About Ambient Additions
From ModrinthAdds more atmospheric critters to your world!
🐌 Ambient Additions 🦀
This mod adds ambient life to your world and utilities to catch them. The mod includes various fully-animated animals, ranging from adorable corgis to radially-symmetric starfish, shy crabs, and miniature armadillos. The aim is to introduce more fauna into your world, in order to fuel players' zoos and critter-catching habits!
🎯 Critter-Catching: Blowguns, Darts, and Crates!
In order to aid you in collecting and transporting animals, a multitude of the mod's animals are able to be put in buckets, pots, bottles, or bowls. Along with this, we have also added a set of items to sedate and crate any animal in general, especially those that cannot be caught by other means.
Crates are a new form of animal transport.
- Empty Crates can be used on sedated entities by right-clicking on them to capture them.
- Entities can be placed from crates by right-clicking again.
- Crates will gain a new texture and enchantment glint when containing a mob and will state the mob contained as a tooltip.
Blowguns & Darts allow you to sedate mobs for capture.
- Blowguns are ranged weapons that use darts as ammunition.
- They can be charged similarly to a bow, and fire a single dart projectile accordingly.
- Darts inflict a single level of "stun" on a mob.
After a certain number of stuns, a mob will enter a sedated mode for 30 seconds, during which it will display sleepy particles. The number of stuns required to sedate a mob scales with it's health.
Stun requirements
2.5 hearts = 1 stun 5 hearts = 2 stuns 10 hearts = 3 stuns 25 hearts = 4 stuns 25+ hearts = 5 stunsCredits
NinniH for assetwork, code and sounds OmayPaty for assetwork GRAUS for assetwork magmastrider#3837 (from our discord) for screenshots fool#1369 (from our discord) for screenshots
& special thanks to BisectHosting for sponsoring us! 
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 2 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.20.1.
Loaders
Runs on Forge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Ambient Additions on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server type needed
- Forge
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 1.20.1-1.1.2, released 2025-09-20
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Forge | 1.20 to 1.20.1 (2 versions) | 1.20.1 |
From 4 recorded builds of Ambient Additions.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.20.1-1.1.2 | 2025-09-20 | 1.20 to 1.20.1 (2 versions) | Forge |
| 1.20.1-1.1.1 | 2025-06-14 | 1.20 to 1.20.1 (2 versions) | Forge |
| 1.20.1-1.1.0 | 2024-11-01 | 1.20 to 1.20.1 (2 versions) | Forge |
| 1.20.1-1.0.0 | 2024-10-29 | 1.20 to 1.20.1 (2 versions) | Forge |
Run Ambient Additions on a Minecraft server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogGameplay & overhauls
New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Ambient Additions as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- Forge
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 1.20.1 and 1 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓Authorcodyhuh, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLGPL-3.0-onlyFree
