Bending
Players who want Avatar: The Last Airbender abilities in Minecraft can use Bending, a Fabric mod that brings the bending arts of its source show into the game.
What it does
Bending gives players four elements, Air, Water, Earth and Fire, with more than 60 elemental abilities. Each ability is assigned to a slot, and because there are only nine hotbar slots, the player chooses which abilities to carry and in what order. The order matters for performing sequences quickly and precisely.
The mod is free and open source, and it also runs as a plugin on Paper and Purpur servers. Fabric API is required. Optional dependencies are LuckPerms, MiniPlaceholders and Text Placeholder API. The mod is published for 1.18.2 – 26.3 across 18 release versions, with 3.17.0 for 26.3 as the latest Fabric file.
Abilities interact with one another dynamically, and a collision system determines how bending hits land on players and blocks. The mod is fully translatable into other languages.
Key features
Four elements
Air, Water, Earth and Fire each have their own set of bending abilities for the player to learn and combine.
Over 60 abilities
The mod includes more than 60 distinct elemental abilities, selected and ordered through the hotbar.
Dynamic interactions
Abilities respond to one another, so sequences of moves can change the result of the next move.
Collision system
A dedicated collision model decides how bending attacks connect with entities and terrain during combat.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.21.x8 of 8 versions with builds
1.20.x4 of 4 versions with builds
1.19.x2 of 2 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 1
Optional 3
Use cases
Single-player play
A player can practice bending sequences alone and build up a personal set of abilities in the hotbar.
Multiplayer servers
Server owners can run the mod on Fabric or as a plugin on Paper and Purpur, and set up the bending experience for their players.
Who it’s for: Players who want Avatar-style bending in their Minecraft worlds, and server owners who run Paper, Purpur or Fabric servers and want the mod available to their players.
How it compares
Elementals is a Fabric and NeoForge addon for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 under a custom license, and it is not open source. Elemental-ish is a Fabric mod for 26.1.2 under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only, and it is not open source. Universe Box is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only and covers 1.18.1 – 1.19.3 on Fabric.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bending | Fabric | 1.18.2 – 26.3 | Not published | 2026-09-30 |
| Elementals | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-08-17 |
| Elemental-ish | Fabric | 26.1.2 | Client and server | 2026-07-26 |
| Universe Box | Fabric | 1.18.1 – 1.19.3 | Client and server | 2023-03-20 |
Questions
Does Bending need Fabric API?
Does the server need Bending installed?
Can Bending run on a Paper or Purpur server?
Which optional dependencies does Bending support?
In the catalog
Bending is one of 7,216 Magic mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,630 Magic mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
Bending is a free and open source mod/plugin that brings the universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender to Minecraft. Since your amount of slots is finite (9 hotbar slots) you have to carefully choose what abilities you want to use as well as their order. The order is important as it will allow you perform sequences…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/bending
- Owner
- PrimordialMoros
- Published
- 2022-08-21
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-30
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15