Player Animation Library Mod is a developer-focused framework for animating the player model in a way that avoids conflicts with other mods. It provides importers, runtime control, and hooks for effects and particles, but adds no gameplay on its own.
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Features:
- Loads animations from Blender and Blockbench JSON (GeckoLib and Bedrock formats).
- Supports MoLang expressions for animation logic.
- Includes effect keyframes, including particle keyframes.
- Allows custom pivot points (e.g., a hip bone that rotates the upper body separately).
- Exposes custom bones and their positions for spawning custom particles.
- Built to minimize conflicts with other player-animation systems.
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Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.1
- 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 the file's original source — 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.
Player Animation Library Mod (26.2, 1.21.1) – Dev Framework For Player Animations is a free Minecraft Java mod. Compatible with Minecraft 1.21.1. Download it and open it directly in the game.