Happy Creeper

Instead of only running from them, you can approach them safely with a creeper head, weaken them with a special biscuit, tame them, and keep them with you as a combat companion.

This mod is built around survival-friendly mechanics rather than creative-only gimmicks.

How It Works

1. Wear a Creeper Head or Happy Creeper Mask to get close safely.
2. Feed the creeper an Anti-Blast Biscuit to weaken it.
3. Feed the weakened creeper a Sweet Gunpowder Biscuit to tame it.
4. Right-click your tamed creeper with an empty hand to open its companion UI.
5. Use Shift + right-click with an empty hand to switch between follow and stay in the world.
6. Heal it directly or let it use stored fuel automatically when hurt.

Tamed Creeper Features

• Follows its owner and can be told to stay
• Teleports back if it gets left behind
• Changes dimension with its owner
• Resyncs after the owner respawns
• Works correctly with leads
• No longer counts as a nearby monster for sleeping
• Defends the owner from hostile mobs
• Attacks mobs the owner is fighting
• Keeps fighting mobs that switch aggro onto the creeper itself
• Uses a small contact blast attack instead of normal self-destruction
• Dies with a larger non-destructive final explosion
• Has increased health compared to a normal creeper
• Can equip helmets and chestplates
• Can store fuel and automatically self-heal below half health

Visual Features

• Weakened creepers show a continuous visual effect
• Tamed creepers use a custom happy green texture by default
• Tamed creepers can be recolored with dyes
• Reusing the same dye does not waste the item
• Rainbow Biscuit unlocks a smooth rainbow mode that cycles through colored creeper textures

Companion UI

• 3D creeper preview
• Helmet slot
• Chestplate slot
• Fuel slot
• Health display
• Active status effect icons
• Follow/stay button
• Shows the creeper's custom name when named with a name tag

Items

• Biscuit
• Anti-Blast Biscuit
• Sweet Gunpowder Biscuit
• Rainbow Biscuit
• Happy Creeper Mask

Current Release Notes

This release is intended as a wider beta playtest build.

The taming loop is fully playable, with companion armor management, potion support, recolors, rainbow mode, a dedicated creeper UI, and fuel-based self-healing in place. Balance and polish are still in progress.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1
• NeoForge
• Java 21