Better Pets Health

Better Pets Health makes your tamed/owned pets stop taking damage by transferring that damage to their owner instead.

Example: If your wolf is hit for 3.0, the wolf takes 0 and you take 3.0.

Works on client + dedicated server (must be installed on the server; clients can join without it unless you want config UI).

Features

• ✅ Core rule (default): Pet takes 0 damage, owner takes full damage
• ✅ Supports all owned/tameable entities that expose an owner (wolves, cats, parrots, etc.)
• ✅ Supports modded tameables via config allow/deny entity-id lists
• ✅ Optional distance limit (disabled by default)
• ✅ Damage type ignore list (prevents weird edge cases like void/fall/out-of-world)
• ✅ Message aggregation to avoid spam (actionbar by default)

Configuration (Cloth Config + AutoConfig)

This mod uses AutoConfig with Cloth Config.

Config file location:

• config/betterpetshealth.json5

Key options

• enabled (default true)
• transfer_mode:
  • TRANSFER_ONLY (default) — pet 0, player full
  • DUPLICATE — pet full + player full
  • SPLIT — split damage with percent_to_player
• ignore_if_owner_creative (default true)
• ignore_if_owner_spectator (default true)
• ignore_if_owner_offline (default true)
• distance_limit_enabled (default false)
• ignore_damage_types (default includes: in_wall, drown, fall, out_of_world, etc.)
• message_enabled (default true)
• message_mode (default ACTIONBAR)
• message_aggregate_window_ms (default 1000)
• message_cooldown_ms (default 400)

Dependencies

Required:

• Fabric API
• Cloth Config API (Fabric)

Notes / Edge Cases

• Damage only transfers if the owner is a player and online
• If the owner is creative or spectator, default behavior is no transfer (pet takes normal damage)
• Optional distance limit can restrict cross-dimension / far-away transfers

License

MIT