Eating Animation Fork

A simple, client-side Fabric 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 Minecraft newer 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

43 vanilla foods & drinks animated — every food item in the game (apple, bread, cooked beef, golden apple, chorus fruit, suspicious stew, milk bucket, honey bottle, ominous bottle, and 35 more) has its own custom 3-frame eating animation.
Animated potions — all potion types play a 3-frame drinking animation with the correct liquid color (the potion tint is preserved during drinking, so a healing potion stays red, night vision stays blue, etc.).
Bundled mod-support resource pack — ships with a built-in, default-enabled resource pack that adds eating animations for 271 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 (75 items)
- Food Plus ID (93 items)
- Hybrid-Aquatic (12 items)
- Naturalist (11 items)
- Snow Pig (2 items)
- The Bumblezone (5 items)
- Winterly (3 items)
Pure client-side — no server install required. Drop the jar in your mods/ folder and you're done.
No performance impact — uses Minecraft's native item model system, no tick events, no mixins, no per-frame rendering hooks.

Installation

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

The bundled mod-support resource pack is enabled by default. If you don't want the third-party mod animations, you can disable it in Options → Resource Packs.

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 (the original mod used ModelPredicateProviderRegistry + JSON "overrides" blocks, which Mojang removed in 1.21.4).

Key changes:

314 item model JSON files (assets/<namespace>/items/<food>.json) generated from the original mod's legacy override files, using minecraft:condition (using_item) + minecraft:range_dispatch (use_duration scaled by 1/30) to drive the 3-stage animation
All 939 original per-stage frame models (apple_eating_0.json, apple_eating_1.json, apple_eating_2.json, etc.) preserved unchanged — same artwork as the original mod
All 957 original textures preserved unchanged
Zero Java rendering code — the mod's only Java class just registers the bundled resource pack. All animation logic lives in the JSON files, which means better performance, easier maintenance, and no mixins to break on Minecraft updates
Potion rendering fixed — potions now use the correct vanilla model (minecraft:item/potion) with the proper packed-int tint (default: -13083194), and the tint is applied to all 3 drinking frames so the liquid color stays correct during the drinking animation

Known issues / FAQ

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 / NeoForge / Quilt? A: Not by me. The mod is MIT licensed, so anyone is welcome to port it. Quilt users can probably run the Fabric version directly via Quilt's Fabric compatibility layer.

License & Credits

MIT Licensed — see LICENSE

Original mod: Eating Animation by theone_ss, spusik_, PinkGoosik, DoctorNight1 — MIT licensed
This fork: maintained by Fring, ported to Minecraft newer 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