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Hold My Cow |
The Ultimate Carry-On Experience
Hold My Cow lets you do what Mojang never dared: pickup mobs, chests, shulker boxes, hoppers and barrels not just chests straight to your pixelated biceps.
Why spill a full chest when you can carry it?
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► Key Features
► Configuration
settings:
max_weight : 100.0 # How heavy before legs give out?
allow_player_pickup : false # Turn friends into kettle‑bells?
allow_lootin_pickup : false # Ignore Lootin‑protected chests?
prevent_container_stacking : false # Prevent nesting containers inside picked-up containers?
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► Plugin Integrations
Respects WorldGuard, Lands, GriefPrevention and Lootin protections.
WorldGuard Integration:
Commands:
► Support
Need help? Join our Discord.
Hold My Cow lets you do what Mojang never dared: pickup mobs, chests, shulker boxes, hoppers and barrels not just chests straight to your pixelated biceps.
Spoiler: Pickable containers
- Chests (single and double)
- Shulker Boxes
- Hoppers
- Barrels
- Furnaces
- Blast Furnaces
- Smokers
- Dispensers
- Droppers
- Ender Chests
- Brewing Stands
- Trapped Chests
Why spill a full chest when you can carry it?
Feature: You can store containers inside other containers inside more containers — including shulkers any. Just beware of excessive stacking. (Configurable to prevent stacking.)Click to expand...
► Key Features
- Shift + Right‑Click (empty hand) = Pickup – Works on mobs and containers (chest, barrel, hopper, yes, any container).
- Plugin Integrations – Respects WorldGuard (check Plugin Integrations section), Lands, GriefPrevention and Lootin protections.
- Double‑Chest Freedom – Grab both chests together or split them and place anywhere.
- Persistent Containers – All contents are saved using SQLite, MySQL, MariaDB or PostgreSQL.
- Multi‑Lingual – Languages included: EN, ES, ZH, DE, PL, FR, KO, JA, VI, TR, PT-BR
- Optional Player Pickup – Toggle allow_player_pickup to bench‑press your friends (Server restart needed).
- Weight‑Based Slowness – Bigger mob → bigger slowdown.
- Complete Activity Logging – Tracks all entity and container pickup activities for comprehensive auditing.
- Granular Container Permissions – Specific permissions for each container type (e.g., chests, hoppers, barrels).
- Prevent Container Stacking – Configurable option to disable nesting containers inside picked-up containers, with bypass permission.
- Sneak (shift)
- Empty hands
- Right‑click a mob or container
- Strut away
- Right‑click air to place (double chests can be placed together or separately)
Tip: Like a Russian nesting doll, containers can carry more containers... inside other containers... inside you. Just try not to shulkerception yourself into a lag spike.Click to expand...
Spoiler: How weight works
Weight is based on
maxHealth * 2,
and the slowness level is based on
maxHealth * 2 / 20
Example: A Warden is 1000Kg (500❤ × 2) and a Cow is 20Kg (10❤ × 2). If max_weight is 100, you can carry the Cow but not the Warden — and you’ll be slowed by 1 level.
Example: A Warden is 1000Kg (500❤ × 2) and a Cow is 20Kg (10❤ × 2). If max_weight is 100, you can carry the Cow but not the Warden — and you’ll be slowed by 1 level.
► Configuration
Code (YAML):
settings:
max_weight : 100.0 # How heavy before legs give out?
allow_player_pickup : false # Turn friends into kettle‑bells?
allow_lootin_pickup : false # Ignore Lootin‑protected chests?
prevent_container_stacking : false # Prevent nesting containers inside picked-up containers?
► Plugin Integrations
Respects WorldGuard, Lands, GriefPrevention and Lootin protections.
WorldGuard Integration:
- Implemented two custom flags: holdmycow-containers and holdmycow-entities.
- These flags are set to DENY by default. To enable HoldMyCow features in WorldGuard regions:
- For protected regions: Set the corresponding flag to ALLOW and ensure the user is a member of the region.
- For the __global__ region: Set the flag to ALLOW; no membership is required.
| Permission | What it unlocks |
| holdmycow.use | Basic command permission |
| holdmycow.use.reload | Reload command |
| holdmycow.use.restore | Restore command |
| holdmycow.carry_on | Core plugin actions |
| holdmycow.carry_on.entity | Pickup any mob |
| holdmycow.carry_on.entity.player | Pickup players (if enabled) |
| holdmycow.carry_on.container.<type> | Pickup specific containers (e.g., .chest, .hopper, .barrel, .shulker_box) |
| holdmycow.carry_on.* | The whole gym |
| holdmycow.carry_on.stacking_bypass | Bypass container stacking prevention |
Commands:
- /holdmycow reload (alias /hmc) - Refresh the config
- /holdmycow restore <player> - Restore previously picked up containers for a player. Useful for recovery in case of issues or special circumstances.
- Server: Paper 1.21+ (Java 21)
- Drop HoldMyCow.jar into /plugins
- Restart the server
- Config generates automatically
- Go lift something
| Issue | Quick Fix |
| Plugin won’t load | Use Paper 1.21+ & Java 21 |
| Can’t pick up | Check region perms & weight limit |
| Moving like a snail | Grab a lighter mob or do more leg day |
► Support
Need help? Join our Discord.
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21
- 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 Spigot — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
Hold My Cow - Pickup containers and mobs [1.21+] is a free Minecraft Java mod. Compatible with Minecraft 1.21. Downloaded 593 times (via Spigot). Download it and open it directly in the game.