Animal Brush
A vanilla-friendly tool to reroll animal skin variants with a simple right-click. Preserve NBT data while cycling through all available variants for 13+…
⬇ Download on ModrinthTired of breeding dozens of animals to get the perfect color? Animal Brush is here to help! This lightweight, vanilla-friendly mod adds a simple tool that lets you reroll animal skin variants with a single right-click.
✨ Features
- 🎨 Reroll Variants: Right-click any supported animal to cycle through all available skin variants
- 💾 NBT Preservation: Keeps custom names, equipment, and all entity data intact
- 🎭 13+ Animals Supported: Works with Cats, Horses, Llamas, Foxes, Rabbits, Axolotls, Frogs, Wolves, Pandas, Chickens, Cows, Pigs, and more!
- 💫 Visual Feedback: Particles appear on successful variant changes
- ⚖️ Balanced Gameplay: Limited durability (20 uses) keeps it fair
- 🌐 Multiplayer Ready: Full server compatibility with proper synchronization
🐾 Supported Animals
Minecraft 1.19.4 - 1.20.1
- Cat - 11 variants
- Horse - 7 colors × 5 markings = 35 variants
- Llama - 4 variants
- Parrot - 5 variants
- Rabbit - 6 variants (+ Toast Easter egg)
- Fox - 2 variants (Red, Snow)
Minecraft 1.20.2+
All previous + Axolotl (5 variants), Frog (3 variants)
Minecraft 1.20.5+
All previous + Wolf (9 biome variants)
Minecraft 1.21.5+ (Spring to Life Update)
All previous + Panda (7 personality variants), Chicken (3 climate variants), Cow (3 climate variants), Pig (3 climate variants)
Total: 13 animal types with 100+ variant combinations!
🎨 Crafting Recipes
Modern Recipe (Minecraft 1.20+)
When the vanilla brush exists:
Ingredients:
- 2× Amethyst Shard
- 1× Brush (vanilla)
Legacy Recipe (Minecraft 1.19.4)
Before the vanilla brush was added:
Ingredients:
- 2× Amethyst Shard
- 1× Stick
- 1× Copper Ingot
- 1× Feather
📖 How to Use
- Craft the Animal Brush (see recipes above)
- Right-click on any supported animal
- Watch the variant change with particles
- Repeat until you get the variant you want!
Note: The tool has 20 uses before breaking, just like the vanilla brush.
🔧 Technical Details
- Multi-Loader Support: Available for Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge
- Multi-Version: Supports Minecraft 1.19.4 through 1.21.11
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.11
- 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 animalbrush-neoforge-1.21.11-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 25 KB
- Download link checked 31 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.