Dodo Elephant bird Thylacine Steller's sea cow Anomalocaris Sacabambaspis Trilobite (Curly, Trident, Moon, Spiky, Itty and Fat) Ophthalmosaurus Josephoartigasia Pikaia Arandaspis Hallucigenia

Naming a Thylacine "metropolitan" will give it an alternate skin, based off of this illustration by Sheather888 of what a domesticated Thylacine could have looked like. Naming a Dodo "nugget" will give it a special skin. Naming a Trilobite "lgbt", "trans", "agender", "ace", "aro", "bi", "gay", "lesbian", "enby", "aroace", "genderfluid" or "pan" will give it that pride flag's respective colors. Naming a Pikaia "pikachu" will make its colors resemble those of the iconic Pokemon mascot

Yes. Marvelous Menagerie (DISCONTINUED) is free to download from Modrinth. Its license is MIT.

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.

Marvelous Menagerie (DISCONTINUED) — Minecraft Mods

About Marvelous Menagerie (DISCONTINUED)

From Modrinth

Yet another addon for Unusual Prehistory, adding new creatures and plants!

THIS MOD HAS NOW BEEN OFFICIALLY DISCONTINUED AND WILL NOT RECEIVE ANY MORE UPDATES IN ITS CURRENT FORM AS AN ADDON.

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE NEW MARVELOUS MENAGERIE: PARADOXICAL HERE!

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE JOIN THE DISCORD SERVER.

Marvelous Menagerie is an addon for the Unusual Prehistory mod, adding some creatures and plants I think would be neat.

Right now the mod adds 12 creatures, 3 decorative animals, one plant, one mushroom with a woodset and one new tree with its complete woodset, along with foods and tools based from some of the creatures in the mod!

For additional info about these creatures, plants and what they add check the in-game encyclopedia or join either my Discord server or Unusual Prehistory's discord server.

Warning!

Interacting with Hallucigenia might make flashing colors pop up, if you'd like to avoid this go to the mod's config!

The Creatures:

Spoiler

Dodo The dodo mod, a smal plump bird with a fluffy tail

Elephant bird The Elephant bird, a huge bird with shaggy feathers and a bald head and neck

Thylacine The Thylacine, a small orange dog-like creature with stripes along its back

Steller's sea cow The Steller's sea cow, a huge aquatic mammal, related to the manatee

Anomalocaris Anomalocaris, a strange cambrian predatorian arthropod

Sacabambaspis Sacabambaspis, a tadpole-like fish with a goofy face

Trilobite (Curly, Trident, Moon, Spiky, Itty and Fat) Trilobites, small arthropods with many shapes and sizes

Ophthalmosaurus Ophthalmosaurus, a dolphin-like aquatic reptile

Josephoartigasia Josephoartigasia, a giant relative of the Capybara

Pikaia Pikaia, the earliest chordate discovered

Arandaspis Arandaspis, the earliest fish

Hallucigenia Hallucigenia, a mysterious organism

Requires Geckolib and Unusual Prehistory.

Added support for Dye Depot and Enchantment Descriptions.

Secrets:

Spoiler

Naming a Thylacine "metropolitan" will give it an alternate skin, based off of this illustration by Sheather888 of what a domesticated Thylacine could have looked like.

Naming a Dodo "nugget" will give it a special skin.

Naming a Trilobite "lgbt", "trans", "agender", "ace", "aro", "bi", "gay", "lesbian", "enby", "aroace", "genderfluid" or "pan" will give it that pride flag's respective colors.

Naming a Pikaia "pikachu" will make its colors resemble those of the iconic Pokemon mascot

Showcases:

Spoiler

English:

Spanish:

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Portuguese:

Highlights

From source data

Game versions

Supports 6 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.20.6.

Loaders

Runs on Forge and NeoForge.

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

Marvelous Menagerie (DISCONTINUED) 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: 1.3.2-1.20.1, released 2025-01-16

Game versions by loader

Loader	Game versions	Newest
Forge	1.20.1	1.20.1
NeoForge	1.20.1	1.20.1

From 5 recorded builds of Marvelous Menagerie (DISCONTINUED).

Recent builds

Build	Released	Game versions	Loaders
1.3.2-1.20.1	2025-01-16	1.20.1	Forge
1.3.1-1.20.1	2024-12-12	1.20.1	Forge
1.3.0-1.20.1	2024-12-06	1.20.1	Forge, NeoForge
1.2.5-1.20.1	2024-10-22	1.20.1	Forge
1.2.4-1.20.1	2024-08-19	1.20.1	Forge, NeoForge

Dependencies

Required: modrinth project tHu3oHNo (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
Required: modrinth project 8BmcQJ2H (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
Optional: modrinth project dl88rsIq (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
Optional: modrinth project UVtY3ZAC (modrinth, not in our catalogue)

Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.

Run Marvelous Menagerie (DISCONTINUED) 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 Marvelous Menagerie (DISCONTINUED) 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: 1.20.6 and 5 earlier

Verified at the source

✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-02Open ↗
✓AuthorVoidArkana, as published on Modrinth
✓LicenseMITFree

Marvelous Menagerie (DISCONTINUED)

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About Marvelous Menagerie (DISCONTINUED)

THIS MOD HAS NOW BEEN OFFICIALLY DISCONTINUED AND WILL NOT RECEIVE ANY MORE UPDATES IN ITS CURRENT FORM AS AN ADDON.

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE NEW MARVELOUS MENAGERIE: PARADOXICAL HERE!