Better Dogs

The mod adds vanilla-like features that improve dogs. New blocks change and enhance the vanilla wolves: a dog bed can be crafted from 16 carpets, which allows the bed to be customized further. A dog that sits on a bed respawns there after dying, and the death timer is longer than in vanilla. A dog bowl lets players feed a dog by holding food and interacting with the bowl, and a seriously injured dog can eat from the bowl to regenerate health automatically.

Equipment and combat work through dog armor: a dog must be wearing armor before it can be given a weapon, and interacting with a dog while holding a weapon hands it over. Crouching and sitting are added as dog actions. Throwing sticks or bones, or doing a crouch action, makes nearby dogs chase, which can be used to distract them. Players can switch a tamed dog between three aggression levels by using a stick on it: passive, neutral and hostile. Passive dogs attack nothing, neutral dogs attack only skeletons and anything that damages them, and hostile dogs attack hostile mobs nearby.

The mod runs on the server and is not needed by players. Installation is for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, with files for 26.3 and earlier builds back to 1.21.11. It is published under All rights reserved, so it is not open source. Data pack support is listed as an additional server platform.