Animated Heart

Animated Heart

Replaces the vanilla half-heart with a fully animated blinking heart while preserving the original Minecraft style and resource pack compatibility.

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About this Mod

❤️ Animated Hearts

Animated Hearts replaces the vanilla half-heart with a fully animated blinking heart, creating a smoother
and more visually appealing health bar while preserving Minecraft's original look.

❌Before

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✨After

Instead of displaying a static half-heart when you have half a heart of health, the mod renders a full heart with a subtle blinking animation. This makes your health bar feel more alive while staying faithful to the classic vanilla aesthetic.

Features

  • ❤️ Replaces the vanilla half-heart with a fully animated blinking heart.
  • 🎨 Preserves Minecraft's original style.
  • 📦 Fully compatible with resource packs by using the game's own heart textures.
  • ⚙️ Highly configurable animation system with extensive customization options.
  • 🌈 Supports multiple vanilla heart variants, including Poison, Wither, Hardcore, Absorption, Frozen Hearts, Fire, and other vanilla heart types.
  • 🧩 Designed to work alongside most mods that use Minecraft's standard heart rendering.
  • 💻 Lightweight client-side mod with minimal performance impact.

Configuration

The configuration file allows you to customize:

  • Animation speed
  • Animation FPS
  • Animation smoothness
  • Transparency
  • Health threshold for displaying the animated heart
  • Various animation behavior options

Future Plans

Animated Hearts is under active development. Future updates will expand animation support to every vanilla heart type, giving each effect its own unique animation while maintaining full compatibility with resource packs and the vanilla art style.

The long-term goal is to make every heart in Minecraft feel alive without sacrificing the familiar vanilla experience.

Available Versions

Animated Heart 1.0.7release
MC 1.20.1forge
July 3, 2026

How to Install Animated Heart on Your Server

1

Order Server

Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).

2

Set forge Loader

In the panel under "Egg", select the forge loader and matching Minecraft version (1.20.1).

3

Install Mod

Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Animated Heart". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

forge

Minecraft Versions

1.20.1

Server-side

Unsupported

Recommended RAM

4 GB(min. 3 GB)

Frequently Asked Questions

Animated Heart server crashes on startup – what to do?

Most common cause: wrong forge version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.20.1). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.

Is Animated Heart compatible with forge?

Animated Heart officially supports forge for Minecraft 1.20.1. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.

Server lagging with Animated Heart – how to optimize performance?

Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Animated Heart consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.

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Details

License
Apache License 2.0
Server-side
Unsupported

Supported Versions

1.20.1