Smooth Hover
by kallmetony
Smooth Hover adds a fading hover animation to buttons and inventory slots in Minecraft's interface, with settings for speed, color and opacity.
What it does
Standard Minecraft interface elements switch between their normal and hovered states at once. Smooth Hover replaces that instant change with a short transition on buttons, inventory slots and other GUI elements, so the cursor movement appears to ease in and out. Players can tune the transition speed, the highlight color and its opacity from the mod's options.
The mod is client-side only, so a server does not need it and players can join without installing it. It requires Architectury API and Cloth Config API. Builds are published for Fabric and NeoForge across 17 release versions, 1.21 – 26.3, and the code is not open source; it is released under All rights reserved.
Key features
Animated button hover
Buttons and other GUI elements fade into their hovered state instead of changing instantly.
Inventory slot highlight
Inventory slots show a smooth hover effect, with an option to switch between display modes for slots.
Adjustable transition speed
The duration of the hover transition can be changed in the options to suit a faster or slower feel.
Color and opacity settings
The hover highlight color and its opacity can both be set, and the trash slot hover color can be changed on 26.x builds.
Smooth world and server selection
On 26.x builds, the world and server selection screens also use smooth animations.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.21.x12 of 12 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 2
How it compares
Hover Highlight is a Fabric-only, client-side mod for 1.21 – 26.1.1 under All rights reserved and is not open source. Hover Items is also Fabric-only, client-side and not open source, with files for 1.20 – 26.3. GUI Tween runs on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge for 1.20.1 – 26.3 and is open source under the MIT License. EaseGUI is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later and covers the same loaders and range.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smooth Hover | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21 – 26.3 | Client-side only | 2026-09-23 |
| Hover Highlight | Fabric | 1.21 – 26.1.1 | Client-side only | 2026-04-08 |
| Hover Items | Fabric | 1.20 – 26.3 | Client-side only | 2026-09-17 |
| GUI Tween | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 26.3 | Client-side only | 2026-09-22 |
| EaseGUI | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 26.3 | Client-side only | 2026-09-18 |
Questions
Does Smooth Hover need Architectury API?
Does a server need Smooth Hover?
Which loaders have Smooth Hover files?
In the catalog
Smooth Hover is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,982 Decoration mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
Have you ever wondered why Minecraft doesn't have smooth animations for buttons and other ui elements? Well, this mod is for you! Enhance your gameplay experience with smooth animations for Minecraft's UI components! Resource pack used above is Unique Dark but mod doesn't need one, as well as additional support from…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/smooth-hover
- Owner
- kallmetony
- Published
- 2026-01-27
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-23
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15