GTC's Animated Ideas

Bringing GarrettTheCarrot's community-sourced Minecraft ideas to life, one animation at a time.

GtC's Animated Ideas is a Fabric mod that implements the viewer-submitted features from GarrettTheCarrot's "Animating Your Minecraft Ideas" series - the genuinely useful and (eventually) the gloriously chaotic. Every feature is built to match the spirit of the animation that inspired it.

The mod is released by episode: each update adds the ideas from another part of the series. Everything is individually toggleable through an in-game config screen, so you can run the whole collection or cherry-pick exactly the features you want.

Requirements: Minecraft 1.21(more to come), Fabric Loader, Fabric API, Cloth Config, Mod Menu

Status: Parts 1 and 2 are fully fleshed out. Part 3 is the active episode (several features done, more to come). Parts 4 and beyond are on the roadmap.

Implemented

Standalone (from before the 'Animated Ideas' series)

Parrots on Armor Stands - perch a shoulder parrot onto an armor stand for decoration.
~~Block breaking Shadow in Bedrock~~ (this is Java)
Gunpowder in Furnaces - smelting gunpowder is a GREAT idea-
Logical Stairs & Trapdoors - crafting stairs only cost THREE for FOUR stairs, and trapdoors yield a 'REASONABLE' amount.

Part 1 (complete)

Placeable Gunpowder - lay gunpowder on the ground to build fuses, then light it with flint and steel.
Nice Canvases - wall-mounted 16x16 canvases in all 16 dye colors plus a transparent variant. Paint pixel-by-pixel with a brush + dye, sample colors with the eyedropper (pick-block), and seal your art with honeycomb.
Ingot Repairable Anvils - mend a chipped or damaged anvil one stage with an iron ingot, or fully restore it with an iron block.
~~END UPDATE~~ (NOPE!)
Co-op Mining - blocks break faster when multiple players mine them together.
Air Fryer - twice as fast as a smoker but also twice as HUNGRY
Placeable..Milk - bucket of milk, but works the way water does (not infinite).
SANDWICH!!! - 2 bread + anything. it will add two breads worth of hunger honches to the thing. I got real dumb with this one. (art to be improved over time)

Part 2 (complete)

Placeable Pumpkin Pie - set pumpkin pie down like a cake and eat it slice by slice
Splash Potion of Milk - a throwable potion that clears status effects in an area of effect.
Doodle Books - MS Paint style drawing interface inside a book.
~~Jungle Villages~~ (sorry this is also way too huge a feature T>T)
Dangerous Stonecutters - stonecutters now hurt entities that stand on them.
Physical Trident Hitboxes (might be tweaked later) - tridents stuck in the ground become solid enough to stand on.

Part 3 (In Progress)

Cheese Blocks - fill a cauldron with a milk bucket and it curdles into a cheese block; uncraft that into nine edible cheese slices.
Cooking Eggs - cook an egg in a furnace, smoker, air fryer, or campfire for an edible fried egg.
Sleeping Bags - 3 wool + 3 string; sleep through the night WITHOUT resetting your spawn point.
Trumpets - a gold trumpet that toots low, mid, or high depending on where you're looking (placeholder sounds for now).
Frying Pan (bonus) - floats on top of a lit campfire and fries up to four foods at twice campfire speed; raw eggs even render as little sunny-side-up eggs while they cook. Doubles as a goofy melee weapon.

Coming Soon

Part 3 (remaining)

Unique Death Animations
Chaining Minecarts
Banner Patterns on Beds

Part 5

Vertical Chests
Concrete Slabs & Stairs
Fruit Cake
Tennis with Wind Charges
Animals Fighting Back
Banners on Boats
Sandstorms

Part 8

Useful Fletching Tables
Throwable Slimeballs
Green Apples
Full Turtle Armor
Mixed Slabs
Picking Up Baby Chickens

Part 9

Crying Obsidian uses
Universal Crossbow Ammunition
Heinz Baked Beans
Merging Slimes
Dancing Zombified Piglins
Emerald Armor & Tools

Part 13

Becon + Sulpher cube w/ Amathist Block = Discoball
Feather Falling stops crop trampling
MILK ARMOR
Custom Pumpkin Carving
Armor visibly looks battered with durability
FASTER MINECARTS

Worst Ideas (Parts 6, 7, 11, 12)

Talking Signs
IKEA Villages
Winged Spiders
Singing Bees
Glass Pickaxes
Flying Iron Golems
Cannons
Moving Houses
Boomerang Arrows
Layered Cakes
Hitman Creepers
Bee pollen alergies
Phantoms DROP CREEPERS
Creepers sneeze like a nuke
Enderman fails to pick up bedrock
Foxy Jumpscare
Rain makes grass splippery
BIG spiders
Milk LINGERING POTION

Seasonal & Themed

Christmas Specials (Part 4) - snowman hats and noses, Santa Villagers, Hot Chocolate, ornamental spruce trees.
Milk Update (Part 10) - Ice Cream, Flying Cows, Lactose Intolerance, Milk Rain, and more.