Animated Hearts
by waa132
Animated Hearts replaces the health display of Minecraft's HUD with smooth heart animations, keeping the original game style while the health row changes.
What it does
Health changes are drawn as motion rather than jumps. A half heart fades smoothly between a full and an empty state, and a regeneration wave travels across the health bar through the hearts that are restored. Poisoned hearts get small animated bubbles around them, so the effect is easier to notice without covering the HUD. Flames can appear right around the hearts and track the health bar, and activating a Totem of Undying plays a brief animation on the health bar.
Most effects can be turned on, off or adjusted individually through the in-game configuration menu, including animation speed and the customization of heart HUD effects. Rather than swapping out heart textures, the mod draws on the HUD textures already built into Minecraft, which keeps it compatible with most resource packs that alter the vanilla hearts. It is licensed under All rights reserved and is not open source.
Key features
Low-health heart pulse
Hearts pulse when the player's health drops low, giving a visual warning on the health bar.
Underwater and absorption effects
Hearts animate while submerged, and absorption hearts show a shine across the row.
Armor and experience shine
A silver shine runs across the hearts when a full armor set is worn, and the experience bar shows an animated wave.
Status effect and health row support
Poisoned hearts and multiple health rows, including modded status effects, are animated with the same effects.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
ExtraHearts is a Fabric, Forge and NeoForge mod for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 that runs on client and server, under All rights reserved and not open source. Armor Hud is client-side only and open source under the MIT License, covering 1.20 – 26.3 on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt. Heart Indicator is a Fabric client-side mod for 1.21 – 26.3 under the MIT License, and it is not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animated Hearts | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 26.3 | Client-side only | 2026-10-11 |
| ExtraHearts | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-04-06 |
| Armor Hud | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.20 – 26.3 | Client-side only | 2026-09-16 |
| Heart Indicator | Fabric | 1.21 – 26.3 | Client-side only | 2026-09-22 |
Questions
Does Animated Hearts need to be installed on a server?
Which loaders does Animated Hearts support?
Can the animations be turned off?
In the catalog
Animated Hearts is one of 29,952 Game mechanics mods on ModsFinder, and one of 19,630 Game mechanics mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
Smooth and customizable animations for Minecraft's health HUD Animated Hearts enhances the vanilla HUD with smooth heart animations and visual effects while keeping the original Minecraft style
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/animated-heart
- Owner
- waa132
- Published
- 2026-06-27
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-10-11
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15