Moobloom (With Data-Driven Variants)

Moobloom adds a flower variant to the Moobloom mob, a cow that carries a flower on its back. The base mod ships a set of variants covering flowers such as Allium, Azure Bluet, Cornflower, Dandelion, Lily of the Valley, Oxeye Daisy, Poppy, Torchflower, Wither Rose and several tulips, plus Closed and Open Eyeblossom and Cactus Flower. Each variant has its own spawn settings, so Mooblooms appear in Flower Forests, Meadows, Sunflower Plains and other biomes depending on the variant, and a variant datapack can add or remove the biomes it spawns in.

Variants are defined in JSON files. Each one sets the flower type, the loot table the mob drops, and the block its sheared form renders with, and the mod provides about 16 free textures that can be recolored to match a Minecraft color. A bonemeal interaction can make a Moobloom produce more flowers after a cooldown, and the flower it places is picked at random from the variant's list. Settings can be changed per variant in the world options, and renaming a variant lets its values be adjusted.

The mod is published for Forge and NeoForge, with a single release line: 1.0.0 for 26.3 is the latest file on both loaders. Builds cover 1.21.5 – 26.3 across 12 release versions, and it runs on client and server. It is released under All rights reserved, so it is not open source.