Tired of lag caused by massive animal farms? Animal Pens lets you store animals in specialized pens, aquariums and aviaries while keeping full functionality!
No more overcrowded barns - keep your animals neatly contained while still breeding, shearing, milking, and collecting drops like normal.
✔️ Animal Cage & Container – Capture land animals with the Animal Cage and water creatures with the Animal Container.
✔️ Feeding animals acts as breeding – No need for free-roaming animals, just feed them inside their pen!
✔️ Most vanilla interactions(1) are possible, including:
🗡️ Animal farming for loot
✂️ Shearing sheep
🥛 Milking cows, mooshrooms, and goats
🍄 Collecting mushroom stew from mooshrooms
🐝 Bee pollen regeneration
🐢 Turtle scutes dropping based on settings
🖌️ Brush scutes from armadillo
🧺 Water bucket to pick up fishes or axolotls
✔️ Custom Interactions:
🔹 Chickens, Turtles and Sniffers – Use a bucket to collect eggs.
🔹 Turtles – Drop scutes after feeding (configurable timing).
🔹 Sniffers – Require a bowl to drop seeds.
🔹 Fish Feeding – Fish eat kelp & seagrass, while other water creatures eat fish.
🔹 Frogs – Drop Frog Lights when fed a Magma Cube.
✔️ Variant Storage & Selection
• Picking up an animal saves its variant inside the cage.
• Right-click an empty-handed pen to view stored variants.
• If visual animal growing is enabled, you can adjust the display size of the animals.
• You can adjust the minimal amount of animals that should be protected from killing.
• You can toggle if animal pen/aquarium should be interactable only by you.
✔️ Releasing animals by crouch clicking on ground.
✔️ Animal Pens, Aquariums and Aviaries can send Redstone signal with comparator.
✔️ Dispenser can be used on Animal Pens, Aquariums and Aviaries with certain tools.
(1) Features not added:
Any animal transformation
Any animal interaction with other entities
Easily adjust gameplay with the mod’s configuration file [config/animal_pen_config.json], allowing you to tweak:
🗡️ Attack cooldown - Allows to change how fast players can kill animals in pen.
📏 Animal Growth System (Optional):
• If enabled, more animals = larger pen display.
• Adjustable growth multiplier.
🎨 Stored Variants – Allows to change how many variants can be stored per pen.
These tags define which items can attack their respective blocks:
animal_pen:can_attack_aquarium– Items in this tag can attack the Aquarium block.animal_pen:can_attack_pen– Items in this tag can attack the Animal Pen block.animal_pen:can_attack_aviary– Items in this tag can attack the Aviary block.
To allow custom_knife and modded_dagger to attack pens, create the following file in your datapack:
Path: your_custom_datapack/data/animal_pen/tags/items/can_attack_pen.json
Path: your_custom_datapack/data/animal_pen/tags/item/can_attack_pen.json
{
"replace": false,
"values": [
"mod1_id:custom_knife",
"mod2_id:modded_dagger"
]
}
This allows custom weapons to be used for attacking animal pens and aquariums.
These tags define which items can attack their respective blocks:
animal_pen:animal_cage_pickable– Mobs that can be picked up by Animal Cage.animal_pen:bird_catcher_pickable– Mobs that can be picked up by Bird Catcher.animal_pen:water_mob_container_pickable– Mobs that can be picked up by Water Animal Container.
Path: <your_custom_datapack>/data/animal_pen/tags/entity_types/animal_cage_pickable.json
Path: <your_custom_datapack>/data/animal_pen/tags/entity_type/animal_cage_pickable.json
You can also add or change interactions each animal. You can do it with data packs.
To add animal interaction you need to create a file: <your_custom_datapack>/data/<your_data_pack_id>/animal_interactions/<your_interaction>.json
To change animal interaction you need to change animal file: <your_custom_datapack>/data/minecraft/animal_interactions/<entity_id>.json
The interaction definition you can check at: [Wiki] (https://github.com/BONNePlayground/AnimalPen/wiki/Animal-Interaction)
Use these commands (server moderators) to manage the mod:
💾 /animal_pen reset – Resets the config file to default values.
🔄 /animal_pen reload – Reloads the config file without restarting the game.
📌 Architectury API (Required).
📖 Patchouli (Optional, adds an in-game guidebook).
📖 ClothConfigAPI (Optional, adds config editing GUI).
Credit to Breadcrumb5550 for the mod’s blocks and items!
With Animal Pens, you can reduce lag, keep your farms organized, and maintain full interactivity!