AdventureZ - Fresh Animations

Fresh Animations-style custom mob animations for the AdventureZ mod. Every walk cycle, every attack swing, every idle pose rebuilt from scratch with CEM (Custom Entity Models) to match the smoothness and personality of Fresh Animations. No more robotic stock poses - AdventureZ mobs finally move like they mean it.

What it does

Out of the box, AdventureZ mobs use the default minecraft model with minimal procedural animation. This pack replaces 21 of them with hand-crafted CEM animations:

• Smooth walk/run cycles - arms swing, legs stride, bodies sway, with per-mob tempo based on real movement speed
• Weapon-aware attacks - skeletons draw bows like vanilla skeletons; soul reapers switch between bow and sword; necromancers cast without a melee swing
• Personality poses - shamans hold their staff, orcs hunch forward, fungi bob, rhinos snort, mammoths wave their trunks
• Hurt reactions - a quick recoil on damage so hits feel impactful

What's new in 1.0.1

• Every animation reworked from the closest Fresh Animations mob, then checked mob by mob in game
• Feet planted on the ground: no sliding at rest, stride matched to each mob's size (babies included)
• Orc: one model per orc size
• New: Void Shade

Covered mobs (21)

Humanoids: orc, shaman, skeleton_vanguard, soul_reaper, necromancer, summoner, wither_puppet

Fungi & organics: brown_fungus, red_fungus, the_eye

Void: void_shade

Golems: blackstone_golem, mini_blackstone_golem, amethyst_golem, blaze_guardian

Beasts: desert_rhino, piglin_beast, deer, iguana, enderwarthog, mammoth

Compatibility

• Minecraft 1.19 to 1.21.4 (tested on 1.20.1; pack_format 15, supported_formats 9-46)
• AdventureZ 1.4.x (tested) - should work on any version that keeps the same render layer names
• Safe to stack with Fresh Animations itself (they cover different entity sets)
• Texture packs for AdventureZ mobs remain compatible - this pack only changes models/animations, not textures

Credits

Since 1.0.1, the animations are adapted from Fresh Animations by FreshLX: each AdventureZ mob takes the walk, idle and attack animations of the closest Fresh Animations mob, rebuilt for the AdventureZ model (its own skeleton and pivots, mirrored sides where needed, stride and tempo rescaled so the feet stay planted, mob-specific attacks and spells). Fresh Animations itself is not included and not required. Credit and thanks to FreshLX.

AdventureZ mod by Jack Plays YT.

Used in the Legends Reborn: Medieval (LRM) modpack.