Happy Creeper

Short summary:

Turn creepers into survival companions by weakening, taming, healing, recoloring, and fighting alongside them.

Overview

Happy Creeper is a NeoForge mod for Minecraft 1.21.1 that gives creepers a full companion gameplay loop.

Instead of only running from them, you can approach them safely with a creeper head, weaken them with a special biscuit, tame them, and keep them with you as a combat companion.

This mod is built around survival-friendly mechanics rather than creative-only gimmicks.

How It Works

• Wear a Creeper Head to get close safely.
• Feed the creeper an Anti-Blast Biscuit to weaken it.
• Feed the weakened creeper a Sweet Gunpowder Biscuit to tame it.
• Right-click your tamed creeper with an empty hand to switch between follow and stay.
• Heal it with Gunpowder or another Sweet Gunpowder Biscuit.
• Tamed Creeper Features
• Follows its owner and can be told to stay
• Teleports back if it gets left behind
• Changes dimension with its owner
• Resyncs after the owner respawns
• Defends the owner from hostile mobs
• Attacks mobs the owner is fighting
• Uses a small contact blast attack instead of normal self-destruction
• Dies with a larger non-destructive final explosion
• Has increased health compared to a normal creeper
• Visual Features
• Weakened creepers show a continuous visual effect
• Tamed creepers use a custom happy green texture by default
• Tamed creepers can be recolored with dyes
• ✨ Biscuit unlocks a smooth ✨ mode that cycles through colored creeper textures

Items

• Biscuit
• Anti-Blast Biscuit
• Sweet Gunpowder Biscuit
• ✨ Biscuit

Current Release Notes

This release is intended as an alpha playtest build.

The full taming loop is implemented and playable, but balance and polish are still in progress.

License summary

• You may use this mod freely.
• You may include the original unmodified jar in modpacks, launchers, mirrors, and server packs.
• You may not publish modified versions without my written permission.
• Approved derivatives must include credit and a link to the official project page.

Requirements

NeoForge mod for the Minecraft versions listed on this page. Requires Java 21.