GIF Explosions!
When an entity dies on screen, GIF Explosions! draws a looping explosion animation at its position as a client-side visual effect.
What it does
Each time a mob or other entity dies, the client plays an explosion GIF at the spot where it fell, with a matching sound. The animation is drawn from the client's own view of entity health and death, so the effect appears only for the player running the mod.
Only the client needs the mod. Servers run without it and players join without installing it, and the effect does not change the world or any server state. Mod uses a lightweight algorithm to track entities locally and relies only partly on standard vanilla packets, such as entity updates the server already sends.
Builds exist for Forge only, for Minecraft 1.8.9, with 1.0 as the latest file, published on 2025-04-08. The code is covered by the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 license, so the mod is not open source. The author states that the mod is memory safe and that it was tested on some servers.
Key features
Explosion GIF on death
An explosion animation plays at the location of an entity when it dies, with a sound.
Local death tracking
Entity health and death are read on the client, so the effect needs little data from the server.
Delayed death hiding
Entity deaths are hidden for a short delay so the explosion can start before the entity disappears.
Memory-safe rendering
The author describes the GIF rendering as memory safe, with no extra packets sent back to the server.
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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.
Questions
Does GIF Explosions! have to be installed on the server?
Will GIF Explosions! get a player banned?
Which Minecraft version does GIF Explosions! support?
In the catalog
GIF Explosions! is one of 7,555 Cursed mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,426 Cursed mods for Forge. 955 mods support Minecraft 1.8.9.
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What the author says
Mod for Minecraft Forge 1.8.9 (May be updated to newer loaders and versions) 1. The mod’s functionality could break on certain servers if anti-cheat systems spoof both the health and death state of entities. This can delay or hide entity deaths from the client, which would prevent the effect from triggering. The mod…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/gif-explosions
- Owner
- ChocofushEagler
- Published
- 2025-04-07
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-04-08
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15