Animal Garden - Manatee
Animal Garden - Manatee brings gentle manatees into the world, found in shallow water near beaches and rivers, and the player can feed, tempt and clean them.
What it does
Manatees roam shallow waters and roaming rivers near beaches. They are slow swimmers that panic when a player steps on gas, so they keep their distance on approach. A manatee can be tempted with sea grass or kelp, and it holds its breath for a long time, roughly 5 to 10 minutes, before it needs to surface.
Manatees collect algae over time. The player cleans them by scrubbing the algae off with a sponge brush, though a sponge can be destroyed in the process. Cleaning drops items, and a manatee that does not get cleaned keeps wandering the shallows. The spawn settings can be changed by editing JSON data files, through biome tags and biome modifier folders in a resource pack, and cleaning items and manatee food can be adjusted through item tag files. The content includes a sound set by Tom Hiddleston for Earthsounds.
Animal Garden - Manatee is published for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge, and it runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it. The mod requires Aquarius Libs. Builds cover 1.18.2 – 26.3 across 18 game versions, under All rights reserved, so the code is not open source.
Key features
Roaming manatees
Gentle giant manatees, known as sea cows, roam shallow water and rivers near beaches.
Feeding with sea grass and kelp
Sea grass and kelp tempt manatees, which is how a player gets close to them.
Algae cleaning
Manatees gather different types of algae until they are cleaned with a sponge brush.
Configurable spawns and drops
Spawn settings and cleaning drops can be changed through JSON data files and item tag files.
Manatee sounds
A sound set by Tom Hiddleston for Earthsounds plays with the manatees.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.21.x9 of 9 versions with builds
1.20.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.19.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.18.x1 of 1 version with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
How it compares
Backported Animal Variants is Forge and NeoForge only, for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1, and is released under the MIT License. Just-In GARDEN is Forge only for 1.20.1 and is client-side only, with no open-source license. The Pale Garden Remastered runs on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt for 1.20.5 – 26.2, and the server needs it while the client may leave it out.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Garden - Manatee | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.18.2 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-09-23 |
| Backported Animal Variants | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-05-01 |
| Just-In GARDEN | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client-side only | 2025-09-12 |
| The Pale Garden Remastered | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.20.5 – 26.2 | Server required, client optional | 2026-07-09 |
Questions
Does Animal Garden - Manatee require anything else?
Does the server need the mod?
Can the manatee spawns be changed?
In the catalog
Animal Garden - Manatee is one of 8,515 World generation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,027 World generation mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
This mod adds the gentle giant the manatee or known as sea cow into the game. You can find them roaming the rivers or are near the beach.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/animal-garden-manatee
- Owner
- Aquarius.playz
- Published
- 2025-09-27
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-23
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15