Colorful Mobs
by Darkhax
Colorful Mobs, a Forge mod for 1.7.10, lets players recolor mobs with dyes, random color effects and transparency powders.
What it does
Mobs can spawn in the world already tinted with a random color, adding variety to the default creatures. Players apply color with Dye Powder, which dyed mobs drop on death in the same color they had. Random Dye gives a mob a random color, while Ghost Dust sets transparency across six tiers from 0% up to 100%, rising in steps of 20%. Rainbow Dust and Ghost Dust also exist as special variants that randomize color or transparency.
Every player and the server need a copy of the mod. It works on single-player, LAN and dedicated servers, and a configuration file plus a config GUI control which options are enabled. Colorful Mobs is published for Forge only, with its single file for 1.7.10, and the code is not open source; it is released under All rights reserved. The issue tracker is the only public link listed for the project.
Key features
Random mob colors
Some mobs spawn in the world with a random color, and only certain mobs can be set to spawn with color effects.
Dye Powder and pure white
Dye Powder carries the RGB color of a mob, and a pure white dye made from paper, string and bone meal restores natural colors.
Precise color settings
The Color Wand tool sets exact colors from a 16,777,216-value RGBA range, and a player can also dye other players.
Creative-only items
Random Dye, Ghost Dust and the Color Wand are creative-only, while the dye powder recipe itself is a shapeless crafting-table recipe.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Colored world variety
Players who want a more colorful world can let mobs spawn with random colors and use dyes to recolor specific creatures.
Transparency effects
Ghost Dust lets a player make a mob partly or fully transparent, with six fixed tiers to choose from.
Who it’s for: Players who want recolored or semi-transparent mobs in a Forge 1.7.10 world, and server owners who want mob colors available to all players.
Questions
Does Colorful Mobs need to be installed on the server?
Which Minecraft version does Colorful Mobs support?
Does Ghost Dust have to be used in creative mode?
In the catalog
Colorful Mobs is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,527 Mobs mods for Forge. 1,013 mods support Minecraft 1.7.10.
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What the author says
Colorful Mobs aims to diversify your Minecraft world through the addition of a new and simplistic color mechanic. This new color mechanic allows all entities to be given altered color properties, which will change how they appear in game. Colorful Mobs uses the RGBA system for coloring mobs, which means players have…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/colorful-mobs
- Owner
- Darkhax
- Published
- 2023-06-07
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2023-06-07
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15