Wawla FAQ

Wawla works automatically once installed — there's nothing to open. Just look at a block or entity and the extra HUD lines appear near your crosshair; if you see nothing, check that the mod is enabled in your mod list and that the HUD toggle in its config is on.

The most common causes are the HUD being disabled in the config, the individual line toggles being turned off, or another HUD mod drawing over it. Check the config's HUD and per-line options first, then test with other overlay mods temporarily disabled.

Open the Wawla config and look for the per-line toggles — each line (such as block hardness, mob health, or mod source) can be switched on or off individually. Disabling a line hides only that line; the rest of the overlay keeps working.

Wawla's overlay is tied to where you're looking rather than being a free-floating HUD element, so it doesn't have a drag-to-move position like a status bar. If you want it elsewhere, you'd need a separate HUD-positioning mod that supports it.

Just aim your crosshair at the mob — Wawla adds health, armor, and held item info to the entity tooltip automatically. If those lines are missing, they've likely been disabled in the config's entity section.

Look at the block and Wawla adds a line showing the mod source (or 'Minecraft' for vanilla blocks). This is the fastest way to trace an unfamiliar block back to its mod without opening JEI or a wiki.

It handles both. Block info appears when you look at a block, and entity info (health, armor, held items, and similar) appears when you look at a mob or other entity.

Wawla is designed to complement WAILA/HWYLA-style mods rather than replace them, and it can also run alongside them. If two overlays fight for the same screen space, disable the duplicate lines in one mod's config so only one draws them.

Wawla only reads data about whatever you're currently looking at, so its performance cost is normally negligible. If you notice a drop, try disabling lines you don't use — especially any that query entity or block data frequently.

Yes — the config exposes toggles for the different categories of information (block details, entity details, and so on). Turn categories on or off to match what you actually want to see in-game.

Wawla is a HUD information mod and Waila/Hwyla addon that displays extra details about the block or entity you are looking at. It shows things like mob armor points, breeding cooldowns, block hardness, and enchanting power.

Wawla supports Minecraft 1.15.2, 1.16.1, 1.16.2, 1.16.3, 1.16.4, and 1.16.5 on Forge. Older versions such as 1.7.10 through 1.12.x were also supported with different dependencies.

Wawla is a Forge mod. It runs on the Forge mod loader.

Wawla requires Hwyla or Waila, along with Bookshelf. For Minecraft 1.15.2 through 1.16.5 it needs Hwyla and Bookshelf, for 1.8.x through 1.12.x it needs Hwyla, and for 1.7.10 it needs Waila.

No, Wawla does not add new items or blocks. It is an addon that displays additional information about existing blocks and entities through the information display HUD.

Wawla shows mob armor points, animal breeding cooldown, baby animal growth time, horse speed and jump strength, villager profession, and whether a pet is tamed along with its owner's name.

Wawla shows block hardness, blast resistance, break progress, enchanting power, and the correct tool needed to harvest a block. It also shows player skull owner names, item frame contents, and furnace contents with remaining fuel.

No, block blast resistance and block hardness are off by default in the Wawla config. They can be enabled in the configuration.

Yes, Wawla displays trapped chests as normal chests instead. This is a configurable option in the mod.

Yes, Wawla has a config file with 21 options, including armor_points, beehive_count, beehive_honey, beehive_smoked, blast_resistance, block_ench_power, break_progress, breeding_cooldown, breeding_item, frame_contents, growing_cooldown, hardness, hide_trap_chest, horse_jump, horse_speed, plugin_wawla, skull_owner, table_ench_power, villager_tier, villager_tier_progress, and villager_type.