
Neutral Monsters
With this datapack Monsters will no longer attack the player unless provoked first, similarly to Wolves and Zombified Piglin. This way Minecraft can be played peacefully without missing out on hunger, essential items and combat. This datapack however does not add any hostile mobs to 'peaceful' gamemode, and must be played on easy, medium or hard, to have an effect.
Currently there are two versions:
- 1.x works just like the original and is rather tame: any 'neutral' mob is friendly but when hurt it turns hostile towards the player.
- 2.0 adds wolf-like herd behavior: when a 'neutral' mob is hurt, every 'neutral' mob close enough to the player turns hostile. Dealing with monsters becomes a little more intimidating this way.
Credits
This was originally done by SamDev-7 with their datapack Neutral Hostiles which doesn't work in current Minecraft versions. I decided to share my updated version of their pack, as i couldn't find anything similar for current versions. For further details on how it works and troubleshooting tips, check out SamDev-7's project.
Neutral mobs:
The following mobs are affected:
Blaze, Bogged, Breeze, Cave Spider, Creeper, Drowned, Elder Guardian, Endermite, Evoker, Ghast, Guardian, Hoglin, Husk, Magma Cube, Phantom, Piglin Brute, Pillager, Ravager, Shulker, Silverfish, Skeleton, Slime, Spider, Stray, Vex, Vindicator, Witch, Wither Skeleton, Zoglin, Zombie, Zombie Villager
Still angry:
The Creaking, Ender Dragon, Warden and Wither remain hostile.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2
- 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 Neutral_Monsters_2.1_herd.zip
- Download size: 34 KB
- Download link checked 6 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.