Animotion

Animotion is a Minecraft mod that adds realistic marine animals with custom animations and behaviour.

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Features

Current animals included in the mod:

• Baikal Seal
• Crabeater Seal
• Crab
• Gray Reef Shark
• Great White Shark
• Grey Seal
• Hammerhead Shark
• Harp Seal
• Leopard Seal
• Penguin
• Sea Devil
• Seal
• Southern Elephant Seal
• Tiger Shark

Each entity includes:

• Custom model
• Custom animations
• A Spawn Egg

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Screenshots

Animals

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Installation

1. Install Fabric Loader
2. Install Fabric API
3. Download the latest version of Animotion
4. Put the .jar file into your mods folder
5. Launch Minecraft

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Requirements

Minecraft Version: 1.21

Required mods:

• Fabric Loader
• Fabric API

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Development

This mod was developed as a personal project.

Estimated development time: ~45 hours

Breakdown:

• ~20 hours designing animals, models and animations
• ~20 hours programming entities and behaviour
• ~5 hours debugging and polishing

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Project Structure

This repository is organized into several main folders:

src/main/java

Contains the Java source code of the mod, including:

• Entity classes
• AI behaviour
• Mod initialization
• Game logic
• Datagen

src/main/resources

Contains all resources required by the mod.

Important files and folders include:

assets/animotion/

• textures/ → Textures used for entities and items
• lang/ → Language files for in-game text

fabric.mod.json

• The main Fabric mod configuration file that defines the mod ID, dependencies and metadata.

screenshots/

• Contains screenshots used in the README to showcase the animals and items included in the mod.

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Future Plans

Possible future additions:

• More animals
• Improved AI behaviour
• More animations