
Crop Critters
An overhaul to vanilla farming, adding weeds and animated crops to help or hinder your farming adventure!
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About this Mod

Tired of uneventful vanilla farming?
Crop Critters adds all-new levels of challenge,
from basic weed management to constructing a friendly
team of soul-possesed crops to work on your farm!
WIKI
Features
- Lost Souls can bring crops to life. Each crop critter can help your farm or be a nuisance to take care of
- Also lets you bring life back to slime blocks
- Weeds can grow and take over your farm. Different soils, biomes, and events can result in different weeds with unique effects
- The Lost Soul in a Bottle can help you know when weeds have appeared nearby
- Bushes can be grown and trimmed
- Strange fertilizer can revive coral and grow randoms plants
- Seed Balls can help plant fields faster, or be used as a weapon
- Crafting the seed ball with different seeds lets you choose what to plant
- Poisonous potatoes add poison to the ball
- The Soul Rose, a multi-block with 3 unique powerful effects
- Crops suck nutrients from the ground when they mature
- Crops can be placed on most normal plant-friendly blocks
If you are a modpack maker, the mod should work with other farming mods, and most functionality uses tags that can be extended as needed.
NOTE: There is a minor graphical issue with some shaders (BSL & Bliss)
Credits
Josh/Joosh - Models & Animations
Fritz - Textures
Bee - 1.1.0 Textures
Yelf42 - Code
Available Versions
How to Install Crop Critters on Your Server
Order Server
Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).
Set fabric Loader
In the panel under "Egg", select the fabric loader and matching Minecraft version (26.1.2).
Install Mod
Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Crop Critters". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
26.1.2, 1.21.11, 1.21.10 (+3 more)
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
4 GB(min. 3 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
Crop Critters server crashes on startup – what to do?
Most common cause: wrong fabric 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 (26.1.2). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.
Is Crop Critters compatible with fabric and forge and neoforge?
Crop Critters officially supports fabric, forge, neoforge for Minecraft 26.1.2, 1.21.11, 1.21.10. Note: Forge and Fabric mods are NOT cross-compatible – pick one loader and stick with it. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with Crop Critters – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Crop Critters 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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