A Minecraft mod by Hardline Interactive
Body Language
Hold B, point at an emote and let go: wave hello, clap, cheer, floss with your friends in step, or lie back and watch the sunset.
- Developer
- Hardline Interactive
- Version
- 1.1.0
- Minecraft
- 1.21.1
- Loaders
- NeoForge
What it does
Body Language adds emotes to Minecraft. Your eight favourites sit on a wheel one key away, every emote is in a list, and they ease in and out smoothly while the view swings round behind you so you can see yourself.
On a server with the mod, everyone near you sees your emotes, dances fall into step with each other, and you can ask a friend for a hug or a high-five. On a server without it, you still see your own.
Emotes
Works on any server. Your own emotes always show on your screen.
- 30 emotes: waves, claps, cheers and bows, Facepalm and Shrug, Heart Hands, Air Guitar, Sit and Lie Down, and four dances: Shuffle, Disco, Robot and Floss.
- An emote wheel with your eight favourites: point and let go, or press 1 to 8. A list of every emote, where you choose which eight go on the wheel.
- Smooth animation that eases in and out, and a view that swings round behind you while you emote.
- Moving ends an emote straight away. Dances and poses carry on until you do.
- The /emote command, with Tab completion, for keybind mods and macros.
- Make your own: emotes are small text files, so a resource pack can add new ones.
With friends
Needs Body Language on the server as well as on each player’s game.
- Everyone nearby with the mod sees your emotes, even if they walk up halfway through.
- Dance together: start a dance next to someone doing it and you fall into step, or look at a dancer and press G to join in.
- Hugs and high-fives: look at a friend, press G, and if they say yes you both step into place.
- Requests can be turned off, and nobody can send more than one every three seconds.
- An event for other mods when a player starts or stops an emote, so a pet can copy its owner.
Quick start
Your first emote
- Install Body Language. In singleplayer, or on any server, your game is enough to see your own emotes.
- In a world, hold B. The wheel opens with eight emotes.
- Point at Wave at the top and let go of B, or press 1 while holding it.
- Press N for every emote. To end a dance, just walk away.
Dance with friends
- Install Body Language on the server and on every player’s game.
- Hold B and press 4 to start Shuffle (or pick any dance from the list with N).
- Friends who start the same dance within six blocks fall into step with you.
- Or a friend looks at you and presses G, then Join in.
Versions
- Minecraft 1.21.1
- NeoForge
- Showing your emotes to others, hugs, high-fives and dancing in step need Body Language on the server too. Players without it can still join that server; they just don’t see emotes.
- Body Language 1.1 and 1.0 work together in both directions.
The guide
Play
- The emotesAll 30 Body Language emotes, which ones play once and which carry on until you move, plus the two you do with a friend.
- Wheel, keys and /emoteUsing Body Language's emote wheel, its number keys, the emote list and the /emote command, choosing your eight favourites, and changing the keys.
- SettingsBody Language's settings, what each one does, and where to find them.
With friends
- Hugs, high-fives and dancing togetherDancing in step with your friends, asking a friend for a hug or high-five in Body Language, saying yes or no, and turning requests off.
- Servers and multiplayerWhat Body Language does on servers with and without it, what players without the mod see, and what the server does.
Make your own
Reference
- For mod developersReact to Body Language emotes from your own NeoForge mod with EmoteEvent, as an optional dependency.
- Questions and fixesAnswers to common Body Language questions, from keys that do nothing to friends who can't see your emotes.
- Credits and licenceWho made Body Language and how, including the AI that helped, and what you can do with it.
Made by Hardline Interactive with Claude Code (AI). Credits and licence
Licence. All Rights Reserved. You’re welcome to use Body Language in modpacks, stream it and make videos with it, and share resource packs with your own emotes.