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WildEarth

Adds 10 real-world animals with smooth animations that you can tame: orcas, penguins, sea otters, red pandas, moose, seals, kangaroos and flamingos. Ride your own orca!

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Which WildEarth release should I use?

Updated 2 days ago
Latest stable file Wild Earth 1.3.0
Game version 1.21.1
Loader NeoForge

WildEarth Wild Earth 1.3.0 targets 1.21.1 with NeoForge. The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both. No extra mods listed for this file.

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Is WildEarth required on the client, server, or both?

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What else does WildEarth Wild Earth 1.3.0 need?

Wild Earth 1.3.0. Change the file and its required mods may change too.

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Before you install it

Add WildEarth without breaking your instance.

Built for WildEarth Wild Earth 1.3.0. Pick another file and the loader, install side or required mods may change.

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    Stick to this file

    Use Wild Earth 1.3.0. It targets 1.21.1 with NeoForge; another release may have different loader, side or dependency requirements.

  2. 02

    Bring the mods it needs

    This file does not list any required mods. Do not add a library just because a different file uses it.

  3. 03

    Put it on the correct side

    The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both.

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    Pick the file you checked

    Use the “Get this file” button beside Wild Earth 1.3.0. It opens that exact file at the source.

About this project

What does WildEarth add?

🌍 WILD EARTH – Real Animals for Minecraft

Wild Earth brings 10 real-world animals into Minecraft, each with smooth animations, real-life behaviors, and their own homes in the world. Every animal can be tamed, and you can even ride orcas and giraffes!

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🌊 OCEAN & SHORE

🐋 Orca – Travels in pods through the oceans and leaps out of the water. Hunts fish, penguins, seals and sea otters that are in the water. Only fights players who attack it.

🐧 Emperor Penguin – Waddles around snowy beaches and ice spikes, flaps its flippers, slides on its belly when running away, and zooms through the water. Babies are fluffy grey chicks.

🦦 Sea Otter – Floats on its back and cracks shells on its chest. Found on beaches, stony shores and rivers.

🦭 Harbor Seal – Scoots along cold shores, rests in the "banana pose" with its head and tail raised, and swims fast.

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🌿 SWAMPS & JUNGLES

🐊 Crocodile – Lurks in mangrove swamps with only its eyes and nostrils above the water. Stalks animals and players at the water's edge, then lunges with a death roll. Basks on the bank with its jaws open.

🦩 Flamingo – Gathers in flocks in swamps, rests on one leg, and feeds with its head down.

🐼 Red Panda – Lives in bamboo jungles. If you run at one, it rears up on its back legs with its arms spread, then runs away. Sneak up slowly or hold bamboo to stay friends.

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🌾 SAVANNA & FOREST

🦒 Giraffe – Roams the savanna in herds, walking with its famous pacing gait and stretching up to nibble the treetops.

🦘 Kangaroo – Travels in big hops. Hit one and it rears back to box and kick!

🫎 Moose – Grazes in taiga forests. Peaceful, but if you hit one it lowers its antlers and charges. Some have antlers and some don't.

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🤝 TAMING

Feed a wild animal its favorite food until hearts appear:
• Orca – cod or salmon
• Penguin, Sea Otter, Seal, Flamingo – fish
• Red Panda – bamboo or sweet berries
• Moose, Kangaroo – wheat
• Giraffe – apples
• Crocodile – raw meat

Right-click your pet with an empty hand to make it stay or follow. Feed a hurt pet to heal it, or feed two pets to get a baby that's tamed too. Tamed moose, kangaroos, orcas and crocodiles protect you from anything that attacks you!

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🐎 RIDING

Put a saddle on your tamed orca or giraffe and right-click it with an empty hand to ride:
• Orca – look where you want to swim. You can breathe underwater while riding, and swimming near your orca gives you Dolphin's Grace.
• Giraffe – see over everything from way up high!
Press Shift to get off.

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✅ All animals have spawn eggs in the Creative menu and spawn naturally in new chunks.
✅ Install on both the client and the server.

Requires NeoForge for Minecraft 1.21.1.

Project description from CurseForge.

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