Fancy Door Animations

Smooth, client-side animations for vanilla doors. Multiplayer-safe, resource-pack friendly, Sodium and Iris compatible by design.

What it does

• Adds a fluid open and close animation to vanilla doors and trapdoors
• Triggers from any source: player, redstone, mobs, or network events
• Client-only mod, no server install required
• Respects all resource packs and existing models

⚠️ Shader notice
Depending on the shader pack used, you may notice lighting flickering when opening or closing doors.
This is a shader-side limitation and not an issue with the mod itself.

ℹ️ Texture pop notice
You may notice a brief texture inconsistency at the end of the animation. This is caused by vanilla Minecraft's textures not being fully consistent, and is not a bug with this mod.
You can fix this by using a resource pack such as Creaky Doors or Simply Fixed Doors.

Configuration

Settings can be changed in-game via ModMenu + Cloth Config, or by editing the config file manually:

config/fancy-door-anim.json

{
  "enabled": true,
  "doorEnabled": true,
  "trapdoorEnabled": true,
  "fenceGateEnabled": true,
  "durationMs": 240,
  "revealLeadMs": 25,
  "debugLogs": false
}

• durationMs — animation duration in milliseconds (60–5000)
• revealLeadMs — how early before the end the vanilla model reappears
• fenceGateEnabled — fence gate animation is work in progress, enabling it has no visual effect yet

Manual JSON edits are picked up on the next world/server join. ModMenu changes apply immediately on save.

Roadmap

• Open double doors at once
• Open source
• More animation presets
• More animated blocks