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Better Expressions has been moved! Get it here!
📘 DESCRIPTION
Buttery Smooth!
Overhaul your Minecraft player animations and bring them to life! Compatible with almost all animation mods! Including Better Combat, Quark and Emotecraft emotes and Parcool!
Supports both Fabric and Forge
⚙️ INSTALLATION
- Download the latest
Better_Animations.zipfile from the versions tab. - Download the required mods from the Dependencies tab.
- Place the mods and the resourcepack in the appropriate folder. (e.g.
%appdata%/.minecraft/) - Activate the resourcepack from the Resource Packs screen in-game.
❗ DEPENDENCIES
Fabric API, Entity Model Features, Entity Texture Features
📜 CREDITS
MincraftEinstein, Qboi, Prairies, Mysty, SomeOddBall, Brosiyeah, YaBoiMoh, Quackinsons, Jeanne
🧩 COMPATIBILITY
Works with! — playerAnimator, Better Combat, Emotecraft, Quark, 3D Skin Layers, ParCool!, Not Enough Animations, First-person Model
Doesn't work with :( — Improved Animations, Serious Player Animations and any other cem model mod besides EMF+ETF
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[51.1] Better_Animations.zip v51.1
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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Removed redundant swimming animation code to prepare for the next version
[51.0] Better_Animations.zip v51.0
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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Removed unused and dead variables
Removed dead code from older animations
Fixed Left arm in first person view
Fixed Elytra animations
Fixed swimming and torso when walking
Applied Same fixes to other files
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Further verified that Better Combat and Not Enough Animations work again
This update, v51.0 or v34.0 depending on what pack you are using, is a milestone update representing our ongoing commitment to keeping this compatible with other mods along with keeping it fast and efficient.
The next update will include further fixes and a brand new swimming animation!!
Love ya'll :) Enjoy!!!!
Removed dead code from older animations
Fixed Left arm in first person view
Fixed Elytra animations
Fixed swimming and torso when walking
Applied Same fixes to other files
_______________________________________
Further verified that Better Combat and Not Enough Animations work again
This update, v51.0 or v34.0 depending on what pack you are using, is a milestone update representing our ongoing commitment to keeping this compatible with other mods along with keeping it fast and efficient.
The next update will include further fixes and a brand new swimming animation!!
Love ya'll :) Enjoy!!!!
[50.0] Better_Animations.zip v50.0
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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Updated to work on minecraft 26.3 :)
Thank u once again for all the support, i hope u enjoy
Thank u once again for all the support, i hope u enjoy
[49.2] Better_Animations.zip v49.2
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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Added a missing bracket in the code
[49.1] Better_Animations.zip v49.1
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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Made the falling animation smoother and squashed some more bugs!
[49.0] Better_Animations.zip v49.0
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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Added support for minecraft 26.2, fixed code inconsistencies
[48.2] Better_Animations.zip v48.2
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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Fixed swimming animations completely (to be further improved)
Fixed the resourepack breaking when on ladder completely
Fixed floating in water completely
Fixed cape animations
I apologise for the long wait, with college admissions, I barely had time to focus on this project. Thank you a lot for your support and love :)
Fixed the resourepack breaking when on ladder completely
Fixed floating in water completely
Fixed cape animations
I apologise for the long wait, with college admissions, I barely had time to focus on this project. Thank you a lot for your support and love :)
[48.1] Better_Animations.zip v48.1
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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Fixed armor when floating in water
Known issues:
Swimming animation legs don't move
Ladder animation armor issues
Crouching in water
Known issues:
Swimming animation legs don't move
Ladder animation armor issues
Crouching in water
[48.0] Better_Animations.zip v48.0
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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Updated and tested on the latest 26.1 update
Adds limb movement to ladder climb animations
Hand in first person should be fixed
I am aware of the broken swimming leg and floating animations, will be fixed soon
Thank you all for ur love and support :)
Adds limb movement to ladder climb animations
Hand in first person should be fixed
I am aware of the broken swimming leg and floating animations, will be fixed soon
Thank you all for ur love and support :)
[47.0] Better_Animations.zip v47.0
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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Added early creative mode flying animation.
Fixed player leaning direction when moving backward.
Readded early falling animation.
Fixed player leaning direction when moving backward.
Readded early falling animation.
[46.2] Better_Animations.zip v46.2
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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Fixed a couple of emf errors and animations not working as well as hand animations in first person and inventory.
[46.1] Better_Animations.zip v46.1
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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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.
[46.0] Better_Animations.zip v46.0
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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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**
Falling animation
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 :)
- Things that don't work right now:**
Falling animation
- Things yet to be reworked:**
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 :)
[45.2] Better_Animations.zip v45.2
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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Fixed armour related bugs but some features relating to flying and falling are disabled
[45.1] Better_Animations.zip v45.1
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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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.
[45.0] Better_Animations.zip v45.0
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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updated and tested on the latest version
[44.1] Better_Animations.zip v44.1
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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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
The flying animation in creative mode is still a wip
[44.0] Better_Animations.zip v44.0
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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Basic flying animation for creative mode
[43.0] Better_Animations.zip v43.0
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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Added framework for creative mode flying animation
[42.0] Better_Animations.zip v42.0
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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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!
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!
[41.0] Better_Animations.zip v41.0
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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Fixes first person arm to not be animated when in first person.
[40.1] Better_Animations.zip v40.1
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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Updated and working on 1.21.7
[40.0] Better_Animations.zip v40.0
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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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.
[39.0] Better_Animations.zip v39.0
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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Updated to minecraft 1.21.6, Chase the skies!
[38.1] Better_Animations.zip v38.1
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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Part 2 to the crawling fix
[38.0] Better_Animations.zip v38.0
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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Part 1 to a bugfix with the player head while crawling.
[37.0] Better_Animations.zip v37.0
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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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.
[36.1] Better_Animations.zip v36.1
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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Swapped arm swing direction
[36.0] Better_Animations.zip v36.0
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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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.
[35.2] Better_Animations.zip v35.2
by Qboi on Oct 13, 2026
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Replace /optifine with /emf
