Better Farmlife
by Luigi53
Better Farmlife adds small quality-of-life features for farms: animals that walk to dropped food, hoe-based crop harvesting and on-screen timers for crops and breeding.
What it does
Dropped food that animals can eat lasts longer on the ground before it despawns, and animals walk over to eat it and breed. Mature crops can be harvested by right-clicking with a hoe, and they are replanted in the same action. Sneaking turns off the automatic replanting, so a player can harvest without planting again. Replanting plays a sound and shows subtle particles, and sugar cane can be bone-mealed.
A farm HUD reports growth progress for whichever crop the player is facing, with support for wheat, carrots, potatoes, beetroots, nether wart, melon and pumpkin stems, sugar cane, cactus and other crop-like vanilla plants. It also shows a breeding cooldown for animals in view and an egg timer for chickens. Major features can be switched off in the config file.
Better Farmlife requires Fabric API on Fabric. A server running it needs every connecting player to have it too. Builds are published for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge, for 1.21.1 and 26.1.2, and the code is released under the MIT License, not as open source.
Key features
Animal food pickup
Animals walk to valid food dropped on the ground and eat it, which also lets them breed.
Longer-lasting food drops
Valid food for animals stays on the ground longer before it despawns.
Hoe harvesting and replanting
Right-clicking a mature crop with a hoe harvests it and plants a new one, unless the player is sneaking.
Crop growth display
A HUD shows the growth progress of the crop the player is looking at, for many vanilla crops.
Breeding and egg timers
The HUD shows the breeding cooldown of animals in view and the timer for chicken eggs.
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
How it compares
Lootier Farm Animals is a server-side mod with a required server and optional client, released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license, and it covers 1.21 – 26.2. Auto Feed Animals targets 1.20.1 – 26.1.2 on both client and server, with all rights reserved. Graze is open source under the MIT License, but it is only for NeoForge and 1.21.1, which is a narrower set than Better Farmlife's Fabric, Forge and NeoForge builds.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Better Farmlife | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 26.1.2 | Client and server | 2026-05-29 |
| Lootier Farm Animals | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21 – 26.2 | Server required, client optional | 2026-08-17 |
| Auto Feed Animals | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 26.1.2 | Client and server | 2026-05-28 |
| Graze | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-02-20 |
Questions
Does Better Farmlife need Fabric API?
Does the server need Better Farmlife?
Can the HUD features be turned off?
In the catalog
Better Farmlife is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 15,189 mods support Minecraft 26.1.2.
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What the author says
Better Farmlife adds small farming quality-of-life features for animals, crops, and farm HUD info. Features: - Animals can walk to and eat dropped breeding food - Valid dropped animal food lasts longer before despawning - Fully grown crops can be harvested and replanted with a hoe - Right-click hoe harvesting for…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/better-farmlife
- Owner
- Luigi53
- Published
- 2026-05-24
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-05-29
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15