Damage Incorporated: Take Full Control of MobGriefing in Minecraft
Few things are more frustrating in Minecraft than watching a creeper blow a hole in your base or an enderman quietly steal a decorative block from your walls. The vanilla mobGriefing game rule exists to stop this chaos, but it comes with a serious drawback: turning it off also disables helpful behaviors, like farmer villagers tending their crops. Damage Incorporated solves that problem by splitting mobGriefing into dozens of individual, configurable game rules.
What Damage Incorporated Does
Damage Incorporated is a mod that adds a large collection of game rules, each one targeting a specific behavior hidden behind the mobGriefing toggle. Instead of a single on/off switch, you get precise control over explosions, block placement, crop trampling, and much more. It is part of the "Boring" series of mods, alongside Boring Backgrounds and Boring Default Game Rules.
Because the mod relies on Quilt Standard Libraries, it runs on the Quilt loader and requires Minecraft 1.19 or newer. If you are still on Fabric, you can often run it with the appropriate compatibility layer, but Quilt remains the native home for this add-on. The mod is licensed under MIT, meaning you can freely include it in any modpack without asking for permission.
Explosion Rules: Beyond a Simple Toggle
Explosions are where Damage Incorporated truly shines. Rather than one blunt setting, several game rules let you decide exactly how each explosive behaves. Accepted options include LOSSY_EXPLOSION, LOSSLESS_EXPLOSION, DAMAGE_ONLY, and NONE.
- creeperDestructionType – controls regular creeper blasts, so you can keep entity damage while protecting your terrain.
- chargedCreeperDestructionType – the same flexibility, applied to charged creepers.
- ghastFireballDestructionType and canGhastFireballsSpreadFire – tame ghast attacks in the Nether without removing them entirely.
- witherSpawnDestructionType and witherSkullDestructionType – decide how much destruction the Wither causes when it appears and fires.
Choosing DAMAGE_ONLY is a popular option: creepers still hurt, but they no longer remodel your house.
Hostile, Undead, and Passive Mob Rules
The mod currently ships with 34 game rules, grouped into categories. Hostile mob rules cover endermen placing or picking blocks, silverfish infesting stone, ravagers breaking leaves and crops, and even the evoker's "Wololo" spell. Undead mob rules focus on turtle egg stomping, letting you decide separately whether zombies, husks, drowneds, zombified piglins, and zombie villagers can crush eggs.
Passive mob rules handle the little things that add up over time: sheep turning grass blocks into dirt, rabbits eating carrot crops, foxes picking sweet berries, snow golem trails, and farmer villagers actually farming. General rules round things out with farmland trampling, turtle egg trampling, mob loot pickup, and burning mobs breaking powder snow.
One important note: if mobGriefing itself is disabled, it overrides every rule in this mod. Keep mobGriefing on and let Damage Incorporated handle the fine details instead.
How to Install Damage Incorporated for Minecraft
Getting started is straightforward. First, confirm you are running Minecraft 1.19 or later with the Quilt loader installed. Next, place the Quilt Standard Libraries file in your mods folder, since Damage Incorporated depends on it. Then drop the Damage Incorporated jar into the same folder and launch the game. You can verify everything loaded by opening a world and typing a game rule command in chat.
If you would rather skip manual file juggling, the foxygame.net launcher offers a one-click install path that handles Quilt Standard Libraries automatically whenever you add Damage Incorporated to a profile. Players who manage multiple worlds will appreciate that the launcher also keeps version compatibility in check, so you are not left guessing which build matches your Minecraft release.
Configuring the Rules In-Game
Every rule is a standard game rule, so you can change it with the usual command syntax. For example, to stop creepers from destroying terrain while keeping their damage, set creeperDestructionType to DAMAGE_ONLY. To let only players trample farmland, set farmlandTrampling to PLAYER_ONLY. Rules with true/false options, like canEndermenPickBlocks or canEvokersWololo, are just as easy to flip.
If you want to change the default values permanently across new worlds, Damage Incorporated does not handle that itself. The companion mod Boring Default Game Rules exists for exactly that purpose, letting you define your preferred defaults once and forget about them.
Final Thoughts
Damage Incorporated is one of those quality-of-life mods that quietly improves every world you play. It respects the spirit of mobGriefing while removing its all-or-nothing limitation, giving builders, farmers, and survival players the control they have always wanted. Whether you just want creepers to stop griefing or you want to micromanage every mob behavior in the game, this mod delivers. Download Damage Incorporated for Minecraft today and tailor mobGriefing to your playstyle.