Critter Colonies

Critter Colonies enhances MineColonies by replacing its humanoid NPC and raider models with fully animated GeckoLib-powered creatures, giving colonies a more immersive, stylized, and cohesive visual identity.

Instead of vanilla-style biped models, MineColonies entities are visually reimagined as unique “critters” while keeping all gameplay, AI, and mechanics completely unchanged.

⚠️ Work in Progress:
This mod is actively being developed, about 1/3 of the way complete. Not all professions or raider types have been replaced yet.
However, everything currently implemented is complete, stable, and fully polished — no placeholder models, broken textures, or unfinished animations.

This mod is purely visual — it does not alter balance, behavior, or progression.

✨ Current Features

🏴‍☠️ Pirates fully replaced
MineColonies pirate raiders now use custom GeckoLib creature models and animations.

🧑 Citizens fully replaced
All standard MineColonies citizens are rendered with new custom models instead of vanilla humanoids.

🛠️ Partial profession support
Several citizen professions already have unique visuals or model variants, with more in progress.

🎞️ Smooth GeckoLib animations
Idle, walking, and movement animations powered by GeckoLib 4.x.

🔒 Gameplay-safe & save-safe
Visual-only changes — no AI, balance, or behavior modifications.

🚧 Coming Soon

🧑‍🔧 All remaining citizen professions
Complete visual coverage for every MineColonies profession.

🎨 Citizen texture variants
Visual variety for citizens (outfits, colors, or thematic variants).

⚔️ Additional raiders
Barbarians, amazons, norsemen, drowned pirates, and other MineColonies raider types.

🧬 More MineColonies entities
Expanded coverage beyond citizens and raiders as development continues.

🗣️ Unique Critter sounds/voices
In spirit of the Critter Colonies

✨ Animation polish & refinement
Improved transitions, profession-specific animations, and visual tweaks.

Critter Colonies is made entirely by myself. If you love Critter Colonies and want to help keep development going steadily, pleeeease support on Patreon — you'll get to test new Critters before they release, see behind the scenes content, and vote on which features get added next.                   

❤️ Support on Patreon

Additonal Thanks to...

The MineColonies Team — for the incredible colony system

GeckoLib — for the animation framework that makes this possible