Critters and Companions

2.7.0 (2026-08-14)

✨ Features

• add config option to prevent hostiles from spawning in lush caves (1a133f1)
• add custom spawning logic for critters in lush caves (8725d33)
• add migration strategy to new config defaults (81cefb3)
• add new baby variants (a6216e3)
• add recipe to turn clams into bone meal (879fac3)
• add recipe to turn snail slime bottles into slime balls (7237c24)
• dragonfly: add netherite armor (e55280e)
• grappling-hook: add config option for disabling durability (f7cc3cb)
• leaf-insect: will eat dropped leaf block items, dropping an item from the block's loot table (b8c02fe)
• new sitting and sleeping behaviours for ferrets and red pandas (3fcd2ea)
• shima-enaga: add wing flapping sounds (8dfa01f)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• don't generate silk cocoons in water (f49c91f)
• dumbo-octopus: correctly play bubble pop sound (169d754)
• dumbo-octopus: resolve bubble not being visible (90a1074)
• ferret: don't attack tamed animals (9857254), closes #179
• make netherite dragonfly armor smithable (c564d17)
• otter: resolve baby floating animation glitch (64e6d50)
• otter: resolve infinite eating fish without food component glitch (4336162)
• red-panda: resolve animation head rotation issues (606024b)
• red-panda: resolve scaring animation glitch (f0743d5)
• remove untamed/unnamed animals when far away (10c162a)
• resolve potential issue with custom loot modifiers (9fb25f4)
• resolve potential network issues (737ff4e)
• roly-poly: resolve potential animation controller error (6f0fdb2)
• sea-bunny: correctly spawn on ocean floor instead of floating in water (102af86)
• silk-lead: resolve visual issues (86ac75c)
• snail: lower move speed threshold to display walking animation (7e7fb7c)
• stag-beetle: prevent knockback on death so the animation looks good (f4e795d)
• trinkets compatibility (69ff4c2)
• weevil: make sitting animation snap (8b3ab5b)

⚙️ Tweaks

• acorn: change drop rate to match saplings (e2d355f)
• acorn: make compostable with 30% chance (7b5296e)
• adjust mobs' panicking behaviour to match vanilla's (f891676)
• dragonfly: make float in water (12f48a8)
• dragonfly: make netherite armor grant +16 armor (ff7d703)
• dumbo-octopus: add particles when bubbling players (46da222)
• grappling-hook: adjust grappling behaviour (4b4512a)
• grappling-hook: change config default max speed to 2 (a42efcb)
• grappling-hook: increase base durability to 256 (ff36f66)
• grappling-hook: make item enchantable with unbreakable and mending (d1b39bd)
• grappling-hook: reduce fall damage according to y-velocity (ac3d617)
• jumping-spider: add up to 2 spider eye drops on death (c8ed71a)
• jumping-spider: change mob category to ambient (9d71ae8)
• jumping-spider: improve leaping mechanics (7f7ace9)
• jumping-spider: reduce taken fall damage (fd4402a)
• leaf-insect: overlay eating animation instead of replacing others outright (b682022)
• make crafting silk to string yield 2 string (d23ee20)
• make mobs avoid dangers (882b6d2)
• prevent behaviours from healing dying mobs (cee9d2e)
• prevent silk cocoon generation below y60, except in lush cave biomes (b8234ef)
• red-panda: update scaring animation (31388b6)
• reduce probability for jockeys by half (a7269ab)
• roly-poly: increase health slightly (e7e8f1e)
• roly-poly: update textures for variants 3 and 6 (2f97e42)
• round up to full hearts when max health of babies is penalized (95be066)
• snail: adjust following and teleporting ranges (c4f6419)
• snail: increase health slightly (540c4af)
• stag-beetle: make babies also attack enemies (10b2262)
• stick-bug: increase movement speed for babies (9bb6546)
• update textures (2cf119f)
• weevil: rename to "Acorn Weevil" (b5ca1e2)