More Animals!
The Spring to Life drop added a lot of really cool mob variants! But do you ever feel like its not enough? No worries! With this datapack you can add a plethora of new animal variants into the game!
Certain biomes will now have unique animal variants or new variants adding onto the existing ones!
Whats New?
Forest Biomes:
Spawns Forest and Rusty variants
Dark Forest Biome:
Spawns Midnight and Ashen variants
Flower Forest, Meadow, Sunflower Plains, & Cherry Grove:
Spawns Floral variants
Swamp & Mangrove Swamp:
Spawns Marsh and Muddy Marsh Pigs
Jungles:
Spawns Jungle Chickens that can spawn alongside Warm Chickens
Frozen Ocean & Deep Frozen Ocean:
Spawns Frozen Nautilius
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 26.2
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
- Downloads as J6's Mob Variants 26.2 Datapack.zip
- Download size: 23 KB
- Download link checked 29 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.