Mojang has added armadillos to the game but in their fear of little crying karens they made the armadillo drop its armor plates on its own or by "gently" prying them off with a brush.
There's nothing humane about this treatment of the animal no matter how soft of a feather you use, so this mod comes to the armadillos rescue.
The mod makes 3 changes to the armadillo. First it removes the cruel feathery brushing treatment, second it removes the automatic scute drop (as if they lay their armor like eggs...) and last it adds the scute to the loot table so they're dropped on death.
If you want to adorn your tamed creatures in this highly valued resource, you're gonna have to put in the work for it.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.1, 1.21, 1.20.6
- 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 CurseForge — 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.
Hardened Armadillos is a free Minecraft Java mod. Compatible with Minecraft 1.21.1, 1.21, 1.20.6. Downloaded 11,214,735 times (via CurseForge). Download it and open it directly in the game.