Essentials - A ZAWA Addon
Java mod listed for Minecraft 1.16–1.20. File opened and checked on 26 Sep 2026; downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
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A ZAWA:Evolved addon that adds all the parrots.
All of them.
(and some other stuff, too)
Latest versions (1.0.0-TropEx3) require ZAWA: Evolved 1.1.0-IntelligentAnimals3 for their respective Minecraft version.
Essentials is not compatible with ZAWA: Rebuilt or earlier Evolved versions.
Essentials adds all the stuff that isn't interesting enough for the main ZAWA roster.
It is made by ZAWA staff, and as such, features everything to ZAWA's standard: adorable baby animals, expansive data entries and icons, and rare breed-only variants for species commonly kept in captivity. Essentials' animals breathe and walk with lifelike movement, and will feature real-recording calls and sounds the second Fisk can be bothered to clip them all from public-domain documentaries.
Enjoy new blocks to spice up your zoos, with engaging new enrichment for animals. Spice up your zoo with small, but welcome additions to the usual decor you never knew you needed. Essentials also features block swaps and tweaks of ZAWA staples, for when stripped wood would look that much better on a fence.
Animal list
Australian ringneck parrot* (twenty-eight parrot, Port Lincoln parrot, mallee parrot)
Budgerigar (with 11 breed-only captive colors)
Caique* (white-bellied caique, black-capped caique)
Cockatiel (with 7 breed-only captive colors)
Congo gray parrot (with 3 breed-only captive colors)
Eclectus parrot* (Solomon Island eclectus, Tanimbar eclectus, Sumba Island eclectus, Vosmaer eclectus + 2 breed-only captive colors)
Conure* (sun conure, jenday conure, nanday conure, mitred conure, golden conure, blue-crowned conure)
Green-cheek conure* (green-cheek conure, painted conure, crimson-bellied conure, fiery-shouldered conure, ochre-marked conure, white-necked conure, black-capped conure + 5 breed-only captive colors)
Hawk-headed parrot (with 1 breed-only captive color)
Kakariki* (red-fronted kakariki, yellow-fronted kakariki, Antipodes island kakariki + 5 breed-only captive colors)
Kea parrot
Poicephalus parrot* (Senegal parrot, red-bellied parrot, Ruppell's parrot, jardine parrot)
Quaker parakeet (with 5 breed-only captive colors)
Ringneck parrot* (Indian ringneck, moustache parrot, plum-headed parrot, Malabar parrot + 5 breed-only captive colors)
Rosella* (crimson rosella, Eastern rosella, Northern rosella, pale-headed rosella)
Moho* (Hawaii ‘Ō‘ō, O’ahu ‘Ō‘ō, Moloka’i ‘Ō‘ō, Kaua’i ‘Ō‘ō)
Greater prairie chicken
Chinchilla (with 11 breed-only captive colors)
Maned wolf (with 1 breed-only captive color)
Blocks and enrichment list
Flood light - stop lighting your modern zoos with torches, I will cry.
Security camera - for when the Instagram exotic pet crowd keeps circling your kakapos, and won't take "no" for an answer.
Wood cable fence - ZAWA's cable fence, except using vanilla log textures for a more natural look. Wood variants.
Stripped wood cable fence: Wood cable fence, but scandalous. Wood variants.
Bell toy - the most annoying toy this side of the Rockies. Connects to ZAWA ropes.
Cup feeder - a dual-purpose feeder and enrichment item for animals with weird grabby appendages and/or gumption. Connects to ZAWA ropes.
Hanging perch - a fun swing for birds, complete with wood variants and pretty beads for them to gingerly remove and throw at you when you feed them an hour late. Connects to ZAWA ropes.
Large bird toy - a solid stack of wood and leather for ripping, mauling, and shaking vigorously. Connects to ZAWA ropes.
Credits:
Mnesikos: Code
Fisk: Everything else
Shoresy: Extra textures
Coda512: Item textures
Special thanks to Shoresy, Sparrow, Coda512, Keaka and Chinchillin
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20.1, 1.19.2, 1.18.2
- 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 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 zawaessentials-1.20.1-1.0.0-IntAn3-alpha3.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 1.3 MB
- Download link checked 26 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.