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Animated health bar
replaces the vanilla health and hunger bars with smooth animated custom bars. Free Minecraft Java mod for 1.21.1.
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Animated Health Bar
A that replaces the vanilla health and hunger bars with smooth animated custom bars.
Features
- Smooth animation — health and hunger bars animate smoothly when values change
- Effect-based textures — the health bar changes color depending on active effects:
- ❤️ Red — normal
- 🟣 Purple — Wither
- 🟢 Green — Poison
- 🔵 Blue — Freeze
- 🔥 Orange — Fire
- 💚 Lime — Regeneration
- 💛 Yellow — Absorption
- Animated dots — subtle dot animation on the bar for a polished feel
- Hidden in Creative/Spectator — bars are automatically hidden when not in survival mode
- Resource pack friendly — all textures are easily replaceable
Health bar changes color based on active potion effects — wither, poison, freeze, fire, regeneration and absorption are all supported.
License
MIT License — free to use in modpacks.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as animatedhealthbar-1.3 1.21.1 Neoforge.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 60 KB
- Download link checked 6 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.