Mob Wrangler

Mob Wrangler

Ride and control more mobs like the Ravager, Sniffer, Zoglin, Phantom & more! Survival friendly.

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Screenshots

Flying a phantom
Riding a Ravager
Wrangler Rod Recipe

About this Mod

❗I RECOMMEND USING THE DATAPACK VERSION FOR THE BEST EXPERIENCE

Mob Wrangler 🤠

Minecraft needs more mount options! This datapack allows you to ride many more mobs and some even have special abilities.

🐻‍❄️FEATURES:

  • Ride and control supported mobs.
  • Use special abilities with some mobs when you toot a goat horn!
  • Craft a Wrangler Rod with 3 sticks and 1 lead.
  • In-game achievements with helpful info.
  • If succesfully wrangled a hostile mob, it will become "tamed" and wont attack you.
  • Mobs can swim!
  • Survival & multiplayer friendly!

🐸SUPPORTED MOBS:

  • goat
  • ravager
  • panda
  • polar bear
  • sniffer
  • zoglin
  • hoglin
  • turtle
  • frog
  • chicken
  • phantom
  • ghast
  • ocelot
  • spider
  • cave spider

🤔HOW TO USE:

Attach a fishing bobber from a Wrangler Rod on one of the supported mobs and pull it in to ride it! You have to get the mob close enough (1-2 blocks distance) to get on. Be careful with hostile mobs, but if you do manage to ride it it will no longer be aggressive towards players.

Wrangler Rod Recipe

📯SPECIAL ABILITIES:

Ravager:

  • breaks leaf blocks and crops (vanilla feature).
  • attacks villagers.

Goat:

  • toot a goat horn to make the goat ram in the direction you're looking.

Frog:

  • toot a goat horn to make the frog jump in the direction you're looking.

Phantom:

  • can fly!
  • after its tamed it will not burn in the day and it will stay in one place when dismounted.
  • if you're not holding a wrangler rod while riding it will auto return to its "return point".
  • toot a goat horn to set the point where the phantom will return to on its own.

Ghast:

  • can fly!
  • toot a goat horn to spawn a fireball, you have to punch it to shoot it.

Spider & Cave Spider:

  • can climb walls.

Turtle:

  • can swim underwater.

Any mobs that don't have a specific ability with the goat horn will jump when you toot it.

🎨CUSTOMIZATION:

You can very easily allow more mobs to be ridden, the datapack is made in a way that it works on basically any mob, these are just the only ones I set it to work with. To change that you need to go into the datapack zip file, then go data/mobwrangler/tags/entity_type and there you will find some files.

Add a mob by adding its name to the end of the text, like "minecraft:bat". Add a comma to the one before it. The "rideable" file contains all the mobs that can be ridden, if you want the mob to also have a special ability like swimming underwater, flying or climbing then add it to those files as well.
Example for how to add a mob support

❌UNINSTALLATION:

If you don't end up liking the pack it should be fine to just remove it, there isn't anything that can break, however mobs changed by it will still be affected. Ravagers will stay pacified

INCOMPATIBILITIES:

This pack uses teams to make hostile mobs you're riding not attack players, so if anything you have uses teams as well its possible things could get messy.

❕SUMMARY:

This datapack gives a lot more options for mounts, some being just for fun and some being useful situationally! Phantoms are great for exploring, turtles are good for underwater, zoglins are just cool... ;D
If you have any questions, issues or suggestions you can DM me on Discord @Gurkis

Available Versions

1.4release
MC 1.21.2, 1.21.3, 1.21.4fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt
January 6, 2025
1.4release
MC 1.21.2, 1.21.3, 1.21.4datapack
January 6, 2025
1.3release
MC 1.21, 1.21.1datapack
October 23, 2024
1.1 1.20.5-6 FIXEDrelease
MC 1.20.5, 1.20.6datapack
August 23, 2024
v1.2 MODrelease
MC 1.21, 1.21.1fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt
August 17, 2024

How to Install Mob Wrangler on Your Server

1

Order Server

Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).

2

Set datapack Loader

In the panel under "Egg", select the datapack loader and matching Minecraft version (1.21.4).

3

Install Mod

Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Mob Wrangler". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

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Minecraft Versions

1.21.4, 1.21.3, 1.21.2 (+9 more)

Server-side

Required

Recommended RAM

4 GB(min. 3 GB)

Frequently Asked Questions

Mob Wrangler server crashes on startup – what to do?

Most common cause: wrong datapack 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 (1.21.4). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.

Is Mob Wrangler compatible with datapack and fabric and forge and neoforge and quilt?

Mob Wrangler officially supports datapack, fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt for Minecraft 1.21.4, 1.21.3, 1.21.2. 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 Mob Wrangler – how to optimize performance?

Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Mob Wrangler 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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Supported Versions

1.21.41.21.31.21.21.21.11.211.20.61.20.51.20.41.20.31.20.2+2 more