Pet Shield
by Ghozix
Tamed animals stay safe from their owners' own attacks: Pet Shield blocks that damage for wolves, cats, parrots, horses, donkeys, mules and llamas, plus modded animals that build on vanilla taming.
What it does
Tamed animals that belong to a player are protected from melee hits, sword sweeps, arrows, tridents and harmful thrown potions. The protection applies whether the attacker is the owner or another player, and a crouching player can bypass it. Protection rules can be made stricter or looser in the config, including an optional mode and an entity blacklist.
The mod runs on the server only, so vanilla clients can join without installing anything. Singleplayer clients can also run it. It is published for Fabric and NeoForge on Minecraft 1.21.1 and 26.2, and requires Architectury API, Cloth Config API and Fabric API. Its config can be edited in a full in-game screen through Cloth Config, or through ModMenu on Fabric, and operators can reload it with the petshield reload command without restarting the server. The code is not open source; the mod is released under All rights reserved.
Key features
Owner-only protection
Only the owner of a tamed animal is blocked from harming it, while other players keep their usual rules.
Crouch bypass
A crouching player can still attack a tamed animal on purpose, and the bypass is configurable.
Live config changes
Operators can reload the configuration with a command, and option changes apply instantly without a restart.
Entity blacklist
Specific entity types can be excluded from protection through the config screen or the config file.
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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 3
Use cases
Who it’s for: Server owners and operators who run multiplayer worlds with taming, and players who want their pets to be safe from accidents and from other players.
How it compares
Forever Pets is server-side only, open source under the MIT License and published for 1.21 – 26.3 on Fabric and NeoForge. Immortal Pets is server-side only and under the MIT License, but it is not open source and targets Fabric alone, for 1.21.1 – 1.21.11. PetProtect is server-side only, open source under the MIT License and published for 1.21 – 26.2 on Fabric and NeoForge, which overlaps closely with this mod's loaders and versions.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pet Shield | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 26.2 | Server-side only | 2026-07-07 |
| Forever Pets | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21 – 26.3 | Server-side only | 2026-09-18 |
| Immortal Pets | Fabric | 1.21.1 – 1.21.11 | Server-side only | 2025-12-26 |
| PetProtect | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21 – 26.2 | Server-side only | 2026-07-20 |
Questions
Does Pet Shield need to be installed on the client?
Which loaders and versions does Pet Shield support?
Can the protection be changed without restarting the server?
In the catalog
Pet Shield is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
You can no longer hurt your own pets by accident. That sword sweep that killed your wolf mid-fight. The arrow that hit your cat instead of the skeleton. The splash potion that caught your parrot. Pet Shield cancels all of it — your tamed animals are safe from you.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/pet-shield
- Owner
- Ghozix
- Published
- 2026-07-07
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-07
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15