Free Java Edition tools
What color is your Locator Bar marker?
Minecraft gives every player a marker color derived from their UUID, and never shows it to you. Type a Java username or UUID to see it.
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Enter a username or UUID above and the exact marker color appears here.
How this color is decided
Java Edition takes UUID.hashCode(), keeps the low three bytes as red, green and blue, then shades every channel to 90% before drawing the marker. Same UUID, same color, every single world.
See it in action
If you have not met the Locator Bar yet, these explain it faster than any wall of text. The first is Mojang's own announcement.
Try the new Locator Bar now
OfficialMojang's announcement. The bar helps you find friends in multiplayer — even when they wander off, or try to hide.
via Minecraft
Everything about the new Locator Bar
A quick tour of the mechanic, including how a marker's shape changes with distance: square, circle, small square, small circle.
via Yrrah
How to use the Locator Bar in 1.21.6
A longer walkthrough — turning it on, reading the markers, and what the /waypoint command does.
via RajCraft
Two more tools
Color Checker
Add everyone in your party and see the whole bar at once. Pairs that are too similar to tell apart get flagged, so you know which one to recolor.
/waypoint Generator
Build a valid command to change a marker color — named color or custom hex — with the syntax checked against the version you actually run.
Locator Bar guides
The mechanic has moved twice since it shipped, so instructions written for one version fail on another. Each guide names the versions it applies to.
- What is the Locator Bar?
- Locator Bar not working — what to check
- The /waypoint command, in full
- How to change a Locator Bar color
- How far the Locator Bar reaches
- The Locator Bar game rule
- Locator Bar on Bedrock Edition
- Every Locator Bar color
- How a UUID becomes a color
- Looking up a Minecraft UUID
- Minecraft UUIDs explained
- How to turn the Locator Bar off
Common questions
The four things people ask Google most about the Locator Bar. Each answer names the version it applies to, because this mechanic has been renamed twice.
- What is the Locator Bar?
- A strip across the top of your HUD, added in Java Edition 1.21.6, that shows where other players are. Each player appears as a colored marker positioned by their direction from you, and the marker changes shape as they get further away. The color is not chosen by the player — Minecraft derives it from their UUID, which is why it is the same in every world. Full explanation.
- Is the Locator Bar a gamerule?
- Yes, and its name has changed twice. On Java it is
locator_barfrom 1.21.11 onward, and waslocatorBarin 1.21.6 to 1.21.10 (anduseLocatorBarin the 25w15a snapshot). Bedrock usesplayerWaypointssince 26.30, replacing the oldlocatorbar. Java game rule names are case-sensitive, so the old name simply fails. Which name for which version. - How do I enable the Locator Bar?
- Run
/gamerule locator_bar trueon Java 1.21.11 or later, or/gamerule locatorBar trueon 1.21.6 to 1.21.10. On Bedrock use/gamerule playerWaypoints everyone— and unlike most Bedrock rules, that one does not require cheats, so achievements survive. If it is on and still shows nothing, work through the checks here. - How far can the Locator Bar reach?
- Further than you will ever need by default: the reach is set by the
waypoint_transmit_rangeandwaypoint_receive_rangeattributes, and players start with a base value of 60,000,000 blocks. What actually changes with distance is the marker itself — it is drawn as a square up close, then a circle, then a small square, then a small dot as the player gets further away. The numbers behind it.