More Shearable Mobs
More Shearable Mobs lets players shear cows, chickens, pigs and sheep for meat and materials, rather than killing them outright.
What it does
Shearing a cow yields leather and beef, a chicken gives feathers and chicken, a pig gives porkchops, and a sheep gives mutton alongside its wool. Each animal can be sheared once and then yields its material again only after a period of regeneration, so a flock supplies a steady trickle of resources instead of a single kill. Animals show custom-modeled skins for the sheared and butchered states, so the change in their appearance tells players when a harvest is done.
Killing an animal after it has been sheared drops only meat, and a butchered animal also drops bones. The mod is designed for players who want a farm that is harvested rather than emptied. It requires Fabric API, runs on Fabric only, and needs to be installed on both client and server, which covers the client and server environment. Files target the 1.21.4 – 26.1 range, with 1.10.0 for 26.1 as the latest build, and the code is not open source under All rights reserved.
Key features
Shearing four farm animals
Cows, chickens, pigs and sheep can all be sheared for resources that vanilla shears do not produce.
Regenerating materials
A sheared animal regrows its resources after time, so the same animal can be harvested again later.
Visible sheared and butchered states
Custom skins show whether an animal is sheared or butchered, giving clear feedback about each harvest.
Butchering drops
Killing an already sheared animal drops only meat, and a butchered animal also drops bones.
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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.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Use cases
Sustainable farms
Farms can keep their animals alive and gather food and materials from them repeatedly.
Who it’s for: Players who run farms or survival worlds and want animals to supply repeated resources, and server owners who want a gentler alternative to slaughtering whole flocks.
How it compares
Shearable Cows is open source under the MIT License and covers 1.20 – 1.20.1, so it targets an older range than this mod. Shear Assist is server-side only, meaning players join without installing it, and is open source under the MIT License for 1.21.1 – 26.1.2. Sheared is client-side only and open source under the MIT License for 1.21.1 – 1.21.11, so it does not cover the server side.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| More Shearable Mobs | Fabric | 1.21.4 – 26.1 | Client and server | 2026-03-27 |
| Shearable Cows | Fabric | 1.20 – 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2023-07-24 |
| Shear Assist | Fabric | 1.21.1 – 26.1.2 | Server-side only | 2026-05-31 |
| Sheared | Fabric | 1.21.1 – 1.21.11 | Client-side only | 2026-02-24 |
Questions
Does More Shearable Mobs need Fabric API?
Does the server need the mod as well as players?
Which versions are supported?
In the catalog
More Shearable Mobs is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,715 Food mods for Fabric. 11,959 mods support Minecraft 26.1.
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What the author says
More Shearable Mobs lets you shear more than just sheep. With this mod, you can shear cows, chickens, pigs, and even sheep for resources AND meat! No more killing your hard-earned flock. Simply shear once to obtain a mob's material, then shear again to obtain their meat.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/more-shearable-mobs
- Owner
- Celestron1123
- Published
- 2025-06-11
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-03-27
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15