AnimalX: Realistic Dogs

24 real dog breeds, each with its own body.

A Dachshund is long and low. A Great Dane towers over a wolf. A Chihuahua is tiny, a Bulldog is wide, a Greyhound is all legs. Find them wild or as village strays, tame them with a Dog Treat, breed puppies, and give them jobs.

The breeds

French Bulldog, Labrador Retriever, Golden Retriever, German Shepherd, Dachshund, Poodle, Beagle, Rottweiler, Bulldog, Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Yorkshire Terrier, Pembroke Welsh Corgi, Pomeranian, Bernese Mountain Dog, Great Dane, Chihuahua, Border Collie, Siberian Husky, English Cocker Spaniel, Pug, Shiba Inu, Dalmatian, Greyhound and Saint Bernard. This is a list of famous breeds, not every breed there is. More come in later updates.

The breeds share eleven body shapes, with their own ears, tails, coats and sizes. Dogs are readable sizes (a toy dog is about half a wolf, a giant about one and a half), not true scale.

Finding, taming and breeding

• Wild dogs spawn by biome (Huskies in snow, Greyhounds on plains, Chihuahuas in the desert) and a stray turns up near villages.
• Tame them with a Dog Treat (2 wheat and a bone). Sit, follow, guard, collars in every dye colour, and the lead all work.
• Breed two dogs and the puppy takes one parent's breed. Puppies grow up.
• Each breed has a size, a speed and sometimes one small trait (you can switch traits off).
• Jobs: a guard dog barks at monsters near its spot, and a fetch dog brings back the Ball you throw.
• Blocks and items: Dog Bed, Food Bowl, Ball, Dog Treat, and an optional Kennel Whistle that turns your own tamed wolf into a breed.

Sound credits

Some dog barks and growls are lightly edited recordings (cut, noise reduction, filtering, level matching) from freesound.org. Thank you to the recordists. Recordings under Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY):

• "Dog Barking - Cavalier King Charles Spaniel" by bspiller5 (https://freesound.org/people/bspiller5/sounds/180257/), CC-BY 3.0
• "ANMLDog-Samsung Galaxy Smartphone, MCU_Rottweiler Puppies, Howling, Barking_Nicholas Judy_TDC" by designerschoice (https://freesound.org/people/designerschoice/sounds/803716/), CC-BY 4.0
• "Border Collie Barking" by G4ceRacer (https://freesound.org/people/G4ceRacer/sounds/722601/), CC-BY 4.0
• "BIG DOGS_Continues Barking Labrador Retriever (SFX).wav" by GuntherDorksen (https://freesound.org/people/GuntherDorksen/sounds/328055/), CC-BY 3.0
• "Yorkie Barks and Growls.wav" by jnickel (https://freesound.org/people/jnickel/sounds/63932/), CC-BY 3.0
• "Homer the Golden Retriever" by LumaEros (https://freesound.org/people/LumaEros/sounds/816081/), CC-BY 4.0
• "Great Dane on Duty" by minniemighty (https://freesound.org/people/minniemighty/sounds/729598/), CC-BY 4.0
• "Pug Woof 3" by RICHERlandTV (https://freesound.org/people/RICHERlandTV/sounds/273687/), CC-BY 4.0
• "dog barking 3 (Rottweiler).aif" by Tomlija (https://freesound.org/people/Tomlija/sounds/102547/), CC-BY 3.0

Licences: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ and https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Other clips are public domain (CC0); the full list is in the mod file assets/animalx_dogs/sounds/credits.md.

Compatibility

Needed on the client and on the server. Dogs are their own animal, not wolves: vanilla wolves are never changed, and mods that only look at wolves do not see our dogs. If you remove the mod, its dogs disappear from the world.

Configuration

Settings are in config/animalx_dogs.json5: wild and village spawns on or off, how often dogs spawn, traits on or off, the guard radius, the fetch range, the Kennel Whistle on or off, and a "draw wolf bodies" switch for players who use wolf resource packs.

Config files are created in the config folder on the first launch: animalx_dogs.json5.

FAQ

Is this every dog breed?

No. It is 24 famous breeds in version 1.0.0. More come in monthly updates.

What happens to my wolves?

Nothing. Vanilla wolves are never changed. The optional Kennel Whistle turns your own tamed wolf into a breed on purpose; its armour drops as an item first.

What if I remove the mod?

Every dog of the mod disappears, because the world no longer knows the dog. A command (/animalx_dogs towolf) turns a dog back into a wolf before you leave.

Can I use it in a modpack?

Yes. Use in modpacks distributed through Modrinth or CurseForge that link to the official download.

Can I make videos with it?

Yes. Videos, reviews, streams and showcases anywhere.

Which versions and loaders are supported?

Minecraft 26.3, 1.21.1 and 1.20.1 on Fabric and Quilt, 26.3 and 1.21.1 on NeoForge, and 1.20.1 on Forge (its own jar, Forge 47.4.28 or newer, no Fabric API needed). Forge is only for 1.20.1; on 1.21.1 and 26.3 use NeoForge. Other versions and loaders are not supported.

Is 1.20.1 different?

Not in what you play: the same 24 breeds, puppies, collars, Ball and fetch, Kennel Whistle, Dog Bed and Food Bowl. Small differences, because Minecraft 1.20.1 is older:

• The mod draws the dog size itself (1.20.1 has no animal size setting). Great Danes are bigger, Chihuahuas smaller, puppies a fraction of their breed, and the shadow and hit box follow. Eye height is the vanilla 85 percent of the height.
• There is no wolf armour in 1.20.1, so turning a wolf into a dog (and back) has no armour to hand over.
• Dogs eat any edible meat, like a vanilla wolf, from the hand and from the Food Bowl.
• The Kennel Whistle puts the dog on its owner.
• On Forge, wild dogs spawn through a Forge biome modifier of the mod (same weight and group size as elsewhere).
• Everyone on a modded server needs the mod. Other mods that change wolf looks, and Tiny and Big Companions on the same 1.20.1 install, were not tried.

Does it work on servers?

Yes. Install it on both the server and every client.

License

All Rights Reserved, with two permissions:

• Allowed: Use in modpacks distributed through Modrinth or CurseForge that link to the official download.
• Allowed: Videos, reviews, streams and showcases anywhere.
• No reuploads and no reuse of code, art, textures, models or sounds.