
Ambient Additions
Adds more atmospheric critters to your world!
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About this Mod
🐌 Ambient Additions 🦀
This mod adds ambient life to your world and utilities to catch them. The mod includes various fully-animated animals, ranging from adorable corgis to radially-symmetric starfish, shy crabs, and miniature armadillos. The aim is to introduce more fauna into your world, in order to fuel players' zoos and critter-catching habits!
🎯 Critter-Catching: Blowguns, Darts, and Crates!
In order to aid you in collecting and transporting animals, a multitude of the mod's animals are able to be put in buckets, pots, bottles, or bowls. Along with this, we have also added a set of items to sedate and crate any animal in general, especially those that cannot be caught by other means.

Crates are a new form of animal transport.
- Empty Crates can be used on sedated entities by right-clicking on them to capture them.
- Entities can be placed from crates by right-clicking again.
- Crates will gain a new texture and enchantment glint when containing a mob and will state the mob contained as a tooltip.
Blowguns & Darts allow you to sedate mobs for capture.
- Blowguns are ranged weapons that use darts as ammunition.
- They can be charged similarly to a bow, and fire a single dart projectile accordingly.
- Darts inflict a single level of "stun" on a mob.

After a certain number of stuns, a mob will enter a sedated mode for 30 seconds, during which it will display sleepy particles.
The number of stuns required to sedate a mob scales with it's health.

Stun requirements
2.5 hearts = 1 stun 5 hearts = 2 stuns 10 hearts = 3 stuns 25 hearts = 4 stuns 25+ hearts = 5 stunsCredits
NinniH for assetwork, code and sounds
OmayPaty for assetwork
GRAUS for assetwork
magmastrider#3837 (from our discord) for screenshots
fool#1369 (from our discord) for screenshots
& special thanks to BisectHosting for sponsoring us! 
Available Versions
How to Install Ambient Additions on Your Server
Order Server
Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).
Set forge Loader
In the panel under "Egg", select the forge loader and matching Minecraft version (1.20.1).
Install Mod
Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Ambient Additions". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
1.20.1, 1.20
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
4 GB(min. 3 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
Ambient Additions server crashes on startup – what to do?
Most common cause: wrong forge version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.20.1). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.
Is Ambient Additions compatible with forge?
Ambient Additions officially supports forge for Minecraft 1.20.1, 1.20. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with Ambient Additions – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Ambient Additions consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.
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