Nice Mobs
by NiceRon
Nice Mobs, a Server required mob mod by NiceRon, adds mob variants with their own quirks and abilities to the world, covering 1.21.4 – 1.21.11.
What it does
Chickens renamed Benny become a Duck variant, and several mobs gain biome-specific spawns: Sunflower Plains and Flower Forests, Mushroom Fields, Villages and Savanna biomes, and Mangrove and Swamps. Chicken Jockeys are the only vehicle found outside the Nether, and they lay eggs and crow in the morning, which makes the world feel more alive.
The mod is built for server owners who want to change mob behavior without a new world. Servers can toggle custom mob spawns and their behaviors through commands before version 1.21.6, remove custom mobs or a single mob type, and spawn mobs through a command with an optional variant value. The Nice Mobs data pack can also include mobs from other data packs, and marker spawners can be listed.
The server must run Nice Mobs, and clients may leave it out. Files are published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, with 2.21+mod for 1.21.11 as the latest build, and snapshot builds are published too. The mod is open source, released under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later. Servers running Purpur or another PaperMC fork need the data pack and the allow-non-player-entities-on-scoreboards Paper config set to true.
Key features
Mob variants
Vanilla-style mobs gain variants with their own quirks and abilities, such as the Duck variant of renamed Chickens.
Biome-specific spawns
Mobs spawn in biomes such as Sunflower Plains, Mushroom Fields, Savanna and Swamps, matching each variant to its habitat.
Command-based spawning
A spawning command places mobs with an optional variant value and can attach markers or certain tags to them.
Spawn and removal commands
Commands toggle custom mob spawns and gamerules, remove custom mobs, or remove a single mob type.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
This mod also publishes snapshot builds. Snapshots are not shown in the matrix.
How it compares
Remove "Lava Chicken" Music Disc is server-side as well, open source under the MIT License, and covers 1.21.7 – 1.21.11 on all four loaders, so it targets a narrower range than Nice Mobs. Chicken Jockey for NeoForge runs on client and server and is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, but only for 1.21.1.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nice Mobs | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.4 – 1.21.11 | Server required, client optional | 2025-12-09 |
| Remove "Lava Chicken" Music Disc | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.7 – 1.21.11 | Server required, client optional | 2025-08-26 |
| Chicken Jockey | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-07-19 |
Questions
Does the server need Nice Mobs, or can players join without it?
Does Nice Mobs work with Purpur or other PaperMC forks?
Which game versions does Nice Mobs cover?
In the catalog
Nice Mobs is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 19,862 mods support Minecraft 1.21.11.
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What the author says
(This is not needed for the auto converted mod versions) The data pack currently includes translation files for english, german and french languages. Feel free to reach out if you want to translate it into another language and want it to be included by default.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/nice-mobs
- Owner
- NiceRon
- Published
- 2025-03-31
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-12-09
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15