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CurseForge · Minecraft mod

Animated Hearts

Adds smooth and customizable heart HUD effects

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Which Animated Hearts release should I use?

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Latest stable file AnimatedHearts-2.1.0-NeoForge.jar
Game version 1.21.1
Loader NeoForge

Animated Hearts AnimatedHearts-2.1.0-NeoForge.jar targets 1.21.1 with NeoForge. The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both. No extra mods listed for this file.

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Is Animated Hearts required on the client, server, or both?

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What else does Animated Hearts AnimatedHearts-2.1.0-NeoForge.jar need?

AnimatedHearts-2.1.0-NeoForge.jar. Change the file and its required mods may change too.

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Before you install it

Add Animated Hearts without breaking your instance.

Built for Animated Hearts AnimatedHearts-2.1.0-NeoForge.jar. Pick another file and the loader, install side or required mods may change.

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    Use AnimatedHearts-2.1.0-NeoForge.jar. It targets 1.21.1 with NeoForge; another release may have different loader, side or dependency requirements.

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About this project

What does Animated Hearts add?

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Smooth and customizable animations for Minecraft's health HUD

Animated Hearts enhances the vanilla HUD with smooth heart animations and visual effects while keeping the original Minecraft style

Animated Half-Heart

Instead of a static half-heart, the remaining health smoothly fades between a full and half heart

Before

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After

Regeneration

Regeneration creates a smooth wave that travels across the health bar as your hearts are restored

New regeneration animation

Poison

Small animated bubbles appear around poisoned hearts, making the effect easier to notice without covering the HUD

Poison effect

Burning Hearts

When you are on fire, animated flames appear directly around your hearts and follow the health bar

Hearts while on fire

Totem Effect

Using a Totem of Undying triggers a short health-bar animation, giving the save more visual impact

Totem Animation

More Visual Effects

Animated Hearts also includes:

  • Low-health heart pulse
  • Animated underwater effect
  • Shine across absorption hearts
  • Silver shine while wearing a full armor set
  • Animated experience-bar wave
  • Multiple health-row support
  • Vanilla and modded status-effect support

Configuration

Most effects can be individually enabled, disabled and customized through the in-game configuration menu

You can customize:

  • Animation speed
  • Smoothness
  • Animation FPS
  • Transparency
  • Health thresholds
  • Individual visual effects

Animated Hearts Config

Compatible Mods

  • AppleSkin
  • AsyncHotbar
  • AutoHUD
  • Bedrock Hotbar
  • Cold Sweat
  • Controllable
  • Cracker's Wither Storm Mod
  • Detail Armor Bar Reconstructed
  • FancyHealthBar
  • Gnetum
  • GUI Tween
  • Hot Bath
  • Hovering Hotbar
  • HUDless
  • ImmediatelyFast
  • Immersive Hotbar
  • Insane Stamina
  • Legendary Survival Overhaul
  • Overflowing Bars
  • Partial Hearts
  • Raised
  • VulkanMod

FAQ

Can I add this mod to my modpack?

Yes, of course! This mod was created for exactly this purpose

Does this mod work with resource packs?

Yes, Animated Hearts uses Minecraft's HUD textures instead of replacing heart textures, so it should work with most resource packs that modify vanilla hearts

Does this affect performance?

No. This mod is extremely lightweight and has virtually no impact on FPS. It only adds visual heart animations without affecting gameplay performance

Project description from CurseForge.

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