BefriendMobs Framework

The library gives developers an API for building features that befriend mobs, such as taming, so that a mob can become friendly to the player. Its stated purpose is to let modders add this behavior to existing mobs regardless of where they sit in the type hierarchy. The author's example is the vanilla tamable mobs, such as the wolf, which already inherit the TamableMob class.

Adding the same behavior to a mob like the zombie is harder through the vanilla API alone. With BefriendMobs, a modder can create a subclass of Zombie, or of any other class that extends Mob, and attach the befriending behavior through the library's own interfaces. Because the approach does not depend on the type hierarchy, it works for mobs that are not tamable in vanilla.

The library is Forge-only and is published for 1.18.2 – 1.20.1, with 0.2.18 for 1.20.1 as the latest file. A server running it needs every connecting player to have it too. The code is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later, and the source is publicly available.