Farmable Shulkers
by Kira-NT
Farmable Shulkers restores a shulker behavior from Minecraft 1.17 onward to versions 1.14.4 – 1.16.5, so shulker shells can be farmed there too.
What it does
Starting with the 1.17 release, a new shulker can appear whenever a shulker bullet strikes another shulker, turning shulker shells into a resource that can be replenished. Farmable Shulkers backports that mechanic to older game versions, where shulkers did not spawn this way. The mod runs on the server, and players join without installing it.
Shulkers keep their coordinates when moved to another dimension, and the author notes that single-player worlds gain less from the change. The mod requires Fabric Loader 0.7.0 or newer and is published only for Fabric.
Farmable Shulkers is open source under the MIT License. Source code and the issue tracker are public, and GitHub Releases hold the builds, while GitHub Actions builds reflect unstable development states.
Key features
Shulker spawning from bullets
Hit by a shulker bullet, a shulker has a chance to produce a fresh shulker, the same mechanic that arrived with 1.17.
Renewable shulker shells
Because new shulkers can appear, the shells they drop become a farmable resource on older versions.
Coordinates kept across dimensions
Shulkers keep their coordinates when moved to another dimension, as the author describes for the farm design.
Overworld replacement box
The author suggests a box in the overworld that holds replacement shulkers within the teleport range, for building a reliable farm.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Server-side shulker farms
Server owners running 1.14.x to 1.16.x can add the spawning behavior without requiring players to install anything.
Who it’s for: Server owners who run shulker farms on 1.14.4 – 1.16.5 and want the shell supply of the 1.17 update.
How it compares
Disable Shulker Teleport is server-side only, open source under the MIT License and published for 1.20 – 1.20.4, so it targets a later range than Farmable Shulkers. AntiShulkerDupe is also server-side only and open source under the MIT License, with files for 1.17 – 1.19.2. Burnability is server-side only, open source under the MIT License and built for 1.16.5 alone.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmable Shulkers | Fabric | 1.14.4 – 1.16.5 | Server-side only | 2021-06-11 |
| Disable Shulker Teleport | Fabric | 1.20 – 1.20.4 | Server-side only | 2024-01-27 |
| AntiShulkerDupe | Fabric | 1.17 – 1.19.2 | Server-side only | 2021-10-20 |
| Burnability | Fabric | 1.16.5 | Server-side only | 2021-12-05 |
Questions
Does Farmable Shulkers need to be installed on the client?
Which loader does Farmable Shulkers need?
Which game versions are covered?
In the catalog
Farmable Shulkers is one of 36,990 Utility mods on ModsFinder, and one of 25,772 Utility mods for Fabric. 5,992 mods support Minecraft 1.16.5.
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What the author says
Minecraft 1.17 introduced a new mechanic that makes shulker shells a renewable resource. The purpose of this mod is to backport this behavior to older versions (i.e., 1.14.x, 1.15.x, and 1.16.x). New shulkers now have a chance to spawn when one shulker hits another with a shulker bullet.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/farmable-shulkers
- Owner
- Kira-NT
- Published
- 2021-06-08
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2021-06-11
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15