
Animal Food Tags
Change what food animals will eat to fall in love and breed, using datapack item tags. Parrots & Polar Bears which can be breed? Chickens cannibals? You decide!
✅ Features
- Easy to use through editing item tags via datapacks.
- Mod Support for any animal added through mods there's a corresponding tag
- Further configuration allows for namespaces to be respected, and prefixes & suffixes to be changed
- Server-side, so that only the server needs the mod, not any clients
🏷️ Item Tags
Every animal entity type has a corresponding item tag.
By default this follows the format of #animal_food_tags:<entity_type>_food. So for instance, for a horse this would be #animal_food_tags:horse_food. Please note that the configuration can change the format. In the case a corresponding tag does not exist, vanilla (or modded) behaviour will not be overriden.
📖 Configuration
Configuration can be found in config/animal_food_tags.json.
override_namespace: [bool] (default:true)- Specifies wether the namespace of the entity type should be overridden to be
animal_food_tags.
Must be eithertrueorfalse.
- Specifies wether the namespace of the entity type should be overridden to be
tag_prefix: [string] (default:"")- Specifies the prefix added to the tag.
Must be either astringonly containing characters[a-z0-9_.-].
- Specifies the prefix added to the tag.
tag_suffix: [string] (default:"_food")- Specifies the suffix added to the tag.
Must be either astringonly containing characters[a-z0-9_.-].
- Specifies the suffix added to the tag.
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.4
- 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.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as animalfoodtags-1.0+1.20.4.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 257 KB
- Download link checked 7 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.