Variants & Ventures adds multiple new mob variants seamlessly integrated into your Minecraft world.

You can check wiki for a detailed overview of implemented mobs and features.

Gelid (Frozen Zombie)

Gelid is a new zombie variant that inflicts freezing when it attacks. You can find the gelid in cold biomes.

Other features related to the gelid:

Gelid Head block/item
Possibility of Gelid monster spawner in the cold biomes

Thicket (Jungle Zombie)

Thicket is a new zombie variant that inflicts poison when it attacks. You can find the thicket in the jungle biomes.

Other features related to the thicket:

Thicket Head block/item
Possibility of Thicket monster spawner in the jungle biomes

Verdant (Jungle Skeleton)

Verdant is a new skeleton variant that fires poison-tipped arrows. You can find the verdant in the jungle biomes.

Other features related to the verdant:

Verdant Head block/item
Possibility of Verdant monster spawner in the jungle biomes

Murk (Sunken Skeleton)

Murk is a new skeleton variant that lives underwater. You can find the murk in the warm ocean biomes.

Other features related to the murk:

Murk Skull block/item
Can be sheader for live and/or dead corals

🗿 Other features

Improved Stray spawning logic
Possibility of Stray monster spawners
Improved Husk spawning logic
Possibility of Husk monster spawners
Experimental keyframe animations for all zombie and skeleton variants

⚙️ Compatibility

Variants & Ventures is designed to be fully compatible with all mods, and should work out of the box with everything. For example mobs will spawn in modded biomes and will be affected by Fresh Animations.

Mod is fully configurable, every feature in the mod can be freely enabled or disabled via the config file or the in game config.

💬 Community

You can join our community at the discord server to chat, share your creations, ask any question or to simply be updated about the latest development of the mod and notified when the new release is out. Also don't hesitate to report any crash or bug via GitHub issues.

👋 Support

I will continue developing my mods as a hobby because I truly enjoy it. If you'd like to support me, you can do so on Patreon or Ko-fi. Your support is greatly appreciated.

📜 License

The mod is licensed with CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

Please feel free to explore my code for examples of how I've tackled and solved various challenges while developing this mod. You're welcome to incorporate code snippets into your own projects. Also feel free to use this mod in any modpack (although credit/link back to this page will be greatly appreciated).