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Better Animations

Better Animations

Overhaul your Minecraft player animations and bring them to life!

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Minecraft: Java Edition

1.21.x
1.20.x
1.19.x
1.18.x
1.16.2–1.16.5

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Licensed CreativeCommons Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Published last year
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Better_Animations.zip v46.1

on Dec 29, 2025
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Tested to work on 1.21.11, no other changes, sorry for delayed updates, but i'm a bit busy with school exams, so sorry.

Better_Animations.zip v46.0

on Nov 28, 2025
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This update includes a complete restructure of all the code for the player model for faster resourcepack loading, more responsive animations when switching between states, less glitches during variable calculation, elimination of redundant code

Things that don't work right now:
Swimming animation (up and down)
Falling animation

Things yet to be reworked:
Elyta, capes

Please report any issues you find as soon as possible as version 46 and its subsequent versions is attempting to fix all bugs

Note: Better Expressions will only be updated with the final v46 release once the rework is done. As no new features are being added, it should still be usable (exclusing a maintenance update when the next minecraft version releases)

Thank you all :)

Better_Animations.zip v45.2

on Nov 11, 2025
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Fixed armour related bugs but some features relating to flying and falling are disabled

Better_Animations.zip v45.1

on Oct 21, 2025
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Big bugfix, armour now works with the animations again, thanks to you guys for reporting and to Noxius and Traben for their help and for emf. Creative mode animations have been temporarily disabled.

Better_Animations.zip v45.0

on Oct 12, 2025
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updated and tested on the latest version

Better_Animations.zip v44.1

on Sep 3, 2025
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We heard your reports and any issues regarding the player model in the inventory have been fixed for now.

The flying animation in creative mode is still a wip

Better_Animations.zip v44.0

on Aug 23, 2025
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Basic flying animation for creative mode

Better_Animations.zip v43.0

on Aug 16, 2025
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Added framework for creative mode flying animation

Better_Animations.zip v42.0

on Aug 1, 2025
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Fixed bugs:

Arms no longer play jumping animation when at the edge of a block.

Arms no longer fold into player in the inventory screen.

Thank you all for taking the time to report these bugs, this pack would be nothing without your support!

Better_Animations.zip v41.0

on Jul 25, 2025
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Fixes first person arm to not be animated when in first person.

Better_Animations.zip v40.1

on Jul 5, 2025
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Updated and working on 1.21.7

Better_Animations.zip v40.0

on Jun 26, 2025
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Added a subtle jumping animation, next update will include any potential improvements to this one along with a creative mode flying animation.

Better_Animations.zip v39.0

on Jun 18, 2025
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Updated to minecraft 1.21.6, Chase the skies!

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

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