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Druids & Dinosaurs
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Adds Magical & Prehistoric Mobs & Blocks
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MORE COMING SOON . . . (2026)
Druids & Dinosaurs adds a plethora of mobs and blocks into the game. Harness the power of souls to create whisps, golems, and bring back ancient creatures of a legendary era! This mob is primarily for adding cute and lively creatures and blocks that have a miscellaneous utility and decorative uses. Make an ethical iron farm with Rustlings, bring back ancient mobs with the living Tuff Totem Pole, or make a cozy house made of Jade & Aloewood!
Feel free to comment any suggestions or bug reports!
Admiral_M_10K…………………..Models, Textures
VoidArkana………………………….Code, Animations
Coda1552…………………………….Code, Animations
Popopi..................................Textures for Beacon Bloom, Antler Block, Pottery (Trunk, Hart, Rebirth) and TBA: Skeleton Hart, Zombie Hart, Skeleton Villager
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MOBS
Rustling:
- Default Spawn: Factory structure in deepslate layer
- Aka "The Ethical Iron Farm"
- Unique Traits: Stationary mob, 4 Stages of Rust (Stage 0 no rust - Stage 4 full rust). Use shears to remove rust. Smelt Rust into Iron Ingots.
- Breeding: Duplicates when fed moss block
- Upon Death Drops: 1 Moss Block
Rustmunchers:
- Default Spawn: Factory structure in deepslate layer
- Every so often, Rustmunchers will sheer off all Rust on nearby Rustlings
- Neutral: if you hit a Rustmuncher or a Rustling, the Rustmunchers will bite you!
- Lure & Breed with: Rust
- Upon Death Drops:
Jade Elephant:
- Default Spawn: Tuff Totem Elephant on top of 3 Blocks of Jade, right-click with Bottle-o-Soul
- Neutral: if hit, will retaliate
- Unique Traits: Right-click with Stone, The Jade Elephant will turn the Stone into Jade Shard
- Upon Death Drops: 1 Block of Jade
- Immune to: Fall damage, Freezing, Fire, Drowning, Knockback, Poison, Withering
Crackle:
- Default Spawn: Find Crackle Egg in Lush Caves, place Crackle Egg on Haybale, 20 minutes later it hatches
- Lure & Breed with: Cod, Salmon, Tropical FIsh
- Breeding: Drops Crackle Egg, no baby form
- Unique Traits: Sheds Crackle Egg Shard, use item to craft Ornate Egg, give Ornate Egg to Tuff Totem Pole to spawn random mob from the legendary ancient era
- Health: 30
- Armor: 20 armor points and deflects arrows (same as Shulker)
Tuff Totem Pole:
- Default Spawn: Tuff Totem Bird on top, Tuff Totem Hart in upper middle, Tuff Totem Elephant lower middle, Block of Jade on bottom, right-click with Bottle-o-Soul
- Unique Traits: Right-click with Ornate Egg, wait 10 minutes, Ornate Egg is imbued with ability to spawn a random mob from the legendary ancient era
- Upon Death Drops: Tuff Totem Bird, Tuff Totem Hart, Tuff Totem Elephant
- Immune to: Fall damage, Freezing, Fire, Drowning, Knockback, Poison, Withering
Hue Hog:
- Default Spawn: Ornate Egg imbued by Tuff Totem Pole
- Lure with: Honeycomb, Gold Block
- Breed with: Honeycomb
- Unique Traits: Seeks out nearby flower to dye tail, shear Hue Hog to get 2-3 dyes corresponding to the tail color
- Dye-Wool: Right click with Gold Block, Hue Hog will no longer seek out dye from flowers, instead the Hue Hog will dye nearby Wool Blocks to the same color as their tail
- Rodent that waddles around and brushes their tail on any flowers to collect its dye colour. Use sheers on the tail to collect the dye! If you give
Gourd Raptor:
- Default Spawn: Ornate Egg imbued by Tuff Totem Pole, Gourd Ruins Structure in Jungles
- Lure with: Melon seeds, Melon Slices, Melon
- Feed Melon Seeds: Breeds Gourd Raptors
- Feed Melon Slice: Drops Gold Nugget
- Feed Melon: Drops Gold Ingot
- Egg-Laying: Gourd Raptors lay Gourd Eggs every 5 to 10 minutes
Egg Raptor:
- Default Spawn: Ornate Egg imbued by Tuff Totem Pole
- Lure/Breed with: Crackle Egg Shard, Chicken Eggs, Wheat Seeds
- Breed with: Wheat Seeds
- Unique Traits: Collect Crackle Egg Shards to then deposit into Barrels within 10 blocks
7 Mobs (Coming Soon)
- Default Spawn: Ornate Egg imbued by Tuff Totem Pole
Hart
- Default Spawn: Ornate Egg imbued by Tuff Totem Pole, Rarely in Forests & Plains in Groups of 3 to 4
- Unique Traits: Ride around, Jump 3 blocks, Takes 10 less fall damage, Every ~10 minutes will shed antlers on nearby log block, Antlers can be used to tame wolves or craft into 2 bone meal, Antlers regrow every ~20 minutes
- Lure & Breed with: Apple, Carrot, Haybale
- Upon Death Drops: Venison, smelt into Cooked Venison, same hunger/saturation restored as Beef
Jade Automaton:
- Default Spawn: Spawn by right clicking ground with Jade Doll
- Craft Jade Doll from 1 Wicker Idol + 8 Jade Bricks
- Will follow and defend like wolves, They do not teleport
- Default Stats: Health is 40, Outgoing Damage is 3
- Right click with Jade Axe to increase outgoing damage to 10
- Right click with Bottle-o-Soul to increase health to 60
- Right-click with dandelion to have them enter 16 block diameter roaming mode, Right-click with Jade Shard to resume follow mode
- Only the player who made the Jade Automaton can right-click with a jade axe, bottle-o-soul, or dandelion/jade shard
- Upon Death Drops: 2-5 Jade Bricks
- Immune to: Fall damage, Freezing, Fire, Drowning, Knockback, Poison, Withering
Whisp:
- Default Spawn: Spawn them in with the Whisper Pearls
- Craft a Whisper Pearl from the corresponding 4 dyes, 4 dyed candles, and 1 bottle o'soul.
- 6 Colourful Variants!
- Feed them the correctly colored candle -> Whisp will throw a potion on you
- Every so often Whisp will go to nearby candles matching their color and splash their potions on their own
- Lure: Any Candle
- Upon Death Drops: (nothing)
- Feed Whisps their corresponding candle to make them splash a status effect potion
- Pink = Regeneration
- Orange = Fire Resistance
- Yellow = Strength
- Lime = Jump Boost
- Light Blue = Speed Boost
- Black = Withering
ENCHANTMENTS
Sunkissed
- Apply to any item that has durability
- Cannot be put on item with Moontouched
- Restores durability
- Player must be exposed to sky
- Must be daytime (time is between 0 to 12,000)
- Awards bonus durability as Sun approaches zenith (aka noon/midday)
- In depth breakdown:
- Time = Total Durability restored if exposed to sky entire time
- 0-3000 = 150 durability
- 3001-5000 = 400 durability
- 5001-7000 = 800 durability
- 7001-10000 = 300 durability
- 10001-12000 = 200 durability
Moontouched
- Apply to any item that has durability
- Cannot be put on item with Sunkissed
- Restores durability
- Player must be exposed to sky
- Must be nighttime (time is between 12,000 to 24,000)
- Awards bonus durability based on phase of the Moon (New Moon least bonus, Full Moon maximum bonus)
- In depth breakdown:
- Phase of Moon = Durabiilty restored if exposed to sky entire time for entire night
- New Moon = 300 Durability
- Waxing Crescent = 600 Durability
- First Quarter = 1200 Durability
- Waxing Gibbous = 1800 Durability
- Full Moon = 3000 Durability
- Waning Gibbous = 1800 Durability
- Third Quarter = 1200 Durability
- Waning Crescent = 600 Durability
Status Effects
Tetanus:
- How to Get: Fall onto Rusticle, Rusticle falls on you, (coming soon: walk through Bramblerust)
- Effect: Rust on screen, alternating between speed buff & debuff, screen sways from left-to-right then up-and-down repeatedly
(Coming Soon) Ethereal:
- How to Get: (Placeholder) Craft 1 Bottle-o-Ethereal from 1 Empty Bottle + 8 Bright Blooms, Drink Bottle-o-Ethereal
- Effect: Body is visually transparent as if in spectator mode, arrows, tridents, and projectiles cannot hit nor deal damage
(Coming Soon) Bloom:
- How to Get: Wear Flower Crown within range of Beacon Bloom
- Effect: Regeneration, Fire Resistance, Strength, Speeed II, Absorption II
ITEMS
Wicker Idol:
- Craft: 1 Emerald + 8 Wheat
- Soul Transportation: Right-click mob to store it in inventory and easily transport somewhere else
- Soul Extraction: In Inventory, right-click Wicker Idol with a soul inside with an Empty Bottle, this will deplete the soul and give a Bottle-o-Soul
- Config coming soon
- Does NOT work on other Players (causes crashes)
- By default does NOT work on Ender Dragon nor Wither Boss
Bottle-o-Soul
- Acquire: In Inventory, right-click Wicker Idol with a soul inside with an Empty Bottle, this will deplete the soul and give a Bottle-o-Soul
- Use: Empower/summon various mobs
- COMING SOON: Drink: Absorption II and Slowness I for 60 seconds
Jade Doll:
- Craft: 1 Wicker Idol + 8 Jade Bricks
- Use: Right-click ground to summon Jade Automaton
Ornate Egg:
- Craft: 8 Crackle Egg Shards with 1 of Copper Ingot, Gold Ingot, or Diamond
- Use: Give Ornate Egg to Tuff Totem Pole, wait 10 minutes, Ornate Egg is imbued with ability to spawn a random mob from the legendary ancient era
Rust:
- Used to Craft: Block of Rust, Rusticle, Bramblerust
- Smelt: 1 Rust -> 1 Iron Ingot
Jade Shard:
- Acquire: Mine Jade Ore
- Used to Craft: Jade Bricks
Antler:
- Acquire: Hart scraps antlers on log block
- Used to Craft: 1 Antler -> 2 bonemeal
- Tame: Wolf into Dog
Venison:
- Acquire: Death of Hart
- Smelt: Raw Venison -> Cooked Venison
- Attributes: Same properties as Beef
(Coming Soon) Paleo Meet:
- Acquire: Death of Terra Thunk, Cameoceratops, Cameoling, Gilded Gallumpher
- Smelt: Raw Paleo Meat -> Cooked Paleo Meat
- Attributes: Same properties as Beef
BLOCKS
Aloewood Tree Block Set
Gold Block Set: Door, Trapdoor, Chiseled,
Bounce Shroom: Any entity to fall onto Bounce Shroom will bounce higher than their fall distance, up to 4 times in a row! Charges regenerate after a few seconds
Block of Rust
Jade Block set Craft by using Block of Jade in a Stonecutter
Jade Ore (found in any jungles!)
Tuff Totems
- Craft: Tuff in Stonecutter
- Variants: Bird, Hart, Elephant, Left Wing, Right Wing
Catacomb Bone Block, Craft: Bone Block in Stonecutter
(Coming Soon) 17 New Pottery!

Druids & Dinosaurs adds a plethora of mobs and blocks into the game.
Harness the power of souls to create whisps, golems, and bring back ancient creatures of a legendary era! This mob is primarily for adding cute and lively creatures and blocks that have a miscellaneous utility and decorative uses. Make an ethical iron farm with Rustlings, bring back ancient mobs with the living Tuff Totem Pole, or make a cozy house made of Jade & Aloewood!
Feel free to comment any suggestions or bug reports!
Admiral_M_10K.......................Models, Textures
VoidArkana...............................Code, Animations
Coda1552..................................Code, Animations
Popopi..................................Textures for Skeleton Hart, Zombie Hart, Antler Block, Skeleton Villager, Beacon Bloom, Pottery (Trunk, Hart, Rebirth)
MOBS
Spoiler
Rustling: "Ethical Iron Farm", Small stationary critter who rusts over time. This makes them sad and uncomfortable! Use sheers to trim this rust. This rust can be smelted into iron ingots!
Rustmunchers: They defend the Rustlings and will sheer off the rust to keep their buddies clean
Whisp: Born from candles and bottle o'souls. These lil buddies can be fed candles to throw their corresponding potions based on their candle colour.
Hart: A lil deer-like creature, feed them apples and carrots to breed them! You can ride them as valiant steeds to travel across the land. Every so often they walk up to any log to scrap off and drop antlers. Antlers can be used to tame wolves or make bonemeal! They spawn in plains and rarely forests.
Jade Automaton: Golem protectors made from Jade and Wicker Idols. Summon and it will follow & defend you like a wolf. To make them stay still feed them a dandelion and to get them following again feed them a Jade Shard. They can gain more life by right clicking them with a bottle o'soul and they can be given a Jade Axe to deal more damage!
Jade Elephant: A Golem like creature, built from 3 Blocks of Jade with an Elephant Tuff Totem and right clicking with a bottle o'soul. The jolly elephant turns stone into Jade.
Crackle: Find these rare eggs in lush caves. Place their egg on a hay bale to hatch them! Over time they shed crackle egg shards that can be used to craft ornate eggs
Tuff Totem Pole: Place a Block of Jade, Elephant Tuff Totem, Hart Tuff Totem, Bird Tuff Totem then right-click with a bottle o'soul! This majestic towering mob can be given an ornate egg to imbue with the spirit of an ancient mob to summon into the modern world.
Hue Hog: Rodent that waddles around and brushes their tail on any flowers to collect its dye colour. Use sheers on the tail to collect the dye! If you give
Gourd Raptor: Feed him melon slice for gold nugget, feed him a melon for a gold ingot! Very very rarely you can find them in the
Egg Raptor: They'll pick up any nearby Crackle Egg Sherds on the ground and deposit them into nearby barrels
ITEMS
Spoiler
Wicker Idol: Allows the user to pick up any mob's soul to easily transport somewhere else
3 Ornate Eggs: made from Crackle Egg Shards of either Copper, Gold, Diamond!
BLOCKS
Spoiler
Aloewood Tree block set Gold block set Bounce Shroom: Will progressively bounce entity higher and higher up 4 times in a row!
Block of Rust
Jade Block set Craft by using Block of Jade in a Stonecutter
Jade Ore (found in any jungles!)
Tuff Totems! Craft by putting Tuff into a Stonecutter! Currently there's
Catacomb Bone Block, craft via Bone Block in a Stonecutter
1 New Pottery pattern!
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