Mob Gems
Mob Gems is a Fabric mod for Minecraft 1.16.5 based around capturing mobs in diamonds to harness their powers!
- With the Capture enchantment you can trap mobs in mob gems
- Bracelets allows you to gain abilities (good or bad) based on mob gems
- Gem Cages utilise mob gems to create area effects
Abilities include:
- Igniting entities to make them explode
- More max health
- Forcefield against projectiles
- Higher gravity
Important: This mod requires Fabric API
Capturing mobs
Trapping the souls of mobs in mob gems requires you to enchant a weapon with Capture. It is a rare enchantment that can't be found in the enchantment table, but it can be acquired through all other usual methods (villagers & loot). Make sure to have a diamond in your off-hand!
Using mob gems
Bracelets
Bracelets grant the wearer certain positive or negative effects/abillities that represent a mob's characteristics.
- Golden Bracelets augment a mob's characteristic, granting the wearer an effect that mimics a mob's behaviour, abilities, etc...
- Iron Bracelets diminish a mob's characteristic, granting the wearer an opposite effect of a mob's characteristic
Gem Cage
Gem Cages are magical blocks that utilize a mob's soul for useful effects on the area or adjacent blocks. Gem cages require a mob gem and soul powder (blaze powder + soul sand/soil)
Notes
Note: Only a few mob gems have been implemented yet, but more are coming!
Note: This mod supports Curios API (https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/curios-fabric), which allows you to wear bracelets and chestpieces at the same time!
See the wiki for more info and all the effects of the different mob gems.
Suggestions are always welcome! (no promises though)
Forge? No.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.16.5
- 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 mob_gems-0.2.0-beta.4.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 176 KB
- Download link checked 5 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.