
Universal Bestiary
Minecraft Java mod. File opened and checked on 4 Nov 2026; downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
⬇ Download on CurseForge








Have you ever found an animal you didn't know and wanted to know how to breed it and if it was worth it? Have you ever fought a mob without really knowing what is it really doing? Have you ever wanted a nice checklist to see if you've encountered all mobs in your world?
If you said yes, Universal Bestiary is exactly what you need.
By combining a Book and Leather, you can make yourself your own little book that will contain pages on all mobs that can ever be found in your world. There are 3 ways of unlocking the page for a specific mob:
- Killing it
- Getting killed by it
- Making a Mob Identifier and using it on the mob at close range
You can also unlock pages even if you never have touched the book or isn't carrying it. And if you loose it, you can always get a new one and it'll have all your entries already unlocked.

Universal Bestiary supports all 46 vanilla mobs that can be seen in survival, as well as a number of mobs added by other mods, with more planned to be added. The currently supported mods are:
- Aqua Creepers! - 1
- Biomes O' Plenty - 1
- Botania - 2
- Charm - 1
- Cyberware (aka Robotics Parts) - 2
- Embers Rekindled - 1
- EnergeticSheep - 1
- Grimoire of Gaia - 71
- Harvester's Night - 1
- Ice and Fire: Dragons in a whole new light! - 18
- Industrial Foregoing - 1
- Merpig - 1
- Mystical Wildlife - 10
- Natura - 4 (can be less depending on config)
- OpenBlocks - 2
- Quark - 4 (can be less depending on config)
- The Midnight - 8
- Thermal Foundation - 3
- Tinkers' Construct - 1
- Totemic - 3
- Wizardry - 3

Mod spotlight by Trikzon (outdated supported mod list in it):
You are free to suggest new mods by making a issue in the issue tracker with a link to the mod, although be aware that I already have a big todo list to go through.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- 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 CurseForge — 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 universalbestiary-1.12.2-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 100 KB
- Download link checked 2 Nov 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.