








About
The Wildebeest Mod brings wildebeest mobs to Minecraft (no joke?). Encounter these well-known animals in savanna biomes (or wooded badlands) and discover their strength, their dislike of cows, and their willingness to remain in the herd.
The mod also adds several new items and blocks, such as wildebeest meat, a new high-performance bow, and even a powerful potion.
Installation
- ⏩ Requires NeoForge to be installed: https://neoforged.net/.
- ⏩ Copy the jar file of the mod in the "Mods" folder.
- ⏩ For each version, check in the changelog the supported/tested versions of Minecraft and Neoforge.
Features
The Wildebeests
- Very resistant and can cause serious injury
- Not affected by vanilla knockback
- Spawn in Savana and Wooded Badlands
- Herd Goal
- The wildebeests will seek to stay together
- Lone wildebeests will seek to join a nearby herd
- Attack cows
- Attack any entity that attacks it
- The nearby wildebeests will also attack the assailant
- Important follow range
- Drop Raw Wildebeest and sometimes Wildebeest Horns
- Like all mobs, dying by fire will cause them to drop Cooked Wildebeest
- Looting enchantments can help you obtain more Wildebeest Horns
- Eat grass
- For pleasure
- Babies grow faster when they eat
- Eat bush
- They make babies after eating them
Blocks
- Wildebeest Horn Block, Stairs and Slab
- High resistance like Obsidian
- Requires at least a diamond pickaxe to be harvested
- Can be crafted (see Recipes section)
Items
- Damaged Wildebeest Tuft
- Can be harvested from wildebeests using shears
- Wildebeest Tuft
- Can be harvested from wildebeests using shears
- Can be crafted (see Recipes section)
- Wildebeest Charge Potion (classic, splash and ligering)
- Confers the “Wildebeest Charge” effect
- Same recoil as when wildebeests charge entities
- +3 attack damage and +0.8 attack knockback
- Can be made (see Recipes section)
- Confers the “Wildebeest Charge” effect
- Raw Wildebeest
- Retores 4 hunger points
- Can be harvested by killing wildebeests
- Cooked Wildebeest
- Restores 9 hunger points
- Takes a little time to cook
- Wildebeest Horn
- Can be harvested by killing wildebeests
- Wildebeest Bow
- Durability of 128
- Powerful recoil effect upon impact (slightly greater recoil effect than the "Wildebeest Charge" effect)
- Can be repaired like all tools
- Wildebeest Spawn Egg
- Available in Creative Mod only
Recipes
CraftsWildebeest Horn Block

Wildebeest Horn Stairs

Wildebeest Horn Slab

Wildebeest Horns

Wildebeest Bow

Wildebeest Tuft

Cooked Wildebeest

Wildebeest Charge Potions (from a Potion of Strength II)


Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 26.1.2
- 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 thewildebeestmod-26.1.2-1.0.0-beta.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 175 KB
- Download link checked 20 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.