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Reactive Totems

Reactive Totems makes the Totem of Undying dynamically react to your environment and health with smooth colors, glowing eyes, cracks, and animated visual effects.

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Latest stable file NeoForge 1.21.1 v1.1.1
Game version 1.21.1
Loader NeoForge

Reactive Totems NeoForge 1.21.1 v1.1.1 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 Reactive Totems required on the client, server, or both?

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What else does Reactive Totems NeoForge 1.21.1 v1.1.1 need?

NeoForge 1.21.1 v1.1.1. Change the file and its required mods may change too.

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About this project

What does Reactive Totems add?

Reactive Totems makes the Totem of Undying dynamically react to your environment and health with smooth colors, glowing eyes, cracks, and animated visual effects.

Reactive Totems

Reactive Totems is a fully client-side Fabric mod that makes the Totem of Undying feel much more alive while keeping the original Minecraft pixel-art style.

Instead of always looking identical, the totem smoothly changes depending on the environment you're currently in.

Environment States

  • 🌍 Overworld — classic golden appearance
  • 🔥 Nether — darker, burnt-gold tones
  • 🟣 The End — purple-tinted burnt gold
  • 🌊 Underwater — cyan and blue accents mixed with gold
  • 🌙 Night — slightly darker version of the normal totem
  • ⛈️ Thunderstorms — electric cyan accents, glowing eyes, and lightning-like cracks

When your health reaches 50% or lower, the totem becomes more intense.

Its eyes begin glowing based on the current environment, cracks become visible across the surface, and the visual effects grow stronger as your health gets lower.

The different states aren't just simple recolors either. Highlights, shadows, gold sections, inlays, eyes, and accent details can react differently depending on the environment, making each version feel more distinct.

Transitions are also smooth instead of instantly snapping, including when entering water, changing dimensions, moving between day and night, or losing health.

The mod keeps the original Totem of Undying's size, position, and alignment, so it still feels like a normal Minecraft item rather than a completely different model.

Features

  • Fully client-side
  • No server installation required
  • Smooth animated transitions
  • 6 environment-based appearances
  • Low-health cracks at 50% health and below
  • Bright, pulsing colored eyes
  • Dynamic highlights and accent colors
  • Special electric thunderstorm effects
  • Works with the vanilla totem activation animation
  • Maintains the original Minecraft pixel-art style and model alignment

Reactive Totems keeps the vanilla feel of Minecraft while making your Totem of Undying visually react to what's happening around you — and to how close you are to actually needing it.

Project description from CurseForge.

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