Fruit Bat

The Fruit Bat is a big orange bat that comes out at night in jungles and forests.

What it does

In the dark it goes after you and bites, one heart each time. If you're holding a fruit in either hand it leaves you alone, and if you put the fruit away it comes back.

Give it a fruit and it stops being angry. With that fruit it flies over the crops near it and makes them grow, six times, like bone meal. Sometimes it also gets tamed: then it follows you, and you can make it sit with an empty hand.

During the day the wild ones look for a ceiling and hang upside down until it gets dark.

When it dies it can drop bone meal.

Fruits

The mod adds bananas, from jungle leaves, and persimmons, from oak and acacia leaves. You can eat them too. Fruits from other mods also work if they use the forge:fruits or c:fruits tag, or c:foods/fruit on 1.21.1.

Variants

Orange is the normal one. In forests most of them are brown, and about 1 in 50 is pale.

Requirements

Minecraft 1.20.1 with Forge 47 or newer, or Minecraft 1.21.1 with NeoForge 21.1.172 or newer. You also need GeckoLib 4.8.4 or newer. Install it on the server and on the clients. You can use it in modpacks.

Tested

I tried it in single player: the three variants, the bites at night, the fruit thing, the crops, taming and hanging from ceilings, and a tamed bat keeps its owner and name after closing the game. It also starts on a dedicated server without errors, but I haven't played on a server with more people yet. I tested the NeoForge 1.21.1 version the same way. There's no Fabric version for now.

Discord

I post my new mods and ports on my Discord, and you can suggest the next mob there: https://discord.gg/T34SAaw2rJ

I also port mods to other versions and loaders: https://dheightsan.github.io/forge-ports/

Fruit Bat is inspired by a concept by MochiBerry. Thanks for the design!