Capture Egg
by Ca1tlynn_
Capture Egg lets players catch a living mob with an empty egg, carry it, and release it elsewhere, which avoids long tunnels for moving animals.
What it does
Right-clicking a living mob with an empty Capture Egg stores it inside the egg. A filled egg holds one mob at a time, and releasing it by right-clicking with the filled egg places the mob back in the world and leaves the egg empty and reusable. Captured mobs keep their saved data, and vanilla mobs as well as many modded living entities can be captured.
Villagers use the same control, which would normally open the trading menu. Holding an empty egg and using it on a villager captures the villager with its profession and trades intact, and the trades are preserved when it is released. Wandering Traders are handled the same way. By default the Ender Dragon is exempt from capture, and a modpack maker can apply an entity-type tag that marks extra mobs or bosses as impossible to take.
Capture Egg requires Fabric API and runs on Fabric for Minecraft 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 under the MIT License, which makes it open source. It is client and server, so the mod must be installed on both the server and each player's client in multiplayer. Public code and bug tracking live on GitHub; a useful report names the Minecraft build, the Fabric Loader and Fabric API versions, the mod release, and attaches the logs that matter.
Key features
Reusable capture
A filled egg can be released and then refilled, so one item can move many mobs over time.
Saved data preserved
Captured mobs keep their saved data, so their state is intact when they are placed back in the world.
Villager profession and trades
A captured villager keeps its profession and trades, and the egg tooltip shows the villager's name and profession.
Captured mob display
A filled egg shows the captured mob's name in its tooltip and gains an enchantment glint.
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
Spawn Egg is a client and server Fabric mod for 1.20.1 under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license and is not open source. Bottled Souls is a client and server Fabric mod for 1.19.4 – 1.21.11 under the MIT License, which is open source. Egg Drop is a server-side only Fabric mod for 1.20.1 – 1.20.4 under the MIT License, so players join without installing it.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capture Egg | Fabric | 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 | Client and server | 2026-07-14 |
| Spawn Egg | Fabric | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2024-07-12 |
| Bottled Souls | Fabric | 1.19.4 – 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2026-04-14 |
| Egg Drop | Fabric | 1.20.1 – 1.20.4 | Server-side only | 2024-01-16 |
Questions
Does Capture Egg need Fabric API?
Does Capture Egg have to be installed on the server?
Can a captured villager keep its trades?
Which versions does Capture Egg support?
In the catalog
Capture Egg is one of 3,932 Transportation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,390 Transportation mods for Fabric. 11,154 mods support Minecraft 1.20.6.
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What the author says
Capture Egg is a lightweight Fabric mod for Minecraft 1.20.1 SMP that adds a reusable item for capturing, carrying, and releasing mobs. Instead of transporting mobs with boats, minecarts, leads, or long tunnels, you can simply store one inside a Capture Egg and release it somewhere else.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/capture-egg
- Owner
- Ca1tlynn_
- Published
- 2026-07-14
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-14
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15