Tiny Soldiers (Clay Soldiers Inspired)
by jeff-the-dev
Tiny Soldiers lets players commission miniature warriors built from Minecraft's blocks, then pit them against each other in battle.
What it does
Each soldier takes the look of a block the player picks, and more than 100 materials are available. Soldiers can be equipped with melee weapons, ranged weapons and armor, and they convert equipment they pick up. Critical hits and weapon-specific animations show how each fight plays out. Mountable horses and an experimental ranking system, where soldiers gain experience from kills and receive stat boosts as they rank up, add further layers to the battles.
The mod is available for Fabric and NeoForge, with builds covering 1.21.1 – 1.21.11 across eight release versions. Only the client and server need it, so both sides must run it. The code is not open source; the mod is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license. Weapon sets vary by version: the listed weapons are available for 1.21.11 and later, while the armor set covers leather, chainmail, copper, iron, gold, diamond and netherite chest plates.
Key features
Block-based soldiers
Each soldier can take the appearance of a chosen Minecraft block, from more than 100 materials.
Melee, ranged and armor combat
Soldiers fight with melee and ranged weapons and wear armor, with critical hits and animations tied to each weapon.
Mountable horses
Soldiers can ride horses into battle, adding mounted units to the fights between armies.
Speech and ranking
An operator can enable soldier speech through a command, and an experimental config option lets soldiers rank up from kills.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Staging battles
Players set up armies of different materials and let them fight each other.
Server-run tournaments
Server operators can use the speech and ranking options to shape longer matches between soldiers.
Who it’s for: Players who enjoy building small armies and watching them fight. Server owners who want a shared combat setup with ranking and speech options will find the configuration commands useful.
How it compares
Clay Soldiers Remake is open source under the MIT License and runs on both Fabric and NeoForge, with files for 1.21.1 – 26.1.2, so it covers a wider version span than Tiny Soldiers. Tiny Ghasts is open source under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 only and is published for Fabric and 1.21.5 alone. Copper warrior is for NeoForge and 1.21.1 only, and it is not open source, released under All rights reserved.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiny Soldiers (Clay Soldiers Inspired) | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2026-03-10 |
| Clay Soldiers Remake | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 26.1.2 | Client and server | 2026-08-10 |
| Tiny Ghasts | Fabric | 1.21.5 | Client and server | 2025-12-06 |
| Copper warrior | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-03-26 |
Questions
Does Tiny Soldiers need to be installed on the server?
Which loaders does Tiny Soldiers support?
How do operators turn on soldier speech?
In the catalog
Tiny Soldiers (Clay Soldiers Inspired) is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 19,862 mods support Minecraft 1.21.11.
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What the author says
A Minecraft mod that brings tiny soldiers made of Minecraft's blocks, to life! Create armies of miniature warriors that fight each other with weapons and armor. \[Based on the Clay Soldiers Mod by SanAndreaP\] There are over 100 materials to choose from so you can pick soldiers that look like your favorite minecraft…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/tiny-soldiers
- Owner
- jeff-the-dev
- Published
- 2025-06-30
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-03-10
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15