Endercage
by Vulpany
Endercage is a Fabric tool and block for capturing mobs, carrying them, and moving them between placed cages.
What it does
Right-clicking a mob with the Endercage tool captures it, and the captured entity stays inside the cage until it is released. A placed cage can also receive entities from a cage held in hand, so a mob can be transferred from one cage to another. Entities inside a cage play their ambient sound at intervals, and a feather mutes the cage while a note block unmutes it. Filled cages can be placed in item frames, where the captured entity is displayed.
Redstone behaviour is handled by the cage itself. A powered cage releases the contained entity, and a cage placed above air or a block can capture the entity below it. Note blocks placed above a cage keep playing the captured entity's ambient sound even when the cage is muted. A comparator reads a filled cage as a signal of 15 and an empty one as 0. Settings let server owners enable or disable containment of hostile mobs, turn off the redstone functions, mute all cages, or ban certain entity types from capture.
Endercage is published for Fabric only, with the 1.1 file for 1.20.1 as the latest build. Every player and the server need a copy of the mod. Source code, an issue tracker and a wiki are linked from the project.
Key features
Mob capture tool
The Endercage tool captures a mob on right-click and carries it in the cage until it is placed.
Cage-to-cage transfer
Holding a cage and right-clicking a placed cage moves the contained entity into it.
Ambient sound playback
Captured entities play their ambient sound, and note blocks above the cage repeat it even when the cage is muted.
Redstone controls
A powered cage releases its entity, and a comparator reads a full cage as 15 and an empty one as 0.
Entity display in item frames
A filled cage placed in an item frame shows the captured entity, and the frame's facing sets how it stands.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Soul Cage is a Fabric and NeoForge mod for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1, open source under the MIT License, and only the server needs it, so clients may leave it out. Capture Egg is an open source Fabric mod under the MIT License for 1.20.1 – 1.20.6, and both the server and clients run it, like Endercage. Endercage is not open source and covers only 1.20.1.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Endercage | Fabric | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2023-09-19 |
| Soul Cage | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Server required, client optional | 2026-06-19 |
| Capture Egg | Fabric | 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 | Client and server | 2026-07-14 |
Questions
Does Endercage need Fabric API?
Must Endercage be installed on the server?
Which game versions does Endercage support?
In the catalog
Endercage is one of 3,932 Transportation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,390 Transportation mods for Fabric. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
The endercage is a tool/block for capturing and easily transporting mobs. Other than that it also has some other functionalities including the ability to play sounds from contained entities and displaying the entity as decoration. -> Capture entities by rightclicking them with the cage.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/endercage
- Owner
- Vulpany
- Published
- 2023-08-28
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2023-09-19
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15