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Everything about creatures, spawning, breeding, recipes and configuration is explained in the Wiki.

🦌 About Wild Creatures

Wild Creatures expands Minecraft with a wide variety of land, water, forest and ambient creatures. From peaceful wildlife like deer, ducks, meerkats and beavers to dangerous predators like sharks, crocodiles, bears and panthers, the mod makes your world feel more alive, more dangerous and more rewarding to explore.

Most creatures breed and raise babies, raccoons and otters can be tamed, and every drop can be crafted into gear and decorations.

Available for Fabric, NeoForge and Forge on Minecraft 26.3, 26.2, 26.1.2, 1.21.11, 1.21.1 and 1.20.1.

🐾 Included Creatures

• 🦈 Shark - a dangerous ocean predator.
• 🐋 Orca - a powerful hunter of the open ocean.
• 🦀 Crab - scuttles along beaches and the sea floor.
• 🪼 Jellyfish - drifts through the oceans and stings.
• 🐚 Mussel - lives on the seabed.
• 🦌 Deer - peaceful wildlife for forests and plains.
• 🐗 Wild Boar - a strong forest animal with useful loot.
• 🐻 Bear - a powerful forest creature.
• 🐊 Crocodile - lurks in swamps and rivers.
• 🐍 Snake - a venomous creature for warm and wet areas.
• 🦂 Scorpion - a desert threat with a poisonous sting.
• 🦆 Duck - lives near water and lays duck eggs.
• 🦉 Owl - atmospheric forest wildlife.
• 🦍 Gorilla - a powerful jungle creature.
• 🦝 Raccoon - a curious forest animal that can be tamed.
• 🦦 Otter - a playful river animal that can be tamed.
• 🐈‍⬛ Panther - a dangerous jungle and savanna predator.
• 🦋 Butterfly - peaceful ambient life on flower meadows.
• 🐿️ Meerkat - lives in groups in deserts and savannas. (new)
• 🦅 Eagle - soars over mountains and hills. (new)
• ✨ Firefly - lights up swamps, plains and forests at night. (new)
• 🦩 Flamingo - wades through mangroves and beaches. (new)
• 🦫 Beaver - lives along rivers and gnaws on tree trunks. (new)

✨ Main Features

• 🌍 Natural biome-based spawning, including oceans, rivers and night-only fireflies.
• 🍼 Babies and breeding for 17 creatures, each with its own baby model and food.
• 🤝 Taming for raccoons and otters: they follow you and sit on command.
• 🎁 Useful creature drops that turn into leather, feathers, bone meal, potions and more.
• 🏹 New equipment: shark tooth, venom and owl feather arrows, crocodile scale armor, down-padded boots, a big crab claw, a hunting horn and a flamingo feather fan.
• 🏠 Decorations: fur rugs with 3D heads, shell blocks, a jellyfish lamp, fireflies in jars, creature heads and an antler trophy.
• 🎞️ GeckoLib animations for every creature.
• ⚙️ Configurable spawns and behavior with a reload command and spawn/recipe test commands.
• 🗺️ Xaero's Minimap / World Map support with custom creature icons.

🏹 Crafting, Equipment and Decorations

Every creature drop has a use:

• 🧶 Materials: hides and furs become leather, feathers become feathers, jellyfish gel becomes slime balls, shells, teeth and claws become bone meal.
• 🧪 Brewing: snake venom and scorpion stingers brew poison, shark fins brew water breathing.
• 🍳 Food: cook duck eggs or use them for cake and pumpkin pie.
• 🏹 Arrows: shark tooth arrows hit harder under water, venom arrows poison, owl feather arrows fly silently.
• 🛡️ Gear: crocodile scale armor lets you breathe longer under water, down-padded boots give Dolphin's Grace, the big crab claw extends your reach and the hunting horn scares off predators.
• 🐻 Decorations: fur rugs with a 3D head, shell blocks with stairs and slabs, a glowing jellyfish lamp, a firefly flying around in a jar, and heads of ten creatures to place on floors and walls or to wear.

All recipes with pictures are in the Wiki.

🌸 Optional Season System Support

When Season System is installed, butterflies spawn on all land during spring and summer and not at all in autumn and winter. Without it, butterflies stay in plains, sunflower plains, meadows and flower forests all year.

Important: Season System is optional and not required.

🍖 Optional Expanded Foodsystem Support

When Expanded Foodsystem is installed, creatures also drop raw meat for cooking:

• Raw Shark Meat, Raw Crab Meat, Raw Mussel Meat, Raw Crocodile Meat, Raw Duck Meat, Raw Snake Meat and Raw Wild Meat

Important: Expanded Foodsystem is optional and not required.

🐾 Optional Loyal Companions Support

With Loyal Companions installed, deer, ducks, owls, raccoons and otters can be kept as companions, each with its own companion food. Predators and other unsuitable creatures are blacklisted.

Important: Loyal Companions is optional and not required.

🗺️ Optional Xaero's Minimap / World Map Support

With Xaero's Minimap or Xaero's World Map installed, creatures show custom icons on the map.

Important: Xaero's Minimap and World Map are optional and not required.

📦 Dependencies

✅ Required

• GeckoLib - all loaders
• Fabric API - Fabric only

⭐ Optional / Recommended

• Expanded Foodsystem - raw meat drops for cooking.
• Loyal Companions - selected creatures as companions.
• Season System - seasonal butterflies.
• Xaero's Minimap / Xaero's World Map - creature map icons.

⚙️ Configuration

Wild Creatures includes a configuration file for spawn balance, creature stats, behavior and breeding, so it fits singleplayer worlds as well as large modded servers.

• ⚙️ Turn spawns of single creatures on or off and change their weight and group size.
• 🍼 Adjust breeding and taming, for example the raccoon taming chance.
• 🔄 /wildcreatures reload reloads the config.
• 🔍 /wildcreatures spawntest checks spawns around you, /wildcreatures recipetest lists the loaded recipes.

🌿 Why Use Wild Creatures?

• ✅ 23 creatures for forests, oceans, beaches, swamps, deserts, mountains and jungles.
• ✅ Baby animals, breeding and taming.
• ✅ Every drop has a use: crafting, brewing, equipment and decorations.
• ✅ Runs on Fabric, NeoForge and Forge from 1.20.1 to 26.3.
• ✅ Optional integrations without extra required dependencies.