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Better Animations

Better Animations

Overhaul your Minecraft player animations and bring them to life!

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Better_Animations.zip v38.1

on Jun 5, 2025
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Part 2 to the crawling fix

Better_Animations.zip v38.0

on May 26, 2025
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Part 1 to a bugfix with the player head while crawling.

Better_Animations.zip v37.0

on May 10, 2025
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The arms now work with the new falling animations system, due to technical limitations, i can't really test this properly, so please do report all issues on the github page! Enjoy.

Better_Animations.zip v36.1

on Apr 27, 2025
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Swapped arm swing direction

Better_Animations.zip v36.0

on Apr 23, 2025
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Changes to arm animations to sync with legs, these sub versions will fix arm animations to sync with legs and then move on to sync for fall animation with legs.

Better_Animations.zip v35.2

on Apr 4, 2025
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Replace /optifine with /emf

Better_Animations.zip v35.1

on Mar 28, 2025
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Updated to 1.21.5

Better_Animations.zip v35.0

on Mar 18, 2025
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Rework to the falling animation (again):
Falling animation doesn't activate when flying in creative mode!
Falling animations build up slowly!

Will work on the arms aswell in the next version.

Better_Animations.zip v34.1

on Mar 7, 2025
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Hotfix for arm-sleeve alignment, fixes slim arm gaps and wide sleeve alignment.

Better_Animations.zip v34.0

on Feb 26, 2025
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Updated hurt animation

Better_Animations.zip v33.2

on Feb 14, 2025
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The second part of the elytra fix, now the head and upperbody doesn't bob when flying

Better_Animations.zip v33.1

on Jan 31, 2025
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Fixed some unintended behavior while flying with elytra, there will be another fix

Better_Animations.zip v33.0

on Jan 17, 2025
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Added a death animation

Better_Animations.zip v32.0

on Jan 9, 2025
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Modified to floating animation to be different when floating up/down and fixed leg mislaignment during swimming

Better_Animations.zip v31.1

on Dec 26, 2024
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Hotfix for slim player model

Better_Animations.zip v31.0

on Dec 24, 2024
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The ladder climbing only plays when actually moving up or down the ladder, and the cape also works more smoothly with the upper body now.

Better_Animations.zip v30.0

on Dec 13, 2024
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Added a ladder climbing animation, will add actual climbing detection soon.

Better_Animations.zip v29.0

on Dec 4, 2024
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Updated and tested on 1.21.4

Better_Animations.zip v28.0

on Nov 28, 2024
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Added back elytra support.

Better_Animations.zip v27.0

on Nov 19, 2024
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Cape support, which was removed as part of the 1.21.2 update have been readded.
Better Expressions will update once all things removed as part of 1.21.2 have been readded.

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