About Fowl Play
From ModrinthAdding more birds to your Minecraft world!
Fowl Play
Fowl Play is a mod that aims to improve Minecraft's ambience and make the world seem more alive, adding birds with realistic behaviours, sounds, and flying mechanics
Far from fluttering parrots and chickens, Fowl Play's birds can all take to the skies, be it hawks soaring majestically or sparrows darting between trees
Some birds provide much-needed ambience to forests, others can be tamed to help players, and all of them interact to create a living ecosystem!
FAQ
Where can I find information about the birds?
You can visit the wiki here, although it's currently under construction. In the future, I plan to add in-game documentation for the various birds as well.
I found a bug! My game crashed!
You can report bugs and crashes here!
Can I use this mod in my modpack?
Sure! Just make sure to credit me and link back to this page.
I have a question! I have a suggestion!
You can talk about the mod in my GitHub Discussions.
Features
Birds:
- Penguins (Emperor penguin)
- Gulls (Herring gull, ring-billed gull)
- Robins (American robin)
- Pigeons (Rock pigeon — with various colour and pattern variants)
- Cardinals (Northern cardinal)
- Blue Jays
- Old world Sparrows (House sparrow)
- Chickadees (Black-capped chickadee)
- Ravens (Common raven)
- Ducks (Mallard duck)
- Hawks (Red-tailed hawk)
- Crows (American/carrion crow)
- Geese (Greylag goose, canada goose, swan goose, emden goose, chinese goose)
Other:
- Updated chicken model with more variants (configurable)
- Scarecrows
Planned
- Old world Vultures (Griffon vulture, lappet-faced vulture)
- Ostriches (Common ostrich)
- Owls (Great horned owl, snowy owl, barn owl)
- Eagles (Bald eagle, golden eagle)
- Woodpeckers (Downy woodpecker, pileated woodpecker, yellow-bellied sapsucker)
- Falcons (Peregrine falcon, gyrfalcon, American kestrel)
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 4 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.21.1.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Fowl Play 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
- 1.2.3+1.20.1-forge, released 2026-08-04
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Fabric | 1.20.1 to 1.21.1 (2 versions) | 1.21.1 |
| Forge | 1.20.1 | 1.20.1 |
| NeoForge | 1.21.1 | 1.21.1 |
From 5 recorded builds of Fowl Play.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2.3+1.20.1-forge | 2026-08-04 | 1.20.1 | Forge |
| 1.2.3+1.20.1-fabric | 2026-08-04 | 1.20.1 | Fabric |
| 1.2.3+1.21.1-fabric | 2026-08-04 | 1.21.1 | Fabric |
| 1.2.3+1.21.1-neoforge | 2026-08-04 | 1.21.1 | NeoForge |
| 1.2.2+1.20.1-forge | 2026-07-31 | 1.20.1 | Forge |
Run Fowl Play 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 Fowl Play 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
- 1.21.1 and 3 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓Authoraqario, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseMITFree
