🌿 Wild Creatures 🌿

Bring your Minecraft world to life with new wildlife, natural spawns, custom drops and immersive creature behavior.
Explore forests, oceans, swamps, beaches and wild biomes filled with new animals and predators.

🦌 About Wild Creatures

Wild Creatures is a Fabric mod that expands Minecraft with a wide variety of new land, water and forest creatures. From peaceful wildlife like deer, ducks and owls to dangerous predators like sharks, crocodiles, snakes and scorpions, this mod makes your world feel more alive, more dangerous and more rewarding to explore.

Each creature is designed to fit naturally into the Minecraft world while adding more atmosphere, survival value and exploration variety.

🐾 Included Creatures

🦈 Shark - a dangerous ocean predator.
🦀 Crab - a small beach creature with unique drops.
🪼 Jellyfish - an aquatic creature found in water areas.
🐚 Mussel - a passive water creature.
🦌 Deer - peaceful wildlife for forests and plains.
🐗 Wild Boar - a strong animal with useful loot.
🐻 Bear - a powerful forest creature.
🐊 Crocodile - a dangerous swamp and water predator.
🐍 Snake - a venomous creature for warmer areas.
🦂 Scorpion - a hostile desert-style threat.
🦆 Duck - a peaceful animal that can lay duck eggs.
🐣 Duckling - can hatch from thrown duck eggs and grow into a duck.
🦉 Owl - atmospheric forest wildlife.
🦍 Gorilla - a powerful jungle creature.

✨ Main Features

🌍 Natural biome-based spawning for fitting creatures.
⚙️ Configurable spawn balance for servers and modpacks.
🔄 Config reload command for easier testing and setup.
🎞️ GeckoLib-powered animations for animated creature models.
🎁 Custom creature loot with useful survival drops.
🦆 Duck egg system - ducks can lay eggs, eggs can be thrown and ducklings may hatch.
🐣 Duckling growth - ducklings can grow into adult ducks.
🔊 Creature sounds with vanilla fallback support.
🗺️ Xaero's Minimap / World Map support with custom creature icons.
🧩 Optional integrations with other mods while keeping the mod lightweight.

🎁 Creature Drops

Wild Creatures adds many thematic drops that can be used for survival, crafting, food integrations or future modpack progression.

🦈 Shark Tooth and Shark Fin
🦀 Crab Shell and Crab Claw
🪼 Jellyfish Gel
🐚 Mussel Shell
🦌 Deer Antler
🐗 Boar Hide and Boar Tusk
🐻 Bear Fur and Bear Claw
🐊 Crocodile Scale and Crocodile Tooth
🐍 Snake Venom and Snake Fang
🦂 Scorpion Stinger
🦆 Duck Feather
🦉 Owl Feather and Owl Talon
🦍 Gorilla Fur

🍖 Optional Expanded Foodsystem Support

When Expanded Foodsystem is installed, Wild Creatures can provide additional raw meat drops for cooking and food progression.

Raw Shark Meat
Raw Crab Meat
Raw Mussel Meat
Raw Crocodile Meat
Raw Duck Meat
Raw Snake Meat
Raw Wild Meat

Important: Expanded Foodsystem is optional / recommended and is not required to run Wild Creatures.

🐾 Optional Loyal Companions Support

Wild Creatures includes optional compatibility for Loyal Companions. When Loyal Companions is installed, selected peaceful creatures can be used as companions.

🦌 Deer
🦆 Duck
🦉 Owl

Supported companion food examples:

🦌 Deer: Wheat, Carrot, Apple, Sweet Berries
🦆 Duck: Wheat Seeds, Beetroot Seeds, Melon Seeds, Pumpkin Seeds
🦉 Owl: Chicken, Rabbit, Cod, Salmon

Important: Loyal Companions is optional / recommended and is not required. Wild Creatures will still start and work normally without it.

🗺️ Optional Xaero's Minimap / World Map Support

Wild Creatures includes optional support for Xaero's Minimap and Xaero's World Map. When installed, supported creatures can use custom map/minimap icons.

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

📦 Dependencies

✅ Required

⭐ Optional / Recommended

Expanded Foodsystem - optional food and meat integration.
Loyal Companions - allows selected creatures to work as companions.
Xaero's Minimap / Xaero's World Map - adds custom creature map icons.

⚙️ Configuration

Wild Creatures includes a configuration system for spawn balancing and creature behavior. This makes the mod suitable for both singleplayer worlds and larger modded servers.

⚙️ Adjust creature spawn balance.
🌍 Configure global spawn rate behavior.
🔄 Reload configuration during testing or server setup.
🧩 Keep optional integrations enabled only when the related mods are installed.

Server owners: Wild Creatures is designed to be configurable so it can better fit survival servers, adventure modpacks or custom worlds.

🌿 Why Use Wild Creatures?

✅ Adds more life to forests, oceans, beaches, swamps and natural biomes.
✅ Includes peaceful wildlife, ambient animals and dangerous predators.
✅ Adds useful creature drops for survival and modpack progression.
✅ Includes duck eggs, hatchable ducklings and growth behavior.
✅ Supports optional integrations without making them required.
✅ Keeps required dependencies simple: Fabric API and GeckoLib.

Explore the wild. Discover new creatures. Survive nature.