About Useful Mobs
From ModrinthAdds 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 dataGame 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 catalogCreatures & NPCs
Adds or changes creatures, NPCs and how they behave.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth 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










