Simple What Am I Looking At (SWAILA) Mod / Addon

Simple What Am I Looking At (SWAILA) Mod is made for players who want quick info on screen without dealing with a chunky, overdone HUD. It shows simple details about the block, item, or entity you are looking at, so the whole addon feels focused on clarity instead of clutter.



Staring blankly at some bizarre custom block and wondering what tool you need to break it becomes an immediate non-issue once you boot up the Simple What Am I Looking At (SWAILA) Mod Addon. This sleek HUD utility completely strips away the guesswork from your Bedrock sessions by giving you instantaneous, pinpoint readouts on whatever sits directly under your crosshair.

Coming over from heavily modded PC setups, one of the biggest culture shocks on Bedrock is the total absence of on-screen diagnostic overlays. You walk into a room packed with unfamiliar modded entities, custom ores, or weird industrial machines, and you are basically forced to alt-tab out of your game or flip through wiki pages just to figure out what you are staring at. SWAILA bridges that gap seamlessly. The second your crosshair glides over a block, a mob, or an interactive workstation, a clean, minimal tooltip pops up with the exact name and status, giving you pure information without burying your sightlines under layers of bloated interface junk.

What makes this particular quality-of-life tweak hit different is how customizable the screen real estate is. Nobody wants massive text boxes blocking their peripheral vision during a sweaty boss fight or a chaotic PvP encounter. With dedicated subpacks bundled right into the pack settings, you can choose whether your block and mob details sit anchored at the top-middle or tuck cleanly away at the bottom-middle of your screen. That flexibility means you can tailor your setup to match your personal playstyle, whether you run an ultra-minimal survival layout or need your technical data front and center while assembling massive automated farms.

Beneath that clean visual presentation lies some seriously smart backend logic. Dropped ground items are blacklisted right out of the box, meaning your screen will not spastically flicker with pointless item names every time you blow up a patch of dirt with TNT or clear out a crowded mob farm. On top of that, the addon includes a clutch mob tame status indicator, flashing a straightforward true-or-false flag whenever you aim at wolves, horses, or cats. If you spend lots of time breeding mounts or managing village guard posts on a multiplayer realm, knowing instantly whether an entity belongs to an ally or is still a wild spawn saves a ton of wasted name tags and accidental swings.

Performance-wise, the addon runs astonishingly light. Diagnostic overlays can sometimes trigger micro-stutters when parsing world data, but SWAILA behaves like it was baked straight into the base engine by Mojang. The frame timing remains buttery smooth across mobile screens, console controllers, and high-refresh desktop monitors alike. It drops into existing survival seeds effortlessly, playing exceptionally well alongside massive content expansions, structure mods, or custom biome packs without throwing tantrums or breaking scripts.

If you are sick of the blind guessing game and want a professional, information-dense HUD that respects your screen space, grabbing the Simple What Am I Looking At (SWAILA) Mod Addon is hands-down the most practical upgrade you can make to your survival toolkit today.

A nice part of this update is the extra screen placement choice. Simple What Am I Looking At (SWAILA) Mod adds two new subpacks for block and entity info, letting you place the display at the top-middle or bottom-middle of the screen. That makes it easier to fit the UI around the way you actually play.

It also adds dropped items to the blacklist category to avoid unnecessary detection checks, and now shows mob tame status with a true or false readout. For a lightweight addon, that is solid, practical info without junk.

Installation Mod:
- Download the .mcaddon / .mcpack;
- Open the file to import into the game;
- In World Settings → Resource Packs and Behavior Packs, enable it (turn on Experiments if needed);
- Have fun!