Eating Animation Fork

A simple, client-side Fabric and NeoForge mod that adds smooth 3-stage sprite animations for eating food and drinking potions in Minecraft. Watch your apple get smaller bite-by-bite, your bread tear apart, your potion bottle empty sip-by-sip — all in your hand, in the hotbar, and in the inventory.

Unofficial fork of the beloved Eating Animation mod by theone_ss, ported to Fabric and NeoForge for modern Minecraft versions using the new 1.21.4+ item model definition system. Original mod is MIT licensed; this fork is MIT licensed too. Full credit to the original author.

Features

All vanilla foods & drinks animated — every food item in the game has its own custom 3-frame eating animation.
Bundled mod-support resource pack — ships with a built-in, default-enabled resource pack that adds eating animations for 280+ food items across 15 popular mods:
- Adorn (4 items) — hot chocolate, glow berry tea, sweet berry juice, nether wart coffee
- Additional Additions (4 items) — berry pie, chicken nugget, fried egg, honeyed apple
- BetterEnd (14 items)
- BetterNether (7 items)
- Botania (2 items)
- Create (5 items)
- Duckling (1 item)
- Expanded Delight (33 items)
- Farmer's Delight (all items)
- Food Plus ID (93 items)
- Hybrid-Aquatic (12 items)
- Naturalist (11 items)
- Snow Pig (2 items)
- The Bumblezone (5 items)
- Winterly (3 items)
Works everywhere — in your hand, in the hotbar, in the inventory, and on other players. Anywhere items render, the animation plays.
Pure client-side — no server install required. Drop the jar in your mods/ folder and you're done. Works on vanilla servers too.
No performance impact — uses Minecraft's native item model system, no tick events, no mixins, no per-frame rendering hooks.
Dual loader support — available for both Fabric and NeoForge. Pick the jar that matches your loader.

Installation

Fabric

Install Fabric Loader for your Minecraft version
Download Fabric API for your Minecraft version and drop it in your mods/ folder
Download Eating Animation Fork (Fabric jar) from this page and drop it in your mods/ folder
Launch Minecraft — that's it, no config needed

NeoForge

Install NeoForge for your Minecraft version
Download Eating Animation Fork (NeoForge jar) from this page and drop it in your mods/ folder
Launch Minecraft — that's it, no config needed

What's different from the original mod

This fork is a full rewrite of the rendering pipeline to use Minecraft 1.21.4's new data-driven item model definition system

Known issues / FAQ

Q: The mod doesn't load / shows as incompatible in MultiMC / Prism Launcher. A: Make sure you downloaded the jar that matches your loader (Fabric or NeoForge) and your Minecraft version. The Fabric and NeoForge jars are NOT interchangeable — check the filename before installing.

Q: Does this work on servers? A: Yes — it's purely client-side. You can join any vanilla server and the animations will work. The server doesn't need this mod installed.

Q: Can I use this in my modpack? A: Yes — MIT licensed, no permission needed. Just include the jar in your modpack and credit the original author (theone_ss) and this fork.

Q: Will this be ported to Forge / Quilt? A: Not by me. The mod is MIT licensed, so anyone is welcome to port it.

License & Credits

MIT Licensed — see LICENSE.

Original mod: Eating Animation by theone_ss, spusik_, PinkGoosik, DoctorNight1 — MIT licensed
This fork: maintained by Fring (github.com/Fring-BS), ported to Fabric and NeoForge for modern Minecraft versions using the new item model definition system
All artwork (food/drink sprites, mod icon) is from the original mod, used under the MIT license

If you find a bug or want to request support for a new mod's food items, please open an issue on the project repository.

Eating Animation Fork (Fabric/NeoForge)