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Caged Mobs

by Corgam · for Minecraft

Tired of chasing mobs? Imprison all those pesky mobs in cages and easily collect their drops!

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LGPL-2.1-onlyLicense
Forge · NeoForgeLoaders

About Caged Mobs

From Modrinth

Tired of chasing mobs? Imprison all those pesky mobs in cages and easily collect their drops!

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Tired of chasing mobs? Make it a breeze with the new Mob Cages! Imprison all those pesky mobs and easily collect their drops! Sounds like fun, right?

Inspired by Bonsai Trees 2 mod (by Davenonymous) and Botany Pots (by DarkhaxDev). Thank you for your inspiration!

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🌟 Features

  • Effortless Entity Collection: Say goodbye to tedious farming. Caged Mobs offers a smooth and lag-free method to gather drops from your favorite entities!
  • Boss Farming: Take on mighty foes like the Wither, Ender Dragon, Warden, and Elder Guardian. Yes, you can now farm bosses!
  • Configurability: Modpack makers, we've got you covered. Our server config allows you to blacklist entities, items, and even disable hopping mob cages. Players on slower computers can customize their experience with client config options like disabling particles.
  • Endless Entity Variety and Unique Environments: Enjoy access to over 75 entities from vanilla Minecraft and supported mods, complemented by 16 distinct cage environments, each with its own growth modifiers, for boundless possibilities.
  • Upgrade System: Enhance your cages with various upgrades, including Cooking, Lightning, Speed, and Fortune upgrades, to tailor your experience.
  • Datapacks & Craft Tweaker Support: For those who want to add their own touch, we offer datapack and CraftTweaker support to introduce new entities and environments.
  • JEI, HWYLA, Jade, and The One Probe support for quicker information reading!

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🚀 Getting started

  1. Begin by crafting one of two types of mob cages: a normal one, for manual harvesting, or a hopping mob cage, which puts drops in the inventory below.
  1. Populate the cage with an item that creates the perfect environment for your chosen entity, so they can feel at home … kinda, without being imprisoned of course. Example environments include:
  • Hay blocks (animals and neutral mobs),
  • Stone blocks (monsters),
  • Magma blocks (nether mobs),
  • Sand blocks (desert and underwater mobs),
  • Snow blocks (cold biome mobs),
  • End stone (end mobs), and more (for other environments, look at the JEI recipes)!
  1. Use a DNA Sampler to capture your desired entity. Some entities may require stronger samplers!
  1. Watch as your entity grows and effortlessly collects its drops.

Finally, enhance your cages with a range of upgrades, including the Cooking Upgrade for automatic cooking of cookable drops, the Lighting Upgrade to collect drops requiring lightning strikes (e.g., mob heads), the Arrow Upgrade for arrow-based entity killing (great for obtaining music discs from Creepers), and Speed and Fortune Upgrades for increased efficiency.

For comprehensive information on supported mobs, environments, sampler requirements, and entity drops, we recommend using the JEI mod!

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🌐 Mod support

Caged Mobs utilizes the vanilla datapack system with predefined JSON files for entities and environments. Mod developers can add built-in support for Caged Mobs using their mod's data folder. Discover more on the official Caged Mobs Wiki.

Currently Supported Mods:

  • Twilight Forest (7 bosses, 37 entities, 3 new environments)
  • Fire and Ice: Dragons (8 bosses, 20 entities, 4 new environments)
  • Tinkers' Construct (4 entities, 4 new environments)
  • Botania (1 boss, 1 new environment)
  • Quark (8 entities, 3 additional drops)
  • Reliquary (21 additional drops)
  • Thermal Foundation (3 entities)
  • Aquaculture 2 (32 entities)
  • Upgrade Aquatic (9 entities)
  • Mowzie's Mobs (3 bosses and 6 entities) (ShootToKillSTK's contribution. Thanks!)
  • Mystical World (8 entities) (ShootToKillSTK's contribution. Thanks!)
  • Alex's Mobs (2 bosses, 4 new environments, and 49 entities) (ShootToKillSTK's contribution. Thanks!)
  • Bountiful Baubles (5 additional drops)
  • Greek Fantasy (10 bosses, 23 entities)
  • Better Default Biomes (14 entities)
  • Outvoted (3 entities) (ShootToKillSTK's contribution. Thanks!)
  • Autumnity (2 entities)
  • HunterIllager (1 entity), Direbats (1 entity), Lava Monsters (1 entity)
  • And more!

While we welcome your mod suggestions, we can't support every mod due to the vast selection available. Instead, use Datapacks and CraftTweaker to add your desired mod support. Check the Caged Mob's wiki for assistance.

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📢 Additional Information

Join our official Discord server for discussion and to share feedback, ideas, and datapacks!

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📜 Permissions

Read the full description on Modrinth →

Highlights

From source data

Game versions

Supports 8 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.20.2.

Loaders

Runs on Forge and NeoForge.

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

Caged Mobs 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, NeoForge
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
1.20.2-2.0.7, released 2024-01-04

Game versions by loader

LoaderGame versionsNewest
Forge1.20.21.20.2
NeoForge1.20.21.20.2

From 5 recorded builds of Caged Mobs.

Recent builds

BuildReleasedGame versionsLoaders
1.20.2-2.0.72024-01-041.20.2NeoForge
1.20.2-2.0.72024-01-041.20.2Forge
1.20.2-2.0.62023-12-271.20.2NeoForge
1.20.2-2.0.62023-12-271.20.2Forge
1.20.2-2.0.52023-12-111.20.2Forge

Run Caged Mobs 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 catalog
Listed on Modrinth as “Mods”

Creatures & NPCs

Adds or changes creatures, NPCs and how they behave.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Modrinth lists Caged Mobs as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Compatibility

Game
Minecraft
Loaders
ForgeNeoForge
Runs on
Serverrequired on the server
Game versions
1.20.2 and 7 earlier

Verified at the source

  • ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
  • ✓AuthorCorgam, as published on Modrinth
  • ✓LicenseLGPL-2.1-onlyFree

Caged Mobs, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Caged Mobs?

Modrinth lists Caged Mobs as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Which loaders does it support?

Forge and NeoForge.

Is it free?

Yes. Caged Mobs is free to download from Modrinth. Its license is LGPL-2.1-only.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

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