Better Pets Paper v1.4.0

🐉 Flying pets are now real, steerable mounts

You sit on your pet and steer it like a proper flying mount. The mount is moved by velocity every tick instead of being teleported, so flight is smooth, has no input lag, and collides with blocks — no more clipping inside walls.

• Look to steer, hold forward to fly, jump to climb, look down to dive, sneak to dismount.
• Tunable via flight-speed, flight-lift, and flight-pet-offset in config.yml.

🔥 Phoenix flight from level 50

Ride your Phoenix (with a flame trail) just like the dragons — this also works for existing Phoenix pets, and the catalogue now shows the level-50 flight unlock.

🐾 10 new pets — each with a real custom head

• Goblin (Epic) — cheaper villager trades (Hero of the Village) and bonus emeralds from kills.
• Bee (Rare) — Regeneration near flowers or crops (Regen II at level 80).
• Crab (Rare) — more damage and armor near water.
• Otter (Epic, rare) — water breathing and faster swimming.
• Crystal Golem (Epic) — chance for extra ores and crystals when mining.
• Pixie (Epic) — grants random small buffs over time.
• Moon Fox (Epic) — Speed and Strength at night.
• Lich (Legendary) — steals life when you kill mobs.
• Shadow Dragon (Extraordinary) — dark AoE damage aura with shadow particles; rideable from level 50.
• Ancient Elf (Extraordinary) — shortens debuffs, caps them to 2s from level 50, and nullifies all debuffs at level 100.

📖 Paginated menus

With 52 pets total, the catalogue and spawn-chances menus now have Previous/Next page buttons so every pet stays reachable.

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Requires: Paper 26.1.2, Java 21+ (Java 25 recommended with BetterModel 3.x). Drop better-pets-26.1.2-plugin.jar into your server's plugins folder.