Sheep Efficiency
by Sentreee
Sheep Efficiency stops woolly sheep from grazing on grass, so only sheared sheep eat grass and regrow wool on a farm.
What it does
Vanilla sheep, including woolly ones, keep grazing and turn grass blocks into dirt, which leaves mud patches across a pasture. Sheep Efficiency changes that behavior: unsheared adults and baby sheep never eat grass, while sheared sheep graze as usual and regrow their wool. Pastures therefore keep their green cover, and a wool farm does not need manual sheep management to stay productive.
The mod has no configuration screen and no settings to change. It is installed on the server and on each player's client, works in singleplayer and multiplayer, and is published for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge across 20 release versions, 1.20.1 – 26.1.2. Servers that run it need every player to install it too.
Key features
Woolly sheep stay off grass
Unsheared adult sheep do not graze, so grass blocks stay intact in the pasture.
Baby sheep leave grass alone
Young sheep never eat grass, whether or not they have been sheared.
Sheared sheep still graze
After shearing, a sheep grazes normally and regrows its wool, keeping wool supply steady.
No setup required
The mod works with no configuration, so it runs as soon as it is in the game.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.21.x11 of 11 versions with builds
1.20.x6 of 6 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Wool farms
A farm that relies on regrowing wool can keep its grass intact without moving sheep around by hand.
Green pastures
Players who keep sheep on a large field avoid the dirt patches that vanilla grazing produces.
Who it’s for: Players running wool farms or livestock pastures, and server owners who want sheep to stop turning grass into dirt without adding a configuration step.
How it compares
Sheep Eat Grass is a Fabric and Babric mod for b1.7.3, released under the CC0 1.0 Universal license, and it needs the server while clients may skip it. Killed Sheep Don't Drop Wool covers 1.21.2 – 1.21.11 on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt and is also server-required with optional client install, under the MIT License.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sheep Efficiency | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 26.1.2 | Client and server | 2026-07-01 |
| Sheep Eat Grass | Fabric and Babric | b1.7.3 | Server required, client optional | 2025-06-18 |
| Killed Sheep Don't Drop Wool | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.2 – 1.21.11 | Server required, client optional | 2026-10-04 |
Questions
Does Sheep Efficiency need to be installed on both sides?
Which loaders does Sheep Efficiency support?
Does Sheep Efficiency change how sheep behave after shearing?
In the catalog
Sheep Efficiency is one of 3,545 Optimization mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,575 Optimization mods for Fabric. 15,189 mods support Minecraft 26.1.2.
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What the author says
Sheep Efficiency keeps your wool farm running smoothly by preventing sheep from eating grass when they don't need to. In vanilla Minecraft, all sheep, including woolly ones, constantly graze and turn grass blocks to dirt. This mod changes that: only sheared sheep will eat grass to regrow their wool. Woolly adults and…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/sheep-efficiency
- Owner
- Sentreee
- Published
- 2026-07-01
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-01
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15