Assorted 8-Bit Mobs

Wild parabuzzies spawn over the Overworld. Each has a winged shell that lets it hover, which slows falls and helps it hunt monsters. A hostile monster that comes near a parabuzzy walks up and lights its fuse, so a careful player keeps distance, since hitting one directly also lights the fuse. Parabuzzies come in blue, red and spiked versions.

Taming works with fish, and one food item heals a tamed parabuzzy. A tamed parabuzzy can be ridden by right-clicking it, and it climbs onto the player's head. Sneaking while holding a parabuzzy puts it down on the ground, and a placed parabuzzy follows its owner. Bob-ombs are built from a parabuzzy's shell, and a tamed Bob-omb follows its owner and blows up anything that attacks.

The mod is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only. It requires Assorted Lib and Fabric API on Fabric. Files are published for Fabric and NeoForge, for 26.2, and the environment is client and server, so the server and every player need the mod. Older saves from the earlier 1.x line can be kept by removing that version first, since the two cannot share a game.