Animated Inventory
by Mike
With Animated Inventory, the survival inventory screen gains small animated scenes and creatures that move while the player browses items.
What it does
Loading the game with the mod shows an animated survival inventory in place of the vanilla one. The animation is a visual layer only, so items, slots and recipes work as they do without it. Animation State lets the player choose whether the scene runs enabled, paused or disabled, and a GUI Texture Level setting controls how detailed the textures appear.
Several inventory themes are available, including a Froggy theme and a Christmas theme, with forest, ocean and factory themes in progress and a cat theme planned. Vivid Textures brightens the colors, and the Custom Inventory option lets the player switch back to the Vanilla Inventory. Features marked WIP are not finished yet. Animated Inventory requires Cloth Config API, Fabric API and Mod Menu on Fabric, and is published for Fabric and NeoForge for 1.20 – 26.2. It is installed on the player's side alone, so servers need nothing. The mod is released under All rights reserved and is not open source.
Key features
Animated survival inventory
The survival inventory shows looping animated scenes instead of a static background, and it loads only for the Survival inventory.
Animation state control
Players set the animation to enabled, paused or disabled, so the scene can be stopped while managing items.
Selectable inventory themes
Several themes can be picked, including Froggy and Christmas, with more planned for later updates.
Texture and color options
A GUI Texture Level setting adjusts texture detail, and Vivid Textures changes how bright the inventory colors look.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x4 of 4 versions with builds
1.21.x12 of 12 versions with builds
1.20.x7 of 7 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 3
How it compares
Inventory Companions adds companion characters to the inventory and is published for 1.21 – 26.2 on Fabric and NeoForge under a Creative Commons license that is not open source. Immersive Hotbar is open source under the MIT License, covers Fabric, Forge and NeoForge for 1.20 – 26.3, and changes the hotbar rather than the main inventory. Animated Hearts is a client-side mod for 1.20.1 – 26.3 on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge that animates the health display, under All rights reserved.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animated Inventory | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.20 – 26.2 | Client-side only | 2026-09-06 |
| Inventory Companions | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21 – 26.2 | Client-side only | 2026-09-07 |
| Immersive Hotbar | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20 – 26.3 | Client-side only | 2026-10-06 |
| Animated Hearts | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 26.3 | Client-side only | 2026-10-11 |
Questions
Does Animated Inventory need Fabric API on NeoForge?
Does the server need Animated Inventory?
Can the animation be turned off without removing the mod?
In the catalog
Animated Inventory is one of 4,058 Storage mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,474 Storage mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
Animated Inventory does exactly as the name describes, animates things in the inventory. Giving the inventory some more life and activity. Animated Inventory is one of my favorite mods due to the amount of customizability it has. There is only a few themes to choose from: - Froggy - Christmas - Slime - WIP Forest …
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/animated-inventory
- Owner
- Mike
- Published
- 2024-12-29
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-06
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15