Dress Code

Vanilla already does this in a few places: deserts have husks, snowy biomes have strays, and swamps have bogged. Dress Code carries that idea through the rest of the world.

What you will see

• A real 3D miner helmet with a glowing lamp. The zombie's lamp shines in the dark; the skeleton beside it wears a dead, cracked lens.
• Seventeen places: mineshafts, villages, strongholds, trial chambers, ocean ruins, the Nether, the deep dark, lush caves, deserts, frozen biomes, jungles, mushroom fields, deepslate depths, swamp huts, pillager outposts, bastions, and woodland mansions.
• Fourteen mobs: zombies, skeletons, creepers, spiders, cave spiders, zombie villagers, endermen, slimes, witches, pillagers, piglins, vindicators, evokers, and ravagers.
• Endermen stay endermen. Their overlays are deliberately restrained so their black silhouette and purple eyes still read clearly across a cave.

Each side is optional

• Installed on the server and client: the server records where mobs spawned and the client draws their outfits.
• Server only: vanilla clients can join normally; they simply see ordinary mobs.
• Client only: vanilla servers work normally; without server-side spawn records, the client has nothing to draw.

Data packs, configuration, and commands

The context table is data-driven. Data packs can add places, replace shipped rules, or remove them, and /reload applies the new table without restarting the game.

Client and server configuration can disable all stamping, all overlays, emissive details, or individual contexts.

• /dresscode inspect — explains what a mob is wearing.
• /dresscode contexts — lists the loaded context rules.
• /dresscode dress — manually applies an outfit for testing or displays.

Compatibility and requirements

• Minecraft: 1.21.1
• Mod loaders: NeoForge, Forge, and Fabric
• Fabric: Fabric API is required
• NeoForge and Forge: no additional library dependency
• Java: Java 21

Dress Code: mobs dress for where they spawned.