Jade, the information HUD that tells you what block you are looking at, shipped its stable 26.3 build on 16 September, a day after Wilderness Bound landed. Version 26.3.1 is out for both NeoForge and Fabric, and buried in a long changelog is a fix that explains a class of bug modded players have been hitting all week.
Key takeaways
- Jade 26.3.1 is a stable release for 26.3 on NeoForge, Fabric and Quilt.
- It fixes options-screen buttons that stopped responding because 26.3 renumbered mouse buttons.
- Entity ray tracing was rewritten to respect collider shapes, so tooltips stop appearing through walls.
- New: recipe lookup keybind tooltips, REI placeholders, a drag-to-scroll list and a box progress provider API.
The mouse button fix is the headline
One changelog line reads: OptionsNav entries not clickable after MC 26.3 mouse button renumbering. That is a small sentence describing a wide problem.
26.3 replaced the input layer underneath the client, and the renumbering that came with it means any mod holding hardcoded mouse button indices can silently stop responding to clicks. Nothing crashes. The button simply does nothing. Jade’s configuration screen was one casualty, and it will not be the last.
If a mod’s settings screen has gone unresponsive since you updated, this is the likely cause, and the fix has to come from the mod rather than from you. The underlying change is covered in our note on the new input backend in 26.3.
What else changed
The entity ray tracing rework is the most visible improvement in normal play. Jade now checks collider shape when ray tracing entities, which means the overlay stops identifying a cow standing behind a wall as the thing you are pointing at. Two separate issues were closed by that work.
On the feature side, 26.3.1 adds recipe lookup keybind tooltips, so the overlay tells you which key shows recipes rather than assuming you remember that it is Keypad 3. There are REI placeholders for setups that use REI instead of JEI, a drag-to-scroll list in the config screen, and a box progress provider API for addon authors who want to draw progress bars in the tooltip.
Two compatibility fixes are worth naming. Item serialization no longer breaks with Polymer, and text element width is calculated correctly when Caxton is installed, which had been producing clipped tooltips for anyone using a custom font renderer. Create Aeronautics compatibility was also improved.
Client-side or server-side
Jade is listed as optional on both sides, and that is accurate but incomplete. Installed on the client alone it identifies blocks, mobs and basic state. Installed on the server as well, it can report item storage contents, brewing stand fuel and bees in a beehive, because that data is not available to a client that was never told about it.
For a private server the practical advice is to put it on both. For a public server, the item storage readout is a design decision rather than a technical one, and plenty of admins deliberately leave it client-side only.
Where this sits in the 26.3 mod stack
Jade is in the second wave of updates. The performance and rendering layer went first, within a day of release, and the utility mods have been following through the week. JEI reached 26.3 earlier, which matters here because Jade’s recipe lookup keys depend on it. Our running 26.3 mod support status tracks what is ready and what is not.
The 26.3.0 Fabric build from 10 September was marked beta and picked up around eight thousand downloads before the stable arrived. If you are on it, update – most of the fixes listed above landed after that build.
Practical notes
- NeoForge and Fabric both have 26.3.1. Quilt is covered by the Fabric jar.
- Jade Addons is a separate download and has its own version for each loader – update it alongside Jade or mod integrations will drop out.
- Config carries over from 26.2; you should not need to redo your overlay layout.
- If the config screen still will not open, check your keybind rather than the mod – Keypad 0 conflicts with a lot of setups.
Jade sits just under 68 million downloads with around 8,900 followers on Modrinth, which makes it one of the most widely installed non-performance mods in the ecosystem, and one of the few whose absence is noticed immediately.
Bottom line
A routine port with one genuinely useful fix attached. If you run any mod that has felt slightly broken since updating to 26.3 and you cannot work out why, the mouse renumbering is worth ruling out before you start bisecting your mod folder. For the wider update, our Wilderness Bound release coverage has the feature list.
What to do if you cannot update yet
Jade is client-side capable, so staying behind is an option that does not affect anyone else on a server. If a dependency in your pack is still on 26.2, leave the whole client on 26.2 rather than mixing versions – a Jade build for the wrong game version will either refuse to load or load and misreport block state, and the second failure mode is worse than the first.
If you only need the overlay temporarily, the narration key is a workable stopgap on a broken config screen: it reads out the current target without requiring the options UI to respond to clicks at all.
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