Minecraft Yes Steve Model mod guide: Features and how to download

Modified Apr 21, 2025 14:25 GMT

Yes Steve Model mod completely changes how a player's character looks and moves in Minecraft (Image via Mojang Studios || Modrinth/TartaricAcid)

Minecraft has extremely basic texture fidelity, graphics quality, and entity 3D models. When a player creates their character, it has a simple blocky 3D model with pixelated skin texture. Though there are ways to create 3D pixel layers on the base 3D model through skin customization, the skin remains quite basic.

Since Minecraft is an open sandbox, however, the community has come up with all kinds of skin customization mods. One of them is called Yes Steve Model, which takes a player's skin details to a whole new level. Here is everything to know about the Minecraft Yes Steve Model.

Features and download guide for the Yes Steve Model mod for Minecraft

What does the Yes Steve Model mod offer?

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Yes Steve Model is a Minecraft mod that can run through Forge/Fabric/NeoForge mod loaders. It is based on the geckolib library mod and uses models and animation files from Bedrock Edition to alter the standard player model of Java Edition. Players will be able to alter their skin models and animations to suit their preferences.

The mod itself comes with a bunch of unique skin models and much improved player animation, like moving around, jumping, and even occasional blinking. Apart from base skin models, players can download more from the modder's GitHub page.

For easy installation and synchronization of new models, simply place the model, textures, and animation files in a designated folder and enter the reload command in the game. No configuration files need to be written.

It also adds emotes from Bedrock to Java Edition, making player interactions on multiplayer worlds much livelier.

How to download and install the Yes Steve Model in Minecraft

Yes Steve Model can be downloaded from Modrinth. (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios || Modrinth/TartaricAcid)

Here is a guide on downloading and installing the Yes Steve Model mod for Minecraft:

Download and install the Fabric modding API for the game version 1.21.1.
Head to the Modrinth website and search for the Yes Steve Model mod.
On the mod's product page, find and download the mod file, which should be compatible with the Fabric 1.21.1 version.
Copy and paste the mod file into the "mods" folder in the root Minecraft directory. For me, it's C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft.
Open the official game launcher and look for the Fabric 1.21.1 modded game version.
Open the game and enter a new world to test Yes Steve Model. You will notice that you have a different skin. Press Alt+Y to open the skin selector GUI, where you can choose from a variety of detailed 3D skins.

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Edited by Akshat Kabra