Better Pets

Mod id betterpets · Minecraft 26.3 · Fabric, Forge, NeoForge · Requires Mycel · Server side.

Owning a dog, cat, parrot or horse, done right. /pets lists every pet you own and where it is, even when it sits in a chunk nobody has loaded for hours. Find a pet with a glow and an arrow above your hotbar, call it to you, rename it without a name tag, or give it to a friend. Your own sword no longer hurts your pets, a lead on your pet never snaps, and when a pet dies you get the exact spot. It runs on the server, so players need nothing installed.

A wolf, cat, parrot and horse sitting on grass in front of the player, with the /pets list in chat: five pets with health, sitting state, distance, direction and find, call and name buttons. — `/pets`: every pet with health, what it is doing, how far away it is, and buttons.

How it works

The pet list, finding, calling, naming, giving, protection, leads, and death alerts.

Features

Tweak it

Nine server settings: switch any feature off, change the cooldown and glow time.

Configuration

Questions

Which animals count, unloaded chunks, renaming, and who needs the mod.

FAQ

The short version

/pets lists your pets: health, sitting or on a lead, distance and direction. Hover the distance for coordinates, click to copy them.
/pets find Rex makes Rex glow and puts Rex ↑→ 23 m above your hotbar until you reach him.
/pets call Rex teleports him to you. /pets name 2 Luna names pet number 2 without a name tag. /pets give Rex Steve hands him over.
Your hits, sweeps and arrows no longer hurt your own pets. Sneak if you really mean it.
A pet on your lead is pulled along when you sprint, fly or fall, instead of the lead snapping.
When a pet dies you get ☠ Rex died at -129 66 -36 (overworld), and it stays in the list until you forget it.
Server-side only: install it on the server (or in singleplayer). Vanilla clients get every feature.

Quick links

Installing (remember the Mycel jar too)
Commands (/pets and live config reload)
Changelog