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Moves items smoothly in inventories
Smooth Swapping is a mod made by Schauweg. Moves items smoothly in inventories.
It supports Minecraft 1.17 – 26.x. It has been downloaded 8,672,470 times on Modrinth. The last update came out on Sep 16, 2026.
Smooth Swapping has had 74 releases on Modrinth since Aug 16, 2021. 34 of them came out in the past year. The newest is 0.9.11-26.3, released on Sep 16, 2026. It is made for Minecraft 26.3. It runs on NeoForge. The download is 66 KB.
| Version | Released | Minecraft | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
0.9.11-26.3 | Sep 16, 2026 | 26.3 | Beta |
0.9.11-26.3 | Sep 16, 2026 | 26.3 | Beta |
0.9.10-26.2 | Jun 21, 2026 | 26.2 | Beta |
0.9.10-26.2 | Jun 21, 2026 | 26.2 | Beta |
0.9.9-26.1 | Mar 28, 2026 | 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2 | Beta |
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Smooth Swapping is a client side mod that animates item movement inside of inventories.
Smooth Item animation inside an inventory
Smooth Swapping settings menu
Written by Schauweg. Read it with pictures on Modrinth.
This mod runs only on your own game. Servers do not need it, so you can use it on any server.
Install Fabric, Quilt, Forge and NeoForge for Minecraft 1.17 – 26.x.
Download the .jar file from Modrinth and put it in the mods folder of your .minecraft directory.
Start Minecraft with the Fabric profile.
With the CraftRank Launcher you can skip these steps: open Mods, search for Smooth Swapping and click Install.
| Resource | Downloads | Versions | Last update | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.7M | 1.17 – 26.x | Sep 16, 2026 | Free | |
| 25.2M | 1.16 – 26.x | Sep 17, 2026 | Free | |
| 24.4M | 1.20 – 26.x | 25 days ago | Free | |
| 13.3M | 1.20 – 26.x | 24 days ago | Free |
Yes. Smooth Swapping supports Minecraft 26.x. All supported versions: 26.x, 1.21, 1.20, 1.19, 1.18, 1.17.
Yes. Smooth Swapping is free to download from Modrinth.
Client-side. Smooth Swapping goes in your own mods folder and works on any server, including servers without mods.
Yes. The last update came out in the past day.
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