Introduction

Emotes / Gestures

Emotes allow you to express yourself with some particular player animations. They integrate perfectly with the game and look like an official update.

Method for 1.21.4+ clients

emotes:
  1_21_4_plus_modern_method: true

Main features

• Blockbench extension to animate the Minecraft player model

• Completely Async, no TPS drops

• Optimized for big servers

• Play sounds and particles in animations

• Shows items in player hands and helmet

• Doesn't overwrite any vanilla shader

• Compatible with shader mods (Optifine, Iris, etc.)

• Supports slim arms

• Doesn't cause any issue with placed player heads (skulls)

Limitations

• Requires Minecraft 1.21.4 or greater

• More info about emotes issues here

Method for 1.17 to 1.21.3 clients (old)

emotes:
  legacy_shaders: true
  1_21_5_to_1_21_9_shaders: true

Main features

• Blockbench extension to animate the Minecraft player model

• Completely Async, no TPS drops

• Optimized for big servers

• Play sounds and particles in animations

• Shows items in player hands and helmet

Limitations

• Won't show the player armor equipment, only mainhand, offhand and helmet.

• Works only on 1.17 to 1.21.3 clients

• More info about emotes issues here

Installing the Blockbench extension

Download Blockbench (don't use the web app).

Download the extension file.

Then open Blockbench and click on File -> Plugins.

Click on the icon to load plugins from file, then select the file iaentitymodel.js.

Press OK

Enabling emotes

Open config.yml of ItemsAdder and enable these two options, then run /iazip command.

entities:
  custom-entitites:
    enabled: true
    emotes: true