

MCAnim - A Minecraft animation library by Gears
MCAnim is a Minecraft datapack library that aims to make it easy to run certain animations in your Minecraft world. It currently only supports display entity interpolation, but I plan on expanding it to include particle utility functions later.
Current features:
Animation playing
There are four ways to play animations:generic,scale,translateandrotate. Generic allows you to apply many animations including modifying duration at the same time. Called by running first the commanddata modify storage mcanim:api/display_animation/generic animation set value {}, and replacing the{}with your data. This supports setting thedurationproperty, which decides the length of the animation, and any other property will be treated as an animation. Scale and translate do the same, but take x, y and z properties instead. Rotate converts the x, y and z values into a quaternion first. Then run the functionmcanim:api/display_animation/<function>as the entity you want to animate, to see it play.Rotation and quaternions
Rotation also takes x, y and z components in degrees, but as Minecraft uses quaternions for rotation, it automatically converts the angles given into quaternions. This can be done manually by setting themcanim:api/maths/xyz_to_quaternion targetto{x, y, z}or[x, y, z], where you give each property the desired value. Then runfunction mcanim:api/maths/xyz_to_quaternion. The result will be inmcanim:api/maths/xyz_to_quaternion outputThe same feature exists the other way around, converting a quaternion to its x, y and z components.
NOTE: This feature is currently not working properly. The output values will be inaccurate, so it is suggested not to use this.
Similar to the above, setmcanim:api/maths/quaternion_to_xyz targetto[x, y, z, w]or{x, y, z, w}(w is ignored, so optional). Then runfunction mcanim:api/maths/quaternion_to_xyz. As expected, the resulting array:[x, y, z]is found inmcanim:api/maths/quaternion_to_xyz output
Those are all of the features currently implemented, if you would like to suggest more or report a bug, please create an issue on the github page.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
- Downloads as MCAnim v0.1.3.zip
- Download size: 189 KB
- Download link checked 5 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.