Morph Mod Revived

Kill a mob, become the mob.

An unofficial revival of iChun's Morph, based on its classic Minecraft 1.6.4 version and rebuilt for Minecraft 26.2 and 26.3 on Fabric and NeoForge.

The mobs you kill join your collection. Your body twists into their shape while everyone nearby watches, and you take on their size and their natural abilities: bats fly, spiders climb walls, blazes shrug off fire, fish breathe underwater. Your health and attack stay your own, though, and there are no mob attacks to use, like creeper explosions or blaze fireballs. Switch between your collected forms whenever you like, or go back to being yourself.

• Needs Fabric Loader and Fabric API, or NeoForge. There's a separate file for each loader.
• Multiplayer: install it on the server and on every player's game.
• Beta: it's playable, but it isn't finished, and it isn't an exact copy of the original. Please report bugs on the issue tracker.

How it works

1. Kill a mob you haven't collected yet. The killing blow has to be yours: a hit, an arrow, a thrown trident, a splash potion or TNT you lit all count, but a kill by your pet, or by fire, lava or a fall, doesn't. A dark copy of the mob breaks apart and flies into you, and you start turning into it straight away. A kill made while you're still changing doesn't give a morph.
2. Open the morph selector with [ or ]. It appears on the left side of the screen. It isn't a menu, so you can keep walking while you pick. Each mob you've collected has a row, with a little 3D model and icons for its abilities.
3. Pick a form and press Enter. You change over four seconds: your body turns dark and speckled, reshapes into the new form, and the new form fades in. Everyone nearby sees and hears it. You can't start another change until this one has finished.
4. To go back to yourself, pick the top row, which has your own name, or the top slot of the favourites wheel (see Controls).

Different-looking versions of a mob, like sheep colours, slime sizes, horse coats or villager jobs, are separate morphs, kept together in that mob's row. So are baby and adult mobs, and name-tagged mobs.

Controls

• While the selector is open, clicks only work the selector: they don't swing your hand or use what you're holding. Esc still opens the game menu as well, though, and holding Shift also makes you sneak.
• You can change the [, ], Enter, Esc, Delete and ` keys in Options, Controls, Key Binds, under Morph Mod Revived. Shift, the mouse, and the ` key that opens the favourites wheel can't be changed.
• On a non-US keyboard, the default keys are the ones in the same places as [, ] and ` on a US keyboard; Key Binds shows what they're called on yours. On a Mac keyboard, Delete is Fn + delete.
• The favourites wheel always has your own form at the top, with your starred morphs around it. Letting go near the middle closes it without changing.
• Removing a morph is permanent. There's no undo; you'd have to kill that mob again. You can't remove your own form, the morph you're wearing, or a starred favourite (unstar it first).
• If nothing happens when you pick or remove a morph, you're probably still in the middle of a change.

Abilities

Every morph gets its mob's natural abilities automatically. Almost all of them are worked out from the mob itself rather than from a fixed list, so mobs from other mods usually get fitting abilities too. The selector shows them as small icons around each morph's picture.

A few more things that come with the body:

• You really are the mob's size. A chicken fits through a one-block gap. Big morphs can get stuck: a spider or an iron golem is too wide for a door, and an enderman is too tall for a two-block tunnel even when crouching. Tall, human-shaped morphs shrink a little when you crouch, but no morph can crawl or lie flat.
• Fish and squid can't breathe on land. After about 16 seconds out of water you start drowning, and you move slowly on land. Dolphins, turtles, axolotls and frogs are fine.
• Flying through water is very slow for most flyers, like bats, bees and parrots. Blazes, ghasts and vexes keep their speed.
• Striders float in lava instead of sinking, so you can cross it without burning, but only slowly. They're slow on land too.
• Snow golems leave a trail of snow behind them, except in warm biomes or when mob griefing is turned off.
• Baby morphs don't get step-up or sunburn.
• What doesn't change: your health and attack damage stay your own, and so does your walking speed, apart from the strider and fish slowdowns above.
• New abilities and your new size arrive when the change finishes. When you change back, you keep the old ones until it finishes, so a bat that changes back in mid-air flies for four more seconds and then drops.

Mobs and other players

• Monsters leave you alone while you look like one, and ones already chasing you give up. You can even hit them and they won't fight back. Piglins, hoglins, zoglins, breezes, wardens and creakings aren't fooled, though: they treat you like any other player. Mobs that protect others still go for you: a village's iron golem attacks you as a zombie. Pets and player-built golems only do that when the server allows PvP.
• Mobs treat you as what you look like. As a cat, creepers run from you. As a sheep, wild wolves hunt you. As a villager, zombies chase you. As a zombie, villagers run away, and may call an iron golem. Mobs never hunt you on Peaceful or in Creative, or while you're invisible or on their team, but mobs that run from your shape still do. When you change form, mobs that were hunting your old shape leave you alone, unless you hit them yourself.
• Other players can ride you while you're a horse, donkey, mule, pig, camel, strider, nautilus or happy ghast (skeleton and zombie horses, camel husks and zombie nautiluses count too): they right-click you with an empty hand, without sneaking. They can't steer, and changing form throws them off. A happy ghast carries up to four.
• Other players can milk you as a cow, get stew from you as a mooshroom, or shear you as a sheep, once every 60 seconds for each item. It works for any mob that can be milked or sheared, but nobody can trade with a villager-shaped player or scoop a player up in a bucket.
• Kill another player and you can become them, skin included. If they're disguised as a mob, you get that mob instead. A player morph is looks only: no abilities, normal player size.
• While you're a mob, other players can't see your name tag or find you on their locator bar, and when you get hurt you make the mob's hurt sound.

Good to know

• Your collection is saved with your player, separately for each world and each server. By default you keep all your morphs when you die, and you come back still morphed.
• Killing the Ender Dragon or the Wither never gives a morph, and armour stands never count. One player can own up to 1,000 morphs.
• You can sleep in a bed while morphed. People-shaped morphs lie down; others stand on the bed. A server can turn sleeping while morphed off.
• Don't open your world without the mod installed. The game throws away data from mods it doesn't have, so your collection may be lost the next time it saves.
• Keep a world on one loader. Fabric and NeoForge each save morph collections in their own way, so if you move a world from one to the other, everyone's collection is gone there.
• NeoForge players need the mod to join. A player running NeoForge without the mod can't join a server that has it. On Fabric they can join, but they won't see any of the mod.
• It hasn't been tested alongside many other mods yet. If it clashes with one, please report it.

What you need

• Minecraft 26.2 or 26.3
• Java 25 or newer
• On Fabric: Fabric Loader 0.19.3 or newer (on 26.3 it has been tested with 0.19.5, so use that or newer there), and Fabric API
• On NeoForge: NeoForge for your Minecraft version (tested with 26.2.0.75 and 26.2.0.88, 26.3.0.7-beta and 26.3.0.16-beta). You don't need Fabric API.

If you download by hand, pick the file for your loader and your Minecraft version: morph-mod-revived-fabric-... is for Fabric and morph-mod-revived-neoforge-... is for NeoForge, and the name ends in +mc26.2 or +mc26.3. Each file only works on that loader and that version. You might see Ded's API in your mod list: it comes inside this mod, so you don't need to download it separately.

On a server, install the mod on the server and on every player's game, with the same loader on both. In singleplayer, just put it in your mods folder. For LAN games, everyone who joins needs it too.

Commands

<details> <summary>Commands, for operators</summary>

Everything under /morph is for operators only; in singleplayer, turn cheats on. Words in [square brackets] are optional: leave them out to mean yourself.

The whitelist commands work straight away, but they rewrite the settings file from the settings the game loaded when it started, so any changes you've made to the file since then are lost. Restart before using them. Names match ignoring capitals.

</details>

Settings

<details> <summary>Settings, for server owners and tinkerers</summary>

Settings live in config/deds_morph/morph.json, in your game folder (or the server's folder), and apply to every world you play there. There's no in-game settings screen.

• The file starts out as {}. Add only the settings you want to change, by name, exactly as spelled below.
• Restart the game or server after editing it. Leaving and rejoining a world isn't enough.
• Check your typing. A misspelled name is ignored. A value written the wrong way, like "true" in quotes, or 1 and 0 like the original mod used instead of true and false, puts every setting back to its default. If the file can't be read at all, for example because of a missing comma or bracket, the game replaces it with an empty one. Either way it keeps your old file next to it as morph.json.bak, so you can fix it and put it back.
• On a server, the server's file sets the rules. Each player's own file decides their selector options (sortMorphs and allowMorphSelection). Their own abilities setting also turns the ability icons, and the movement their own game handles (wall climbing, slow falling, fast swimming), on or off. So if a server turns abilities off, players should turn it off in their own file too.

These go inside an "interactions" or "ai" section, as in the example below:

For example, to lose only your worn morph when you die, and stop other players riding you:

{
  "loseMorphsOnDeath": 2,
  "interactions": {
    "rideableMorphs": false
  }
}

</details>

How it differs from the original

• Abilities are worked out from each mob instead of a fixed list, so mobs from other mods don't need extra setup.
• If a morph's mob can't be loaded, for example because you removed the mod it came from, the morph waits in your list until the mob is back, instead of turning you into a pig.
• New in this version: other players can ride, milk or shear you, and mobs react to the shape you're in. The original had none of that.
• Some defaults are different. Monsters ignore you while you look like one; the original had that off unless a server turned it on, and here the only way to turn it off is to turn off all abilities. Baby mobs can be collected, and you can sleep while morphed; the original had both off.
• A new kill always turns you into that mob. The original's option to only collect it isn't in this version.
• The original could unlock flight only after you reached the Nether or beat the Wither. That isn't in this version yet.
• /morph needs operator level 2. The original needed level 4.

Credits

The original Morph is by iChun: https://github.com/iChun/Morph. The idea, the design, the abilities, the selector, all of the artwork and all six transformation sounds are his work. This revival brings them to modern Minecraft; everything good about it is his idea. It isn't made by, endorsed by, or affiliated with iChun.

Found a problem?

Bugs, crashes or anything that looks wrong: https://github.com/ded811/morph-mod-revived/issues. Please attach your log: logs/latest.log in your game folder, or the file from crash-reports if the game crashed.

Source code and licence

The source is at https://github.com/ded811/morph-mod-revived, under the LGPL-3.0, the same licence as the original. That includes the bundled Ded's API. If you share the mod or the API, changed or not, include the licence and make the source available to the people you give it to, with your changes if you made any.