Creaturae

Creaturae

Creaturae is a mod for Minecraft that adds a multitude of new animals and creatures to your world, each with their own immersive behaviours, unique mechanics and more. At the moment the mod only features a few real-world animals, but much more creatures are planned to be added, both real and fictional.

Every creature in this mod will have some sort of unique behaviour or use, such as being tamable, providing resources to craft unique items, or breeding for unique color variations.

The creatures in this mod all have high-quality handmade models and animations, and aim to fit in perfectly with vanilla standards (with some liberties). This mod is still a heavy work-in-progress, and is my first ever full mod, so expect things to improve as time goes on.

REQUIRES GECKOLIB!

Current Mod Contents:

Creatures:

Lion:

A large, dangerous feline found in small groups in savanna biomes. Lions will lazily sleep during the day, but at night they become ravenous hunting machines, chasing down any nearby prey (including players)!

Sneak up on a sleeping maned lion with shears and snip off a bit of it's fur using shears (careful, this will wake it up!)… then use the clipped fur to brew a potion of Lion's Might! Lion's Might grants the player bonus attack damage and armor, as well as earning the trust of wild lions, as they will now tolerate your presence and allow you to tame them.

Feed a wild lion raw mutton while under the effect of Lion's Might to tame it, earning yourself a powerful companion. However, be careful, as tamed lions will still hunt down other players and mobs when not ordered to sit.

Flamingo:

A pretty pink bird that finds its home in swamps and mangrove swamps. They are completely harmless and will spend their time loudly honking, preening themselves and flocking together in large groups.

Throw down raw shrimp, a flamingo's favorite food, nearby one to feed it. After eating a shrimp, the next time a flamingo preens itself it will drop a Pink Feather. Use that pink feather to craft pink dye, or use it to craft a Lucky Hat!

Leopard Gecko:

A small, cute lizard that is native to desert and badlands biomes. While generally harmless, Leopard Geckos find arthropods delicious, chasing down and terrorizing any on sight, despite often being too slow to catch up. All arthropods have an instictive fear of Leopard geckos, running away on sight.

Leopard Geckos are usually skittish of players, and come in a yellow spotted color. But, if you lure two in with spider eyes and breed them, the resulting baby will tolerate your presence and not run away, and may even come in one of 4 color variations only available through breeding! Each color has its own rarity, so try to find all 5! "Friendly" Leopard geckos are also bucketable using an empty bucket for easy transport!

Dodo:

A small, rotund and admittedly dense bird native to exclusively mushroom islands. Dodos are either exceptionally trusting, or exceptionally dim-witted, as they will readily follow around any nearby mobs, and don't react at all to pain.

Be kind to a dodo and let it mind its own business, and occasionally when preening or shaking its tail it will drop an Odd Feather. Use this odd feather in place of normal feathers, to craft a Lucky Hat, or use it to brew a Potion of Obliviousness, a potion that when thrown on a mob stops them from attacking anything or reacting to pain!

Or.. relive the sins of our past and kill them for a "tasty" Dodo Leg… But how could you!?

Shrimp:

A small, fast-moving crustacean found in cold ocean biomes and mangrove swamps. Shrimp are similar to fish in that they can be killed and cooked for a new food resource!

Unlike fish however, shrimp can be bred using their favorite food, seagrass or kelp! Use this to start your own shrimp farm, or just breed a few to keep as pets! Shrimp are bucketable for transport similar to fish.

Budgie:

A small and adorable parrot native to sparse jungles and badlands biomes. Budgies are friendly little birds that will flutter around in groups, chirping loudly.

Similar to a parrot, you can tame budgies by feeding them seeds! A tamed budgie will perch on your shoulder and dance to jukebox music just like a parrot as well.

Budgies, unlike parrots, can be bred, potentially giving new color morphs that cannot be found in the wild. You can't tell what color they are until they are adults, but there are four to collect: Green, Blue, Yellow and White, with yellow and white being much rarer to breed.

Items:

Lucky Hat

A particularly lucky hat adorned with feathers that has a small chance to give you an extra of almost any item you pick up, that includes rare items like totems of undying and nether stars!

Potion of Lion's Might

A potion that gives the Lion's Might effect, granting the player 1.2x attack damage, and a small amount of armor. It also lets the player interact with wild lions without harm, allowing you to tame them.

Potion of Obliviousness

A potion that gives the Oblivious effect. While short lived, this effect will mess with a player's instincts and reverse their controls while active. Perhaps more useful, however, is that when applied to a mob, it will render the mob oblivious to any potential targets, stopping them from attacking at all, even if you damage them! Be careful though, the potion's effects do not last long.

Dodo Leg

A bland and unsatisfying new food item, gained from killing a Dodo. It does not provide much food or saturation, even when cooked.

Shrimp

A tasty new food item gained from killing a shrimp. It is farmable, and rather filling!

Planned Future Content:

• Many more animals, such as: Sharks, Ostriches, Penguins, Crocodiles and more.
• Fantasy/Fictional creatures such as Unicorns, Bigfoot and more.
• Updates to existing creature behaviours and mechanics for greater immersion and usefulness
  • Example: Lions are planned to be updated with improved wild behaviour, armor for tamed lions, and a unique ability to scare away nearby mobs.

All code and assets in this mod are hand-made and done in my free time as a passion project, so updates may be slow, but rest assured the mod is not abandoned.

Credits

• Tomosaurus - Coding, Modeling, Animating, Texturing
• Alopias - Concept Art and Ideas

Special thanks to those with minecraft java tutorials on youtube such as Kaupenjoe, and the mods that inspired this mod's creation such as Mo' Creatures and Alex's Mobs.

Permissions

• Feel free to add this mod to modpacks and use it on servers.
• Please do not upload this mod else-where or as a re-pack without permission.