Cozy’s Improved Cats 2.0.0 — Now for Minecraft 26.1 on Forge!

More ways to care for your cats, give them a home, and enjoy their company!

Added

• Cat Beds and home behavior

  • Link an owned cat to a bed using Training String.
  • Choose Follow, Stay, Wander, or Guard, with a configurable roaming radius.
  • Manage your cat through the bed’s menu, including changing a loaded assigned cat’s mode remotely.
  • Guard warnings briefly outline nearby threats without adding melee combat.

• Food Bowls and automatic meals

  • Owned bowls store nine slots of supported raw food for your cats.
  • Hungry cats can also eat eligible dropped food, with global and per-cat controls.
  • Automatic feeding begins at 50 hunger or below and continues until at least 80.
  • Craft a bowl with three iron ingots in a horizontal row.

• Cat Treats and inherited kitten traits

  • Cat Treats are now used for breeding, separately from ordinary food.
  • Breeding requires an owned adult cat at full health and at least 80 hunger.
  • Kittens inherit parental health, speed, coat, and optionally class, with configurable mutation and attribute limits.
  • Wild kittens retain their inherited traits when first tamed.

• Yarn Balls

  • Toss a reusable Yarn Ball for your cats to chase, carry, and return.
  • Craft one with String in the four corners of a crafting table.

• Cat Care Guide

  • Craft a book with String for an in-game guide covering care, classes, progression, breeding, homes, revival, and more.

• Additional owner controls

  • /cozycats mode <follow|stay|wander|guard>
  • /cozycats home unlink
  • /cozycats droppedfood <on|off>

• Optional bed revival

  • A valid linked bed can revive a cat when its collar is definitively destroyed.
  • Disabled by default and requires ordinary revival to be enabled.

• Accidental-attack recovery

  • Sneak-interact with wheat after five quiet seconds to clear qualifying accidental retaliation.

• Pre-uninstall cat conversion

  • A closed-world tool can restore living tamed Improved Cats to vanilla cats before removing the mod.
  • Includes saved, unloaded cats and offline owners.

Changed

• Hunger-based care

  • Hunger replaces direct feeding heals and timed health decay.
  • Ordinary supported meals restore 25 hunger; favorite foods restore 50.
  • Well-fed cats regenerate health. Starvation stops at 1 HP.
  • Unloaded cats do not lose hunger, and full cats consume no food.

• Clearer presentation

  • Feeding displays compact health and hunger icons without labels or numbers.
  • Training String retains detailed stats in chat.
  • Bed menus show assigned-cat names and use crisp, shadow-free informational text.
  • Cat Treats and the Cat Care Guide have new custom textures.

• Improved revival and saved-data handling

  • Added safeguards against duplicate revival from copied collars.
  • Improved preservation of ownership, traits, progression, age, appearance, and supported equipment.
  • Existing cats retain their saved traits when upgrading.

• Native Forge configuration

  • Configure the mod through Forge’s Mods menu or config/cozys_improved_cats-common.toml.
  • Configuration changes are validated before being applied.
  • Operators can reread the configuration file with /reloadcozycatsconfig.

Fixed

• Improved Ancient Fish temptation reliability.
• Existing named cats update their colors after configuration changes.
• Collars can be created when the owner is offline.
• Failed revival spawning no longer consumes the collar or reports success.
• Fetching survives nearby relocations and temporary navigation interruptions.
• Ordinary following teleportation no longer interrupts a valid fetch.
• Failed configuration reloads retain the last working settings.

Compatibility

• Updated for exact Minecraft 26.1 on Forge, not later 26.1.x patches.
• Requires Java 25 and Forge 62.0.9 or a compatible newer 62.x build.
• Uses native Forge configuration; Fabric API, Cloth Config, and Mod Menu are not required.
• Includes optional Critter Armory integration. Use a build compatible with exact Minecraft 26.1 and Forge 62.x; newer builds targeting later patches may not work.

Upgrade and uninstall notes

Make a full-world backup using your preferred method before upgrading or converting cats.

Do not downgrade worlds saved with 2.0.0 to older mod versions or assume that switching between mod loaders is supported.

Before uninstalling, run cat conversion with the world closed and the mod still installed. Custom mod items and blocks are not converted and may disappear after removal.