TrueBuckets
Scoop up your favorite mobs into cute, color-coded cubes — capture, collect, display, and release creatures anywhere.
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TrueBuckets
Catch, collect, and carry your favorite creatures — in the cutest way possible.
Cubelings turns any splash of water into a pocket-sized companion. Right-click a creature with a water bucket and it hops into a charming little cube you can carry, stack in your base, show off in item frames, or set free anywhere you like. Every creature gets its own hand-crafted color, and babies get their own adorable mini-cube — so your collection always looks unmistakably yours.
No commands. No config headaches. Just grab a bucket and start collecting.
✨ Features
- 🪣 One-click capture — right-click any supported creature with a water bucket.
- 🎨 A unique color per variant — every creature type has its own cube texture.
- 🍼 Adult & baby cubes — babies get their own smaller, distinct look.
- 🏷️ Name them — rename a cube in an anvil and the creature keeps the name when released.
- 💧 Release anywhere — place the cube to pour the water and let your creature out, good as new.
- ♻️ Buckets back — you always get your empty bucket returned. Nothing wasted.
- 🧩 Vanilla-friendly — fits right beside the axolotl bucket in the creative menu.
🌈 Collect them all
Each variant carries its own color, and every cube remembers exactly what's inside — variant, age and custom name. Line them up in item frames for a display shelf, or keep a travel kit in your hotbar.
🚀 More on the way
Cubelings is built to grow. Support for more creatures and new cube skins is on the roadmap — this is just the beginning of the collection.
🔧 Compatibility
- Loaders: Fabric · NeoForge · Forge
- Minecraft: 1.17.1 all the way to the latest — pick the file that matches your version.
- Client & Server: works on both (required on both sides).
📦 Dependencies
- Fabric builds: Fabric API + Architectury API (the 26.1+ Fabric builds only need Fabric API).
- NeoForge / Forge builds: Architectury API (the 26.1+ NeoForge builds need no extra dependency).
Always grab the file that matches your Minecraft version and loader.
I make these mods in my free time — if they save you time or make you smile, a coffee keeps the updates coming ☕
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.17.1
- 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 TrueBuckets-forge-0.2.0+1.17.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 52 KB
- Download link checked 7 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.