CreatureCatcher

Everyone who has played survival knows the routine. You find a villager with a great trade three hundred blocks from your base, and now you are building a minecart rail. You want your horse at the new base, so you are boating it across an ocean one block at a time. You rebuilt your farm and now you need to move nine cows, one lead at a time, while a creeper watches.
CreatureCatcher replaces all of it with two clicks.

What your players will actually do with it

• Move a trading hall without laying a single rail — professions, levels and every trade come along
• Relocate the whole farm in one trip instead of nine
• Take their pet with them — the tamed wolf stays tamed, and stays theirs
• Collect rare finds — a mooshroom, a pink sheep, a horse with the right stats
• Build a zoo out of things they caught themselves instead of spawn eggs
• Rescue a mob that wandered somewhere stupid, instead of watching it drown

It comes back as the same creature, not a copy of its species
This is the part that makes or breaks a capture plugin. A creature that returns at full health with no name and an empty trade list isn't the creature your player caught.
Everything survives:

• Health, age, and whether it was a baby
• Its custom name
• Armour, weapons, and every enchantment on them
• Villager profession, level, experience and full trade list
• A llama's chest and everything inside it
• Saddles, collar colours, horse markings, panda genes, fish patterns
• Who tamed it
• Active potion effects
• Data other plugins attached to it

And the item tells your players exactly what they are carrying. The lore is generated from the creature itself, so a caught villager shows its profession and trade count while a caught cow simply doesn't have those lines.

Features

The catcher

• One item, two states — no second item to carry, no inventory clutter
• Pick any material, name, lore and glint you like
• Full resource-pack support, both modern item models and custom model data
• Or let the filled catcher show the creature's own spawn egg, so every catch looks different for free
• Optional charges: unlimited, or wears out after a set number of uses

Deciding what can be caught

• Blacklist or whitelist any creature type
• One-switch protection for bosses, tamed pets, villagers, named creatures and babies
• Block other players' pets from being pocketed — theft-proof by default
• Optional per-creature permissions, so a rank can unlock horses and another can unlock villagers
• Separate cooldowns for catching and releasing
• Require sneaking, so nobody pockets their own horse by accident

Making it feel like yours

• Configurable sound and particle effect on both catch and release
• Lore templates with placeholders for every creature detail
• Optional crafting recipe, shaped or shapeless — and it unlocks in the recipe book automatically
• Or hand catchers out with a command, for crates, votes, quests and rank perks

Every single word is translatable

• English and Brazilian Portuguese included
• Add any language file you want — even creature names and individual words
• A half-finished translation falls back to English instead of showing your players raw keys
• Your language files are never overwritten by a plugin update

For developers

• Cancellable capture and release events, so your own plugin can add quest requirements, costs or limits

Commands

Command
/cc give <player> [amount] [charges]	Hand out catchers
/cc reload	Re-read config and language files
/cc inspect	See what a catcher holds, and whether it's genuine
/cc ledger	How many creatures are out in the world in catchers

Aliases: /creaturecatcher, /catcher.

Requirements
Java 25, and Paper 26.2 or any fork of it:

• Works: Paper, Purpur, Pufferfish, Leaf, and other Paper forks
• Does not work: Spigot, CraftBukkit

Keeping a creature perfectly intact inside an item relies on an API only Paper and its forks provide. If you run a Paper fork, you're fine — the plugin checks at startup and tells you clearly if you aren't. Folia is not supported.