Simply Cats
by Mnesikos
Simply Cats adds cats to Minecraft worlds, along with a Pet Shelter structure in villages where players can find cats and dogs to adopt.
What it does
Cats appear in the world as new mobs. Players can craft a pet carrier from paper and an ink sac, and a carrier holds one pet at a time. A cat that is brought home follows its owner, and the carrier keeps the pet from wandering off while travelling to a village.
The Pet Shelter structure generates in villages and houses a shelter worker villager, who sells cat and dog trades once a player reaches level 2 with him. Two trades are picked at random from four sterilization potions, cat carriers and dog carriers. Shelter pets are always spayed or neutered, so they cannot breed, and a shelter holds one to three dogs and one to three cats for adoption with the mod's adoption certificate.
The mod is installed on the client and the server, so both need it. It is published for Forge only, with files for 1.12.2, 1.16.5, 1.18.2, 1.19.2 and 1.20.1, and the latest file, 1.20.1-0.3.0, was released on 2025-06-23. Simply Cats is released under All rights reserved and is not open source, though its source code, issue tracker and wiki are public.
Key features
New cat mobs
Cats join the world as mobs that players can adopt and bring home, adding a small amount of life to villages and wild areas.
Pet carriers
A carrier is crafted from one paper and one ink sac, and it holds a single pet, so players craft several for more than one animal.
Pet Shelter structure
A village structure with a shelter worker villager, recognizable by its yellow smock and a front emblem shaped like a golden paw.
Shelter trades
The shelter worker offers extra trades costing raw fish and bones, available once a player reaches level 2 with him.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Adopting pets in a village
Players search villages for the Pet Shelter, choose from the one to three cats and one to three dogs available, and take one home with an adoption certificate.
Breeding control
Because shelter pets are always spayed or neutered, players who want no offspring can adopt them without managing breeding.
Who it’s for: Players who want cats to appear in their survival or creative worlds and in village exploration, and server owners who want shelter pets and villager trades on Forge servers.
Questions
Does Simply Cats need to be installed on the server?
Which loader and versions does Simply Cats support?
Why can't shelter pets have kittens?
Where can players learn more about the cats?
In the catalog
Simply Cats is one of 8,515 World generation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,058 World generation mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
The very first thing you want to do is craft yourself a pet carrier or two... or more! Pet carriers will not break and do not stack, but they will only hold one pet at a time so make sure you have plenty to bring your adopted cats home in! Cats do not follow you by themselves, so these pet carriers will keep you sane…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/simply-cats
- Owner
- Mnesikos
- Published
- 2022-06-24
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-06-23
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15