Psittacine
Psittacine overhauls the parrot, which vanilla Minecraft leaves as one of its least developed tameable mobs, by adding breeding, new skins and egg mechanics.
What it does
Parrots can be bred, and the mod adds 35 new parrot skins along with colorful feather blocks and transport cages. A seed cake is crafted from one of each vanilla seed type, and feeding a tamed parrot two seed cakes produces a toasted snack that restores health when eaten. Bred parrots lay a single egg that the player places to start a new bird.
Parrot eggs only hatch when placed on top of a log, leaf, parrot feather block or jungle setting, and logs, leaves and feather blocks make the hatch twice as fast. Like turtle eggs, they break when walked on or landed on, so placement matters. Each hatchling takes its skin from one of its parents at random, and an egg item shows the parrot type it will hatch into in its tooltip. Baby parrots need taming, and wild birds can be approached without fear.
Psittacine is a Fabric mod for Minecraft 1.21 – 1.21.1, published under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license, so it is not open source. It runs on the client and server, and both sides need it. Source code, an issue tracker and a wiki are linked from the project.
Key features
Parrot breeding
Tamed parrots can be bred with seed cakes, and each pair produces an egg the player places to start a new bird.
35 parrot skins
Thirty-five new skins add variety to the parrot population, and the skin of a hatchling follows its parents.
Feather blocks and cages
Feathers craft into colorful feather blocks, fluffy carpets and transport cages, which dampen sounds like wool does.
Seed cake food
A seed cake is toasted and eaten as a healthy snack, and parrots can be fed the same cake to breed.
Parrot feathers as decor
Parrot feathers work as a decorative item in flower pots, giving an old-timey literary look.
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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.
How it compares
Breed Parrots With Seeds is an MIT-licensed open source Fabric mod for 1.21 – 26.2 that covers breeding in the same environment. Vibrant Parrots is open source under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 and also has a NeoForge build, for 1.21.1 – 26.3. Psittacine is not open source, and it is limited to Fabric for 1.21 – 1.21.1.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psittacine | Fabric | 1.21 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2024-10-16 |
| Breed Parrots With Seeds | Fabric | 1.21 – 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-08-07 |
| Vibrant Parrots | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-10-11 |
Questions
Does Psittacine require Fabric API?
Does the server need Psittacine?
Why does a parrot egg not hatch?
In the catalog
Psittacine 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
An overhaul mod for Minecraft's most neglected tameable mob. To start, you'll need to craft one of each of the vanilla seed types together to make a seed cake. Then craft another one, and feed them to two tamed parrots.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/psittacine
- Owner
- MisterHyacinth
- Published
- 2024-10-16
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-10-16
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15