
Mob Protect
Mob protect is the saviour of your dogs, cats and villagers!

Simply enable or disable each mob within the configuration menu and voila! Any disabled mobs will be immune from your attacks, allowing you to play Minecraft without the fear of accidentally hitting your precious dogs or cats. Or you can disable villagers and not have to worry about hitting your villagers and making them mad at you, or just game ending them in one hit with that netherite axe.

This mod behaves differently in different environments:
Local Single Player
- Blocks direct attacks
- Blocks sweeping edge damage
- TNT
- Lava
- Fire
- Cactus
- Arrows
- Any any other environmental damage.
Dedicated Fabric Servers with the mod
Blocks direct attacks
Blocks sweeping edge damage
TNT ignited by the player
Arrows fired by the player
Snowballs fired by the player
Mobs are protected from all damage (Like Local Single Player) if they are protected on the server config file but are only protected from Player Caused damage if they are only protected by a player.
- An example would be if a player lights some TNT and it blows up a mob they have protected, it will take no damage.
- But if lightning struck some TNT which then lit and blew up a mob they have protected, it will take damage since it has no connection to the player who wants it protected.
- If that mob was protected in the server config, it would not take damage in either scenario.
Vanilla Servers
- Blocks direct attacks
- Blocks sweeping edge attacks entirely if they will harm a protected mob.
Pets also have protections!
- If you take the scenario shown in the Dedicated Server section but applied it to a player's tamed wolf, it would behave differently.
- The wolf would not take damage from the lightning TNT since it knows the wolf is tamed to a person.
The list will be shortened with future updates.
Will I port to X version?
Maybe, no promises.
Will I make a forge version?
No
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- 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 — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as mobprotect-4.0.1-1.20.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 77 KB
- Download link checked 31 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.