About Better Vanilla Mobs
From ModrinthGet thousands of mob variations with random skills and stats, making combat unexpected.
Randomize skills and stats for mobs, keeping the vanilla touch. 1000+ variants, no resourcespack, discrete changes, balanced tweaks, scaled difficulty.
> Default Difficulty is set on EASY (because you're a weak human)
> Use Gorify for more bloody fight!
Main features
- Mobs get random skills and effects, making thousands of possibility.
- 3 difficulty levels: easy to discover, medium to play, hard to challenge. Default: EASY.
- Increased chances of getting more skills and stats by increasing the datapack's difficulty in the options.
- Compatibility with a list of compatible mob datapacks.
- Hard difficulty can be really challenging (easy difficulty is vanilla like level).
- Affinity system: mob can get a stat buff (+20% on damage, speed, knockback or max_health). 3% chance of being an ALPHA, getting all stat buffs (health, armor, knockback, damage, speed). Or Weak, getting no buff.
- Totem of Weakness: craft and lit the totem to secure an area. Monsters can't be enhanced in this area of protection.
- Custom Names: mobs get a rarity and an affinity in their name.
- 300+ of configurable parameters in the ingame options menu (patreon version).
- WARNINGS: due to health modifications, most of AUTO FARMS are broken, or have to be reworked. Craft a "Totem of Weakness" and place it near your auto-farm to fix it.
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Totem of Weakness
Craft and lit the Totem of Weakness to create a safe area. Mobs in this area cannot be enhanced, making them completly vanilla. Once they have been touched by the beacon, they can no longer be enhanced. Useful for mob farm and player bases. > /loot give @s loot fkbm:totem
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Affected mob list
Bogged
Stats
- more damage, faster, low hp
Skills
- FireResist: don't burn in daylight (rng)
- BreakTorch: break torches on walk (rng)
- Sword: can switch from bow to sword when a player is close (rng)
- Spear: fight with a spear (rng)
- Shield: block most incomming arrows (rng)
- Armored: wear heavy armor (rng)
- Infested: spawn silverfish on damage/death (rng)
- Poison Leak: spread poison on the floor, on damage (rng)
- Summonner: summon baby skeleton from its bones (rng)
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Cave Spider
Stats
- similar to vanilla
- stick to ceilings (by renaming)
- can be summoned by a Spider Mother (see Spider mob)
Skills
- Toxic: repeating bites give nausea (rng)
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Creeper
Stats
- quicker
- random Fuse time +/-20%
- random Explosion Radius +/- 1
Skills
- Bait: play a sound behind the player and rush at them (rng)
- Baby: get a 1 block size (rng)
- Unstable: explode on damage, whatever the distance (rng)
- Powered: get powered by lightning (1-3%) (rng)
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Drowned
Stats
- similar to vanilla
Skills
- HitSlow: slow players on hit (rng)
- FireResistance: do not burn in daylight (rng)
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Enderman
Stats
- similar to vanilla
Skills
- LookFreeze: lock players's movement on eyes battle (rng)
- LookBreak: Destroy defensive roofs (only smooth block #mineable/shovel) (rng)
- Vortex: may force players into the void, teleporting them nearby randomly (rng)
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Evoker
Stats
- quicker, more tanky
- invoked Vex will be upgraded by the pack (see Vex mob)
Skills
- Root: lock movements of nearby players (rng)
- Group Heal: apply a Regeneration effect on nearby allies (rng)
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 31 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.2.
Loaders
Runs on Data pack, Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogCreatures & NPCs
Adds or changes creatures, NPCs and how they behave.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Better Vanilla Mobs as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- Data packFabricForgeNeoForgeQuilt
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.2 and 30 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorFunkyToc, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0Free
