Bat & Blooms
by sakfalibak
Bat & Blooms brings bats into farming: bats live in colonies, fertilise crops and leave guano that players can harvest and reuse on a Fabric 26.2 world.
What it does
The mod adds ecology bats to Minecraft. Bats form live colonies that flock, breed, share food sources and follow day and night routines. Naturally generated Bat Roosts appear around suitable cave entrances, and craftable Bat Boxes gradually draw bats to any box placed near farmland.
Bats occasionally fertilise crops, including wheat, carrots, potatoes, beetroot and empty farmland. Guano layers build up beneath colonies and can be harvested sustainably. Guano has several uses: fertiliser, brown dye, guano blocks and gunpowder, and it feeds Mushroom Farms. Bat & Blooms is published for Fabric only, requires Fabric API, runs on client and server, and is licensed under the Apache License 2.0; the code is not open source.
Key features
Live bat colonies
Bats flock and breed in colonies that share food locations and keep day and night routines.
Bat Roosts and Bat Boxes
Roosts generate near cave entrances, and Bat Boxes can be crafted and placed by farmland to attract bats.
Guano harvesting
Guano accumulates under colonies and can be collected, and removing too much destroys the colony that produced it.
Expanded crop lifecycles
Crops flower and bolt, pre-bolt harvests improve, and some crops spread naturally; shears freeze growth stages for decoration.
Cultivatable Mushroom Farms
Cultivatable Mushroom Farms yield mushrooms, fungi, glow lichen, dyes, roots and glow ink sacs, alongside further usable materials.
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
How it compares
Better bats is also a Fabric mod for 26.2, open source under the MIT License, with client and server support. Bat Friend is published for 26.2 – 26.3 under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only and is also client and server. No Bats is server-side only, covers 1.20 – 1.21.5 and removes bats instead of adding a colony ecology.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bat & Blooms | Fabric | 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-07-31 |
| Better bats | Fabric | 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-06-19 |
| Bat Friend | Fabric | 26.2 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-09-17 |
| No Bats | Fabric | 1.20 – 1.21.5 | Server-side only | 2025-05-27 |
Questions
Does Bat & Blooms need Fabric API?
Does the server need the mod?
Is Bat & Blooms available for versions other than 26.2?
In the catalog
Bat & Blooms is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,715 Food mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
Bat & Bloom transforms Minecraft’s bats from ambient cave creatures into active participants in the world’s ecology. Bats now live in persistent colonies, sheltering in natural Bat Roosts or player-built Bat Boxes during the day. At dusk, colonies emerge in loose flocks to search for crops, empty farmland, and…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/bat-blooms
- Owner
- sakfalibak
- Published
- 2026-07-31
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-31
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15