Enhanced Cats
Enhanced Cats changes how tamed and stray cats look and behave, adding new idle and attack animations, poses, and mood effects that players can track.
What it does
Cats gain a set of animations on top of the vanilla ones, including a big stretch while idle, a paw motion for making biscuits, a small attack swipe, and a subtle breathing motion. Cats also take on new poses and spend more of their time on energetic and curious actions, closer to how young cats behave.
A cat's mood is tracked. A happy cat can grant short effects such as speed, regeneration or resistance, while a neglected cat can become depressed, which makes it angry, refuses to play and may attack. Comfort from players keeps a cat's mood up. Stray cats wander more and can sit or sleep, and baby villagers follow them. Cats can also try to take villager heads, but only when that villager was fed. Jade can be added to show a cat's stats in a compact form, leaving the screen uncluttered, and the name tag takes on the color of the cat's collar.
The mod requires YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL). Installation covers the server and each player's game. Files are published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt across 22 release versions, 1.20.1 – 26.3, and the code is licensed under All rights reserved, so it is not open source.
Key features
New cat animations
Idle and attack animations for cats, including a big stretch, a paw-kneading motion and a small scratching swipe.
Mood and depression
Cats have a mood that can rise to a happy state with short effects, or fall into depression if neglected.
Stray cats and villagers
Stray cats wander more and wait to be tamed, and baby villagers follow stray cats around.
Mood effects
A happy cat can grant speed, regeneration or resistance, while a depressed cat can turn angry and refuse to play.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.21.x11 of 11 versions with builds
1.20.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
How it compares
Cozy's Improved Cats is a client and server mod for Fabric, Forge and Quilt, covering 1.19.2 – 26.3 and released under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, so it is not open source. Cats Love Tropical Fish too is server required with client optional, for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt across 1.20.5 – 26.3 under the MIT License, so players can join without it. Enhanced Cats runs on both sides and is licensed as All rights reserved.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enhanced Cats | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.20.1 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-09-28 |
| Cozy's Improved Cats | Fabric, Forge and Quilt | 1.19.2 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-10-11 |
| Cats Love Tropical Fish too | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.20.5 – 26.3 | Server required, client optional | 2026-10-07 |
Questions
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In the catalog
Enhanced Cats is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
And yes it works with multiple cats if you decide to tie the leash on a fence! NeoForge/Forge and older fabric version are expected to be launched on part 2 as the api is different (on the Forge and NeoForge case) or the way the leash can be intercepted is different (older fabric versions). Once the build is stable…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/enhanced-cats
- Owner
- IslandAggravating
- Published
- 2024-06-05
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-28
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15