Inventory Pets
Inventory Pets adds living creatures that live in the player's hotbar and grant effects, drops, buffs and weapons while they are fed and kept there.
What it does
Each pet becomes active only while it sits in the hotbar. Removing it from the hotbar, or leaving it unfed, switches its effects off. Pets are acquired by crafting them from vanilla materials, by finding them in dungeons across the Overworld, Nether and End, through a rare wand called the Petrifier, or by combining three or four pets of one category in a crafting table to produce a Meta Pet. Pet food can be kept in a single bag stored anywhere in the vanilla inventory, and pets take food from it on their own.
The mod requires Curios API, and the Curios API dependency must be installed alongside it. Inventory Pets runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it. Files are published for Forge and NeoForge across 7 release versions, 1.7.10 – 1.21.1, and the code is under All rights reserved, so it is not open source.
Key features
Feeding and hotbar activation
Pets stay active only while they are in the hotbar and kept fed, so their effects depend on how they are cared for.
Dungeon discoveries
Six dungeon types across the Overworld, Nether and End hold pets, guarded by enhanced monsters or special traps, with a small chance of legendary drops.
Meta Pet crafting
Combining three or four pets from the same category in a crafting table produces a Meta Pet from that category, with higher odds of rarer results.
Pet naming
Holding a pet and pressing N opens a naming prompt, so each pet can carry a name of its own.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Questions
Does Inventory Pets need Curios API?
Do servers need Inventory Pets installed?
Which versions have files for Inventory Pets?
In the catalog
Inventory Pets is one of 7,216 Magic mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,927 Magic mods for Forge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
If you answered YES to any of the above the questions, that’s really swell. But we’re here to tell you about Inventory Pets, not to ask questions. Inventory Pets are living animated creatures that exist in your inventory and give you amazing special effects, drops, buffs, utilities, defenses, and weapons in exchange…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/inventory-pets
- Owner
- purplicious_cow
- Published
- 2025-11-06
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-03-11
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15