Overreacting Mobs

One hit, big drama. Mobs react to every hit with weighty, cartoony animations: they freeze in a white flash, fly back with their arms flung out, land in a stumble and shake it off. Kills get their own dramatic deaths. Client-side only, for Fabric, NeoForge and Forge on Minecraft 26.2 and 26.3.

• Hit reactions for front, side and back hits, each with an impact freeze, a flight and a landing. Crits and sprint hits send mobs flying further.
• Combos: keep hitting the same mob and the reactions build up, ending in a heavy knockout blow. A weak, uncharged swing gets a small flinch.
• Faces: mobs squint on impact, go wide-eyed in the air and see stars after a big hit.
• Deaths: the killing blow plays a death to match the hit. The body stays for a moment, then poofs. Fire, falls and drowning get a collapse.
• Built per body type, so a zombie, a cow, a spider and a creeper each move in their own way. Babies included.
• Visual only: damage, knockback and hitboxes stay exactly as in vanilla.

• Zombies and skeletons: zombie, husk, drowned, zombie villager, zombified piglin, skeleton, stray, bogged, parched, wither skeleton, piglin, piglin brute
• Villagers and illagers: villager, wandering trader, witch, vindicator, pillager, evoker, illusioner
• Animals: cow, mooshroom, pig, sheep, goat, panda, polar bear
• Pets: wolf, fox, cat, ocelot
• Others: spider, cave spider, creeper, enderman, iron golem
• The babies of all of these

Other mobs keep their vanilla animations. More body types are on the way.

• Client-side only. Works on any server, including vanilla servers and Realms. Only you see the animations.
• Works with Fresh Animations (EMF + ETF): the reactions play on top of its models.

Put the jar for your loader and Minecraft version in your mods folder:

• Fabric (no Fabric API needed)
• NeoForge
• Forge

To uninstall, remove the jar. Nothing is saved to your worlds.

• The animations only change what you see. Where a mob really is, and where it can hit you from, is unchanged.
• Players without the mod see vanilla hits.

Overreacting Mobs is free. If it made you laugh at a zombie, a coffee helps fund the next update.

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All rights reserved, with permissions: you can use it anywhere, include it in modpacks with credit, and show it in videos. Full terms: LICENSE.

Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.