Swinging Car
by tempis335
Swinging Car places a rusted car on a mountain peak, where its balance reacts to weight, and players can rebuild it piece by piece.
What it does
Players standing on the edges of the car, or walking about inside it, make the mountain peak block underneath tilt in response to their weight. A full tilt takes 16 seconds, and the car stops at its maximum angle once it reaches it. The tilt works in both directions, and the hitbox follows the model through four hitbox stages, with two hitboxes covering the car body and the windshield and roof section. Players can walk the car and watch the swings.
The car starts as a rusty shell and is rebuilt by clicking its parts in an exact sequence. Each part shows up on the model, moving the car through six stages from a bare wreck to an assembled ride. Once it is complete, a player can sit inside. Three nests fit on the car, two toward the back and one at the front, and roughly every five minutes a seagull settles into one, with a 30 percent chance that it carries an item in its beak. Grass and plants can also be grown under the bumper, where a fern appears.
Swinging Car requires Geckolib. Alex's Mobs and Incubation are optional: with Alex's Mobs the seagulls come from that mod, and with Incubation the nests are its nests, while the mod works fine without either. Servers that run it need every player to install it too. Files cover Forge for 1.19.4 – 1.21.8 under All rights reserved, and the mod is not open source.
Key features
Balance physics on a peak
The car perches on a mountain peak and tilts under weight, with stepping on an edge starting the tilt in that direction.
Steering wheel and wheels
A steering wheel and a pair of wheels are part of the car, so the vehicle reads as a complete model once rebuilt.
Plants under the bumper
Glow berries, sweet berries, dead bushes, wheat seeds and ferns can be grown under the car's bumper instead of elsewhere.
Seagull nests
Three nests placed on the car attract seagulls, which bring items to the nests at intervals.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
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 2
Questions
Does Swinging Car need Geckolib?
Does the server need Swinging Car?
Are Alex's Mobs and Incubation required?
In the catalog
Swinging Car is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,149 Decoration mods for Forge. 17,695 mods support Minecraft 1.21.8.
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What the author says
Swinging Car is a car perched on a mountain peak with real balance physics. Stand on its edge and watch it tilt. Repair it, move in, grow plants under the bumper, and greet the seagulls. Yes, you can live on its roof. Every part visually appears on the car — six model stages from a bare wreck to a fully assembled…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/swinging-car
- Owner
- tempis335
- Published
- 2026-07-31
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-31
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
