Nature's Appetite
by TMA
Players who keep livestock in a pen can let Nature's Appetite handle the feeding, since animals in its scope seek out and eat dropped breeding food on their own.
What it does
Nature's Appetite adds an automatic feeding goal to animals. Animals that are not in love look for food items dropped nearby and eat them, and the mod can enter love mode from that feeding. Adult feeding is gated by a breeding cooldown and an age check, which stops animals from consuming food continuously without producing offspring. Baby animals also eat on their own, and a configurable setting speeds up their growth.
Which animals take part is controlled by tags. A whitelist selects entity types, a blacklist always overrides it, and both are written as JSON tag files in the mod's data folder. The main options live in a server config file, and the food quality table is a reloadable JSON data map, so server owners can change how each food behaves without a restart. The mod runs on Forge and NeoForge, for 1.20.1 and 1.21.1, and it needs to be on both the client and the server. It is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.
Key features
Automatic feeding
Animals seek and eat dropped breeding food without the player having to place it by hand.
Food quality data
Each food item can add a healing effect, a love-time bonus, a growth bonus or an extra baby chance, set in a JSON file.
Tag-based control
Entity type tags define which animals are included, and a blacklist tag takes priority over the whitelist.
Owner credit
Breeding is attributed to the player who fed the animal, so the herd keeps track of its owner.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Managing a breeding pen
A farm can keep animals breeding while the player works elsewhere, with feeding and cooldowns handled by the mod.
Who it’s for: Players who run automated or semi-automated farms on Forge or NeoForge, and server owners who want to control which animals feed on their own through data files.
How it compares
BreedingControl is a NeoForge mod for 1.21.1 where the server is required and the client is optional, and it is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later. Darwin Fish is client and server, open source under the MIT License, and covers 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 on Forge and NeoForge. Auto Feed Animals is client and server, not open source, and is published under All rights reserved for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge across 1.20.1 – 26.1.2.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nature's Appetite | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-04-09 |
| BreedingControl | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Server required, client optional | 2026-03-06 |
| Darwin Fish | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-05-10 |
| Auto Feed Animals | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 26.1.2 | Client and server | 2026-05-28 |
Questions
Does Nature's Appetite need to be installed on the server?
Which loaders and versions are supported?
How are the animals selected?
In the catalog
Nature's Appetite is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,337 Food mods for Forge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Only entities in whitelist are enabled; blacklist always overrides whitelist. data/natures_appetite/tags/entity_type/auto_feed_animals.json
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/natures-appetite
- Owner
- TMA
- Published
- 2026-04-09
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-04-09
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15