Ambient Additions
by codyhuh
Ambient Additions brings atmospheric critters into a Forge world, along with crates and blowguns for catching them without harming them.
What it does
The mod adds fully animated animals, from corgis and starfish to shy crabs and miniature armadillos. Many of them fit into buckets, pots, bottles or bowls, which makes carrying them around simpler. A separate set of items sedates and crates any animal, including ones that are hard to catch another way.
Sedation depends on the mob's health. Each hit with a dart adds a stun, and the number of stuns needed rises with the mob's maximum health: 2.5 hearts gives one stun, 5 hearts two, 10 hearts three, 25 hearts four, and more than 25 hearts five. Once the threshold is reached, the mob stays sleepy for 30 seconds and shows sleep particles.
Ambient Additions requires Geckolib, so that library must be installed alongside it. The mod is a Forge mod for 1.20.1, with files for 1.20 and 1.20.1 on the release list. It runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it, and the code is under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, making it open source.
Key features
Animated critters
Corgis, starfish, crabs and armadillos wander the world with full animations.
Empty crates
Right-clicking a sedated entity with an empty crate captures it, and right-clicking again places it back.
Crate contents display
A crate holding a mob gets a new texture, an enchantment glint and a tooltip naming the mob inside.
Blowgun darts
Blowguns fire single darts that are charged like a bow, and each dart applies one level of stun.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Use cases
Catching animals for a zoo
Players who collect critters can move them in buckets, pots, bottles or bowls.
Capturing hard-to-reach mobs
Sedation with a crate covers animals that cannot be caught by other means.
Who it’s for: Players who like collecting fauna and building zoos, and server owners who want more animal life in their worlds.
How it compares
Blowguns is a Forge and Fabric mod for 1.20.1 under the CC0 1.0 Universal license, not open source. TheDragon's Blowpipes is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 under the MIT License and is open source. More Critters is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 under the MIT License, not open source, and adds animals rather than capture tools.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambient Additions | Forge | 1.20 – 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-09-20 |
| Blowguns | Fabric and Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-06-29 |
| TheDragon's Blowpipes | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-03-28 |
| More Critters | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-08-08 |
Questions
Does Ambient Additions need Geckolib?
Does the server need Ambient Additions?
How many stuns does a mob need to sleep?
In the catalog
Ambient Additions 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
🐌 Ambient Additions 🦀 --- This mod adds ambient life to your world and utilities to catch them. The mod includes various fully-animated animals, ranging from adorable corgis to radially-symmetric starfish, shy crabs, and miniature armadillos. The aim is to introduce more fauna into your world, in order to fuel…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/ambientadditions
- Owner
- codyhuh
- Published
- 2024-10-29
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-09-20
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15