CatDragons 🐉🐟

Turns out lesser dragons are just big cats. Show them a fish and they forget all about eating you.

Carry any raw fish on your quick-access bar and walk up to a lesser dragon. Instead of attacking, it sits down like a kitten, little hearts float above its head and it starts to purr. Walk away (or take the fish off your bar) and it stretches, stands up and goes back to its normal dragon business.

✨ CUSTOM ANIMATION PIPELINE ✨

This is NOT a retexture. NOT a config tweak.

The dragon's sitting animations were extracted from the game, rebuilt in Blender on a 1:1 copy of the game's own dragon skeleton (all 175 bones matched one by one: order, rotation and position), then built in Unreal Engine 5.6 into a separate pak and loaded straight into the game:

• 🐾 SIT DOWN – the dragon folds its legs and settles down like a cat
• 🐾 SITTING IDLE – It stays seated, looks left and right, and gives a little head bob, in a seamless loop.
• 🐾 STAND UP – it stretches, rises and goes back to being a wild dragon

Smooth blends between every pose: no snapping, no T-pose, no jitter. The game's own idle breaks and attacks are held back while the dragon is seated, so it stays calm and sitting.

(The animations live in "CatDragons Assets" – another reason you need it! 😋)

💖 CUSTOM PARTICLE EFFECT 💖

A completely custom Niagara particle system with its own texture, material and effect: little pink HEARTS float up above every calmed dragon. 💕 💕 💕 Built from scratch in Unreal Engine and running live in the game.

🔊 REAL PURRING 🔊

A looping 3D purr attached to the dragon's head. It gets louder as you come closer, quieter as you walk away, and fades out smoothly when the dragon stands up. Native Unreal audio, mixed down and pitched lower so it sounds like a really, really big cat. 🐱

How to use

1. Catch any raw fish – sardine or any other "Raw" fish works.
2. Put it on your quick-access bar (slots 1–8). Fish only in the backpack = does not work!
3. Walk closer than ~15 m to a lesser dragon.
4. 🐱 It sits, purrs and hearts appear. ❤️
5. Walk away (> 19 m) or remove the fish → the dragon finishes its loop, stands up and returns to its AI.

Requirements

• UE4SS for RuneScape: Dragonwilds
• CatDragons Assets – animations, hearts and purring sound (separate download, required)

Installation

CurseForge app: install CatDragons and CatDragons Assets. Done.

Manual:

• CatDragons folder from this zip → RSDragonwilds\Binaries\Win64\ue4ss\Mods\
• CatDragons folder from the Assets zip → RSDragonwilds\Content\Paks\~mods\
• Step-by-step guide: HowToInstall.txt in the zip.

Settings

At the top of Mods\CatDragons\Scripts\main.lua: sit/stand distance, which item calms dragons, hearts on/off and height, purring on/off and volume.

Good to know

• Works together with MellowWolfs (bones calm wolves, fish calms dragons).
• Does not overwrite any game files – the mod only adds its own.
• Single-player only (co-op not tested).
• Only the lesser dragon is supported for now.
• Fish is not consumed.

Credits

Purring sound: "purring cat" by Dragon Studio (Pixabay), mixed to mono and pitched down.

Fan-made mod, not affiliated with Jagex.