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Screaming Chests

by bauerhartmut

Screaming Chests turns the vanilla chest boat into an animated screaming chest that reacts when a held boat is dropped over water.

ForgeClient and serverAll rights reserved1.20.1 – 1.20.6

What it does

Eight vanilla chest boats gain animated variants, driven by a model that plays a lid-open animation while the boat is held in the hand. A boat dropped into water makes a falling scream, and a right-click on a screaming boat in water swaps it back for the matching vanilla chest boat. The animation is powered by GeckoLib 4.8.4, which must be installed alongside the mod.

The mod is built for Forge only and is published for 1.20.1 – 1.20.6, with six release versions, the latest being 1.0.0 for 1.20.6 from 2026-06-28. Servers that run it need every player to install it too. The license is All rights reserved, which means the project is not open source.

Key features

  1. Animated chest boats

    Each of the eight chest boat types shows a screaming chest with a lid that opens while the boat is held.

  2. Falling scream on drop

    Dropping a screaming chest boat over water plays a scream as it falls, then places a vanilla chest boat on impact.

  3. Creative tab placement

    Oak, spruce and birch boats appear in the Tools and Utilities tab, while the other five types stay out of the tab to keep it tidy.

  4. Vanilla crafting recipe

    Crafting follows the vanilla boat plus chest recipe, so no new recipe has to be learned.

Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

1.20.61.0.0
1.20.51.0.0
1.20.41.0.0
1.20.31.0.0
1.20.21.0.0
1.20.11.0.0
ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.

Requirements

Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.

Required 1

GeckolibA 3D animation library for entities, blocks, items, armor, and more!
Required

Questions

Does Screaming Chests require GeckoLib?

Yes. GeckoLib is a required dependency, and version 4.8.4 is the one the mod is built against, so it must be installed next to Screaming Chests.

Does the server need Screaming Chests?

Yes. A server running it needs every connecting player to have it too.

Which loaders does Screaming Chests support?

Only Forge is listed. Files exist for 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4, 1.20.5 and 1.20.6.

In the catalog

Screaming Chests is one of 19,031 Adventure mods on ModsFinder, and one of 10,478 Adventure mods for Forge. 11,154 mods support Minecraft 1.20.6.

Adventure mods19,031Forge modsMods for 1.20.611,154

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What the author says

ScreamingChest swaps all eight vanilla chest boats for animated variants powered by GeckoLib 4.8.4. Right-clicking a screaming chest boat on water spawns an ordinary vanilla chest boat of the matching wood type — the scream and lid-open animation stay on the held item, driven by ScreamingChestFallingDetector and the…
bauerhartmut, on the Modrinth page

Official listing

Owner
bauerhartmut
Published
2026-06-28
Updated on Modrinth
2026-06-28
Facts verified
2026-10-15

Tags

AdventureDecorationEquipmentUtility
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