Minecraft But You can Breed mobs with items
by LinuxGamerr
Minecraft But You can Breed mobs with items adds item-based breeding for sheep, cows, pigs and chickens, with several variants for each animal.
What it does
Specific items breed the game's sheep, cows, pigs and chickens, so players can produce animals beyond the vanilla breeding items. The mod draws its design from the approach of the YouTuber Bionic and offers five kinds of sheep, two kinds of chicken, three kinds of pig and three kinds of cow.
Each variant gives its own drops when sheared, milked, killed or hit. An iron sheep yields iron ingots, a golden sheep gold, a lapis sheep lapis, a diamond sheep diamonds, and a netherite sheep netherite ingots and a smithing template. The mod is for Forge on 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 and needs both the client and the server, under All rights reserved.
The mod has no dependencies beyond Forge and works on single-player and multiplayer worlds alike, provided the server also runs it.
Key features
Five sheep variants
Iron, gold, lapis, diamond and netherite sheep each produce a different material when sheared.
Cow variants
XP, obsidian and ender cows give experience, obsidian from milking, and end portal frames when killed.
Pig variants
A TNT pig replaces the block below it and explodes when killed, while golden apple and totem pigs drop their namesake items.
Chicken variants
An ender chicken drops ender pearls in place of eggs, and a blaze chicken adds its own drops.
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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.
Use cases
Farm-based resource gathering
Players who keep animal pens can gather iron, gold, diamonds or netherite from sheep without mining for them.
Experimental survival worlds
Players who want to test unusual breeding and drop systems can keep the variants in a separate world.
Who it’s for: The mod suits players who want animal farms with unusual drops and server owners who run modded survival worlds on Forge 1.20.1 – 1.20.6.
How it compares
Fractured Cow is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 that also runs on the client and server and is under All rights reserved, so it covers the same environment and license but a single version. DrMob is another Forge option for 1.20.1 with the same environment and license. Exploding Chickens targets 1.21.6 and is server-side only under the MIT License, so it differs in version, environment and license.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minecraft But You can Breed mobs with items | Forge | 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 | Client and server | 2025-01-19 |
| Fractured Cow | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2024-12-18 |
| DrMob | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-01-04 |
| Exploding Chickens | Forge | 1.21.6 | Server-side only | 2025-06-22 |
Questions
Does Minecraft But You can Breed mobs with items need other mods?
Which Minecraft versions does the mod support?
How do players get the netherite sheep drops?
In the catalog
Minecraft But You can Breed mobs with items is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,527 Mobs mods for Forge. 11,154 mods support Minecraft 1.20.6.
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What the author says
This mod is inspired by the youtuber bionic. In this mod you can use certain items to breed mobs like sheep, cow, pig and chicken.
Official listing
- Owner
- LinuxGamerr
- Published
- 2025-01-19
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-01-19
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15