Maid Form Shift - LMRB & TLM Backend Showcase
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Maid Form Shift lets you transform supported tamed mobs into maid forms using LittleMaid ReBirth or Touhou Little Maid, then freely switch them back to their original forms.
Description
Maid Form Shift
Turn your trusted companions into Maid Forms, while keeping their original identity alive.
Maid Form Shift is a Minecraft Forge 1.20.1 mod that allows supported owned or tamed mobs to transform into a Maid Form, while preserving their original form and state.
Version 2.0 introduces support for multiple Maid backends, allowing you to choose between LittleMaid ReBirth (LMRB) and Touhou Little Maid (TLM) for each individual mob.
The original mob remains the canonical entity. The Maid is treated as an alternate form.
🌙 A Familiar Idea From the Old Days…
If you played modded Minecraft many years ago, the idea of turning a dragon into a maid might feel strangely familiar.
That feeling is intentional.
Older generations of Minecraft modding were full of wonderfully unusual combinations: dragons, maids, companions, transformation systems, and small compatibility mods that connected completely different mods together.
Maid Form Shift brings that kind of experience back to modern Minecraft, then expands the idea far beyond dragons.
Your Wolf can become a Maid.
Your Horse can become a Maid.
Your Cat can become a Maid.
And with Ice and Fire: Dragons installed, even Dragons, Hippogryphs, Amphitheres, Death Worms, and other creatures can receive their own Maid Form.
The goal is not simply to replace the original mob.
Instead:
Original Form ⇄ Maid Form
Both forms belong to the same companion.
Maid Form Shift is not a port, remake, continuation, or official successor to LittleMaidDragon or any other older Minecraft mod.
It is an independently developed modern mod that explores a similar nostalgic idea while building a much more general transformation system for Minecraft 1.20.1.
For players who remember the older LittleMaid era of Minecraft modding:
Welcome back.
📖🐉
✨ Features
- Transform supported tamed mobs into Maid Forms
- Switch freely between the original form and Maid Form
- Supports both LittleMaid ReBirth and Touhou Little Maid
- Select the Maid backend individually for each mob
- Shared Form Shift Wand works with both backends
- Preserves important source mob data when changing forms
- Supports several Vanilla mobs
- Optional Ice and Fire: Dragons integration
- Configurable experience-level cost for the first contract
- Configurable transformation effects and cooldown
- Per-mob contract level configuration
- Designed so Maid Form Shift itself can launch without requiring a specific Maid mod
Maid Form Shift can start without LMRB or TLM installed, but a compatible Maid backend is required to actually create a Maid Form.
📖 Human Form Grimoires
There are two Human Form Grimoires.
Human Form Grimoire: LMRB
Creates a Maid Form using the LittleMaid ReBirth backend.
Recipe:
A P A
G B G
E C E- A = Amethyst Shard ×2
- P = Ender Pearl ×1
- G = Gold Ingot ×2
- B = Book and Quill ×1
- C = Cake ×1
- E = Emerald ×2
Human Form Grimoire: TLM
Creates a Maid Form using the Touhou Little Maid backend.
Recipe:
A P A
G B G
L C L- A = Amethyst Shard ×2
- P = Ender Pearl ×1
- G = Gold Ingot ×2
- B = Book and Quill ×1
- C = Cake ×1
- L = Lapis Lazuli ×2
⭐ Contract Level Requirement
The first successful Human Form Grimoire contract requires player experience levels.
Default:
5 Levels
The required level can be configured separately for each supported source mob.
- Levels are consumed only when the first contract succeeds
- Failed contracts do not consume levels
- Creative Mode players bypass the requirement and cost
- Setting a mob's required level to
0disables its level requirement/cost - Using the Form Shift Wand does not consume experience
The LMRB and TLM Grimoires use the same level requirement for the source mob.
For example, if Wolves are configured to require 10 levels, both the LMRB and TLM Grimoires will require and consume 10 levels when forming the first successful contract with a Wolf.
🪄 Form Shift Wand
After a mob has formed its first contract, use the Form Shift Wand to switch between:
Original Form ⇄ Maid Form
The Wand is reusable and does not consume experience levels.
The Maid backend selected during the first contract remains assigned to that individual mob.
Backend switching between LMRB and TLM is not performed automatically.
🐺 Supported Vanilla Mobs
Currently supported:
- Wolf
- Cat
- Parrot
- Horse
- Donkey
- Mule
- Llama
Vanilla mob Maid Form support can also be disabled through the configuration file.
🐉 Ice and Fire Integration
When Ice and Fire: Dragons is installed, the following mobs are also supported:
- Fire Dragon
- Ice Dragon
- Lightning Dragon
- Hippogryph
- Amphithere
- Hippocampus
- Cockatrice
- Death Worm
- Pixie
Ice and Fire integration can be enabled or disabled independently through the configuration file.
Dragons also receive special handling designed around their original Ice and Fire behavior.
For the initial Dragon contract, ownership and hatching conditions may apply.
⚙️ Configuration
Maid Form Shift includes a Forge configuration file:
config/maidformshift-common.tomlMany gameplay rules can be adjusted without modifying the mod itself.
Below are some of the most important configuration options.
Per-Mob Contract Level
The player level required for the first Human Form Grimoire contract can be configured individually for each supported mob.
The default is:
5 LevelsSeparate entries are available for supported mobs such as:
- Wolf
- Cat
- Parrot
- Horse
- Donkey
- Mule
- Llama
- Fire Dragon
- Ice Dragon
- Lightning Dragon
- Hippogryph
- Amphithere
- Hippocampus
- Cockatrice
- Death Worm
- Pixie
The configured value is both:
- The minimum player level required
- The number of levels consumed after a successful first contract
Setting a value to:
0disables the experience requirement and cost for that mob.
There is also a fallback level setting for source mobs without a dedicated entry.
Default fallback:
human_form_grimoire_required_level = 5Form Shift Cooldown
You can add a cooldown between successful transformations.
Default:
form_shift_cooldown_ticks = 020 ticks = 1 second
The default value of 0 means there is no cooldown.
The initial successful Human Form Grimoire transformation also counts as a successful form change.
Enable / Disable Mob Integrations
Vanilla and Ice and Fire support can be controlled independently.
Defaults:
enable_vanilla_forms = true
enable_iceandfire_forms = trueThis can be useful for modpacks that only want certain groups of mobs to use Maid Form Shift.
Dragon Progression
By default, an Ice and Fire Dragon continues its Age / Hunger progression while its Maid Form is active.
Default:
maid_form_dragon_time_progresses = trueThis behavior can be disabled through the configuration.
Minimum Dragon Stage
A minimum Dragon Stage can optionally be required before a Dragon is allowed to form its first Human Form contract.
Default:
minimum_dragon_stage = 00 means there is no Dragon Stage restriction.
Configurable stages are:
1 - 5Transformation Effects
The short transformation presentation can also be customized.
Default settings include:
Transformation Effect = Enabled
Duration = 16 ticks
Particle Amount = 32
Sound = Enabled
Render Scale Effect = EnabledThe transformation effect uses world-space vanilla-style particles/sounds and render-only scaling.
The particle amount can be reduced or disabled for heavy modpacks, shaders, or VR environments.
Setting:
particle_amount = 0disables transformation particles.
The sound and temporary render-scale effect can also be disabled independently.
The render-scale effect does not change collision size, AI behavior, or server-side entity dimensions.
🔗 Tested Mod Integrations
Maid Form Shift 2.0.0 was developed and tested with the following versions:
LittleMaid ReBirth Backend
- LMRB-1.20.1-8.11.1-Forge
LittleMaid ReBirth may also require its own prerequisite mods, including libraries such as:
- LittleMaid ModelLoader
- Architectury API
- Cloth Config API
Please check the LittleMaid ReBirth project page and install the dependencies required by your version.
Touhou Little Maid Backend
- touhoulittlemaid-1.5.3-forge+mc1.20.1
Touhou Little Maid may require additional dependencies depending on its version and installation environment.
Please check the Touhou Little Maid project page before installing.
Ice and Fire Integration
- iceandfire-2.1.13-1.20.1-beta-5
Ice and Fire requires its own prerequisite mods, including Citadel.
Please install all dependencies required by your Ice and Fire version.
⚠️ Important Notes About Dependencies
The integration mods listed above are not bundled with Maid Form Shift.
You only need the integrations you intend to use.
For example:
- LMRB only → use the LMRB backend
- TLM only → use the TLM backend
- LMRB + TLM → both backends can coexist
- Ice and Fire → adds compatible Ice and Fire source mobs
However, each integrated mod may require additional libraries or prerequisite mods of its own.
Always check the official project page of each mod and install its required dependencies.
Using versions different from the tested versions may work, but compatibility is not guaranteed.
💾 Important: Back Up Your World
Please create a backup of your world before installing, updating, removing, or changing the configuration of this mod.
Maid Form Shift stores and restores entity data while changing forms.
Mod interactions, version differences, unexpected crashes, configuration changes, or removing a required Maid backend may result in unexpected behavior or data loss.
If you plan to remove LMRB or TLM, it is strongly recommended to return affected mobs to their original form first.
⚠️ Disclaimer
This is an unofficial and independently developed mod.
Maid Form Shift is not officially affiliated with, approved by, sponsored by, or endorsed by:
- LittleMaid ReBirth
- Touhou Little Maid
- Ice and Fire: Dragons
- Citadel
- Their respective developers
- Mojang Studios
- Microsoft
All referenced mods, names, assets, trademarks, and intellectual property belong to their respective owners.
🤖 AI-Assisted Development
This mod was created by an individual hobby developer with extensive use of AI-assisted development tools.
AI has been used to assist with areas such as:
- Code development
- Code review
- Debugging
- Architecture planning
- Documentation
- Compatibility investigation
This project is not developed by a professional software development team.
Although the mod has been tested in the developer's environment, it may still contain bugs, compatibility issues, unexpected behavior, or problems that have not yet been discovered.
⚠️ Use at Your Own Risk
This mod is provided as-is.
The developer cannot accept responsibility for:
- World corruption
- Lost mobs
- Lost items
- Lost entity data
- Crashes
- Mod conflicts
- Server problems
- Save-data problems
- Compatibility problems
- Any other damage or loss resulting from the use of this mod
Use this mod at your own risk and always keep backups of important worlds.
If a problem is discovered, future corrective releases may be published as versions such as 2.0.1, 2.0.2, etc.
Minecraft / Loader
- Minecraft: 1.20.1
- Mod Loader: Forge
- Maid Form Shift: 2.0.0
The Maid Form Shift - LMRB & TLM Backend Showcase Team
