IMPORTANT: This mod is a Forge port of the Fabric mod Hold My Items by [thesapling]
🎮 What it does
Have you ever noticed how your Minecraft character holds items… but doesn’t look like they actually hold them?
Hold My Items fixes that!
This mod renders your character's arm whenever you hold an item, giving you the impression that your character is physically holding it — just like in real life!
It’s subtle, but it adds a huge amount of immersion to your gameplay.
✅ Features
- Renders the main-hand arm while holding an item
- Also renders the off-hand arm with proper animation and orientation
- MB-3D Items Pack support (change config value)
- Adds contextual animations when:
- Swimming
- Crawling
- Climbing
- Holding items like lanterns or maps
- Fully client-side — does not require installation on servers
- Lightweight and compatible with most mods
🧱 Modpack Friendly
Yes! This mod is 100% client-side.
📦 Original Mod
This mod is a Forge port of the Fabric mod Hold My Items by [thesapling].
All credits for the original idea and implementation go to him!
This Forge version was created by bene2212.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.1, 1.20.1, 1.20.2
- 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 CurseForge — 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.
Hold My Items - Reforged is a free Minecraft Java mod. Compatible with Minecraft 1.21.1, 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3 and newer. Downloaded 2,586,209 times (via CurseForge). Download it and open it directly in the game.