Death Animations
by barden
With Death Animations installed on a server, players who die see their body break apart in a scripted animation, with the mob and block effects set by the mod.
What it does
Death Animations plays an explosion-style death sequence when a player or a supported mob dies. Players break into bits and red-colored blocks give way in the same effect. The mod is server required, with client optional: the server runs the logic, and players may add the mod to see the animation on their own screen.
Supported mobs include several hostile and neutral types, from the common ones to the Warden, and each falls apart into its own set of gibs. The author lists more mobs as a future addition.
The mod ships as a Data pack as well as a loader file. Builds exist for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt. The latest file, 1.5+mod for 26.2, was published on 2026-08-23, and earlier builds cover 1.20.2 – 26.2 across 21 release versions. The code is open source under the MIT License.
Key features
Player death explosions
A player who dies bursts into bits, with the effect drawn from the mod's death animation.
Red block breakup
Red-colored blocks break apart when the death sequence plays, adding to the visual effect.
Mob gibs
Supported mobs leave varying gibs on death, so each kind of mob breaks apart differently.
Wide mob coverage
Zombies, skeletons, creepers, endermen, the Ender Dragon, the Warden and more are all covered.
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.x5 of 5 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Cursed server events
A server owner can run a themed event where every death looks like an explosion.
Who it’s for: Server owners who want a more dramatic death effect for players and mobs, and players who want the animation on their own screen.
Questions
Does Death Animations need to be installed on both sides?
Which loaders does Death Animations support?
Which mobs get the explosion effect?
In the catalog
Death Animations is one of 7,555 Cursed mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,235 Cursed mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
Zombie, Skeleton, Wither Skeleton, Creeper, Drowned, Ender Dragon, Enderman, Ghast, Spider, Evoker, Vindicator, Piglin, Piglin Brutes and Warden are currently supported. More to come in the Future! SCHMOOVE II is a Movement Shooter created by chopstickwater on the Sandbox Server legitimoose.com. Gibbing (or 'Death…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/gibbing
- Owner
- barden
- Published
- 2025-11-03
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-08-23
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15