Music	no	yes	no
A browser (SoundCloud, YouTube, Bandcamp, anything with a play button)	yes	no	yes
Any other player	yes, if it uses the Windows media session (most do)	no	yes, if it speaks MPRIS (most do)

• Windows reads what your media keys and the lock screen show, and a paused browser tab cannot hide your music. Spotify, foobar2000, MusicBee, Winamp and VLC work too. With Spotify's Show desktop overlay when using media keys setting off, you see the time played without the song's length; with it on, both show.
• Linux reads any player that supports MPRIS.
• macOS works with Spotify and Music. It needs one permission from macOS: allowing your launcher to control Spotify or Music. When macOS is refusing it, or is waiting for you to answer its question (often behind the game window), chat says so once and names the launcher and where to allow it. A SoundCloud or YouTube tab cannot be shown on a Mac. Spotify and Music work fully, timeline and buttons included.

Where the music is coming from is named as the site rather than the browser (SoundCloud, not Chrome).

The timestamp reads 1:23 / 3:21 by default. It keeps counting between checks, stands still while the song is paused, and never runs past the end.

Shuffle, back, play and skip buttons sit on the readout (shuffle only for a player that supports it), and they appear only while an fkdr screen is open (the menu or the HUD editor), never while you are playing. They drive whatever is playing through your own system's media controls. On macOS the shuffle button shows the shuffle state Spotify or Music reports back, not just the last press.

The card. With MediaCoverSize on Large (the default) the album cover is the card's centrepiece, a square as tall as the card, with the song, the progress bar, a visualiser and the lyrics in one column beside it. On a song change the old cover stays until the new one has loaded, then fades across.

• Visualiser: a strip that moves with the music in one of seven styles: Bars (rounded bars with a dot that holds each peak), Mirror (the bars grown both ways from the middle), Wave (a smooth glowing ribbon), Fill (a soft filled curve), Glow (a single glowing line), Sparks (a glowing line that throws sparks on the beat) and Ring (a glow around the cover). Every style brightens on the beat, and the accent edge brightens and the cover lifts (MediaPulse). It moves with your computer's sound output. On Linux it needs parec or pw-record. On a Mac it needs macOS 14.2 or newer, and the first time, macOS asks once to allow fkdr-audio to record system audio; say yes and the visualiser moves. Say no, or on an older macOS, and it stays still.
• Synced lyrics: the line being sung, timed to where the song is, in one of five styles: Lines (the next line fades in under the current one), Karaoke (each word lit as it is sung, the words still to come dimmed), Word by word (each word fades up as it is sung), One word (only the word being sung, larger) and Single line (only the line being sung, fading into the next). They are looked up on fkdr.dev once per song; a song without synced lyrics shows a short note and the band closes. MediaLyricsOffset moves them earlier or later if your player runs ahead or behind.
• Every language: titles, artists and lyrics in Polish, French, Czech, Turkish and other Latin-alphabet languages draw properly, and Cyrillic and Greek do too in the Inter and Roboto Condensed faces. Covers are matched to the named artist, also when the artist is written in another script.

Card parts. Every part of the card switches on and off by itself: the cover, the song's title, the artist, where it is playing from, the time, the progress bar, the buttons, the visualiser, the beat pulse and the lyrics. The card closes up around whatever is left, with no empty gaps, and eases to its new size: switch everything off but the title and it is a single line; switch off every word and keep the cover, and it is just the album art. Hide while paused takes the card away while the music is paused and brings it back when you press play.

All of it is set under appearance → music, in seven sections: layout (lines, order, align, background, font, hide while paused), song (title, artist, source, time), cover, lyrics, visualiser (with the beat pulse), controls (buttons and progress bar) and colours. Each part's switch heads its section, and its own options show under it while it is on. The setting names below are what /fkdr set HUD … takes:

setting	type	default	description
MediaCovers	toggle	on	Show the album cover beside the song.
MediaCoverSide	Left · Right	Left	Which side of the song the cover sits on. Visible when MediaCovers.
MediaLines	Two · One	Two	Two: the song on one line and the artist under it. One: both on a single line.
MediaOrder	Title first · Artist first	Title first	Which of the song and the artist is read first.
MediaAlign	Left · Centre · Right	Centre	How the text sits when one line is shorter than the other.
MediaSource	toggle	off	Say where the sound is coming from (Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube) after the artist.
MediaTime	Elapsed and total · Elapsed · Remaining · Off	Elapsed and total	The timestamp.
MediaBar	toggle	on	Shown as progress bar. A thin progress bar under the song.
MediaBarFrom	Accent · Text · Dim · Cover · Custom	Accent	The bar's colour. Cover takes it from the album art. Visible when MediaBar.
MediaBarColour	colour	accent	The bar's colour. Visible when MediaBarFrom is Custom.
MediaTitleFrom	Text · Accent · Good · Dim · Cover · Custom	Text	Where the song's name takes its colour from.
MediaTitleColour	colour	text	The song's colour. Visible when MediaTitleFrom is Custom.
MediaSecondFrom	Dim · Text · Accent · Good · Cover · Custom	Dim	Where the artist line, and the timestamp with it, takes its colour from.
MediaSecondColour	colour	dim text	The artist line's colour. Visible when MediaSecondFrom is Custom.
MediaBackground	Panel · Cover · Custom · None	Cover	Panel: the HUD's own backing, like every other readout. Cover: a panel tinted with the album art. Custom: your own colour. None: bare text.
MediaBgColour	colour	#15181D	The readout's own backing colour. Visible when MediaBackground is Custom.
MediaFont	Follow · any face the overlay offers	Follow	The typeface the song is set in. Follow uses the overlay's own.
MediaButtons	toggle	on	Shuffle, back, play and skip buttons, drawn only while an fkdr screen is open.
MediaVisualiser	Bars · Mirror · Wave · Fill · Glow · Sparks · Ring · Off	Bars	The visualiser under the song (see above). Ring is a glow around the cover, or Glow when the cover is off. Off keeps the card still.
MediaVisFrom	Accent · Text · Dim · Cover · Custom	Accent	Where the visualiser takes its colour from. Visible unless MediaVisualiser is Off.
MediaVisColour	colour	accent	The visualiser's colour. Visible when MediaVisFrom is Custom.
MediaPulse	toggle	on	Brighten the edge and lift the cover on each beat.
MediaLyrics	toggle	on	Show synced lyrics on the card.
MediaLyricsStyle	Lines · Karaoke · Word by word · One word · Single line	Word by word	How the lyrics move (see above). Visible when MediaLyrics.
MediaLyricsLines	Two · One · Three	Two	How many lines the band shows. One word and Single line always show one. Visible when MediaLyrics.
MediaLyricsSide	Below · Above	Below	Whether the band opens under or over the song. Visible when MediaLyrics.
MediaLyricsSize	0.7–1.5	1	How big the lyrics are. Visible when MediaLyrics.
MediaLyricsFrom	Accent · Text · Good · Cover · Custom	Accent	Where the lyrics take their colour from. Visible when MediaLyrics.
MediaLyricsColour	colour	accent	The lyrics' colour. Visible when MediaLyricsFrom is Custom.
MediaLyricsOffset	-2000–2000 ms	0	Show the lyrics this much earlier (negative) or later. Visible when MediaLyrics.
MediaCoverSize	Large · Small	Large	Large: the album art at the card's full height, beside the song, the visualiser and the lyrics. Small: a small cover beside the song's name. Visible when MediaCovers.
MediaTitle	toggle	on	The song's name. Off: the card shows the rest without it.
MediaArtist	toggle	off	The artist (or the album when a song has none). Off: the card shows the rest without it.
MediaHidePaused	toggle	off	Hide the card while the music is paused.