Chat Box Is Too Low (Covers Heart Bar)

Quick fix: Options ==> Multiplayer settings ==> Scale down OR Opacity down.

Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.

It is still a problem for me in Minecraft 1.6.2.

I could just make the chat smaller but that makes it distorted. It's a really big annoyance for me.

Confirmed in 1.7.2

This issue was caused by a text window position change (The introduction of a bug) sometime around version 1.5.

While using "Auto" setting works well to provide the correct scale for text at any screen size, the text appears in the wrong position.

The related issue of the [Leave bed] button covering the chat (the most recent line, the one you want to see) is just another symptom of the same positioning problem that was introduced. One can not rest in a bed then chat while waiting for others to also rest, without waiting for the obscured line to become visible when another line of text scrolls it upward enough and into view. This is what is bothersome about the lowest line of text being in front of the HUD - because lowering the opacity does allow the HUD to be more visible, but at the cost of making chat less visible.

I think that any suggested settings change, such as scaling down the text or changing text opacity to avoid a positioning problem is too much of a trade-off, especially considering it wasn't an issue when the text window was positioned properly in earlier versions.

For me it is covering my hotbar

Confirmed running at the Default, out of the box Mojang set minecraft settings, on Minecraft 1.8, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.5

is this still an issue in 15w45a?

Fixed in 16w05b.