Special Animals
by elmartino4
Special Animals gives animals on a Fabric server random size, drops, explosiveness and potion-driven traits, and lets players inspect an animal's stats with a book and quill.
What it does
Animals affected by potion effects pass changes to their offspring, so breeding can produce creatures with altered traits. Every animal breeds except villagers. Newly spawned animals get a randomized size, and that size changes the loot an animal drops and how many items it yields. Some animals, such as hoglins, can become zombified.
Explosiveness is handled simply. An animal may explode at random, but powdered snow stops it from ever exploding, and lava makes it explode. Sickness works in a similar way: a sick animal drops a random lingering status effect, including effects from other mods. Effect strength, amplifier and duration are picked at random within set ranges. Players are warned that they can go too far with these effects.
The mod runs on the server alone, so players join without installing anything. It is published for Fabric and Minecraft 1.18.1 only, and the code is released under the MIT License as open source.
Key features
Randomized animal size
Animals spawn with a random size, which affects both their loot drops and the number of items they yield.
Explosive animals
Animals may explode at random, with powdered snow preventing explosions and lava triggering them.
Potion-driven breeding
Potion effects on animals carry into their offspring, and every animal can breed except villagers.
Animal stats book
Right-clicking an animal with a book and quill shows its stats.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Questions
Does Special Animals need to be installed on the client?
Which loader does Special Animals use?
Can effects from other mods appear in the sickness drops?
In the catalog
Special Animals is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,715 Food mods for Fabric. 4,416 mods support Minecraft 1.18.1.
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What the author says
To get stats about an animal right-click them with a book and quill! Explosivness is simple. When an animal is explosive it explodes randomly, unless its in powdered snow, which makes in never explode, or when in lava it explodes every 0.8 seconds.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/speshanimals
- Owner
- elmartino4
- Published
- 2022-01-30
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2022-02-02
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15