In Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.92, while playing on a Realm with friends, I noticed a small colored dot appearing in the center of the XP bar. This dot changes size and seems to track other players' locations.
It behaves like a radar, growing larger and changing position as you get closer to other players. This makes it very easy to locate people on the server, even when they are trying to hide, which completely breaks stealth and PvP balance.
This happens even with no resource packs, mods, or experimental features enabled.
There is currently no way to disable this feature, and it is not mentioned in the official patch notes. Please consider adding an option to turn this off, especially for anarchy or PvP-focused servers and Realms.
This behavior does not exist in normal local worlds — only in Realms multiplayer.
Thank you!
Environment
1. Join a Realm in Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.21.92 with at least one other player.
2. Look at the XP bar – a dot appears in the center.
3. Move closer or farther from other players – the dot changes size and position based on player proximity.
The XP bar should not show information about other players. There should be an option to disable this visual indicator.
A dot appears in the XP bar that gives away the position and distance of other players, even without any addons or packs.
That is the player locator bar, and new feature added in 1.21.90. It only appears in multiplayer worlds, and be disabled using the “locatorBar” gamerule.