Smart Consolidation and Layouts

Smart Consolidation & Layouts

This page explains how Speedometer handles overlay layouts and smart line consolidation in Minecraft's F3 debug screen.

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📊 Layout Matrix Infobox

player_speed Status	speedometer Status	Rendered F3 Line Output	Mode Name
Enabled (In Overlay)	Enabled (In Overlay)	Speed: 0.215 blocks/tick, 4.30 b/s (H: 4.30, V: 0.00)	Smart Consolidation Mode
OFF	Enabled (In Overlay)	Speed: 4.30 b/s (H: 4.30, V: 0.00)	Standalone Speedometer Mode
Enabled (In Overlay)	OFF	Speed: 0.215 blocks/tick	Pure Vanilla Mode
OFF	OFF	(Line Hidden)	Disabled Mode

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⚙️ How to Toggle Options (F3 + F6)

1. Press F3 + F6 while in game to open the vanilla F3 Debug Options Screen.
2. Scroll to locate speedometer and player_speed.
3. Click to cycle the display status for each entry:
   • Always: Always rendered regardless of general overlay toggles.
   • In Overlay: Rendered whenever F3 debug overlay is active.
   • OFF: Completely hidden from the F3 screen.
4. Press Done or Esc to return to gameplay. Speedometer immediately re-evaluates the layout configuration without needing a game restart or world reload.

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🔍 Smart Consolidation Mechanism

When both player_speed and speedometer are enabled, displaying two separate lines on screen creates unnecessary visual clutter:

-- Cluttered Unconsolidated Output --
Speed: 0.215 blocks/tick
Speed: 4.30 b/s (H: 4.30, V: 0.00)

To solve this, DebugEntryPlayerSpeedWrapper intercepts the string line emitted by vanilla's player_speed entry. When vanilla emits "Speed: 0.215 blocks/tick", our wrapper intercepts the call and appends the calculated blocks per second details directly to the existing line:

-- Smart Consolidated Output --
Speed: 0.215 blocks/tick, 4.30 b/s (H: 4.30, V: 0.00)

Simultaneously, DebugEntrySpeedometer detects that the wrapper is handling the output and yields execution to avoid duplicate rendering.

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🔗 Related Pages

• F3 Debug Integration
• Dynamic HUD Formatting
• Configuration