Expie Companions

I wanted Expie, Milky and Dune in Minecraft, so here they are xD

You can tame them, take them on adventures, let them help you out, or become one yourself. They have animated faces, moving eyes and nice curving tails.

What they can do

• Follow you around and help in fights.
• Wear armor and use weapons, including bows.
• Carry your stuff in 9 inventory slots.
• Mine ores with a pickaxe.
• Chop trees with an axe.
• Gather dirt, sand and gravel with a shovel.
• Harvest and replant crops with a hoe.
• Pick up drops while helping you.
• Work on their own or finish the vein, tree or crop patch you started.
• Eat from their food slot when their health gets low.
• Sit down, let you pet them, or give them a hug :)
• Guard you from nearby hostile mobs when Guard is switched on.

You can change their behavior in their inventory. Let them follow or roam, turn Guard, work and item pickup on or off, and choose which armor pieces you want to see. They still get the armor's protection when you hide it.

Finding and taming them

They spawn rarely, alone, in Lush Caves. I kept the spawn rate low so you won't have a whole army of them lagging your world.

Expie and Milky like apples. Dune wants raw meat.

Once tamed, right-click to open their inventory. Sneak and right-click to make them sit. Put a tool in their tool slot to give them a job, and take it out to stop them working. They only mine ores their pickaxe can actually mine.

Become one yourself

You can play as Expie, Milky or Dune too, with their own movement, expressions and item holding. Their eyes look around, they blink, and they'll sometimes smile or stick their tongue out. You can turn the low-health red screen effect on or off in the mod settings. The old heartbeat, alert, hurt, death and respawn recordings have been removed. New creature voices use selected CC0 recordings: barks when hurt, occasional growls when angry, little noises while idle and neutral, and whines when killed.

Milky is a little smaller and quicker than Expie, with more health. Dune is slightly taller, has the most health and hits harder.

To turn into one of them, you can use the following commands:
/expie form on
/milky form on
/dune form on

Model quality

Choose High, Medium, Low or Potato in the mod settings. The setting changes bodies and fitted armor without a restart.

Version

v2.0.3 supports Minecraft 1.21.1 / NeoForge 21.1.200 / Java 21 (Release) and 1.20.1 / NeoForge 47.1.106 / Java 17 (Alpha). Pick the file matching your game and use matching mod versions on client and server.

The Fortnite addon is no longer included or required. No Emotecraft installation is needed for this edition.

💜 Credits 💜

Creator: Satixfied

Much love to Akittu for giving me permission to use their gorgeous models for my mods and videos! :D Check out their work and show them some love!

• Twitter: https://x.com/_akittu
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@akittu
• Expie model: https://akittu.gumroad.com/l/stylizedexperiment
• Milky model: https://akittu.gumroad.com/l/stylizedmilky

Much love to Sevenscalesdragon for allowing me to use his beautiful Dune model! Please go support them! :)

• Dune model: https://sevenscalesdragon.gumroad.com/l/SSDstylizedDune
• Twitter: https://x.com/Sevenscales_DOU

Written permission

Original Expie and Milky avatar assets by Akittu, used with explicit written permission for Satixfied’s free adapted game/mod use.

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Original Dune avatar assets by Sevenscalesdragon, used with explicit written permission to Satixfied to use Dune in this mod and make it downloadable. The creator clarified “Do not use it for political purposes” and requested X (Twitter) and Gumroad credits, linked above.

Open the full Dune permission screenshot.

The original assets are avatars. This mod adapts their meshes, textures and rigs for Minecraft, adds lower-detail versions, and supplies companion AI, taming, inventories, tool work, combat, player forms and interactions. Original Blender, Unity and Substance packages are not distributed. The mod is free, and the avatar assets are not being sold or relicensed as open source. The permission screenshots are included for CurseForge moderation.

Sound credits

The new creature voices come from these CC0 recordings on Freesound:

• Dog Bark Growl Talk Studio Quality.wav by harveyism, featuring their dog Olive — hurt barks and idle noises.
• Dog Growls by black_trillium — angry growls.
• Dog Whine 5.wav by esperri — death whines.

All three recordings use CC0 1.0. I selected and trimmed the clips; they were converted to mono OGG and volume-balanced for the mod. Full file mappings and editing details are included in AUDIO-CREDITS.txt in every download. These audio licenses are separate from the avatar permissions above.

This mod was designed, planned and tested by Satixfied, code and animations are AI assisted.