Fresh Colonists

Fresh Colonists

An unofficial Fresh Animations companion for MineColonies

Fresh Colonists brings your MineColonies colonists to life with smoother, more natural animations, designed to feel right at home alongside Fresh Animations and the FA Player Extension.

Features

• Natural walk cycle with hip follow-through. The pelvis turns with the leading leg, the upper body sways and bobs slightly, and the swinging leg passes neatly behind the standing one.
• A real knee joint. The thigh swings from the hip and the lower leg bends at the knee during each step, then straightens before the foot lands. Leg proportions match the original MineColonies models.
• Dresses and skirts that move with the stride. Noble women and aristocrats walk with shorter, quicker steps, and their dresses and layered skirts swing along with every step.
• Living eyes. Colonists blink with a real eyelid that closes over the eye, their eyebrows dip as they blink, and their pupils slowly wander around.
• Eyes stay closed while sleeping. Colonists in bed keep their eyes shut until they wake up.
• Works with every texture variant and style. The eyes are built on top of the original MineColonies textures, so the pack ships no textures of its own. Every skin tone and variant is covered, as well as the other citizen styles (medieval, undead and so on).
• Legs subtly follow the look direction. When a colonist turns its head, its stance shifts slightly to match.
• Proper sitting pose. When colonists sit down (eating, visiting the tavern, at school), their thighs rest forward and the lower legs hang down naturally.
• Relaxed toe-out stance when standing still, plus a gentle idle sway.
• Covers 80 models: every profession (male and female), plus settlers, citizens, nobles and aristocrats for colonists without a job (house level 1 up to level 5) and tavern visitors. The cook’s layered skirt swings along with her steps.

Requirements

• Entity Model Features (EMF), latest version
• MineColonies
• NeoForge 1.21.1

Installation

1. Download the .zip file.
2. Drop it into your resourcepacks folder.
3. Enable it in the resource pack list.
4. Press F3+T to reload resources (this reloads resource packs; it is not the same as /reload, which only reloads datapacks), or simply rejoin your world.

Known Limitations

• Children and special visitors with their own custom skin are not patched yet. Support for them may come in future updates.
• Apron panels on the legs (baker, blacksmith and others) swing with the thigh but stay straight at the knee.
• With the East Asian citizen style, a small skin-colored bump can show above the eyes, because that style paints its eyes differently.
• Legs can occasionally peek through long dresses and skirts at the far end of a step.
• A very slight foot “sliding” can occur during irregular AI pathing. This comes from how Minecraft drives its walk animation and is not a bug specific to this pack.

Feedback & Bug Reports

This pack is still under active development. If you run into odd poses, animation glitches, or compatibility issues with other packs or mods, please leave a comment. Real-world feedback across different setups genuinely helps me shape future updates.

Credits

• Geometry exported live from MineColonies using EMF’s own export feature.
• All animation expressions are my own work, created as a companion to Fresh Animations by FreshLX.
• Built on Entity Model Features by Traben.
• For MineColonies by ldtteam.