Caged Mobs
by Corgam
Caged Mobs lets players trap mobs in cages and collect their drops without chasing them, with optional upgrades and a hopping cage that sends drops into the inventory below.
What it does
Players craft one of two cage types: a normal cage for manual harvesting, or a hopping cage that deposits drops into the inventory placed beneath it. A cage is populated with an item that creates an environment suited to the chosen entity, so animals, neutral mobs and other creatures can be kept in place while their drops accumulate. Bosses can be caged as well, and the mod covers several of them.
The mod is built on the vanilla datapack system, with JSON files that define supported entities and environments. Datapacks and scripts can add new entities and environments, and mod developers can ship built-in support through their own data folder. Caged Mobs is required by Chaos Caged, and it is installed on the client and on the server. Files exist for Forge and NeoForge across 8 release versions, 1.16.5 – 1.20.2, under the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 only, and the code is open source.
Key features
Collecting drops from caged mobs
Caged mobs are kept in place so their drops can be gathered without hunting them across the world.
Boss farming
Several boss-class entities can be caged and farmed for their drops.
Upgrade system
Cooking, Lightning, Arrow, Speed and Fortune upgrades adjust how a cage processes its drops.
Cooking upgrade
Drops that can be cooked are processed automatically while the cage runs.
Lightning and arrow upgrades
The lightning upgrade collects drops that need a lightning strike, such as mob heads, and the arrow upgrade kills entities with arrows.
Datapack support
New entities and environments can be added through datapacks and scripting.
Information overlays
Supported mobs and cage contents can be read through installed information mods.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Required by 1 mod
Use cases
Farming mob drops
A player who needs drops from a specific mob can cage it and let the hopping cage fill a chest below.
Collecting boss drops
Server owners can set up boss cages to farm their drops.
Adding custom entities
Pack makers can register new mobs and environments with datapacks and scripting.
Who it’s for: Players who want to farm mob drops, including boss drops, without manual hunting, and modpack authors who want to add their own entities and environments through datapacks or scripting.
Questions
Does Caged Mobs need to be installed on the server?
Which loaders does Caged Mobs support?
How can supported mobs and drops be looked up?
In the catalog
Caged Mobs is one of 8,499 Technology mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,122 Technology mods for Forge. 12,076 mods support Minecraft 1.20.2.
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What the author says
Tired of chasing mobs? Make it a breeze with the new Mob Cages! Imprison all those pesky mobs and easily collect their drops! Sounds like fun, right? Inspired by Bonsai Trees 2 mod (by Davenonymous) and Botany Pots (by DarkhaxDev). Thank you for your inspiration!
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/caged-mobs
- Owner
- Corgam
- Published
- 2023-10-24
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-01-04
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15