Friendly Pets
Friendly Pets stops tamed pets from attacking players or other players' tamed pets, unless a player deliberately starts a fight.
What it does
Tamed pets no longer target players or the pets owned by other players, so accidental damage during normal combat is prevented. The mod changes only this aggression logic and leaves the rest of pet behavior untouched. Players can still fight another player's pet on purpose by crouching and holding Shift while attacking.
The mod is intended for multiplayer servers where several players keep pets and share a world. It needs no setup: it works automatically with its default configuration, and its code is kept light enough for server use. Both the server and every player need the mod, because the protection has to apply on both sides of the connection.
The mod is built for Forge only and is published for Minecraft 1.20.1. Its latest file is 1.0.0, released 2026-08-06. It is released under the MIT License and is not open source.
Key features
Pets spare players
Tamed pets are prevented from targeting players, so a pet does not turn on its owner or on other people in the world.
Pets spare other pets
Tamed pets do not fight the tamed pets belonging to other players, which prevents friendly fire between owners.
Deliberate attacks allowed
Holding Shift while attacking lets a player intentionally fight another player's pet when that is wanted.
Light and automatic
The protection runs without configuration and is optimized for servers, adding little overhead to the world.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Who it’s for: Server owners who run a shared world and players who keep tamed pets alongside other people. Single-player players with no other owners present will see little change.
How it compares
Team Pets is server-side only, released under the MIT License, and is not open source. It is built for Forge 1.20.1 and covers pet teams, a different aim from Friendly Pets. Respawning Pets is also server-side only under the MIT License and is not open source, for Forge 1.20.1, and it handles pet revival rather than aggression. Mob Friendly Fire is a client and server mod under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license, and is not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friendly Pets | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-08-06 |
| Team Pets | Forge | 1.20.1 | Server-side only | 2026-03-09 |
| Respawning Pets | Forge | 1.20.1 | Server-side only | 2025-12-20 |
| Mob Friendly Fire | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-07-07 |
Questions
Does Friendly Pets need to be installed on the server?
Which loader does Friendly Pets use?
Can a player still attack another player's pet?
In the catalog
Friendly Pets is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,527 Mobs mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
Friendly Pets is a lightweight Minecraft mod that prevents tamed pets from fighting each other or targeting players in multiplayer. This mod only prevents unintended pet aggression and accidental damage in normal combat.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/friendly_pets
- Owner
- NarcissoOrigin
- Published
- 2026-08-06
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-08-06
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15