Farmstead Footprints Mod (26.3, 1.20.1) – Leave Realistic Tracks Across Snow

Farmstead Footprints Mod adds realistic tracks for players and mobs across your world. Every step you take in snow, sand, or mud leaves a clear mark pressed right into the ground. Up to 47 vanilla mobs also leave their own unique prints, from tiny chicken scratches to giant bear paws. The mod even reads models from other mods to generate matching footprints automatically. Because it runs completely on the client side with zero dependencies, it works on any server right away.

Features:

• Two Visual Styles: Choose between Detailed mode with a shadowed hollow and lit lip, or Pixel mode that presses the block’s own texture pixels inward to match biome tints.
• Unique Mob Tracks: Generates distinct prints for boots, bare feet, paws, hooves, cloven hooves, bird feet, and giant steps from iron golems, ravagers, and wardens.
• Realistic Walking Patterns: Players step left and right naturally, while four-legged animals place their hind feet right into their front prints.
• Modded Mob Compatibility: Reads mob models automatically to place two, four, six, or eight legs at their real positions, while scaling prints to match baby mobs or size mods like Pehkui.
• Aging and Weather Effects: Prints slowly crumble from the edges inward over time, fade faster during rain or snow, and disappear instantly if the block underneath breaks.
• Water and Wet Surfaces: Adds foam wakes behind boats, water rings when wading, bubbles behind swimmers, damp tracks on stone or wood after swimming, and sparks under fast minecarts.
• Soft blocks like snow, sand, mud, grass, gravel, soil, clay, and soul blocks each have their own track color and lifetime.
• Draws all tracks in a single batch and hides prints outside the camera view to keep frame rates fast.
• Works with Sodium, Iris, and shader packs so footprints match the surrounding lighting.
• Includes four quick presets: default, vanilla_plus, cinematic, and performance.
• Lets you add custom PNG shapes or resource pack rules to change how footprints look.

Commands:

• /footprints config: Opens the settings menu with tabs for prints, effects, and searchable block and mob lists.
• /footprints reload: Reloads your current footprint configuration and custom textures.
• /footprints stats: Shows current footprint rendering statistics.

Configuration:

• checkUpdates = false: Turns off the automatic version check on startup.

How to Use:

1. Walk across soft blocks like snow, sand, mud, or gravel to start leaving footprints behind you.
2. Type /footprints config in chat to open the settings screen and switch between Detailed and Pixel styles.
3. Click the “Try it” button in the settings menu to stamp sample player, horse, wolf, and chicken tracks right where you are looking.
4. Press F3 + T to reload the game if you add custom footprint PNG files or resource pack profiles.

Screenshots:

Requirements:

NeoForge RequiredFabric Loader RequiredFabric API RequiredQuilt Installer RequiredMinecraft Forge Required

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