Sleep Animation: Immersive Sleeping Plugin
Simple: Adds an animation while the night is skipped by players sleeping, making things really more immersive!
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Sleep Animation
This was created for use on my forever world, called "derex smp". Check it out in action, server ip: mc.longhorns.dev
Configurable plugin that plays an animation when the night is skipped, so if you look at the night sky, you can see it slowly turning to day!
Designed to be simple, server-friendly and immersive.
License: MIT
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❤️ Credits:
Developed by DerexXD, inspired by https://modrinth.com/plugin/sleeper by hraponssi
Tech demo gif featuring amythestycat and AstroLord_X
This was created for use on my forever world, called "derex smp", and now I am sharing it with the world. The server is named after the COVID-era derex smp [sic], a Minecraft survival multiplayer server that ran from summer 2020 to early 2022, filled with lore, drama, and memories.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.17, 1.17.1, 1.18
- 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 — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as SleepAnimation-1.0.3.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 12 KB
- Download link checked 30 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.