Wild Creatures

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💬​ Informations and Support

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🦌 About Wild Creatures

Wild Creatures is a Fabric mod that expands Minecraft with a wide variety of new land, water, forest and ambient creatures. From peaceful wildlife like deer, ducks, raccoons and otters to dangerous predators like sharks, crocodiles, orcas and panthers, this mod makes your world feel more alive, more dangerous and more rewarding to explore.

Each creature is designed to fit naturally into Minecraft while adding more atmosphere, survival value and exploration variety.

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🐾 Included Creatures

• 🦈 Shark - a dangerous ocean predator.
• 🐋 Orca - a powerful ocean creature found in ocean biomes.
• 🦀 Crab - a small beach creature that can move on land and underwater.
• 🪼 Jellyfish - an aquatic creature found in water areas.
• 🐚 Mussel - a passive water creature found near the seabed.
• 🦌 Deer - peaceful wildlife for forests and plains.
• 🐗 Wild Boar - a strong animal with useful loot.
• 🐻 Bear - a powerful forest creature.
• 🐊 Crocodile - a dangerous swamp and water predator.
• 🐍 Snake - a venomous creature for warmer areas.
• 🦂 Scorpion - a hostile desert-style threat.
• 🦆 Duck - a peaceful animal that can lay duck eggs.
• 🐣 Duckling - can hatch from thrown duck eggs and grow into a duck.
• 🦉 Owl - atmospheric forest wildlife.
• 🦍 Gorilla - a powerful jungle creature.
• 🦝 Raccoon - a curious small animal found in forests and swamp-like areas.
• 🦦 Otter - a playful water-loving animal found near rivers and wetlands.
• 🐈‍⬛ Panther - a dangerous jungle and savanna predator.
• 🦋 Butterfly - a peaceful ambient creature, especially fitting for spring and summer.

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✨ Main Features

• 🌍 Natural biome-based spawning for fitting creatures.
• 🌊 Improved water creature spawning for sharks, orcas and mussels.
• 🌸 Seasonal butterfly support when Season System is installed.
• ⚙️ Configurable spawn balance for servers and modpacks.
• 🔄 Config reload command for easier testing and setup.
• 🎞️ GeckoLib-powered animations for animated creature models.
• 🎁 Custom creature loot with useful survival drops.
• 🦆 Duck egg system - ducks can lay eggs, eggs can be thrown and ducklings may hatch.
• 🐣 Duckling growth - ducklings can grow into adult ducks.
• 🔊 Creature sounds with vanilla fallback support.
• 🗺️ Xaero's Minimap / World Map support with custom creature icons.
• 🧩 Optional integrations with other mods while keeping the mod lightweight.

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🌸 Optional Season System Support

When Season System is installed, Wild Creatures adds seasonal behavior for butterflies.

• 🦋 Butterflies spawn during Spring and Summer.
• 🌿 They can appear across land areas while the season is active.
• ❄️ They do not naturally appear during colder seasons.

Important: Season System is optional / recommended and is not required to run Wild Creatures.

If Season System is not installed, butterflies can still spawn as a fallback in peaceful flower-like land biomes such as Plains, Sunflower Plains, Meadows and Flower Forests.

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🎁 Creature Drops

Wild Creatures adds many thematic drops that can be used for survival, crafting, food integrations or future modpack progression.

• 🦈 Shark Tooth and Shark Fin
• 🦀 Crab Shell and Crab Claw
• 🪼 Jellyfish Gel
• 🐚 Mussel Shell
• 🦌 Deer Antler
• 🐗 Boar Hide and Boar Tusk
• 🐻 Bear Fur and Bear Claw
• 🐊 Crocodile Scale and Crocodile Tooth
• 🐍 Snake Venom and Snake Fang
• 🦂 Scorpion Stinger
• 🦆 Duck Feather
• 🦉 Owl Feather and Owl Talon
• 🦍 Gorilla Fur

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🍖 Optional Expanded Foodsystem Support

When Expanded Foodsystem is installed, Wild Creatures can provide additional raw meat drops for cooking and food progression.

• Raw Shark Meat
• Raw Crab Meat
• Raw Mussel Meat
• Raw Crocodile Meat
• Raw Duck Meat
• Raw Snake Meat
• Raw Wild Meat

Important: Expanded Foodsystem is optional / recommended and is not required to run Wild Creatures.

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🐾 Optional Loyal Companions Support

Wild Creatures includes optional compatibility for Loyal Companions. When Loyal Companions is installed, selected peaceful creatures can be used as companions.

Supported Companion Creatures

• 🦌 Deer
• 🦆 Duck
• 🦉 Owl
• 🦝 Raccoon
• 🦦 Otter

Supported Companion Food Examples

• 🦌 Deer: Wheat, Carrot, Apple, Sweet Berries
• 🦆 Duck: Wheat Seeds, Beetroot Seeds, Melon Seeds, Pumpkin Seeds
• 🦉 Owl: Chicken, Rabbit, Cod, Salmon
• 🦝 Raccoon: Sweet Berries, Apple, Egg, Cod
• 🦦 Otter: Cod, Salmon, Tropical Fish

Dangerous or unsuitable creatures are blacklisted from companion capture.

Important: Loyal Companions is optional / recommended and is not required. Wild Creatures will still start and work normally without it.

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🗺️ Optional Xaero's Minimap / World Map Support

Wild Creatures includes optional support for Xaero's Minimap and Xaero's World Map. When installed, supported creatures can use custom map/minimap icons.

Important: Xaero's Minimap and Xaero's World Map are optional and not required.

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📦 Dependencies

✅ Required

• Fabric API
• GeckoLib

⭐ Optional / Recommended

• Expanded Foodsystem - optional food and meat integration.
• Loyal Companions - allows selected peaceful creatures to work as companions.
• Season System - adds seasonal butterfly behavior.
• Xaero's Minimap / Xaero's World Map - adds custom creature map icons.

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⚙️ Configuration

Wild Creatures includes a configuration system for spawn balancing and creature behavior. This makes the mod suitable for both singleplayer worlds and larger modded servers.

• ⚙️ Adjust creature spawn balance.
• 🌍 Configure global spawn rate behavior.
• 🌊 Improve water creature visibility with additional water spawn support.
• 🔄 Reload configuration during testing or server setup.
• 🧩 Keep optional integrations enabled only when the related mods are installed.

Server owners: Wild Creatures is designed to be configurable so it can better fit survival servers, adventure modpacks or custom worlds.

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🌿 Why Use Wild Creatures?

• ✅ Adds more life to forests, oceans, beaches, swamps, jungles and natural biomes.
• ✅ Includes peaceful wildlife, ambient animals and dangerous predators.
• ✅ Adds useful creature drops for survival and modpack progression.
• ✅ Includes duck eggs, hatchable ducklings and growth behavior.
• ✅ Adds seasonal atmosphere with butterflies when Season System is installed.
• ✅ Supports optional integrations without making them required.
• ✅ Keeps required dependencies simple: Fabric API and GeckoLib.

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