Traben's client-side mod that lets resource packs texture mobs the way OptiFine packs do: random and conditional mob variants, glowing emissive layers, blinking eyes and optional player-skin effects. It changes textures only, and custom mob models are the job of its companion mod, Entity Model Features.
Entity Texture Features (ETF) is a client-side mod by Traben that lets resource packs decide how mobs and other entities are textured: several variants of the same mob, textures chosen by biome or name, glowing layers, blinking eyes and optional effects on player skins. It reads the file format OptiFine introduced for these features, so packs written for OptiFine's random and emissive entities work on Fabric, Quilt, NeoForge and Forge without OptiFine installed. Without such a pack, only the player-skin features described below have anything to do.
A vanilla resource pack can replace a mob's texture with exactly one other texture. ETF adds four abilities, each switched on by files inside the pack:
zombie2.png and zombie3.png, and ETF assigns one to each mob. A properties file beside them turns the lottery into rules: this texture in deserts, that one for a zombie named John, another below a certain height._e suffix holds only the pixels that should glow, so eyes, runes or lanterns on a mob stay lit at night.TEXTURE_blink.png, optionally joined by a half-closed TEXTURE_blink2.png, makes the mob blink at intervals. Sleeping mobs keep their eyes shut where the pack provides the frame, and blinded ones close or half-close them.ETF never alters the shape of an entity. Custom Entity Models, the other half of OptiFine's entity system, belong to Entity Model Features, a separate mod by the same author. When mobs turn invisible, stretched or scrambled after a pack is enabled, the pack contains models and EMF is missing. ETF's own FAQ gives exactly that answer.
The dependency runs one way. EMF cannot load without ETF, because it borrows ETF's random selection, texture variation and settings screen. ETF runs perfectly well alone, and it is the only mod a pack needs when it ships textures but no model files. Fresh Animations is the best-known pack that needs both.
Every OptiFine random-entity property works, including the biome, name and height rules, and ETF adds its own on top. Pack authors can match on the block a mob spawned on, its scoreboard team, several names at once, a horse's speed or jump strength, maximum health, a screaming goat, a player-built iron golem, a charged creeper, active status effects and the distance to the player.
One behaviour catches people out while testing a pack. Biome, block and most other conditions are checked once, when the mob spawns or first loads. A zombie that picked up the desert texture keeps it after wandering into a forest. Name, health, baby state, team, anger, held items and movement are re-checked while the mob exists, at the update speed set in ETF's options.
ETF also looks for random textures in more places than OptiFine does. It checks its own etf/random/entity folder first, then OptiFine's optifine/random/entity, then the legacy optifine/mob, and finally the vanilla texture folder. Numbering starts at 2, and when there is no properties file the numbers must run without gaps: anything after a missing number is ignored.
Glowing textures render in one of two modes, chosen in ETF's settings. The default, dull emissives, behaves like OptiFine: glowing parts still take directional shading and stay restrained in daylight. Bright emissives skip the shading and glow harder, which tends to produce more bloom under shaders. ETF's documentation also warns they are more likely to break with some shader packs, so they are a matter of taste rather than an upgrade.
ETF's emissives reach entities and a set of block entities (chests, shulker boxes, beds, bells, lecterns and enchanting table books) but not ordinary blocks or items. Glowing ores and item textures come from Continuity instead. Worn gear is covered too: armor, elytra and tridents accept emissive layers, and armor trims take them per material, through file names such as coast_amethyst_e.png. Two conflicts are documented as well. Complementary Shaders has emissive handling of its own that can clash with a pack's emissive textures, and the suggested fix is to turn off the emissives in one of the two. The Enhanced Block Entities mod, which renders chests and similar blocks as plain block models for speed, removes ETF's support for those blocks.
ETF can read extra effects from a player's own skin file: transparent sections, glowing pixels, an enchantment shimmer on chosen pixels, blinking, and cosmetic extras such as a jacket or a dress extension. Nothing happens unless the skin carries a small coloured marker below the head, so no one else's pack can alter your skin. The Skin Tool in ETF's settings applies the features for you and can upload the finished skin to Mojang directly.
These effects are drawn by the mod on each viewer's own game, so a player without ETF sees your skin as vanilla Minecraft draws it. To limit abuse in PvP, ETF caps how transparent a skin can be overall, and transparency can be switched off for players on an enemy team.
ETF has builds for Fabric (which also load on Quilt), NeoForge and Forge from Minecraft 1.16.5 to 26.3. Forge builds continue up to 1.21.11. From 26.1 onward the choice is Fabric or NeoForge. The current files require nothing but the loader, not even Fabric API. Settings open from a button on the Resource Packs screen, from Mod Menu on Fabric, or in config/entity_texture_features.json.
The mod is client-side: a server needs nothing, and other players do not need it for you to see a pack's textures. It runs alongside Sodium and Iris, although how emissive textures look under a shader varies from pack to pack. ETF declares OptiFabric incompatible, and there is no reason to pair it with OptiFine, which already covers the same ground.
logs/latest.log usually says which.ETF is a single jar per loader and Minecraft version, and it needs no API or library mod beside it.
Every ETF file is built for one loader and one Minecraft version, so start in the Entity Texture Features Downloads section: set the version filter to your game version and the loader filter to Fabric, NeoForge or Forge. Quilt players choose Fabric. The Download button on the remaining row leads to that file on Modrinth.
From Minecraft 26.1 onward there are Fabric and NeoForge files only. Forge players on 1.21.11 or older still have a Forge row.
mods folder exists.mods folder. Fabric API is not required, and Mod Menu is optional.Fresh Animations and other Custom Entity Models packs also need Entity Model Features. Get it for the same Minecraft version and loader and place it next to ETF. Update the two together: current EMF (3.3 and newer) refuses to start with an ETF older than 7.2, and ETF 7.2 refuses an EMF older than 3.3.
Remove OptiFine or OptiFabric first. Your packs stay as they are, since ETF reads the same random and emissive files.
With ETF loaded, the Resource Packs screen gains a button for ETF's settings, which is the quickest sign the mod is running. Then look at a mob your pack changes. Packs with variants usually cover common mobs such as villagers, zombies or cows, so a group of them should no longer look identical.
If the game will not start, check that the jar matches both your loader and your Minecraft version. The mod installation guide covers loaders from scratch, and texture packs not working helps when the pack itself is missing from the list.
No builds match these filters.
Only if the pack contains custom models. ETF covers textures: random variants, emissive layers, blinking. EMF covers models and animation, and it cannot run without ETF. Fresh Animations needs both, while a pack that only adds mob variants needs just ETF.
No. The current ETF files depend only on the loader itself. Mod Menu is optional on Fabric and gives another way into the settings.
Yes. ETF supports OptiFine's random entity properties and emissive entity textures, and adds properties OptiFine does not have. Packs that also use Custom Entity Models need EMF as well.
The pack contains custom entity models, which ETF does not render. Install Entity Model Features for the same Minecraft version and loader.
No. ETF's emissive textures cover entities and some block entities such as chests, beds and shulker boxes. Emissive blocks and items need Continuity.
Generally yes with Iris, but results vary by shader pack. Complementary Shaders has its own emissive handling that can clash with a pack's textures. ETF suggests turning off the emissives in either Complementary or ETF.
Only players who have ETF installed. The effects are read from your skin file by each viewer's copy of the mod, so everyone else sees a normal skin.
No. Forge builds go up to Minecraft 1.21.11. Minecraft 26.1 and newer have Fabric and NeoForge builds, and Quilt uses the Fabric build.
A client-side mod by Traben that loads OptiFine-format Custom Entity Models, the packs that reshape and animate mobs. It is what makes Fresh Animations move without OptiFine, and it works as a pair with its texture companion, Entity Texture Features.
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