Immersive Hotbar
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Immersive Hotbar
This mod makes the static hotbar a lot more immersive by adding animations for placing blocks, picking up blocks, and using Tools and Weapons!
✨ Features
🔄 Animated hotbar slots when picking up, using, or swapping items
💬 Animated tooltip appears when switching items or hovering.
🎨 Bouncy/shrink animation styles configurable per user preference
✨ Animated XP Bar and Level up effects!
⚙️ Customizable via in-game config.
🧩 Compatibility
Held Item Info, Bedrockify and Item Borders are now supported as of 1.1.0!!
⚒️Multiloader Progress
Currently supported:
- NeoForge 1.21.1, 1.21.9-1.21.11
- Forge 1.20.1 (Currently only missing feature is Animated Tooltip)
Showcase
Smooth Pickup || Bouncy Pickup || Bouncy Placing || Smooth Placing

Animated XP Bar

Smooth Hotbar Scrolling

Bouncy Hotbar Scrolling

Animated Tooltip

- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20.1, 1.21.9, 1.21.10
- 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.
- Ships as immersive-hotbar-1.0.1-1.21.5.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 197 KB
- Download link checked 27 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.