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Renewable Elder Guardians
Vanilla friendly mod and plugin port that makes Elder Guardians (and sponge) renewable, while keeping it balanced.
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Sponge is now renewable! And so are elder guardians!!
Features
- Use a nautilus shell on a guardian (either left or right hand) to transform it into an Elder Guardian!
Planned Improvements
- More immersive transformation process, like a zombie villager cure maybe.
License: MIT
❤️ Credits:
Developed by DerexXD, inspired by a reddit thread.
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3
- 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 renewable_elder_guardians-1.0.0.0-neoforge-1.21.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 9 KB
- Download link checked 20 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.