SimpleRats
by Noxturnal
With SimpleRats installed, rats appear in the world as mobs, in several colors and styles, and they can be tamed and fought alongside players.
What it does
SimpleRats adds rat mobs to a Forge game on Minecraft 1.20.1. Rats come in different colors and styles, and a skeleton rat variant is included among a larger set of variants. Rats are a pest in the world: they eat hay and cheese, so players have reason to guard farms and stores. Tamed rats can be given a color and taken into fights as companions.
The mod also adds a farming system built on top of vanilla crops, along with blocks and items such as a mouse trap block that catches rats. The author describes the content as a set of rat-themed additions rather than a single feature. Geckolib is required and must be installed alongside SimpleRats. Every player and the server need a copy of the mod. The mod is released under All rights reserved and is not open source. Files are published for Forge only, with 1.0.0 for 1.20.1 as the only game version and file, dated 2024-07-02.
Key features
Rat mobs in several styles
Rats are spawned in different colors and styles, including a skeleton rat variant among the others.
Taming and rat companions
Players can tame rats, give them a color and bring them into fights as companions.
Mouse trap block
A mouse trap block is included to catch rats that are a nuisance around farms and storage.
Pest behavior around food
Rats eat hay and cheese, so food stores are the pests' main draw in the world.
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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
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players who want rat mobs on Forge 1.20.1 for farming pests, tamed companions or decoration, in servers and single-player worlds that can install Geckolib.
How it compares
Rats and Traps is client and server on Forge 1.20.1 and is released under CC0 1.0 Universal, so the code is free to reuse. Rats 'n' Greens works on either side, and neither needs it, on Forge 1.20.1 under All rights reserved. The Prussian Experience is client and server on Forge 1.20.1 under All rights reserved. Rat Attack covers 1.19.2 – 1.20.6 on Forge and NeoForge, with its own environment and license.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SimpleRats | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2024-07-02 |
| Rats and Traps | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2023-11-16 |
| Rats 'n' Greens | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client or server, optional | 2024-08-18 |
| The Prussian Experience | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-02-07 |
| Rat Attack | Forge and NeoForge | 1.19.2 – 1.20.6 | Client and server | 2024-07-24 |
Questions
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In the catalog
SimpleRats is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,337 Food mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
This is simple Rats A mod ive been working on adding rats of diffrent colors styles and intrests such as the skeleton rat The Simple Rat and Many Many more! to come This mod also includes some blocks and items such as the mouse trap a block used to stop pesky rats from eating your hay and cheese!. You can also tame…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/simplerats
- Owner
- Noxturnal
- Published
- 2024-07-02
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-07-02
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15