20 Best Animal Mods in Minecraft To Check Out in 2023

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Minecraft is already filled with animals and adorable critters. They make the world a bit less empty and lonely. Due to Minecraft’s dedicated community, you can add even more animals to your game by using various mods. From furry critters and insects to magical horses and other aquatic animals, we’ve decided to put together this list of the best Minecraft mods that add animals to your game. Let’s see what are the best Animal mods in Minecraft.

Editor’s Note: this list has been updated to include the best mods that the community has to offer. The list remains largely unchanged when compared to the last year’s due to the mods mentioned below being legendary in terms of their quality and popularity.

1 Pawprints

We start off our list of best Minecraft Animal mods with Pawprints. This mod adds 15 real-life-inspired animals to your game. Just some of the animals you will encounter during play are Tenrecs, Pikas, and Nudibranchs. In total 15 new species have been added, as well as additional plants, food items, blocks, plushies, and more. The animals are available in both survival and creative modes.

2. Abyssal Depths

This next mod will not add critters to your forests but will fill Minecraft’s deep blue depths. The mod Abyssal Depths is actually a port of an older mod called Aquatic Abyss that was created back in the day when Minecraft’s waters were mostly empty. The mod adds numerous types of fish inspired by real-life creatures as well as some mythical beasts.

That means you can encounter both seahorses and sea serpents. It’s an awesome mod if you feel like there’s something missing in Minecraft’s bodies of water.

3. Waddles

Have you ever felt that there’s something missing in frozen biomes? The author of this mod thought as well, that’s why the author decided to add Adélie penguins to the game. The mod adds penguins that you can encounter while you’re exploring snowy tundras and ice spikes biomes. Since the mod is configurable you can add them to other snowy-themed biomes as well. You can get the mod from here.

4. Ancient Beasts

Minecraft has a plethora of RPG-inspired mobs already, but why not add some more? The mode Ancient Beasts does exactly that. This amazing mod adds tons of RPG-inspired creatures to your game.

Just some of the creatures that you might encounter are Giants, Frostwalkers, Ghosts, Vessels, and Zealots. The textures created for this mod are amazing and created with many details in mind. So far, only a small amount of new creatures and animal has been added, the author plans to implement more in the future.

5. Fish’s Undead Rising

This next mod adds a little bit of danger to your Minecraft experience. Like the previous mod, the author of this mod aimed to add a little bit of RPG fantasy to Minecraft’s world. This mod adds “dangerous creatures” to your gameplay as well as some useful drops that you can eventually use to create powerful and useful items.

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Animals added by this mod are not classic animals, they are mostly horror-inspired mobs like Wendigo, Salamander, and Foglet. As far as I can see the only animal added by this mod is a raven. I guess that’s enough to qualify for this list.

6. Quintessential Creatures

I swear this next mod adds animals! Quintessential Creatures adds tons of new animals to the game. Most of those creatures are of aquatic nature like Octopus, Angler, and Blowfish. But you might come across some other animals wandering through the rest of the biomes as well.

The added bonus is the fact that you can turn a tortoise into a mobile inventory by placing a chest on it. Of course, you’re going to have to bribe it with flowers first! Follow this link to download Quintessential Creatures

7. Animal Crops

The next mod on our list of best Animal mods for Minecraft is Animal Crops. Animal Crops is one special mod that’s been making rounds on various “top lists” over the years. In short, this mod allows you to grow “passive animals” by planting them.

If you want to grow land animals you will have to use “animal seeds”, to grow aquatic animals you will have to use “animal lilies”. The best part is, Animal Crops is compatible with several other animal-based mods, which means that you can grow vanilla animals and modded animals.

8. Camels

It seems that so far we’ve focused mostly on aquatic animals, and fantasy animals. That’s about to change. Since Minecraft’s deserts are somewhat empty, this mod aims to add camels to them. Camels added by this mod are fully mountable, voiced, and animated. You can also use them as mobile storage since you can place chests on them.

Added camels come in several variants and you can encounter them, naturally, only in the desert biome. These gorgeous animals have unique saddle models created especially for them, and are quite sturdy in case you run into trouble while exploring!

9. Creature Whisperer

And we’re back to mythical creatures again. Creature Whisperer mod adds two mythical creatures to Minecraft World. The creatures in question are Yeti and Ent. Yeti and Ent once defeated can join you on your adventures as pets but don’t expect to find them easily. The author himself stated that they are not easily found. In case you’re annoyed by this, you change the spawn rates in the configuration file.

While Yetis are aggressive and will attack you on sight if you’re fortunate enough to encounter them, Ents will mostly mind their own business. But keep in mind that both will attack if provoked. You can download creature whisperer from here.

10. Rats

In case the title of the mod is not explanatory enough, this mod adds rats. But, the mod wouldn’t be nearly as popular if the author didn’t create a whole Minecraft mini-game revolving around rats alone.

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Yes, rats are added and that’s the main point of the mod. But it also adds the ability for rats to vandalize your property just like in real life by chewing and digging through wooden walls and destroying crops. You can craft several rat-related items, such as traps and cheese. You can tame added rats by using cheese of course. Overall it’s an incredibly fun mod that really brings immersion to another level.

11. Chickens

Up next we have a mod titled chickens, but not because it adds chickens to your game, instead this mod aims to improve your chickens. If you’ve ever wondered why your chickens do not lay gunpowder or diamonds, you’ve had the same idea as the author of this mod.

Chickens adds a sophisticated chicken breeding system, as well as unique drops from chickens. You can combine this mod with several chicken-themed mods. And what else is there to say, if you got bored by vanilla chickens definitely try this out.

12. Story Of Life

This mode might not look like much at first glance, but it adds gorgeous new creatures to your world. So far three types of creatures have been added: a snake, a jellyfish bloom, and wildebeest. The only downside is it looks like the author of this mod gave up on it a long time ago. So install at your own risk, it might crash your game.

13. Outfox

As the name implies this mod adds foxes to Minecraft. Not only do those foxes look adorable and their animations are fantastic they can also help you on your mining trips. Foxes added by this mod can use their enhanced sense of smell to locate the most precious ores for you.

The mod also provides you with a configuration file that allows you to tweak many details related to foxes and their behavior. You can command them as well, just like any other vanilla pet. You can download Outfox by following this link.

14. Hated Mobs

I didn’t know what to expect when I first noticed this mod but I guess I was surprised that somebody added mosquitoes to Minecraft. Instead of adding cute critters like Outfox, or some real challenge to the game like Creature Whisperer, the Hated Mobs mod adds creatures from real life we all hate. This mod adds snakes, giant spiders, wasps, slugs, red ants, and toads.

Just about anything you can encounter in your backyard that you would react to with revulsion. Not only are new animals included, but there are also several new blocks accompanying them as well such as hives, nets, frog legs, infested leaves, and egg sacks. Even though the creature added are nightmarish this mod is pretty well done and the textures are amazing.

15. LizardMod

This next mod won’t sit well with some people as well. This reptile-themed mod adds passive lizards to Minecraft’s world. You’re going to encounter them in appropriate biomes and you will not be able to tame them.

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Some larger reptiles are added as well, for example, a desert monitor that will eat your chickens and sheep if given the chance. It sound’s like a pretty simple mod, but if you want some variety in your wildlife I recommend you give it a try.

16. Butterflys

Next up on our list of best animal mods for Minecraft is Butterflys. As the name says, this mod adds butterflies to your game, thousands of them. If you decide to go butterfly hunting, the mod also added a lepidopterology book. Reading the book provides you with additional information about the butterfly species you’ve caught.

You will encounter added butterflies in forest biomes. This is one relaxing mod perfect for players that like to collect things, as butterflies can be displayed in-game as well. You can get Butterflys mode from here.

17. Just a Few Fish

We’re back to aquatic animals again with Just a Few Fish mod. This mod won’t add mythical fish or exploding fish to your game. It’s a really simple mod that adds passive fish in an attempt to enrich Minecraft’s water.

Some of the fish added are cod, salmon, clownfish, and Pufferfish. As you can see it’s nothing exotic. Mod also adds a fish tank, you can place the fish in there and they will not despawn. If you’re looking for a simple vanilla-friendly immersive mod, this one is perfect for you.

18. Simple Ambients

Like the previous animal mod, Simple Ambinets aims to improve the immersion and ambiance of the game by adding passive mobs to your world. It’s nothing wild and too flashy, the mod adds several types of birds (mostly repaints of the original texture) as well as bats. Birds can be found in the forest biome. To encounter bats, however, you will need to venture into the swamp biome. 

Just like with the previous mod, if you’re expecting something fantasy related or over-the-top you will be disappointed with the simplicity of this mod. This was created for players that want to improve the immersion of the game overall. 

19. Better Animals Plus

Now that we’ve left immersion mods behind we can move on to our next mod that adds tons of new animals. Better Animals Plus enriches your Minecraft experience by adding over 35 animals to various Minecraft biomes. Most animals have some newly-added blocks and armor associated as well. Better Animals Plus is compatible with some other mods that improve the Minecraft experience as well.

This mod is constantly updated with new animals added from time-time. And with over 13 million downloads it’s one of the most popular animal-related mods out there. If you’re looking for something to expand Minecraft’s fauna, this is the perfect mod for you. You can get Better Animals Plus by following this link.

20. Mo’Creatures

We’ve already covered this mod in great detail in our “fastest horses” guide. It’s a brilliant mod that adds rideable mobs and animals. And as I’ve mentioned it adds some of the fastest horses you will come across. Mo’Creatures adds a sophisticated breeding system for various mobs, as well as unique craftable items that allow you to change the species of certain mobs.

For example, you can turn a bat horse into a flying gryphon. It’s a legendary mod and perfect for everybody that want to add some magic to their game.

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And that would be all, hopefully, at least some of these mods will appeal to you and you will manage to enrich your world with tons of new critters and mobs!

Here’s Why Your Minecraft Skin Keeps Resetting & How to Solve It

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Minecraft doesn’t allow for endless customization when it’s a matter of adding your own personality to the game. It makes up for it because you can do practically anything in the world, but for those that want customization to be more straightforward, you can choose to upload your own skin instead of using one of the defaults. What if there’s a bug and you can’t show your skin off? Why does your Minecraft skin keep resetting, and how do you fix it?

The main reason why your Minecraft skin might keep resetting is that you’re probably offline. If getting online doesn’t help, you might also want to try and reset your skin on Minecraft.net, or you might just have to wait it out because the problem is with skin servers and not you.

Are there ways to completely get around the reasons for skins resetting, and are there any other reasons why it might happen? How long has this issue been a thing, and why does it keep resurfacing as a problem? Let’s explore the answers to all the questions you might have in the rest of this article.

The basics of skin resetting

Before I go into detail about why your skin might keep resetting, I first want to move out of the way the likeliest reason why your skin might not show up in the first place. I do have to say that you might not always be the problem. Sometimes the people you’re playing with are the problem, and they must also change their settings.

In Minecraft, under Options, there’s a ‘Skins’ tab. You can go there and ensure the option to hide skins isn’t toggled on. This is a viable solution to the problem only if your skin never showed in the first place.

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Skins resetting on servers

Usually, we use skins to show them off to our friends and the people on servers. It’s a simple way to be recognized and stay remembered, but often, your skin will reset to the default Steve, Alex, or with newer versions of Minecraft, one of the seven other skins that have been added in 1.19.

The skins keep resetting on servers because everyone on the server is signed into Xbox Live, and when that’s the case, your custom skin can only be used for a limited time before it resets. To make a long story short, whenever you exit the game, it’ll change your skin to the last one you wore before the custom one.

To fix this, you’ll need to delete your cache. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Go into your search bar on your desktop and type in temporary files
  2. You’ll then either be able to delete temporary files right from the search bar, or you will be able to enter the temporary internet files and then select the ‘Delete Files’ option.
  3. Deleting your cache on the computer should also delete the Minecraft cache.

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If you are worried about what will happen when you delete your cache, let’s see the potential risks of deleting your cache and how you can do it on a console.

As suggested in the guide on how to delete cached data, this is only temporary data and will not affect your gameplay, nor will it delete your worlds. You can also clear cached data on consoles. I’ll give you an example of how to clear cached data in Minecraft Bedrock Edition.

Clearing the cache should be the same across all platforms since Bedrock Edition has the option built into the game itself.

  1. Open Minecraft, and in the main menu, go into Settings.
  2. Then, scroll down and head on over to Storage.
  3. Once there, go into Multi Select
  4. Then, click on Cached Data and select all of the resource packs that you found there.
  5. Once you’ve selected all of them, click on Delete, and you’re done

Other players can’t see your skin, but you can

This problem has nothing to do with you and more with the settings of other players. If the players are your friends, you can ask them to change their settings for them to see your skin. If the problem is with other players that are a part of some larger server, likely, you won’t be able to do anything about it.

Apart from the option to hide skins, you also have the option to only allow trusted skins. By trusted skins, Minecraft is likely thinking about skins that you bought through their store.

To disable this option, players will have to go into Settings while in Minecraft, go to Profile, and toggle the Only Allow Trusted Skins option off. This will not, in any way, put you at risk of catching a virus r something else entirely.

Disabling the only allow trusted skins option Minecraft

Adding your skin as the default

Minecraft skins resetting isn’t something new. It has been a problem for some ever since the game officially launched. Back then, players used to fix the problem by adding their skin as the default. This means they made the game think their skin is the default, Steve’s or Alex’s.

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They used to do this by changing the resource/texture pack folder, finding the default Steve or Alex skin, and switching it up with your chosen skin. Unfortunately, it’s been a while since you could do this.

How Long Is a Fortnite Match?

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In today’s world, we’re surrounded by shorter content that gets us that dopamine high so that we can get it all over again once we change the channel, so to speak, to get another dopamine high all over again. Besides, the world is getting increasingly fast-paced, and we no longer have as much time to grind out our favorite games. With all these things considered, would you have the time to throw in a quick round of Fortnite, though? How long is a Fortnite match, exactly?

Numerous factors affect how long a Fortnite match is, but on average, you’ll have to set aside an average of 20 minutes for a single game of Fortnite. Of course, this is the time it’ll take you to end the match if you plan on winning or at least want to get close to winning.

So how is one Fortnite match conceived, and is there any way that a match might last longer than that? What was the longest Fortnite match ever, and is there a limit to how long a match can last? Let’s find the answers to these and many other questions in the rest of this article.

The longest Fortnite match

We must mention a few notable matches before getting into the longest Fortnite match in history. In 2020, a new record for the longest Fortnite match was set. It was made by Lazarbeam, an Australian Youtuber and professional gamer who played a match of Fortnite that lasted 1 hour, 15 minutes, and 39 seconds.

After the record was set, the X2Twins beat it quickly, but only by 2 minutes. The record was broken once more shortly after by Creamy and Lachlan, which made the X2Twins try and beat the record again. The record to beat was 10 minutes longer than their first set world record. Crazy enough, they beat the record again by over 30 minutes.

In total, the twins were in a single Fortnite match for 1 hour, 52 minutes, and 48 seconds and there is a chance that this record will never be broken again, but why is that?

Storm sickness

Storm sickness is a mechanic in Fortnite that gives players a debuff. It’s fairly simple to understand. When you enter a storm area, you will begin losing health until you enter a safe zone. The storm area grows and shrinks the playing area. Essentially, it forces the players to end the match early.

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There are 12 phases to the storm, but after the ninth circle, the storm no longer has a grace period nor a shrink time. The storm eye is the safe zone you can be in during the storm. So keeping in mind that eventually, the storm will kill all players in a match, how long will it take for the storm to completely close in and kill all players and end the match prematurely?

The Storm

Maximum Fortnite match duration limit

Well, every storm cycle has a grace period: the time it takes for the storm to start moving and closing in and a shrink time that decreases as you go through the storm cycles.

The storm forms 1 minute after the battle bus reaches its last stop. Let’s round it up and say that the battle bus reaches the last stop in 1 minute. In the first storm cycle, you have a 2-minute grace period and a 2-minute shrink time. The 2nd cycle has a 1-minute 30-second grace and shrink period; the third cycle has a 1-minute 45-second grace period and a 1-minute 30-second shrink period. The 5th, 6th, and 7th cycles all have a 1-minute grace and shrink period. Overall, the storm will completely close in without any storm eye to protect you in a little under 25 minutes. From then on, it’s just a matter of you surviving the storm, but that’s hardly likely.

So the duration limit depends on how fast the storm closes in. The storm duration and how fast it closes in can change as new versions are released. For example, in previous versions, the storm only had nine cycles, and the first cycle grace period was 3 minutes and 20 seconds. I won’t go into all the details, but the match duration will depend on the developers and how they think the game should be balanced regarding playtime.

The shortest Fortnite match

Funnily enough, the shortest Fortnite match lasted only 1 second. Of course, this can’t mean that the match was actually played. Instead, a player named GlitchKing, as his name would suggest, exploited an error that made him win the match after all the other players left.

Match length depends on skill level

This claim might frustrate some people, but that match length will indeed, individually, depend on skill level. Once you’re killed in Fortnite, you won’t respawn and continue playing like in Deathmatch game modes in other games. Once you’re dead, you’ll be presented with the score and your final placement. After that point, you leave the game, so for all you know, in your personal experience, a match can last 5 minutes.

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The better you are at the game, the higher the chance for you to finish first, which means you’ll play the entirety of the match. If not, you’ll play for a shorter amount of time.

Minecraft 1.20 Update ‘Trails & Tales’ Has an Official Release Date

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Following a lengthy silence, fans of the planetary popular sandbox game Minecraft can rejoice as the release date for the long-awaited ‘Trails & Tales’ update has been revealed. 

‘Trails & Tales’ will arrive on June 7, 2023, Mojang revealed on social media.

The ‘Trails & Tales’ Update introduces several new features to Minecraft 1.20. It includes a new biome called the cherry grove, which is rare but beautiful with its pink appearance. Two new wood sets, bamboo and cherry, will be added, allowing players to craft and build with them. The bamboo wood set includes a raft that can be crafted with or without a chest.

A new mob called the camel will be introduced, which can be ridden by one or two players. The camel has long legs that allow it to travel anywhere, providing a safe mode of transportation as melee mobs cannot reach the rider. 

The second mob added to the game is the Sniffer. This was decided during Minecraft’s 2022 community mob vote. This gentle giant was once extinct but can now be brought back to the Overworld by finding its eggs, hatching them, and watching the snifflet grow into a full-grown sniffer. 

Cherry Blossom biome Minecraft

Players will also be able to share their stories through wearable storytelling. Armor trims are being added, which can be found in different dimensions of Minecraft. These trims can be dyed in ten different colors and added to armor using a smithing table, allowing players to showcase their victories and accomplishments to others.

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New features also include the ability to hang signs, providing a way to leave notes for friends or deceive enemies. Players can now create playable mob sounds by placing a mob head, including the new piglin mob head, on a note block. 

For those who want to document their adventures, a new chiseled bookshelf will be added, where players can safely store books, enchanted books, and even books and quills. Redstone can be added to the bookshelf for added movement, creating a dynamic library experience.

The update also brings calibrated skulk sensors, which are more sensitive and offer exciting possibilities for redstone contraptions.

The ‘Trails & Tales’ update will be available for download on June 7 for Minecraft: Java Edition on Windows, macOS, and Linux; and Minecraft: Bedrock Edition on Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, and Chromebook. 

You can find out more about the update on the official Minecraft site

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