About Screaming Chests
From ModrinthScreaming Chest Boat Replacer — every vanilla chest boat becomes an animated screaming chest. Drop one on water to spawn a vanilla chest boat, or hold one while falling to hear the scream.
ScreamingChest swaps all eight vanilla chest boats for animated variants powered by GeckoLib 4.8.4. Right-clicking a screaming chest boat on water spawns an ordinary vanilla chest boat of the matching wood type — the scream and lid-open animation stay on the held item, driven by ScreamingChestFallingDetector and the per-instance ScreamingChestModel. Three boats (oak, spruce, birch) appear in the vanilla TOOLS_AND_UTILITIES creative tab; the remaining five (jungle, acacia, dark oak, mangrove, cherry) are also registered and craftable but stay out of the visual inventory to keep the tab tidy. Crafting follows vanilla's exact recipe contract: any <wood>_boat + chest . Ships with a patched geckoLib jar (refmap fixed for Mojang-official mappings, example-mod creative tab suppressed at runtime) so Mixin applies cleanly on Forge 47.4.20.
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 6 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.20.6.
Loaders
Runs on Forge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Screaming Chests on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server type needed
- Forge
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 1.0.0, released 2026-06-28
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Forge | 1.20.1 to 1.20.6 (6 versions) | 1.20.6 |
From 1 recorded build of Screaming Chests.
Dependencies
- Required: modrinth project 8BmcQJ2H (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run Screaming Chests on a Minecraft server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogVehicles & ships
Cars, boats, aircraft, ships and other things to drive or fly.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Screaming Chests as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- Forge
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 1.20.6 and 5 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-02Open ↗
- ✓Authorbauerhartmut, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLicenseRef-All-Rights-ReservedFree
