Frenchy Companion
Meet Frenchy, a customizable companion with upgrades, head carrying, combat abilities, and a repair system.
Frenchy Companion
Meet Frenchy, a small animated companion you can craft, upgrade, and take on your adventures—even on your head!
Frenchy starts peaceful. Choose whether he follows you or stays seated, improve his abilities with electronic cards, and equip him for combat when you are ready.
Getting started
Craft an Inactive Frenchy, place him on solid ground, and give him a Frenchy Treat to activate and tame him.
Each player can own one Frenchy per world, including across dimensions. Your companion keeps his ownership and upgrades when the world is reloaded.
Your everyday companion
- Follow and stay: right-click Frenchy with an empty main hand to switch modes.
- Head carrying: sneak and right-click Frenchy with an empty main hand to pick him up.
- Put him down: release the click, then sneak and right-click into the air with an empty main hand.
- Treats and waving: offer a treat to make Frenchy wave. If he is injured, the treat also heals him.
- Animated model: Frenchy has walking, sitting, and waving animations.
After being carried, Frenchy returns to his previous follow or stay mode.
Upgrade cards
Use the Basic Upgrade Station to install cards:
| Upgrade | Effect |
|---|---|
| Vitality | Adds maximum health |
| Speed | Increases movement speed |
| Protection | Adds armor |
| Attack | Increases attack damage |
| Fire Resistance | Grants immunity to fire and lava |
| Resistance | Reduces incoming damage |
| Regeneration | Periodically restores health |
Most upgrades support up to 10 levels. Fire Resistance requires only one card.
Installed cards can be removed and recovered. Use a station’s scrolling upgrade list, or right-click your Frenchy with shears to manage his equipment away from a station.
Advanced capabilities
The Advanced Station installs capability cards independently from basic upgrades.
Combat
Enables owner defense, assistance against the owner’s target, and retaliation.
Frenchy remains peaceful without this card. He does not fight while staying seated or riding on your head, and he does not attack players, tamed pets, creepers, or ghasts.
Undying
Protects Frenchy from one fatal hit, restoring half his maximum health.
The card is consumed when activated. Install another card to protect him again. Like a totem, it does not prevent deaths caused by the void or /kill.
Combat and Undying can be equipped together.
Death and repair
If Frenchy dies without an Undying rescue, his Damaged Core preserves his name, owner, upgrades, and remaining capability cards.
Bring the core to the separate Repair Station, then supply:
- 4 iron ingots
- 2 copper ingots
- 4 redstone dust
- 1 diamond
Frenchy returns at full health with his identity and equipment preserved.
A lost core can be recovered through the Repair Station, including after a death in lava or the void. Your companion slot remains reserved while Frenchy awaits repair.
In-game field guide
The included Patchouli guide explains the controls, stations, cards, crafting recipes, and repair system.
- Available in English and French
- Given once when you first join a world
- Craftable again with one book and one redstone dust
- Contains 5 chapters and 20 entries
Requirements
- Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.1
- NeoForge — tested with version 21.1.248
- Java 21
- Patchouli 1.21.1-93-NEOFORGE, or a later release compatible with Minecraft 1.21.1
For multiplayer, install Frenchy Companion and Patchouli on both the client and the server.
Frenchy Companion Team
