Petting: Turn Every Mob into Your Loyal Companion
Minecraft has always been about adventure, but what if every creature you met could become a friend instead of a foe? The Petting mod rewrites the rules of taming, letting you befriend nearly any mob in the game. From humble chickens to the mighty Ender Dragon, your new companions will guard your base, carry your loot, and even let you ride them into battle. No more settling for just wolves and cats — the entire bestiary is waiting for a golden wheat handshake.
How Taming Works: More Than Just a Click
The core of Petting is its flexible taming system. Instead of a single item for all mobs, you can tailor the experience. By default, crouching and right-clicking a compatible mob with Golden Wheat starts the process, but the mod shines in its configurability. You can assign custom taming items per entity — skeletons might crave bones, while creepers could be coaxed with gunpowder. The success rate isn't just a flat number either; you can make it scale with the mob's missing health, require a certain kill count before taming is even possible, or set a health threshold that must be reached first. This transforms taming from a simple click into a strategic mini-game.
One of the most convenient ways to manage all these custom configurations and keep your mods up to date is by using a modern launcher. For instance, the foxygame.net launcher lets you download and install mods like Petting directly from its menu, making the whole process seamless and hassle-free.
Golden Wheat Attraction
While holding Golden Wheat, nearby animals will follow you at 1.25x their normal speed, making it easy to lure a potential pet into a safe area before attempting the tame. This small detail adds a touch of realism and gives you control over the environment.
Smart Controls and Riding Physics
Once a mob is yours, interacting with it is intuitive. With an empty hand, right-click cycles through actions: standing up a sitting pet, mounting if a saddle is equipped, or telling it to sit. Shift-right-clicking opens the pet’s inventory. The riding system is surprisingly deep — you can fly or swim upward with the spacebar, move backward with S, and even sprint while mounted for a 1.3x speed boost. Flyers and swimmers maintain neutral buoyancy, so you won’t sink or rise unless you command it. Your pet’s rotation syncs with your view, making aerial dogfights on a tamed phantom feel natural.
Inventory, Equipment, and Scaling
Every tamed pet gets a 14-slot inventory accessible via shift-right-click. But the real game-changer is the equipment system. Pets have armor slots for full protection and hand slots where they can physically wield swords or shields. The mod automatically detects supported equipment slots per mob type, so a zombie can swing a blade while a blaze might just enjoy some extra armor. All tamed pets also receive configurable global bonuses to base armor and armor toughness, ensuring they stay viable even in late-game encounters.
Interaction Tools: Fine-Tuning Your Companion
Managing a growing army of pets requires precision, and Petting delivers with a set of configurable tools:
- Stick: Right-click to toggle follow/wait/wander; shift-right-click for a detailed status report.
- Whistle: Cycles the follow distance from 5 to 50 blocks.
- Orb: Adjusts the teleport trigger distance (10–100 blocks).
- Clock: Toggles whether the pet responds to global Goat Horn calls.
- Sword: Toggles Aggressive Mode — attacks if you attack.
- Shield: Toggles Defense Mode — attacks if it is attacked.
- Cookie: Toggles Guard Mode — attacks if you are attacked.
- Tether: Binds the pet to a 10-block radius around its current position.
- Shears: Crouch + right-click to release the pet back into the wild.
- Goat Horn: Crouch + use to teleport ALL your owned pets to your side instantly.
Entity Conversion and Pet Safety
Petting handles entity conversions gracefully. If a zombie pet drowns and turns into a drowned, all its data — owner, name, AI modes, equipment, and even bed bindings — transfers to the new form. This prevents heartbreak when a creeper gets struck by lightning and becomes a charged variant; your companion remains yours.
Pet safety is paramount. All tamed pets are immune to fall damage, fire, and lava. They never attack each other, and they regenerate health while sitting (configurable, default 1 HP every 2 seconds). The Pet Bed block is the ultimate safety net: bind a pet to a bed, and upon death, the death is canceled. The pet teleports to the bed, heals fully, and waits for you. It’s an infinite respawn system that eliminates the grief of losing a beloved companion.
Hidden Combat Mechanics and Boss Pets
The mod tweaks AI for combat harmony. Tamed Withers won’t fire skulls while idle, and pets will automatically clear hostile mobs targeting you. Tamed Wardens have their anger continuously cleared, preventing accidental sonic booms against your own base. Boss pets like the Wither and Ender Dragon receive special treatment: the dragon’s health bar is hidden once tamed, and you can ride it into battle while firing projectiles. A config option even hides boss bars for all tamed bosses, preserving immersion.
Advanced Categories and Attributes
To prevent a zoo from crashing your server, Petting introduces categories. You can group mobs (e.g., “Undead” for zombies and skeletons) and set shared limits. Custom attributes like petting:max_pets or category-specific limits integrate with gear mods, allowing players to increase their pet cap through equipment. This system gives server admins fine control without sacrificing the fun of collecting rare companions.
Admin Commands and NBT Integration
For map-makers and server operators, the /pet command instantly tames any mob for a specified player. You can also summon pre-tamed mobs using vanilla NBT tags: /summon zombie ~ ~ ~ {ForgeData: {pettingtamed: 1b, ownerUUID: "YOUR-UUID-HERE"}}. Mobs summoned this way automatically have hostile AI disabled and are linked to you, perfect for adventure map setups.
Complete Configuration Control
Every feature is tweakable in config/petting-common.toml. Adjust taming chance, enable health scaling, whitelist or blacklist mobs, toggle riding requirements, set inventory permissions, and fine-tune all interaction tools. The mod respects both server-wide rules and per-player preferences, making it adaptable to any playstyle.
Why Petting Changes Everything
Petting transforms Minecraft from a lonely survival experience into a team-based adventure where every mob has potential. The depth of its mechanics — from strategic taming conditions to intricate AI management — keeps the system engaging long after the first tame. Whether you’re building a dragon-riding sky fortress or a humble farm guarded by iron golems, this mod adds layers of companionship that feel both rewarding and balanced. The configuration options ensure it fits seamlessly into modpacks, and the safety features mean you’ll never lose a friend to a stray creeper blast again.
With Petting, the world of Minecraft becomes your personal menagerie. Grab your golden wheat, craft a pet bed, and start recruiting. The only limit is your imagination — and maybe the server’s pet cap.
--- **Update Jul 2, 2026:** Added 4 files for version 1.20.1 (Forge, Fabric).