Using Minecraft mods like AppleSkin has become a common occurrence these days. While this mod is a QoL mod, there are a lot of other ones in the market that do various things, like improve visual quality or overall gameplay difficulty.
While most of these mods are available for free, installing them can be a task, especially if you’re new to the modding side of things. So, if you’re not familiar with how to use Minecraft mods, we’ve got you covered.
What Does the Minecraft AppleSkin Mod Offer?
AppleSkin is currently one of the most popular QoL Minecraft mods that you will come across these days. In a nutshell, it is essentially a collection of HUD tweaks that aims to make your playthrough a whole lot more detailed by unlocking certain sections that are otherwise inaccessible.
AppleSkin was also built with the Java Edition in mind, and is fully supported and featured there. The Bedrock Edition also technically has support, but only in the form of unofficial ports and add-ons.
Features of the AppleSkin Mod
AppleSkin works across three separate parameters, which will be explained as follows.
Hunger & Saturation Preview
The Hunger and Saturation Preview is essentially a kind of golden, and often silvery glow across the hunger icons in your Minecraft HUD. This can be used to detail your current Saturation, which indicates exactly how much food you have left hidden before the hunger bar starts falling.
Exhaustion and Health Regeneration Info
The Minecraft AppleSkin mod also adds an Exhaustion meter, as indicated by the presence of a faint bar behind the hunger icons. The more it fades away, the closer you are to the Hunger status.
Another interesting quirk of the AppleSkin mod is the ability to showcase exactly how much HP you will regen from consuming a particular item. This is usually seen by the appearance of translucent icons across the hunger bar that fill once you consume food.
Lightweight & Performance Friendly
AppleSkin Minecraft mod is user-friendly, and has dedicated options and configs that can in turn, be used to configure your bar appearance and tweak the visibility of certain parameters. It’s also surprisingly lightweight and is relatively easy on your system, especially if you have an underpowered rig.
How to Install The AppleSkin Mod in Minecraft
AppleSkin has been rigorously updated to ensure compatibility with the latest versions of Minecraft, including 1.21.11, which so happens to be the newest version of the game.
It also supports legacy versions, all the way back to v1.7.10, with varying and often irregular feature sets.
The mod has an ‘official’ version out only for the Java Edition of Minecraft, currently on v3.0.8, available via CursedForge for an official mirror. Java versions also require NeoForge or Fabric as their mod loaders. A mod loader is mandatory.
How to Install AppleSkin Mod Using Minecraft Forge
- Download Minecraft Forge using NeoForge, which is the currently supported version.
- Make sure to select the installer for your specific version. It will be packaged in a .jar file and have to install a Client.
- Download the AppleSkin mod from CurseForge’s official website. Head over to the Files tab and look specifically for the NeoForge variant under the Loaders column.
- Move the AppleSkin mod into the %appdata%\.minecraft folder under File Explorer.
- Fire up the Minecraft Launcher, and select the NeoForge profile.
Hit Play, and you should have the mod up and running!
Fire up the game, and you should now see a Fabric Loader profile added to your game. Hit Play, and you should be ready!
How to Install AppleSkin Mod Using Fabric
- Head over to the Fabric Loader website and download the Windows EXE file. Run the installer, select the correct Minecraft version for your install, and let it finish.
- Next, download the Fabric API from CurseForge, along with AppleSkin as well, from the same site (make sure that it is compatible with Fabric first).
- Move the AppleSkin mod into the %appdata%\.minecraft folder under File Explorer. Copy over the Fabric API file here as well.
Overall, AppleSkin is a handy food management and saturation mod that you can use to enhance your Minecraft playthrough. Unfortunately, unlike the Minecraft commands, this mod is available only for PC and Mac players. So, if you’re playing it on consoles, you won’t be able to leverage the benefits that this mod has to provide.
FAQs
How do I add AppleSkin to Minecraft?
You will need a mod loader (such as NeoForge or Fabric) and the AppleSkin mod itself, for starters. Simply install the mod loader followed by the mod itself and fire up the game to have it up and running.
How to install any mod in Minecraft?
You will have to install a mod loader first. Next, move the separately downloaded mods into %appdata%\.minecraft and start the launcher. Hit Play and make sure you are on the modded profile, and you should be done.
Is modding legal in Minecraft?
Yes, modding is legal provided it has no illegal content added within it.
Is Appleskin client side only?
AppleSkin is a client side mod, which makes it visible only to you. There is no need for a server to have this installed.
Is Appleskin allowed on servers?
The AppleSkin Minecraft mod is usually accepted on most vanilla servers, although it is usually up to the admin’s discretion whether it will be allowed or not.
