About Companion 🐕
From ModrinthMechanics to avoid losing your pets, but do not break the vanilla feel
Companion 🐕
This mod adds various mechanics to avoid losing your pets, to enhance game experience.
Features:
- Pets will follow you when you teleport or enter a portal
- Your leashed mobs will follow you when you enter a portal
- Pets will be forced to teleport to you if it is about to be unloaded
- Pets won't attack enemies if their health is lower than 20%
- Pets will teleport to your back if their health is lower than 20%
- Pets won't enter a portal unless it is close to you
- Parrots won't dismount from your shoulder when you are floating on the water
- Parrots won't dismount from your shoulder unless you jump in place
- Sweeping Edge effect won't hurt your pets
- Pet friendly fire game rule
All these features can be disabled and configured if you have installed Kiwi. Besides, in-game config UI is provided if you have installed Cloth Config
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 9 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.1.2.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Companion 🐕 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
- Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, Quilt
- 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
- 6.3.0+neoforge (beta), released 2026-09-08
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| NeoForge | 1.21.1 to 26.1.2 (4 versions) | 26.1.2 |
| Fabric | 26.1 to 26.1.2 (3 versions) | 26.1.2 |
| Quilt | 26.1 to 26.1.2 (3 versions) | 26.1.2 |
From 5 recorded builds of Companion 🐕.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.3.0+neoforge beta | 2026-09-08 | 1.21.1 | NeoForge |
| 26.0.7+neoforge beta | 2026-09-07 | 26.1 to 26.1.2 (3 versions) | NeoForge |
| 26.0.7+fabric beta | 2026-09-07 | 26.1 to 26.1.2 (3 versions) | Fabric, Quilt |
| 26.0.7+fabric beta | 2026-09-07 | 26.1 to 26.1.2 (3 versions) | Fabric, Quilt |
| 6.2.2+neoforge | 2026-06-26 | 1.21.1 | NeoForge |
Run Companion 🐕 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 catalogListed on Modrinth as “Mods”
Creatures & NPCs
Adds or changes creatures, NPCs and how they behave.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Companion 🐕 as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- FabricForgeNeoForgeQuilt
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.1.2 and 8 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorSnownee, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLicenseRef-All-Rights-ReservedFree
