Tiny Skeletons
by Fuzs
With Tiny Skeletons, normal skeletons, strays, bogged, parched and wither skeletons can spawn as baby variants, each with its own attacks and drops.
What it does
Baby variants of the skeleton family appear in the world naturally, at a 5% chance, in the same way baby zombies do. Each variant keeps the bow, ranged or thrown attack of its parent type, but a baby skeleton switches to a wooden sword when a player gets too close. Baby strays throw snowballs mixed with pebbles, baby bogged toss mushrooms, and baby parched throw chunks of sand that can be collected afterward.
Tiny Skeletons is open source under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 and runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it. It requires Fabric API on Fabric, Forge Config API Port on Fabric, and Puzzles Lib on Fabric and NeoForge. Forge Config Screens is optional and adds a configuration screen. Files are published for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge across 24 release versions, 1.18.2 – 26.3.
Key features
Natural spawning
Baby skeleton variants spawn in the world with a 5% chance, alongside the usual mobs of each type.
Melee fallback
Baby skeletons shoot with a bow at range and draw a wooden sword when an enemy comes close.
Icy snowball attack
Baby strays throw snowballs mixed with pebbles that deal small damage and knock targets back, and they may drop blue ice.
Mushroom and sand attacks
Baby bogged throw mushrooms for light damage with mushroom-themed drops, and baby parched throw sand that can be collected.
Varied loot
Several variants give their own loot, and some offer other ways to get materials that are otherwise hard to find.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.21.x10 of 10 versions with builds
1.20.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.19.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.18.x1 of 1 version with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 3
Use cases
Adding tougher early mobs
Servers and modpacks that want small, fast-moving enemies can add these variants to the existing skeleton population.
Collecting alternate resources
Players who need blue ice, sand or mushroom-themed items can get them from the drops of the baby variants.
Who it’s for: Players and server owners who want a themed addition to the skeleton family in the Adventure category, on Fabric, Forge or NeoForge.
Questions
Does Tiny Skeletons need to be installed on the server?
Which dependencies must be installed with Tiny Skeletons?
Can the spawn behavior be changed?
In the catalog
Tiny Skeletons is one of 19,031 Adventure mods on ModsFinder, and one of 10,052 Adventure mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
Tiny Skeletons brings baby skeletons to Minecraft at last! 💀 If baby zombies exist, why not skeletons too? Normal skeletons, strays, bogged, parched, and even wither skeletons can now spawn as tiny variants, each with their own unique behaviors, attacks, and rewards. 💀 Natural Spawning: Baby skeleton variants spawn…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/tiny-skeletons
- Owner
- Fuzs
- Published
- 2022-07-14
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-24
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15