Mob Wrangler
by Gurkis
Mob Wrangler lets players ride a wider set of mobs, from ravagers and sniffers to zoglins and phantoms, using a crafted wrangler rod.
What it does
Mob Wrangler adds a Wrangler Rod, crafted from three sticks and one lead, that players use to bring a mob under control and ride it. A mob that is wrangled successfully becomes tamed and stops attacking its rider. Some mobs can be ridden without any change to the pack, and a data pack lets server owners and pack makers extend the list of rideable mobs through the entity type tags in the data/mobwrangler/tags/entity type folder.
Special abilities are tied to the goat horn. Tooting the horn while riding a goat makes it ram in the direction the player is looking, a frog jumps that way, and a horn can spawn and shoot a fireball. Other mobs gain swimming, climbing or flying when a data pack file assigns those abilities to them. Ravagers stay pacified, and Mob Wrangler works with ordinary survival play and multiplayer servers.
Mob Wrangler is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, with a data pack available as well. The latest files are 1.4+mod for 1.21.4, released 2025-01-06, and the mod covers 1.20 – 1.21.4. It is required on the server and optional for players. The code is not open source; the mod is released under All rights reserved.
Key features
Rideable mobs
Ravagers, sniffers, zoglins, phantoms and more can be wrangled and ridden once they are tamed.
Wrangler Rod
A rod made from three sticks and one lead brings mobs under control, and a successful catch makes them tamed.
Goat horn abilities
Tooting a goat horn sends a riding goat charging, makes a frog jump, or fires a fireball from a horn.
Swimming, climbing and flying
Data pack files can give mobs swimming underwater, climbing walls or flying, and mobs without those abilities keep their defaults.
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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.
How it compares
Horseman is open source under the MIT License and runs client and server on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt for 1.20.1 – 26.3. Ride Every Thing is also open source under the MIT License, client and server, but covers only Forge and NeoForge for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1. Horse Trumpet is not open source, is server required with the client optional, and covers Fabric, Forge and Quilt for 1.20.2 – 1.21.4.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mob Wrangler | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.20 – 1.21.4 | Server required, client optional | 2025-01-06 |
| Horseman | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.20.1 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-10-05 |
| Ride Every Thing | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-02-25 |
| Horse Trumpet | Fabric, Forge and Quilt | 1.20.2 – 1.21.4 | Server required, client optional | 2024-06-18 |
Questions
Does Mob Wrangler need to be installed on the client?
Which loaders does Mob Wrangler support?
How are more mobs made rideable?
In the catalog
Mob Wrangler is one of 3,932 Transportation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,390 Transportation mods for Fabric. 17,979 mods support Minecraft 1.21.4.
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What the author says
Ravager: - breaks leaf blocks and crops (vanilla feature). - attacks villagers. Goat: - toot a goat horn to make the goat ram in the direction you're looking.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/mob-wrangler
- Owner
- Gurkis
- Published
- 2024-03-25
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-01-06
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15