Boss health bar only visible when looking at boss

Perhaps only do this when there are multiple bosses around? That way you can switch the bar between multiple bosses, but single boss fights, and less official usages of the boss bar won't be affected.

Thanks for commenting, Monsieur Apple, I agree with you it doesn't make much sense and makes things feel awkward. I think we need someone from mojang to clear this one up.

Reopened until confirmed to be Intended by a Developer.

Thank you for reopening. Rory, could you add Minecraft 1.8 pre 3 as an affected version?

Yea sure no problem.

bug also happen on WIndows 7 with radeon amd

It's been a month and nothing? Devs, please at least tell us if it is a bug or an intended feature so we know if we should reprogram custom servers to use other tricks for the bar or other message channel or will the 1.7 behavior of the dragon brought back. It's quite important for some 😞

Agreed, it would be very helpful to know if it is definitely a bug or not.

My guess is that it's a bug created by the changes made to improve performance in 1.8, they aren't rendering the Dragon unless you look at it therefore the bar isn't rendered unless you look at the Dragon .

Things that are off your screen are blanked out. This is intentional. If we're lucky they might make an exception, but it's definitely not a bug.

EDIT: Oh good point about the ender dragon health bar. That does seem like it's a bug since it did it the other way in older versions.

@Tokes

This is not intentional and has been confirmed by Dinnerbone on irc that it will be fixed. The question is when!

Thanks for the heads up then!

Confirmed for 1.8.1-pre2.

This is not intentional and has been confirmed by Dinnerbone on irc that it will be fixed.

Spurlex, IRC logs?

@Sonic I don't have logs it was in mcdevs on freenode a few days ish after 1.8 came out if you can hunt through that.

Confirmed for 1.8.1-pre3. The health bar does show (somewhat) in all directions only when near (~10 blocks) the Dragon.

The boss bar feature(to see the bossbar always when a drogon is near you) is very important for a lot of ability-pvp servers, because they use it do display information about the other player fighting.

+1 for what sirati97 said. This bug was reported three months ago and it's still not fixed. No mods are even commenting now. Why is it not getting resolved?

The MC developers are busy, just give them time. Seriously.

Has anyone heard of the action bar? It's being used by The Hive and can replace its functionality.
It also seems to have been added for this purpose, as it is not used in vanilla.

@Squawkers13 For the case of plugin/server use, the Action Bar fulfills only some aspects that the boss bar does. The Boss Bar is exceptionally handy for displaying timers, countdowns, as well as other visual things. The Action Bar strictly displays text and isn't a valid replacement, more a counterpart. Also, this is not just a Server/Plugin issue, the dragon fight is now awkward without the Dragon's health displaying unless the player is facing the dragon.

Confirmed for 1.8.1-pre5.