Animal Pens Paperized
Running a large animal farm on a Minecraft server often leads to frustrating lag and cluttered barns. Animal Pens Paperized solves this by letting you capture and store animals in specialized pens and aquariums, all while preserving every essential interaction. This plugin is a reimplementation of the popular Animal Pens mod, tailored specifically for Paper servers. Whether you need wool, milk, eggs, or just a tidy base, Animal Pens Paperized for Minecraft keeps your livestock neatly contained without sacrificing functionality.
How Animal Pens Paperized Works
The core idea is simple: instead of dozens of free-roaming entities, you condense them into single blocks that still behave like the real animals. This drastically reduces server load while letting you breed, shear, milk, and collect drops as usual.
Capturing and Storing Animals
To get started, craft an Animal Cage for land mobs and an Animal Container for water creatures. Right-click a mob with the appropriate item to capture it, saving its variant (color, type, etc.) inside. Place the cage or container on a smooth stone slab to create a pen. You can then right-click the pen with an empty hand to view all stored variants. Releasing animals is as easy as crouch-clicking on the ground.
Interacting with Penned Animals
Once animals are inside, most vanilla interactions remain available:
- Feeding animals acts as breeding, so you can expand your stock without free-roaming mobs.
- Shear sheep, milk cows, mooshrooms, and goats, or collect mushroom stew from mooshrooms.
- Gather eggs from chickens, turtles, and sniffers using a bucket or bowl.
- Fish eat kelp and seagrass; other water creatures eat fish. Frogs produce frog lights when fed magma cubes.
- Kill animals for loot by attacking the pen directly, with configurable attack cooldowns.
- Bee pollen regeneration, turtle scute dropping, and armadillo scute brushing are all supported.
Note that animal transformations and interactions with other entities are not included, as they are not feasible in a Paper plugin environment. For the best visual experience, use the included resource pack to make pens and aquariums look polished and to display custom item icons.
Customizable Settings and Growth System
Animal Pens Paperized offers deep configuration via its config.json file. You can adjust cooldowns for feeding, shearing, egg collection, and milking. Set drop limits for wool and eggs to prevent item overflow. Toggle whether pen interactions affect player statistics and advancements. A blocked animals list lets you prevent specific mobs from being captured. Additionally, you can customize food items for each animal using a data pack and the animal_foods.json file, supporting both items and tags from any mod.
An optional animal growth system visually scales the pen based on the number of animals inside, with an adjustable growth multiplier. This adds a satisfying visual cue to your farm’s productivity.
Commands and Configuration
Server moderators can manage the plugin with three simple commands:
/animal_pen reset– Resets the config to default values./animal_pen reload– Reloads the config without restarting the server./animal_pen items– Opens a custom creative menu to obtain the plugin’s items.
Recipes can be adjusted via data packs, following the default examples provided. The plugin also includes a server-side messages file for localization, while the resource pack handles client-side translations.
Installation and Compatibility
Animal Pens Paperized is built for Paper servers and supports Minecraft versions 1.20 and above, including the latest updates with armadillos and sniffers. To install, simply place the plugin JAR into your server’s plugins folder and restart. For those who prefer a streamlined setup, the foxygame.net launcher offers a one-click install of Animal Pens Paperized directly from its add-on catalog, automatically matching the correct version to your server and keeping it updated. If you need to download Animal Pens Paperized manually, you can find the latest release on the official GitHub repository. After installation, don’t forget to add the resource pack to your client for the full visual experience.
Conclusion
Animal Pens Paperized is a must-have for any Minecraft server owner struggling with entity lag or messy farms. It preserves the depth of animal husbandry while condensing mobs into efficient, interactive blocks. With extensive customization, easy commands, and seamless Paper integration, this plugin transforms how you manage livestock. Whether you’re a server admin or a solo player, Animal Pens Paperized for Minecraft delivers a cleaner, faster, and more enjoyable farming experience.