Critter Colonies enhances MineColonies by replacing its humanoid NPC and raider models with fully animated GeckoLib-powered creatures, giving colonies a more immersive, stylized, and cohesive visual identity.
Instead of vanilla-style biped models, MineColonies entities are visually reimagined as unique “critters” while keeping all gameplay, AI, and mechanics completely unchanged.
⚠️ Work in Progress:
This mod is actively being developed, about 1/3 of the way complete. Not all professions or raider types have been replaced yet.
However, everything currently implemented is complete, stable, and fully polished — no placeholder models, broken textures, or unfinished animations.
This mod is purely visual — it does not alter balance, behavior, or progression.
🏴☠️ Pirates fully replaced
MineColonies pirate raiders now use custom GeckoLib creature models and animations.
🧑 Citizens fully replaced
All standard MineColonies citizens are rendered with new custom models instead of vanilla humanoids.
🛠️ Partial profession support
Several citizen professions already have unique visuals or model variants, with more in progress.
🎞️ Smooth GeckoLib animations
Idle, walking, and movement animations powered by GeckoLib 4.x.
🔒 Gameplay-safe & save-safe
Visual-only changes — no AI, balance, or behavior modifications.
🧑🔧 All remaining citizen professions
Complete visual coverage for every MineColonies profession.
🎨 Citizen texture variants
Visual variety for citizens (outfits, colors, or thematic variants).
⚔️ Additional raiders
Barbarians, amazons, norsemen, drowned pirates, and other MineColonies raider types.
🧬 More MineColonies entities
Expanded coverage beyond citizens and raiders as development continues.
🗣️ Unique Critter sounds/voices
In spirit of the Critter Colonies
✨ Animation polish & refinement
Improved transitions, profession-specific animations, and visual tweaks.
The MineColonies Team — for the incredible colony system
GeckoLib — for the animation framework that makes this possible
