Advanced Animals
Advanced Animals gives the animals in a Forge 1.20.1 world a reputation system that changes how they react to players who attack or feed them.
What it does
Animals in the mod run from danger, and when one herd member is hit the rest of the group panics, which makes them harder to approach head on and encourages a quieter, more realistic approach to hunting. Each attack on a peaceful creature lowers the player's reputation by 1. When reputation drops below 0, peaceful creatures flee and wolves attack on sight, which makes the game hard for players who have been hostile.
Reputation can be rebuilt by right-clicking the ground with wheat seeds or potatoes, which attracts nearby mobs that like those foods. Three different gifts also raise reputation by 1 each when right-clicked on an animal, and a new item called the Nature Orb shows the player's reputation with nearby animals. At 50 reputation, the player gains the ability to tame tamable mobs nearby.
Players join without it, since only the server has to run the mod. The mod is published for Forge, for 1.20.1 only, with a single 1.0.0 file released on 2025-05-11 on the beta channel. It is not open source and is released under All rights reserved. The author describes the release as an early beta with more content planned.
Key features
Animal AI with herd panic
Animals assess danger, and when one herd member is struck the others panic and scatter.
Reputation with attacks and gifts
Attacking a peaceful creature costs 1 reputation, while gifts and planted food restore it.
Nature Orb
A new item lets the player view their reputation standing with the animals around them.
Taming at 50 reputation
Reaching 50 reputation makes tamable mobs near the player available for taming.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Questions
Does Advanced Animals need to be installed on the client?
Which Forge version does Advanced Animals support?
How does a player recover reputation after attacking animals?
In the catalog
Advanced Animals is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,527 Mobs mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
Welcome to advanced animals! In this mod all animals have advanced AI and an entire reputation system. this mod is very much in early beta but I plan on adding more stuff soon. AI Animals will now run when they sense danger for example when one of their herd members are hit they all panic making it harder to attack…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/advanced-animals
- Owner
- BlueScreenMods
- Published
- 2025-05-11
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-05-11
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
