WristHub - V1 Beta

Heads up: this is the first public beta. The main features are working, but you may still run into a weird avatar, a preview that falls back to a silhouette, or something that needs more headset tuning. I am actively improving it, and there will be more features and cleaner updates after V1.

Hey! I made WristHub because I wanted a simple way to find, download, preview, and equip BONELAB avatars without constantly leaving the game or digging through folders.

It puts an avatar library right above your wrist. You can browse everything you already have, search BONELAB mod.io, download new avatar packs, preview compatible avatars in 3D, and equip them from the same menu.

Quick tutorial

1. Install WristHub and launch BONELAB.
2. Look directly at your left wrist and keep looking for about 1.5 seconds.
3. A cyan progress circle will fill up, followed by a PUSH ME button.
4. Touch PUSH ME with your fingertip or controller tip.
5. Choose Avatars to browse your library, or Search Avatars to look for something new.
6. Use All Avatars to scroll through everything, or Groups to browse by downloaded mod pack.
7. To search, touch the search field, type with the tablet keyboard, and press Search. WristHub searches your installed avatars and the BONELAB avatar section of mod.io automatically.
8. If you do not own a result yet, press Download and watch the live progress bar. WristHub will open the downloaded pack when it is ready; it will never equip something automatically.
9. Press Equip, or grip/pinch a working 3D preview, pull it toward your chest, and release it to equip.
10. Press the X to close the menu. Look away from your wrist before activating it again.

The left wrist is the default. You can switch to the right wrist, change the UI scale, reduce motion, choose the starting library view, or recenter everything from Options.

What is included in V1

• A physical wrist launcher with gaze progress and fingertip controls.
• All-avatar and mod-pack group browsing.
• Zero-setup BONELAB avatar search; players do not need to enter an API key.
• Safe mod.io downloads with progress, retry, cancel, platform checks, archive validation, and integrity checking.
• One focused avatar view with artwork, details, height, and compatible 3D previews.
• Direct Equip and grip/pinch-to-chest equipping.
• Pack deletion with recoverable trash protection.
• Remembered browser settings and avatar persistence across compatible scene changes.
• LabFusion-aware avatar swapping and local wrist controls.

Beta notes

This is V1, so I would rather be honest than pretend every community avatar is built perfectly. Some avatars have unusual rigs, missing materials, huge effects, or broken preview information. WristHub contains those previews and uses a safe fallback when it cannot build a reliable 3D model. The normal Equip button remains available.

The online catalog is also new. Search results are cached and rate-limited so everyone can use it without setup. Advanced users can optionally save a personal read-only mod.io key in UserData/WristHub/modio-api-key.txt as an automatic backup, but regular players do not need one.

If something feels off, send the newest file from BONELAB/MelonLoader/Logs along with a short explanation of what you were doing. Please never post an API key.

Fusion

WristHub does not require LabFusion. When Fusion is installed, WristHub keeps its interface local and uses the compatible avatar-swap route when available. Other players still need Fusion's custom-avatar downloading enabled to see avatar content they do not already have.

Updating from BoneHub

WristHub copies compatible settings, download history, and avatar history from the old UserData/BoneHub folder on first launch. Remove BoneHub.dll and BoneHub.Core.dll before manually installing WristHub; do not load both versions together.

Manual installation

1. Install MelonLoader and BoneLib for the current BONELAB patch.
2. Copy WristHub.dll and WristHub.Core.dll into BONELAB/Mods.
3. Remove the two old BoneHub DLLs if they are present.
4. Launch BONELAB and follow the wrist tutorial above.

Online content is provided through mod.io and is subject to the mod.io Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Thanks for trying the first beta. This is only the start - I have more ideas for the wrist hub, better previews, smoother controls, and more useful tools in future updates. Have fun with it.

WristHub is an independent community mod and is not affiliated with Stress Level Zero, mod.io, Thunderstore, or the LabFusion team.

Changelog

3.0.0 - Complete smart-watch release

• Brings the complete redesigned WristHub into one V3 release with a circular live-time smart watch that automatically fits the equipped avatar and remains readable while the wrist moves.
• Tapping the watch projects WristHub; tapping it again from the hub, avatar browser, search, downloads, settings, confirmation, or Compass plays the reverse collapse and closes everything.
• Uses a compact holographic avatar interface with one centered full-color preview, accurate pre-equip gameplay height, direct Equip, and grip/pinch-to-chest equipping.
• Includes All Avatars and Groups browsing, recent-first ordering, remembered starting views, pack information, and recoverable pack deletion.
• Searches installed avatars and BONELAB mod.io from an in-game keyboard with full letters, spaces, editing controls, and a complete 0–9 number row.
• Downloads and validates compatible avatar packs with one clean progress capsule, cancel/retry support, targeted pallet loading, and platform badges.
• Adds the first WristHub app: an 11 cm projected Compass with a smooth live needle, degree heading, eight-direction label, and remembered per-level Set North calibration.
• Preserves the equipped avatar through supported scenes and sessions using BONELAB's native avatar flow and normal size/rig refresh behavior.
• Registers WristHub downloads with ModioModNetworker and uses Fusion's normal avatar sender so eligible peers can enter their usual download flow.
• Retains PCVR and Quest-compatible builds, Reduced Motion, hologram brightness/effects, left/right wrist selection, manual UI scale, guarded errors, and pooled performance paths.

2.3.1 - Numeric avatar search hotfix

• Adds a complete 1–0 number row to the in-game avatar-search keyboard.
• Reflows the letter and utility rows so all keys remain separated and inside the compact glass panel.
• Keeps Shift, Space, Backspace, Clear, automatic search submission, watch toggle, Compass, previews, downloads, and Fusion sharing unchanged.

2.3.0 - Watch toggle and Compass app

• Makes the circular watch a true interface toggle: tap once to project WristHub and tap again from any page to play the reverse collapse.
• Locks every projected control as soon as closing begins and requires the touching finger/controller to exit before the watch can trigger again.
• Supports smoothly reversing an opening animation when the watch is tapped before materialization finishes.
• Replaces More Soon with WristHub's first app: a compact 11 cm projected Compass with bearing ticks, a live north needle, degrees, and eight-direction labels.
• Adds Set North calibration per level, remembers up to 64 recent levels, and safely holds the last heading when the headset points too vertically.
• Keeps the Compass facing the player, scales it with avatar height and UI scale, and preserves live navigation in Reduced Motion.
• Retains the focused single-avatar browser, mod.io downloads, pack deletion, persistence, and Fusion sharing.

2.2.2 - Watch orientation and focused-avatar hotfix

• Corrects the watch Canvas basis so players see the front of every clock label instead of mirrored back-facing text.
• Continuously levels the watch text to the headset while the forearm rolls or turns, with smooth rotation to avoid jitter.
• Lowers the watch from 6 mm to 4 mm above the resolved wrist surface and brings the text closer to the glass.
• Removes both side-avatar holograms and their loading work; the browser once again shows one centered full-color avatar.
• Keeps Previous and Next as safely separated navigation controls and preserves the arc dashboard, opening/closing animation, grabbing, search, downloads, and Fusion sharing.

2.2.1 - Visible smart watch and arc dashboard repair

• Repositions the 6.5 cm black smart watch on the actual outer forearm surface using local-rig collider clearance with a safe humanoid-bone fallback.
• Keeps the watch body visible while asleep and raises the high-contrast time, seconds, date, status, and cyan segmented rim above the glass when awake.
• Replaces the remaining focused-avatar tablet with two compact dark-glass control wings around the three-avatar hologram stage.
• Separates Previous, Next, and Equip touch bounds, keeps Delete Pack inside Pack Options, and uses one shared amber Download/progress capsule.
• Adds a visible 0.55-second watch charge, three-ray stage build, wing unfold, avatar reveal, and control materialization sequence.
• Adds a real 0.35-second reverse close; interaction locks immediately and objects remain alive until the light rays collapse into the watch.
• Preserves search, groups/all browsing, downloads, deletion, accurate pre-equip height, grabbing, persistence, and Fusion sharing.

2.2.0 - Circular smart watch and compact hologram UI

• Replaced the rectangular gaze/PUSH ME launcher with a thin circular watch resting against the wrist.
• Added a detailed local-time face with seconds, date, compact status, and live download progress.
• Looking at the watch for one second wakes it for five seconds; tapping it asleep or awake immediately opens WristHub.
• Added a 0.55-second wrist projection into a compact radial hub for Avatars, Search, Downloads, and future modules.
• Reorganized the three-avatar carousel around a smaller circular stage with separated Previous, Next, Equip, Search, scope, and close controls.
• Moved pack deletion into Pack Options and added a dedicated recent-download glass panel.
• Shared one frame-cached fingertip/controller probe source between the watch and browser and locked input during page materialization.
• Preserved the full-color grabbable center preview, lightweight blue side previews, pre-equip height, mod.io downloading, pack recovery, and Fusion sharing.

2.1.0 - Cinematic wrist hologram

• Replaces the opaque focused-avatar tablet with a floating, forearm-projected hologram inspired by layered movie interfaces while keeping original WristHub styling.
• Adds a three-avatar carousel: lightweight blue native previews on the sides and one full-color, grabbable selected avatar in the center.
• Adds a staged wrist charge, expanding counter-rotating rings, fine light rays, avatar scan dots, rotating stage arcs, a cyan reveal, and a reverse closing collapse.
• Moves search, downloads, pack browsing, deletion, and settings onto readable rounded dark-glass panels that slide beside the hologram.
• Uses green Equip, amber Download/progress, and red deletion/error accents with the existing fingertip, controller, haptic, and debounce behavior.
• Connects the live hologram performance governor so Quest and sustained slow frames reduce scan details, side previews, and extra rings without disabling navigation.
• Preserves accurate selected-avatar height before Equip, full-color preview normalization, chest-release Equip, Fusion sharing, downloads, persistence, and rollback.
• Reduced Motion skips rotating and traveling assembly effects; disabling Hologram Effects restores the static glass interface.

2.0.3 - Selected-avatar height and Fusion recovery

• Removes every path that could overwrite the selected avatar's ruler with the currently equipped player's height.

• Runs BONELAB's native no-argument body measurement on the selected crate itself, allowing community avatars with stale template metadata to report their actual post-equip size before Equip.

• Keeps visible preview bounds, clothing, hair, and effects out of the gameplay-height number.

• Waits for the requested avatar's real BONELAB prefab asset to finish loading before asking Fusion to replace PolyBlank; an AvatarCrate record alone is no longer treated as ready.

• Keeps the detached, grabbable 3D preview at the same proportional scale as the wrist tablet for tiny, normal, and giant equipped avatars.

• Uses the selected crate's authored BONELAB gameplay height before Equip without recalculating the shared prefab against the currently worn avatar.

• Replays BONELAB's native UI_AVATARSCALE refresh after a successful swap so the built-in radial/options wheel follows the new avatar's arm scale.

• Keeps the native Fusion sender, ModioModNetworker download rules, preview normalization, direct Equip, and chest-release Equip paths unchanged.

2.0.5 - Native Fusion avatar handoff

• Fixes the remaining case where another player briefly saw the avatar download indicator and then stayed as PolyBlank.
• Live-loads WristHub packs with BONELAB's real native mod.io listing and verified PC/Quest file targets instead of a blank listing, allowing Fusion's built-in downloader to resolve the equipped avatar normally.
• Waits for the exact requested BONELAB AvatarCrate to exist after ModioModNetworker finishes downloading instead of treating the progress bar as proof that pallet loading is complete.
• Hands the ready avatar back through Fusion's public SetAvatarDirty resolution path for the affected player, matching normal Fusion avatar loading.
• Keeps recovery bounded, barcode-specific, and one-shot so it does not repeatedly reload avatars or add per-frame work.

2.0.4 - Fusion PolyBlank recovery

• Always performs a fresh official Fusion avatar announcement after the downloaded pallet is fully registered instead of treating Networker's local cache as proof that peers received a usable mapping.
• Adds a small bounded set of follow-up announcements so slower peers retry the avatar after their pack finishes downloading and loading.
• Detects the end of ModioModNetworker's peer-pack load cycle and safely refreshes remote Fusion avatar setters, fixing the brief loading circle followed by permanent PolyBlank.
• Keeps ModioModNetworker's normal downloader, queue deduplication, platform selection, size limits, maturity settings, and blacklist rules unchanged.

Registration-before-equip restoration

• Restores the registration gate so a downloaded avatar is not announced in a live Fusion session until ModioModNetworker can map its exact pallet to the mod.io pack peers need.
• Uses a stable main-thread snapshot of Networker's installed registry and keeps the official Fusion sender as the only multiplayer announcement path.

Other included V2 features

• Adds an animated chest lock-on target whenever a 3D avatar is grabbed, so the equip release zone is always visible.
• Adds a curved holographic guidance tether, moving energy pulses, green lock feedback, and one confirmation haptic when the avatar reaches the chest.
• Scales the guidance effect with the equipped avatar and provides a calm static version when Reduced Motion is enabled.
• Corrects the ruler to use BONELAB's refreshed gameplay body measurement instead of visible preview bounds distorted by hair, clothing, or effects.
• Keeps the displayed measurement tied to the selected crate after Equip while every 3D preview remains normalized to the same display size.
• Shows a simple, accurate Avatar height … m measurement before Equip with no size warnings or classifications.
• Displays even exceptionally large finite heights instead of hiding them as unavailable, so players can understand the avatar's actual gameplay scale before equipping it.

2.0.1 - Cleaner download progress hotfix

• Replaces the two competing download indicators with one rounded progress capsule directly beneath the Download/Cancel action.
• Keeps the live state and percentage inside the same capsule for a calmer, easier-to-read tablet layout.
• Removes the duplicate changing percentage from the status area while preserving readable failures and Retry behavior.
• Keeps the existing secure download, installation, cancellation, and progress smoothing behavior unchanged.

2.0.0 - V2 Beta

This public V2 release includes the complete WristHub rebuild completed since the last uploaded version, 1.2.3.

Wrist launcher and tablet

• Rebuilt the menu around a 1.5-second wrist-gaze progress ring, physical PUSH ME prompt, compact hub, and readable wrist-following tablet.
• Added left/right wrist selection, recentering, manual UI scale, Reduced Motion, automatic equipped-avatar height scaling, look-away rearming, and immediate closing on player death.
• Added cleaner rounded controls, bounded text, dedicated pages, fingertip touch feedback, haptics, and safer input transitions that prevent one press from activating a control on the next page.
• Added a lightweight pooled forearm projection and tablet reveal that can be dimmed or disabled.

Library and search

• Added All Avatars browsing across every installed pack and Groups browsing by mod pack, with Remember Last, All, and Groups startup choices.
• Added stable previous/next navigation, recent-first ordering, pack drill-down, position counters, and refresh recovery for libraries containing thousands of avatars.
• Replaced the unreliable external keyboard flow with an in-tablet QWERTY search page.
• Search now filters local avatar and pack names immediately, queries the BONELAB avatar catalog on mod.io, merges duplicates, and returns directly to focused results.
• Added zero-setup public search so normal players do not need an API key; a personal read-only key remains an optional fallback.

Downloads and installation

• Added live progress, status, cancellation, retry, integrity checking, archive validation, platform checks, dependency handling, and readable failures.
• Added support for named BONELAB manifests such as <pack>.pallet.json, plus targeted pallet loading after installation.
• Fixed completed downloads remaining stuck on LOADING; WristHub now binds the selected result to its real runtime crate and exposes EQUIP, or provides a visible Rescan action if the pallet needs attention.
• Added separate Windows and Android file discovery with PC + QUEST, PC ONLY, and QUEST ONLY availability labels.
• Added permanent non-null artwork fallbacks, corrupt-cache recovery, coalesced thumbnail requests, and stale-callback protection.

3D previews and interaction

• Rebuilt previews as a single safe render-only hierarchy using declared body, head, and hair renderers without third-party scripts, physics, audio, weapons, cameras, or effects.
• Restored consistent facing, live renderer measurement, repeated center correction, and an exact shared 16 cm display height so normal, tiny, giant, and offset-root avatars stay in the same preview area.
• Added full-color materials, BONELAB native preview-mesh fallback, controlled silhouettes, renderer/complexity limits, and clear limited-preview states that do not falsely block Equip.
• The height ruler now reports the avatar's original BONELAB in-game height in meters rather than the normalized preview height.
• Added controller-grip and tracked-hand pinch dragging with hand-relative offsets, late pose updates, Fusion rig-replacement recovery, smooth return, and release-at-chest equipping.
• Removed incomplete Marrow grip components that caused hand-hover error loops.

Equipping and persistence

• Equipping now uses BONELAB's guarded native avatar path, retains the current avatar for rollback, and quarantines a failed crate until its pallet reloads.
• Added the native BodyLog avatar-change effect without duplicating the cord animation or swapping twice.
• Saves successful avatar choices through BONELAB's current-avatar persistence path so they survive compatible level changes and game restarts.
• Separates preview compatibility from equip compatibility, allowing valid community avatars with limited preview metadata to remain equipable.

Pack deletion

• Replaced the small trash action with a clear DELETE PACK control and confirmation page.
• Deletes the complete containing pack, related pallet sidecars, WristHub state, recents, preview caches, and multiplayer registration through a recoverable transaction.
• Safely switches away from a currently worn pack before deletion and supports subscribed-pack cleanup, rollback, and Undo.
• Windows-locked packs are hidden immediately and queued for safe deletion during the next launch rather than failing with an access-denied message.

Fusion multiplayer sharing

• Added ModioModNetworker 2.8.1 as a required dependency for its established Fusion lobby download flow.
• Generates and repairs Networker-compatible metadata containing the exact pallet/mod.io pairing and genuine PC/Quest file targets.
• Restored the proven registration-before-equip gate in live Fusion sessions so the exact pallet is known before the avatar announcement peers receive.
• Uses Fusion's official avatar sender and ModioModNetworker's normal patch exactly once; WristHub does not directly invoke Harmony patches or run a competing peer downloader.
• Keeps pending sharing state through lobby joins and Fusion rig replacement, then performs one official resend only when registration was delayed.
• Recipient auto-download, maturity, blacklist, size, subscription, and platform choices remain fully respected.

Performance, reliability, and branding

• Renamed BoneHub to WristHub across the UI, DLLs, logs, settings, logo, and Thunderstore presentation, with automatic migration of compatible BoneHub data.
• Pooled UI and hologram geometry, batched large-library refreshes, delayed expensive preview work during rapid paging, cancelled stale work, and removed avoidable per-frame allocations and logging.
• Split browser updates into guarded subsystems so a projection, touch, preview, download, or installation failure cannot stop the rest of the tablet.
• Added throttled, sanitized diagnostics without logging search contents or API keys.
• Added scene, respawn, avatar-swap, and Fusion-rig recovery while preserving installer security and native rollback protections.

Feedback

• Found a bug or want to request a new feature? Message me on Discord at @parzival3d.

1.2.3 - Avatar download repair

• Fixed valid BONELAB avatar packs being rejected when they use a named manifest such as PCGenie.Chappie.pallet.json.
• Updated installation checks and runtime pallet loading to support both pallet.json and <pack>.pallet.json.
• Preserved archive traversal, executable-content, platform, size, and integrity protections.

1.2.2 - Thunderstore install fix

• Corrected the BONELAB Thunderstore package layout so both WristHub DLLs install into the game Mods folder.
• Kept the V1 beta features, zero-setup avatar search, and BoneLib dependency unchanged.

1.2.1 - V1 Beta

• Marked WristHub clearly as the first public beta and added a complete left-wrist tutorial.
• Added the hosted WristHub avatar catalog so every player can search and download immediately without entering an API key.
• Restricted the public service to read-only BONELAB avatar metadata routes with input validation, caching, and rate limiting.
• Kept personal local API keys as an optional automatic fallback if the hosted catalog is temporarily unavailable.

1.2.0 - WristHub

• Renamed BoneHub to WristHub across the in-game interface, logs, DLLs, settings folder, and release branding.
• Added automatic migration from the legacy BoneHub UserData folder without deleting the old copy.
• Added a new WristHub icon and Thunderstore-ready storefront package.
• Kept the tablet browser, search keyboard, normalized 3D previews, grab-to-chest equip, All/Groups library, downloads, trash recovery, persistence, and Fusion synchronization.

1.1.10

• Centered installed avatar previews using their visible renderer bounds.
• Added safe pack removal with confirmation and recoverable trash.
• Restored the selected avatar after scene and local-rig changes.
• Added Fusion's native avatar-swap path when available.