BredExempt
by NothingItIs
With BredExempt installed, eggs and offspring from bred animals stop reducing the room left for wild animals to spawn.
What it does
BredExempt marks animals born from breeding as persistent, so they are not counted toward the passive mob cap that controls natural spawning. The same exemption applies to a newborn chick that hatches from a thrown egg. Without it, a breeding farm or egg farm can gradually use up the cap and leave few places for wildlife to spawn around it. Modded animals are handled the same way as vanilla ones, because the mod relies on the standard Animal classification and vanilla's persistent-mob exemption.
The mod runs on the server only, so players join without installing it. It requires Fabric API, and it is published for Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt across 10 release versions, 1.21.6 – 26.2. The Fabric and Quilt files need Quilt Loader 0.30.0 or newer for Quilt, and the NeoForge build is the one for NeoForge. The code is open source under the MIT License, and its source code and issue tracker are public.
Key features
Breeding exemption
Animals born from two parents are marked persistent, so they are skipped when the natural-spawn cap is counted.
Egg hatch exemption
Chicks that hatch from a thrown egg are marked persistent too, so egg farms no longer use up the spawn cap.
Vanilla-compatible handling
Animals added by other mods receive the same tag as vanilla animals, which brings their breeding farms under the exemption too.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x4 of 4 versions with builds
1.21.x6 of 6 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Use cases
Who it’s for: Server owners who run animal farms or animal pens and want natural spawning to keep working near them. It is installed on the server only.
How it compares
Lootier Farm Animals is a server-required mod with optional client support, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, published for 1.21 – 26.2 on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, and it is not open source. Satisfied Mobs is a server-side Fabric mod for 1.21 – 26.3 under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license, and it is not open source. BredExempt is open source under the MIT License and covers Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt for 1.21.6 – 26.2.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BredExempt | Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.6 – 26.2 | Server-side only | 2026-07-20 |
| Lootier Farm Animals | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21 – 26.2 | Server required, client optional | 2026-08-17 |
| Satisfied Mobs | Fabric | 1.21 – 26.3 | Server-side only | 2026-07-25 |
Questions
Does BredExempt need Fabric API?
Which loaders are supported?
Does the mod have to be installed on the client?
In the catalog
BredExempt is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
Your breeding and egg farms are quietly starving your natural spawns. BredExempt stops that. In vanilla Minecraft, every animal you breed — and every chick you hatch from a thrown egg — counts toward the passive mob cap. Pack a pen with cows, sheep, pigs, or chickens and you push the loaded area toward its cap: fewer…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/bredexempt
- Owner
- NothingItIs
- Published
- 2026-07-12
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-20
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15