Easy Feed and Breed
by maxvar
Easy Feed and Breed lets players throw food at farm animals to feed and breed them, and it picks up food lying on the ground for animals to eat.
What it does
Throwing a suitable food item at an animal feeds it and puts it into breeding mode, so two animals of the same kind can produce offspring without the player placing food by hand. Cows and sheep respond to wheat, carrots and potatoes, while pigs take carrots, potatoes and beetroots, and chickens take seeds. Each animal accepts the foods that match its diet.
Animals can also walk over to food that has fallen near them, eat it, and start breeding, and tame animals such as cats and ocelots respond to raw cod and raw salmon. The source code is public, but the license is the WTFPL, which places no restrictions on use, so the mod is not open source. A server running it needs every connecting player to have it too. Files are published for Fabric 1.19.3 and 1.19.4, with 1.4.0+1.19.4 as the latest build, from March 2023.
Key features
Throwing food to breed
Animals are fed and bred by throwing food at them, without the player needing to right-click each one.
Food on the ground
Animals walk to food items lying nearby, pick them up and eat them, which feeds them and starts breeding.
Diet-specific items
Cows and sheep take wheat, carrots and potatoes, while pigs take carrots, potatoes and beetroots and chickens take seeds.
Tamed animals and fish
Cats and ocelots accept raw cod and raw salmon, and turtles can be fed seagrass.
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
Use cases
Automated livestock
Players who keep large herds can breed animals across a farm without feeding each one individually.
Dropping crops for animals
Surplus seeds, wheat or melon slices can be thrown to feed a pen while the player is elsewhere.
Who it’s for: Players who keep farm animals in survival worlds and want to breed them faster, and server owners running livestock setups who want animals to eat food dropped near them.
How it compares
Pigs Have Litters is server-side only, so players join without installing it, and it is open source under the MIT License for 1.19 – 1.21.11. Feeding Indicators is client-side only and open source under the MIT License for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1, and it displays feeding information rather than feeding animals. Easy Feed and Breed is the only one of the three that needs both the client and the server to run it.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easy Feed and Breed | Fabric | 1.19.3 – 1.19.4 | Client and server | 2023-03-23 |
| Pigs Have Litters | Fabric | 1.19 – 1.21.11 | Server-side only | 2025-12-30 |
| Feeding Indicators | Fabric | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client-side only | 2026-02-18 |
Questions
Does Easy Feed and Breed need Fabric API?
Does the server need the mod as well?
Which animals can be fed with dropped items?
In the catalog
Easy Feed and Breed is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,715 Food mods for Fabric. 9,374 mods support Minecraft 1.19.4.
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What the author says
Throw food at animals to feed them and breed them. They will look for food on the ground around them, pick it up and eat and breed. Note that this does not tame animals!
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/mcf-easyfeed
- Owner
- maxvar
- Published
- 2023-03-21
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2023-03-23
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15