What is AnimatedBB

AnimatedBB turns Blockbench models (.bbmodel) into animated NPCs for Paper 26.2 and 26.3, drawn out of display entities.

No resource pack. No ModelEngine. Drop a Blockbench model in a folder and the plugin turns it into an NPC that animates, can be clicked, and runs whatever you tell it to.

What it can do

• Model NPCs from your .bbmodel files, with the animations you made in Blockbench: an idle animation that loops, and one when clicked.
• Normal NPCs: classic player NPCs with any skin, from a player name or an image URL.
• Interactions when clicked: messages, sounds, commands, waits, permission and item checks, sending players to another server.
• Holograms over NPCs (with FancyHolograms).
• Placeholders: PlaceholderAPI in interactions, and AnimatedBB's own placeholders.
• Bedrock players (Geyser) get a stand-in they can see and click.
• An in-game editor for everything.

How a model becomes an NPC

A model is made of boxes. AnimatedBB draws each box with display entities, in one of two ways (models.render-mode):

• heads (default): each box is one textured player head. A model costs tens of entities instead of hundreds. The textures are uploaded once to MineSkin (see Models).
• quads: each patch of colour is a small coloured panel. No upload and no resolution limit, but a detailed model costs hundreds of entities.

Model	heads	quads only
Player rig	11 entities	72
Alex (with hat layers)	15	996
Wumpus	73	868

Start here

Go through Installation and then Your first NPC.