Lively Moves

Lively Moves makes the player's body react to how it moves. It leans into a sprint, banks into turns, tucks its legs in a jump and squats when it lands. The mod is client-side only: you install it for yourself, and it animates every player you see, on any server.

What changes

• Sprinting: the body leans forward, the arms pump harder, the shoulders twist against the hips and the hips dip between steps.
• Turning and stopping: the body banks into a turn, leans forward when you set off and rocks back when you stop.
• Jumping: a running jump becomes a stride, with one leg forward and the opposite arm up. A jump from a standstill tucks the legs.
• Falling: the arms spread for balance. On a long fall the arms and legs flail.
• Landing: the body squats, deeper after a higher fall.
• Ladders and vines: the hands reach for the next rung while the opposite leg steps up.
• Water: the player treads water at the surface.
• Standing still: the chest breathes and the weight shifts from leg to leg. Turning on the spot takes small steps.
• Creative flight: the legs hang and sway.
• Getting hit: the body flinches back.

Swimming, elytra flight, riding, sleeping and sneaking stay as they are in vanilla. An arm that is drawing a bow, raising a shield or swinging a weapon also stays untouched, and armour follows the body.

Options

Open Options → More mods... → Ruchy... in game (ruchy is Polish for moves). You can:

• set the animation strength from 0% to 200% (0% is plain Minecraft);
• switch each group on or off: lean, jump and fall, landing, ladders and water, standing, flinch when hit;
• choose whether other players are animated or only you.

The settings are saved in config/ruchy.properties. There are also two client commands: /ruchy strength <0-200> and /ruchy info.

Requirements

• Minecraft 26.2 with Fabric Loader 0.19 or newer and Fabric API.
• Client only. The server does not need it.
• Works with Sodium and Iris, and without them.
• The screenshots are taken with a shader pack. Without one, the game looks like vanilla Minecraft.
• It has not been tested together with other mods that change the player's animations.