The US$5.99 one-time Starter bundle contains the configurable HUD system and three basic playable examples: Warrior, Mage and Ranger. Each starter has two active abilities and 27 configurable talent nodes across Foundations and two skill constellations. Additional full class packs are separate expansions.
Included: compact player/party panels, skill bar, resource/cooldown displays, talent trees, saved progression, standalone parties, the HUD resource pack and the optional Minecraft 1.21.11 Fabric companion. The bundle works without DungeonForge or a premium class plugin.
Separate purchases: full Nightblade, Warbringer, Lightwarden and Gravecaller class plugins; armour/weapon collections; MMO Items Library; DungeonForge; ForgeGuard and other store products. Starter weapons use ordinary vanilla appearances. The Starter bundle does not unlock premium class kits or equipment.
Try the starter examples
| Class | Skills | Resource |
|---|---|---|
| Warrior (Starter) | Cleave: short visible-enemy cone; Guard: brief Resistance I | Stamina |
| Mage (Starter) | Arcane Bolt: aimed visible target; Mend: restore missing health | Mana |
| Ranger (Starter) | Focused Shot: aimed visible target; Trail Rush: brief Speed I | Focus |
Run /class to select one, then /talents and /skills. With the companion, hold Alt + 1 / 2; F8 changes keys and HUD layouts. Vanilla clients retain skill-mode casting and a three-page inventory talent tree. The new companion hides unused empty constellations. See installation, talents, controls and parties.
Your screen, your layout
F8 → HUD size / layout selects Party, Dungeon or Player. Each has independent 50–150% sizing, anchors and saved positions. Compact/Detailed styles and Classic-orbs fallback remain available. Classic resource-pack artwork and the vanilla hotbar retain Minecraft GUI scale. Players without a class see Food; selected starter classes show their actual class resource.
The image demonstrates the shared HUD in a staged dungeon. DungeonForge is a separate plugin; no dungeon or premium class is included merely because it appears in a demonstration.
Add full class expansions later
Separate native Forge class plugins register with the same engine. Install their JAR and supplied resource-pack assets according to that expansion's guide. Starter examples can be disabled with starter-classes.enabled: false and a restart. The full seven-skill classes retain their larger 72-node trees; they are not the two-skill examples in this bundle. Store availability and pricing of expansions are separate from this HUD offer.
Legacy free core
The previously released ForgeHUD Free Core 1.4.1 remains a legacy archive. It has no bundled starter classes and is not the 1.4.2 Starter delivery. Historical equipment/class documentation describes separately supplied products, not the contents of this bundle.