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Animated Half-Heart

In vanilla Minecraft, losing half a heart leaves a static half-heart icon at the end of the health bar

Animated Hearts replaces it with a full heart that smoothly fades in and out, making the remaining health easier to notice without changing the original HUD style

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Regeneration Effect

Vanilla regeneration makes individual hearts jump while health is being restored

Animated Hearts adds a smooth wave that travels across the entire health bar during regeneration

Before

Vanilla regeneration

After

New regeneration animation

Poison Effect

When the player is poisoned, small animated bubbles appear around the poisoned hearts, making the effect more noticeable while keeping the vanilla heart style

Burning Hearts

When the player is on fire, animated flames appear directly around the hearts

The flames follow the health bar and make fire damage feel more noticeable while keeping the icons clearly visible

Hearts while on fire

Other Visual Effects

The mod also includes several additional HUD animations and improvements

Animated water effect while underwater
Animated heart pulse at low health
Shine effect across absorption hearts
Silver shine when wearing a full armor set
Animated wave across the experience bar
Support for multiple rows of health
Support for vanilla and modded status effects

Configuration

Animated Hearts includes an in-game configuration screen where most visual effects can be enabled, disabled and customized separately

Available settings include:

Animation speed
Animation smoothness
Animation FPS
Effect transparency
Health thresholds
Individual settings for different visual effects

Configuration Menu

Animated Hearts Config

Resource Pack Support

Animated Hearts uses Minecraft HUD textures instead of replacing them with custom heart textures

This allows the animations to automatically match most resource packs that change the vanilla heart icons

Animated Hearts is a client-side visual mod and does not change health, damage or other gameplay mechanics