Neutral Passives
by kyonshi0104
Neutral Passives changes passive mobs so that attacking one provokes the group, and it adds a counterattack from baby animals and a Blindness penalty for hitting squids.
What it does
Passive mobs stay neutral until a player attacks them. Once attacked, a mob retaliates and calls nearby members of its kind to help. Baby animals fight back as well, and tamed horses and donkeys turn hostile and join the counterattack against wild animals nearby. Attacking a squid applies Blindness to the attacker, which makes them flee. The mod uses the standard generic attack damage attribute, so other mods that change mob difficulty or stats can combine with it.
The mod is server-side only, so players join without installing anything, while the server alone needs it. Files exist for Fabric only, with 8 release versions; the latest is 1.1.0+1.21.1 for 1.21.1, published 2026-08-08. Cloth Config API is required, and Mod Menu is optional for changing settings in game. Neutral Passives is released under the MIT License and is open source, with public source code and an issue tracker.
Key features
Neutral passive mobs
Passive mobs ignore players until they are attacked, then fight back instead of fleeing.
Group retaliation
An attacked mob calls nearby mobs of its kind to help, so a single hit can draw a whole herd.
Baby animals and tamed horses
Baby animals counterattack, and tamed horses and donkeys turn hostile to join fights against wild animals.
Squid Blindness penalty
Hitting a squid applies Blindness to the attacker, who then flees.
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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
Optional 1
Use cases
Who it’s for: Server owners and survival players who want passive mobs to react when attacked. The server alone needs the mod, since players join without installing it.
How it compares
All Mobs Hostile is server-side only and released under the MIT License, but it is not open source and is published only for 26.1.2. All Hostile Mobs is also MIT licensed and not open source, and it needs both client and server, for 26.1.2. Flee On Sight runs on Fabric with a client and server environment, and it is open source under the MIT License. Neutral Passives is server-side only and open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neutral Passives | Fabric | 1.16.5 – 1.21.1 | Server-side only | 2026-08-08 |
| All Mobs Hostile | Fabric | 26.1.2 | Server-side only | 2026-06-15 |
| All Hostile Mobs | Fabric | 26.1.2 | Client and server | 2026-07-25 |
| Flee On Sight | Fabric | 1.20.1 – 1.21.10 | Client and server | 2026-01-26 |
Questions
Does Neutral Passives need Cloth Config API?
Do players need to install Neutral Passives?
Which game versions have files for Neutral Passives?
In the catalog
Neutral Passives is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
A Fabric mod that makes passive mobs neutral. They will retaliate and call for help when attacked. Note: The English description was translated/adjusted using translation tools. We apologize for any unnatural expressions.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/neutral-passives
- Owner
- kyonshi0104
- Published
- 2026-08-07
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-08-08
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15