Compatibility
Minecraft: Java Edition
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Details
❤️ 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

✨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.


