Critters and Companions (Unofficial Fabric Port)

A small, cozy unofficial Fabric compatibility port of **Critters and Companions** for newer Minecraft versions.

This project brings the original mod’s charming vanilla-style wildlife into modern Fabric environments, keeping the focus on cute creatures, gentle companion interactions, and overworld life that feels like it belongs in Minecraft.

🧡 What Is This?

**Critters and Companions** is a vanilla-style creature mod originally created by **Bonsai Studios** and contributors. It adds new animals, pets, ambient wildlife, and playful interactions across the overworld.

This upload is an **unofficial Fabric compatibility port** for newer Minecraft/Fabric versions.

🐾 Included Critters

This port includes the original mod’s lovely little cast of creatures, including:

🦦 **Otters** - River friends with clam and pearl interactions.  
🐾 **Ferrets** - Tameable companions that can dig up loot.  
🐟 **Koi Fish** - Peaceful river fish that can be bucketed and provide a luck-based group effect.  
🐙 **Dumbo Octopuses** - Deep ocean helpers that can assist drowning players.  
🐌 **Sea Bunnies** - Ocean critters that produce slime for crafting sea bunny slime blocks.  
🪲 **Dragonflies** - Tameable protectors with armor support.  
🍃 **Leaf Insects** - Tiny forest friends that dance to music.  
🐼 **Red Pandas** - Jungle companions that sleep during the day and react to nearby threats.  
🐦 **Shima Enaga** - Sweet snowy biome birds, tameable with seeds.  
🕷️ **Jumping Spiders** - Tameable helpers with updated variants, silk-related drops, and tools.  
🐞 **Ladybugs** - Small forest insects with tameable companion behavior.  
🪵 **Roly-Polies** - Tiny rolling critters, including baby forms and chest support.  
🐌 **Snails** - Slow companions that can climb, hide, and provide snail slime.  
🪲 **Stag Beetles** - Tameable beetles with sitting behavior.  
🌿 **Stick Bugs** - Forest insects that blend into the overworld.  
🌰 **Weevils** - Acorn-loving insects from the newer official content.

✨ Porting Notes

This port focuses on compatibility, not redesign.

The goal is to preserve the original mod’s behavior and style while updating the project to run on newer Minecraft, Fabric, Java, GeckoLib, and resource/data formats.

Notable work includes:

🛠️ Updated Minecraft/Fabric/Java build setup  
🦎 Migrated GeckoLib model, animation, and renderer usage  
🎨 Restored item, armor, and spawn egg rendering  
📜 Updated recipes, loot tables, language files, and resource metadata  
🧵 Fixed resource pack paths, including the arachnophobia-friendly pack  
🌱 Added configurable natural spawns through `crittersandcompanions-spawns.toml`  
🌰 Ported acorns, the acorn hat, mud balls, snail slime bottles, and newer item content  
🧪 Tested selected core interactions in-game

🧪 Current Status

This is an **experimental unofficial port**.

It has been tested for:

✅ Game startup  
✅ World creation  
✅ Creative inventory rendering  
✅ Selected recipes  
✅ Selected mob spawning/rendering  
✅ GeckoLib animation loading  
✅ Built-in resource pack loading  
✅ Configurable natural spawns  
✅ Sea bunny slime collection  
✅ Ferret taming and collar rendering  
✅ Dragonfly armor behavior  
✅ Pearl necklace behavior  
✅ New bug taming, sitting, breeding, and spawn egg behavior

There may still be edge cases, multiplayer issues, or less-tested interactions. If something behaves differently from the original mod, please report it with logs and reproduction steps.

🔗 Official Original Project Links

Please support and follow the original project here:

🌿 Original CurseForge Page:  
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/critters-and-companions

💻 Original Source Repository:  
https://github.com/bonsaistudi0s/CrittersAndCompanions

🙏 Credits

All original design, assets, names, mobs, textures, animations, sounds, and gameplay concepts belong to the original **Critters and Companions** creators and contributors.

Public credits from the original project page:

🎨 **Josh / Joosh** - Art  
💻 **EterDelta** - Coding  
🔊 **Scratchy** - Sound effects  
🧵 **Lytho_** - Original Fabric port  
🥚 **L2** - Modded Omelet resource pack spawn egg textures adapted for this port

The public CurseForge team also lists:

possible_triangle, Lytho, AlexNijjar, CodexAdrian, EterDelta, and BonsaiStudios Mascot.

This unofficial port exists only to keep the mod playable on newer Fabric/Minecraft targets.

🤖 AI Assistance Disclosure

This compatibility port was prepared with assistance from **OpenAI Codex** during local debugging, code migration, build fixes, and release preparation.

All changes were reviewed and tested by the port maintainer before release.

AI assistance was used only for porting support and technical workflow help. It did **not** create the original mod’s concept, artwork, textures, animations, sounds, mobs, or gameplay design.

💛 A Small Note

If you are one of the original authors or contributors and would like credit adjusted, wording changed, links updated, or this port handled differently, please reach out and I will respect that promptly.