Fresh Animations Resource Pack 1.18 / 1.17

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Is Minecraft already starting to feel plain for you? That’s surprising since the games have a lot in store for players. Nevertheless, what you feel is understandable. Simple animations will make you feel bored eventually. And this is something that Minecraft obviously has. Well, what do you know? That’s not the case anymore. The Fresh Animations resource pack is here to rekindle your love for Minecraft once again! Fresh Animations is phenomenal. It makes Minecraft like a whole new game. But why? Keep reading and allow us to share what we know about it. The Fresh Animations texture pack is an update for Minecraft from FreshLX. The purpose of making this falls nothing short of being simple – improving the animations for the mobs. Before this resource pack, the movements of mobs look very jerky and are limited to predictable forward, sideward, and backward movements. With the Fresh Animations pack downloaded and installed, Minecraft becomes a whole new game. Mobs have smarter behaviors since they can now turn around, run or walk without looking jerky, jump, and execute other complex movements. Fresh Animations is still in the beta phase so expect that there’s a lot more coming. At present, it has three available versions. Version 1.0 provides new animations to villager, iron golem, witch, vindicator, evoker, pillager, and ravager mobs. The creeper, zombie, husk, zombie villager, skeleton, wither skeleton, and illusion enjoy new animations with Version 1.1. Download version 1.2 to get new animations for pig, wandering trader, phantom, and blaze.

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Minecraft dungeons and Minecraft trailers were the inspiration for the current and future animations, as per the words of the creator. That’s why you might want to watch these again if you want to get an idea of the exciting features cooking up. So, which is better? Vanilla Minecraft or Fresh Animations? Vanilla Minecraft doesn’t stand a chance against Fresh Animations if we talk about animation. As said earlier, Fresh Animations makes the mobs move smarter. This is something that the predictable and jerky animations of Vanilla Minecraft can’t contest. But in terms of texture and graphics, nothing’s really the same. With that being said, don’t expect this resource pack to make Minecraft compare to highly defined computer games. Fresh Animations doesn’t alter the core gameplay. That being said, don’t expect new mechanics from it. No need to worry because it only makes Minecraft feel like a whole new game without altering the features that make it unique from other games. The Fresh Animations Resource pack isn’t demanding on the computer system. With that said, you don’t have to upgrade your gaming PC to enjoy it. However, you will need to install the Optifine game utility for Minecraft. Fresh Animations Resource Pack works with Optifine’s Custom Entities and Random Entity. To save yourself from the hassle of downloading twice, opt to download Optifine-HDU-G8 because older versions might not work with Fresh Animations version 1.2.

Fresh Animations should be compatible with all of these Minecraft versions: 1.18.2 - 1.18.1 - 1.18 - 1.17.1 - 1.17 - 1.16.5 - 1.16.4 - 1.16.3 - 1.16.2 - 1.16.1 - 1.16 - 1.15.2 - 1.15.1 - 1.15

Fresh Animations — Screenshots

How to install Fresh Animations Resource Pack:

NOTE: Many resource packs require optifine to be preinstalled, so be sure to install it.

Download the Fresh Animations texture pack for Minecraft from the download section below. – if there are many different versions, just pick the one that you like or that you think your PC can handle
Launch the game client through the Minecraft launcher.
On the main menu, click "Options".
On the options menu, click "Resource Packs...".
Click on "Open Resource Pack Folder". – folder titled "resourcepacks" will pop up
Move the .zip file you downloaded in the first step to the newly opened "resourcepacks" folder.
Click "Done".
Click on "Resource Packs..." again.
Your pack should have appeared in the left window, just hover over it and click on the arrow pointing to the right.
Click "Done" again.
The pack has now been successfully loaded and ready to be used in your world!

Important:

Optifine is required! This pack will only work with Optifine and won’t without it!
Please note that if you have other packs with Optifine CEM features, they will override Fresh Animations CEM, removing the animation.
Player models cannot be animated yet, as they are not currently supported by Optifine.

Required settings:

Video Settings > Quality > Custom Entity Models: ON
Video Settings > Quality > Random Entities: ON (optional)
Video Settings > Quality > Emissive Textures: ON (optional)

Animated Mobs:

Villager
Iron Golem
Witch
Vindicator
Evoker
Pillager
Ravager
Creeper
Zombie
Husk
Zombie Villager
Skeleton
Wither Skeleton
Illusioner
Pig
Wandering Trader
Phantom
Blaze
Enderman
Squid (removed in 1.3.1)
Guardian
Elder Guardian
Spider
Cave Spider
Silverfish
Vex
Drowned
Stray
Sheep
Cow
Mooshroom
Chicken
Dolphin
Turtle
Llama
Trader Llama
Fox
Giant
Horse
Skeleton Horse
Zombie Horse
Donkey
Mule
Wolf
Ocelot
Cat
Parrot

Important about add-ons:

The Fresh Animations add-on is not required, but if you want additional features, you can install it on top/above the main pack;
The Fresh Animations add-on is designed to work with vanilla/default Minecraft textures and will most likely not be compatible with resource packs.
The Fresh Animations add-on provides the following features: animated blinking textures, some important fixes for a few mobs, extra details for some mobs, and some additional texture variants for a few mobs.

Please pay attention to the fact that:

None of the resource packs, shader mods or tools you see on this website are hosted on our servers. We use download links (including direct download links) provided by official authors. Therefore, they are completely safe and secure.
We never modify or edit resource packs in any way.
Although we are using the official download links, they may stop working after new updates are released. In this case, you can always use the source links from the "Official Links" section until we update the download links. And yes, we update links regularly and manually for every resource pack you see on this site.
By leaving comments below and voting for the pack, you help the authors improve their project.
Credit for the creation of Fresh Animations goes to FreshLX.

Download links:

[16x] [1.18.x] Download Fresh Animations Resource Pack – for 1.18.1 and newer, optifine required;

[16x] [1.18.0 – 1.17.x] Download Fresh Animations Resource Pack – for 1.18.0 and older, optifine required;

[16x] [1.16.x] Download Fresh Animations Resource Pack – optifine required;

Add-ons:

[16x] [1.18.x – 1.17.x] Download Fresh Animations Add-on Pack – optifine required;

[16x] [1.16.x] Download Fresh Animations Add-on Pack – optifine required;

Official links:

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