Animal Garden - Lion
Animal Garden - Lion adds tamable lions that live in savanna biomes, and the lion behavior can be changed with a food item and a wandering mode.
What it does
Lions spawn in savanna biomes and can be tamed with a food item. Male lions grow manes and come in 15 body color variants, while females come in 5 and have no manes. Babies follow the adults, and lionesses follow the male lions. Eye color variants are included, so each lion can look different.
Tamed lions can be set to one of three behaviors, and the owner receives a message when the behavior changes. Wandering mode makes a tamed lion roam around a block placed by the owner. Untamed lions sometimes attack mobs nearby, except lionesses, and can roar at mobs so they run away. Lions can be fed meat and fish found on the ground to restore health, and resting or attacking restores a little health as well.
Spawn settings can be changed through the Fabric config file, biome tags and biome modifier folders, or by editing the JSON files in a Forge data folder. The mod requires Aquarius Libs, and it runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it. Files are published for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge across 18 release versions, 1.18.2 – 26.3, and the code is all rights reserved, so the mod is not open source.
Key features
Tamable lions
Lions can be tamed with food, and tamed lions stay with their owner.
Three behaviors
Tamed lions can be switched between behaviors, and the owner sees a message when a change is made.
Wandering mode
A tamed lion can be set to roam around a block the owner places, rather than follow the owner.
Health from food
Lions can be fed meat and fish from the ground, and resting or fighting gives back a small amount of health.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.21.x10 of 10 versions with builds
1.20.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.18.x1 of 1 version with builds
This mod also publishes snapshot builds. Snapshots are not shown in the matrix.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Use cases
Savanna builds
Tamed lions can roam a savanna base or wildlife area set up around a wandering block.
Who it’s for: Players who want predators in savanna biomes, and server owners who want to change spawns through biome tags or data files.
How it compares
Vanilla Degus is a Fabric, Forge and NeoForge mod for 1.16.5 – 26.3 that is client and server, under All rights reserved, and not open source. More Animals is open source under CC0 1.0 Universal, is server-side only, and is published for Fabric only.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Garden - Lion | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.18.2 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-09-21 |
| Vanilla Degus | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.16.5 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-09-26 |
| More Animals | Fabric | 1.21 – 1.21.1 | Server-side only | 2025-10-10 |
Questions
Does Animal Garden - Lion need Aquarius Libs?
Does the server need the mod?
Which loaders are supported?
Can lions be changed to spawn in other biomes?
In the catalog
Animal Garden - Lion is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
This mod adds lions as tamable animals to your world. You can find them in the savanna biomes.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/animal-garden-lion
- Owner
- Aquarius.playz
- Published
- 2026-01-25
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-21
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15