Animals, Pets & Mounts

This page covers the friendly side of Mobs & Creatures: breeding animals, taming pets, riding mounts and the mods that make animal keeping easier. It is a topic page that ties several mods together, so each section names the mod behind it.

Overview#

Nytheria keeps vanilla breeding and adds wildlife from [Let's Do] WilderNature, Clutter, [Let's Do] Meadow, Friends&Foes (Fabric/Quilt) and Ecologics. Only some of them can be bred, tamed or ridden, and the mods use different foods. The info mod Just Enough Breeding (JEBr) shows breeding and taming recipes in the recipe viewer EMI, so you can look up a food in game before you go hunting. Those entries are information only; they do not change how a mob behaves.

The pack fixes three display entries of that info mod: the Boar potato recipe, the Deer recipe (short grass instead of an invalid item) and the Red Wolf recipe (bone). All three only apply when WilderNature is loaded.

Breeding foods#

Vanilla and Meadow#

Vanilla breeding works as usual. Meadow's Highland Cattle and Water Buffalo are bred with wheat, and you milk them with the Wooden Bucket. Meadow has seven kinds of milk, which feed its cheese recipes. Meadow has two animal types: Highland Cattle, which also come as Umbra and Warped variants, and the Water Buffalo.

WilderNature animals#

The list comes from the data of the info mod. WilderNature also removes some vanilla farm animals from forest, swamp, savanna and jungle spawn lists; which ones was not confirmed, so scout your base biome for cows, pigs, sheep and chickens before you rely on them.

Friends & Foes and Ecologics#

The Crab is bred with kelp, the Moobloom with wheat, and the Glare responds to a tempt item. Ecologics adds the Coconut Crab, the Penguin and the Squirrel. Ecologics has no camel.

Farm & Charm husbandry#

[Let's Do] Farm & Charm gives you the tools to keep animals in one place.

Dog food taming, the cat taming chance, horse taming and begging are all switched on in the config. The mod also adds a Supply Cart, a Plow and a Seeder as entities. [Let's Do] Vinery adds a Mule with its Wandering Winemaker.

Taming#

You can tame the vanilla wolf, cat, parrot, horse, donkey, mule and llama. The pack adds more tameable animals:

• Dog and Red Wolf (WilderNature) are tamed with a bone. The Red Wolf lives in old growth pine taiga.
• Glare (Friends & Foes) is tamed with glow berries; the advancement is "Tame a glare".
• Crystallized Moth (Eternal Starlight) is tamed with meat, according to its advancement text.
• Cataclysm has three tameable creatures: the Modern Remnant, the Netherite Ministrosity and The Baby Leviathan.
• Astral Dimension has the tameable Nihlin and Baby Amethyst Crab.
• Deeper and Darker's Sculk Snapper and Clutter's Capybara and Chameleon are tameable classes.

Mounts#

The Aether add-on Aether Addon: Protect Your Moa gives Moas chests and craftable Moa Armor. AdventureZ lets you hatch its Dragon (allow_dragon_hatching is on, hatching other dragons is off).

Camels in Nytheria are the vanilla camel. Vanilla Backport spawns them outside villages, and Ecologics adds none.

Mount helpers#

Horse Expert shows the speed, jump and health of tamed horses, with thresholds at 0.25 (low) and 0.75 (high). Better Mount HUD shows the mount's health while you ride. The Cowboy Hat from Artifacts Remastered gives +40 % mount speed.

Handling pets and mobs#

• Carry On lets you pick up animals, not hostile mobs. Hold Left Shift, the pack default. Babies cannot be carried.
• Supplementaries adds a cage and a flute. The cage needs tamed mobs where a mob is tameable.
• The Beastmaster's Brace from Artifacts Remastered makes tamed pets deal more damage and take less. Kitty Slippers make cats and ocelots always friendly.
• Jade 🔍 and Jade Additional Entities show a creature's name and health.
• Mob Grindworks is for mob farms, not pets; its Mob Masher counts as a player kill.

Limits to know#

ServerCore limits breeding to 32 animals of the same type within 64 blocks, and it limits villagers the same way. The creature mob cap on a server is 10 per player. Let Me Despawn also tweaks despawn rules so that accidentally persistent mobs do not pile up.

Tips#

• Look up a food with the recipe viewer before you chase an animal. The WilderNature list above is long and the foods differ a lot.
• Keep water and feed in one spot: troughs reach 8 blocks, so a compact pen needs fewer blocks than a wide field.
• Build a Chicken Coop early in your first week. It holds 3 chickens and 9 eggs, and the quest book asks you for feathers.
• Bring leather, feathers and white wool when you start the capstone of Fields and Fences, so you only need to tame one animal afterwards.
• Do not plan a farm on a WilderNature biome until you have seen which animals still spawn there.
• Use a Pet Bowl where your dog or cat sleeps; pets search 16 blocks around it.

In the quest book#

The chapter Fields and Fences in Part 2, Hearth and Home, has you feed or handle a farm animal, breed animals 10 times and finish with A Herd Worth Leaving, an optional quest that asks you to tame a wolf, cat, parrot, horse, donkey, mule or llama. The capstone also wants 16 leather, 16 feathers and 16 white wool.

Changed from the old wiki#

Earlier versions of this wiki listed a camel among the Ecologics animals and four Meadow cattle types. In the current pack Ecologics has no camel entity, and Meadow has two types.

See also#

• Mobs & Creatures - totals and mod list.
• Creatures of the Overworld - where the wildlife spawns.
• Creatures of the Nether, End and Realms - creatures of the modded dimensions.
• Farming & Cooking - crops, animals and food.
• Part 2: Hearth and Home - the animal quests.