Adds new mobs without adding new mobs! This is the Data Pack version, for it to fully work please download the Resource Pack alongside.
Some mobs in some biomes now get new skins, looking like the animal that they're supposed to be.
Chicken, Stony Shore = Penguin
Chicken, Badlands biomes = Raptor
Chicken, Sunflower Plains, Flower Forest, Jungle = Butterfly (comes in colors!)
Cow, Forest = Deer
Pig, Nether = Hog
Pig, Savanna = Rhino
Pig, Swamp = Capybara
Pig, Dripstone Caves = Cockroach
Frog, Jungle = Grasshopper
Cat, Desert = Sphynx
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- 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 — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
Awkward Animals is a free Minecraft Java datapack. Downloaded 32 times (via CurseForge). Download it and open it directly in the game.