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Useful Mobs

by Sorcell · for Minecraft

Adds new features for bats, pigs, polar bears, and squids to give forgotten mobs a new purpose!

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Data pack · Fabric +3Loaders

About Useful Mobs

From Modrinth

Adds new features for bats, pigs, polar bears, and squids to give forgotten mobs a new purpose!

🐷 Useful Pigs

Pigs will now produce 2 babies instead of one when bred!\ \ While riding a pig, throwing a golden carrot at it will make it sniff up some items. [3.0+]\ These items could be dirt, mushrooms, crops, or even gold!\ Also features an advancement for doing so.

🦇 Useful Bats

Throwing a glow berry at a bat will give one nearby mob glowing, helping to find new caves!\ Also features an advancement for doing so.

🐻 Useful Polar Bear

Throwing raw salmon at a polar bear will give all nearby players strength!\ Also features an advancement for doing so.

🦑 Useful Squids

Glow ink sacs can now be used to craft spectral arrows.\ \ When damaged, squid ink now afflicts players in range with brief blindness. [3.0+]\ More helpfully, glow squid ink gives players brief night vision and glowing! [3.0+]

⚙️ Configuration

Use /function usefulmobs:config to enable and disable all\ features! [3.0+]\ \The spectral arrow crafting recipe cannot be disabled with commands, and must use a separate datapack instead, sorry =(


Note

All mobs that consume items (Bats, Polar Bears, and mounted Pigs) will only consume one at a time, so it is safe to throw a whole stack!

Highlights

From source data

Game versions

Supports 24 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.21.11.

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 catalog
Listed on Modrinth as “Mods”

Creatures & NPCs

Adds or changes creatures, NPCs and how they behave.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Modrinth lists Useful 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
1.21.11 and 23 earlier

Verified at the source

  • ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
  • ✓AuthorSorcell, as published on Modrinth
  • ✓LicenseLicenseRef-All-Rights-ReservedFree

Useful Mobs, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Useful Mobs?

Modrinth lists Useful Mobs as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Which loaders does it support?

Data pack, Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.

Is it free?

Yes. Useful Mobs is free to download from Modrinth. Its license is LicenseRef-All-Rights-Reserved.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

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