More Mob Variants: Renewed

Variants are added to mobs that already exist in the game, so animals and hostile mobs look a little different without new creatures appearing. Examples in the author notes include a gray tabby, a gold crested variant and a rare duck, and skeletons can spawn in the nether with their own look. The port brings the original variant set up to the 1.21.1 NeoForge release line.

Variant data is stored in NBT, so a mob keeps its variant once it has one, and the same variant appears for every player on a server. The variants are data-driven, which means datapacks can change or add to them. The mod ships default textures for the new variants, and it runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it. Clients without the mod can still join a server that has it installed.

The mod is published for NeoForge only, for 1.21.1. Its source code and issue tracker are public, and the code is released under CC0 1.0 Universal, a license that places it in the public domain.