About April Fools
From Modrinth🃏 Enables various silly and funny configurable features on April Fools' day!
April Fools adds various silly and fun features and game mechanics to the game. By default they are automatically enabled only on the 1st of April. But feel free to enable them on all days via the config. There is a global toggle, and you can enable/disable all the individual features as well. The mod will hopefully add a few smiles on the faces of anyone who plays your modpack and/or server!
Features:
• Players will sleep with their feet on the pillow.
• The wandering trader will spawn with donkeys instead of llamas.
• Make cats bark and wolves meow.
• Cows have a chance to give a water or lava bucket when milked.
• Creepers might, instead of explode, launch a firework rocket with a creeper pattern.
• Make all potato drops from the potato plant poisonous.
• Skeletons can spawn with a sword and shield instead of a bow.
• Any normal arrow fired from a bow has a chance to have a random potion effect. When picked up, it's a normal arrow again.
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All available config options:
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enableOnlyOnApril1st default true
If the april fools features should only be enabled on April 1st. If set to false, they will always be enabled.
april1stChanceMultiplier default 0.0, min 0.0, max 1000.0
Can be used to increase the chance of features happening on April 1st. So for example you can set 'enableOnlyOnApril1st' to false, 'chanceCreepersExplodeIntoFireworks' to 0.01 and 'april1stChanceMultiplier' to 25.0. This way a creeper would 1/100 launch a firework rocket outside of April 1st, and 1/4 on April Fools' day.
makeCatsBarkAndDogsMeow default true
If cats should bark and dogs should meow.
makePlayersSleepWithFeetOnPillow default true
If players should sleep in beds the opposite way, with their feet on the pillow.
makeWanderingTraderSpawnWithDonkeys default true
If the Wandering Trader should spawn with two donkeys instead of llamas.
chanceCowGivesDifferentBucket default 0.2, min 0.0, max 1.0
The chance that a cow gives, instead of a bucket of milk, a bucket of lava or water. Set to 0 to disable.
chanceCreepersExplodeIntoFireworks default 0.5, min 0.0, max 1.0
If creepers should, instead of exploding, spawn a firework rocket with a creeper pattern. By default a 50% chance. Set to 0 to disable.
chancePotatoCropDropsPoisonous default 1.0, min 0.0, max 1.0
The chance a potato dropped by a potato plant should be made poisonous on harvest.
chanceSkeletonHasSwordAndShield default 0.25, min 0.0, max 1.0
The chance a skeleton spawns with a sword and a shield instead of a bow. Set to 0 to disable.
chanceNormalArrowFiredHasRandomEffect default 0.33, min 0.0, max 1.0
The chance an arrow fired by a player has a random potion effect attached to it. Set to 0 to disable.
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Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 22 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.3.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogGameplay & overhauls
New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists April Fools as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- FabricForgeNeoForgeQuilt
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.3 and 21 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorSerilum, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLicenseRef-All-Rights-ReservedFree
