Bats N' Berries
Bats N' Berries lets bats carry glow berries, glow when they eat them, and be captured with a bucket, on Fabric servers for 1.21.4 – 1.21.7.
What it does
A player mob that eats a glow berry receives the glowing effect for 10 seconds, which is 200 ticks. The duration is set by the glowBerryEffectDuration gamerule, so server owners can change it. Bats can also be captured with an empty bucket, which yields a Bucket Bat item; a placed Bucket Bat uses the bat spawn egg texture by default.
The mod is a server-side Fabric mod and requires Fabric API. Only the server needs it, so players join without installing anything. It is published as open source under The Unlicense, with source code and an issue tracker available. Files exist for 1.21.4 and 1.21.7, and the latest build is 1.1.0 for 1.21.7, released on 2025-07-06.
Optional Polymer support lets the server host a resource pack and enable AutoHost, so clients receive the Bucket Bat textures automatically. Without Polymer, the default bat spawn egg texture is used. The mod also adds a fun speech option to the bat's dialogue, with Shakespearean English, Pirate Speak, LOLCAT and French variants.
Key features
Glowing berries
Mobs that eat a glow berry gain the glowing effect for 10 seconds by default.
Configurable effect duration
The glowBerryEffectDuration gamerule sets how long the glowing effect lasts.
Bucket Bat
An empty bucket captures a bat and turns it into a Bucket Bat item.
Leashable bats
Bats can be attached with leads, as added in version 1.1.0.
Speech variants
Bat messages can be shown in Shakespearean English, Pirate Speak, LOLCAT or French.
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
Optional 1
How it compares
No Bats is a Fabric server-side mod for 1.20 – 1.21.5, open source under the MIT License, and it covers bats differently. Bats Reconfig is also a Fabric server-side mod, open source under the MIT License, for 1.21.4 – 1.21.5. Glow Glow Berries is a Fabric server-side mod for 1.20 – 1.21.8, open source under the MIT License, and focuses on glow berries. BerryGlow is a Fabric server-side mod for 1.21 – 26.3 under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license and is not open source. Bats N' Berries is open source under The Unlicense and targets 1.21.4 – 1.21.7.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bats N' Berries | Fabric | 1.21.4 – 1.21.7 | Server-side only | 2025-07-06 |
| No Bats | Fabric | 1.20 – 1.21.5 | Server-side only | 2025-05-27 |
| Bats Reconfig | Fabric | 1.21.4 – 1.21.5 | Server-side only | 2025-04-13 |
| Glow Glow Berries | Fabric | 1.20 – 1.21.8 | Server-side only | 2025-09-18 |
| BerryGlow | Fabric | 1.21 – 26.3 | Server-side only | 2026-09-27 |
Questions
Does Bats N' Berries need Fabric API?
Do players need to install Bats N' Berries?
How can the glowing effect duration be changed?
In the catalog
Bats N' Berries is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 13,697 mods support Minecraft 1.21.7.
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What the author says
A very silly Minecraft server-side mod for Fabric that makes bats and glow berries a little more useful. To enable resource pack hosting, install Polymer and enable AutoHost. Otherwise, the Bucket of Bat item will use the bat spawn egg texture by default.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/batsnberries
- Owner
- panda-hackerman
- Published
- 2025-07-06
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-07-06
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15