***THIS MOD IS A PORT OF THE 3/6/25 1.21.1 BUILD OF THE ORIGINAL PARTICLE INTERACTIONS MOD. FUTURE FEATURE PORTS ARE NOT PLANNED. MAINTENANCE UPKEEP MAY VARY DUE TO THE COMMISSIONED STATUS OF THIS MOD. REPORT ALL BUGS TO THIS MOD'S GITHUB. THIS VERSION IS UNAFFILIATED WITH THE ORIGINAL CREATOR, DO NOT BOTHER THEM ABOUT THE GOING ONS WITH THIS MOD.***

Particle Interactions

A mod that adds particles to more interactions in the game, such as when placing a block or stripping a log. The mod aims to be as configurable as possible and doesn't need to be installed on the server!

This mod is fully client side, however, a few particles added by the mod won't spawn when other players use certain items, place certain blocks, etc. Better multiplayer support is planned in the future, which may require the mod to be installed server-side

Every single feature added by this mod can be adjusted or disabled entirely in the mods' config menu! To access this, click the Mods button on the title or pause screen (on Fabric you need Mod Menu), click on the Particle Interactions mod, and click the config button

Current Features

Particles

Unique block breaking/placement particles which appear when breaking, placing or sprinting on certain blocks (Block Particle Overrides)

Full list of block particle overrides

Snowflakes (applies to snow blocks, snow layers, and powder snow by default)
Firefly (applies to firefly bushes by default)
Cherry petals (applies to cherry leaves, cherry saplings, and pink petals by default)
Azalea and flowering azalea leaves (applies to (flowering) azalea and (flowering) azalea leaves by default)
Pine Leaves (applies to every birch leaves and spruce leaves by default)
Generic Leaves (applies to every other vanilla leaf block by default)
Flower Petal (applies to cave vines, twisting vines, weeping vines, bushes, and most vanilla and modded flowers by default)
Grass Blade (applies to grass blocks, grass, tall grass, seagrass, vines, glow lichen, dead bushes, and most vanilla and modded crops by default)
Heavy Grass Blade (applies to hanging roots, pale hanging moss, cobwebs, and tripwire by default)
Moss Clump (applies to moss and moss carpets by default)
Pale Moss Clump (applies to pale moss and pale moss carpets by default, only in minecraft 1.21.2 and above)
Dust (applies to sand, gravel, sus sand, sus gravel, concrete powder, soul sand, and soul soil by default)
Redstone Dust (applies to redstone, redstone blocks, comparators, repeaters, and redstone torches by default)
Block Shatter (applies to nether portals by default)

Bubbles are spawned when placing or breaking blocks underwater
Sparks are spawned when using a flint and steel
Fire and smoke particles are spawned when using a fire charge
Sparks occasionally fly out of campfires and regular fires (sparks are blue for soul fire)
Ember particles float out of campfires and regular fires (embers are blue for soul fire)
Particles when tilling dirt, stripping logs, and flattening dirt
Sparks fly from minecart wheels when they are travelling close to full speed on a rail (by default, this only happens when there is a block or entity inside the minecart)
Sparks spawn from blazes randomly and when they are damaged
Sparks spawn when combining or grinding items in anvils and stonecutters
Dust particles spawn when brushing blocks that don't have a Block Particle Override specified, can be toggled in the config menu
Red dust particles are spawned when interacting with redstone components (includes redstone, comparators, and repeaters)
Falling blocks have particle effects when falling and when landing (uses the Block Particle Override for the particle)
Random bubble streams can spawn underwater from seagrass
Lava now has a bubble popping animation that can randomly appear
Most flowers, foliage, and some other blocks such as cobwebs now spawn particles when you walk, run, or jump through them
Furnaces and blast furnaces now emit ember and spark particles when smelting
Smokers now emit large smoke particles when smelting
Dust particles spawn when interacting with item frames
Blocks which use the grass blade particle override will occasionally spawn fireflies when interacted with in swampy biomes at night

Other Features

Makes block breaking, block placing, eating, and similar particles pixel consistent
Fixes particles z-fighting (glitching) with each other when looking straight down (MC-91873)
A toggle to disable some extra physics calculations done by the mod to slightly improve performance

License

The original Particle Interactions by ioblackshaw (a.k.a. Enchanted_Games) (and therefore this mod too) is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0

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Technical information