LivingThings in All the Mods 10

LivingThings is a mob mod. It adds a lot of new creatures to Minecraft so the world feels more alive. The pack includes version 1.21.1-2.3.1 for NeoForge.^[1][2]

The roster is wide: elephants, giraffes, lions, sharks, penguins, ostriches, flamingos, crabs, mantarays, raccoons, owls, koalas, snails, monkeys, peacocks and seahorses. It also has some Nether and End-flavoured mobs: the Ancient Blaze, the Nether Knight, and the Baby Enderdragon.^[1]

What you will run into

• Savanna biomes are home to lions, elephants, giraffes and ostriches. Lions are listed as dangerous. Elephants and giraffes get angry if you attack them. Ostriches run fast and can be ridden without a saddle.^[3][4][5][6]
• Oceans have sharks, which are fast and hunt players. They also have mantarays, and seahorses in warm and lukewarm oceans.^[7][8][9]
• Elephants can be tamed with apples. Once tamed, you can equip them with a saddle and then a chest.^[4]
• The Baby Enderdragon is hatched by placing a dragon egg on top of a purpur pillar. Chorus fruit is its taming item, and tamed ones follow you around.^[10]
• The Ancient Blaze is a Nether boss with 125 hearts of health. You summon it with a Jack o'Lantern on top of two glowstone blocks, and it drops a helmet when it dies. The helmet gives Fire Resistance while worn.^[11][12]

Welcome to LivingThings! This mod adds various new mobs to the world, plus a couple of bosses like the Ancient Blaze. Your first steps are less about crafting a lot and more about knowing what you're looking at, so let's go in order.^[1][11]

First: craft the Lexicon

Start with the LivingThings Lexicon. It's the in-game book that holds the knowledge about the added mobs and items, and the mod provides this information through Patchouli. The pack changed this recipe from the mod's own, so use the one below.^[1][13][17]

LivingThings LexiconChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Book
• any lapi gems

Recipe id: livingthings:lexicon

This recipe is changed by the pack.

Second: learn who bites

Before you wander off, check which mobs are friendly. The guide sorts them into hostile, neutral and passive. Hostile mobs might attack you, neutral ones only defend themselves if you hit them first, and passive ones never hurt anyone.^[14][15][16]

• The lion is a dangerous animal found in all Savanna biomes. It has 10 hearts and hits for 2.5 hearts.^[3]
• The shark is a fast water creature that hunts down players in Ocean biomes. It has 11 hearts and hits for 3 hearts, so stay out of deep water until you're geared up.^[7]
• Elephants and giraffes are huge and get angry when you attack them. Leave them alone until you're ready.^[4][5]

Third: get your first food

The crab is a gentle place to start. It's found in Swamp and Beach biomes, has 4 hearts and hits for only 0.5 heart. It drops 1-2 raw crab meat, and sometimes a crab shell.^[18]

Raw Crab Meat can be eaten, but cooking it gives you Cooked Crab Meat. The pack has furnace, smoker and campfire recipes for it.^[17][19][20]

Cooked Crab MeatMod recipe

Smelting

• Raw Crab Meat

Recipe id: livingthings:cooked_crab

Furnace smelting.

Cooked Crab MeatMod recipe

Smoking

• Raw Crab Meat

Recipe id: livingthings:cooked_crab_from_smoking

Smoker version.

Cooked Crab MeatMod recipe

Campfire Cooking

• Raw Crab Meat

Recipe id: livingthings:cooked_crab_from_campfire_cooking

Campfire version.

The bigger animals follow the same pattern. Raw Elephant Meat, Raw Giraffe Meat, Raw Lion Meat and Raw Ostrich Meat are all dropped by their mobs, and each can be cooked into its own cooked meat. The pack has smelting, smoking and campfire recipes for every one of them.^{[17][21][22][23][24]}

Fourth: pick a companion

Once you're settled, a few mobs make good helpers. Elephants can be tamed with apples, and a tamed one can be fitted with a saddle and then a chest. Ostriches can be ridden without a saddle.^[4][6]

LivingThings adds various new mobs to make the world feel more alive, so this section covers how its mobs, nests, rituals and food items behave.^[1]

The Lexicon

The LivingThings Lexicon is the mod's in-game book. It holds the knowledge about the added mobs and items. The mod's own information pages are provided through Patchouli, which is recommended but not required.^[1][13][17]

The pack changed the Lexicon recipe compared to the mod's own version. Here is the in-pack recipe:^[17]

LivingThings LexiconChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Book
• any lapi gems

Recipe id: livingthings:lexicon

Cooking the meats

Crabs, elephants, giraffes, lions and ostriches drop raw meat that you can eat as it is or cook. In the pack, each raw meat can be smelted, smoked or cooked on a campfire, and all of those give the same cooked result. The meats are Raw Crab Meat, Raw Elephant Meat, Raw Giraffe Meat, Raw Lion Meat and Raw Ostrich Meat. They cook into Cooked Crab Meat, Cooked Elephant Meat, Cooked Giraffe Meat, Cooked Lion Meat and Cooked Ostrich Meat.^{[17][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]}

Cooked Ostrich MeatMod recipe

Smelting

• Raw Ostrich Meat

Recipe id: livingthings:cooked_ostrich

The other meats follow the same pattern, and each also has smoking and campfire versions in the pack.

Ostrich breeding and nests

You breed ostriches with wheat. Once two of them fall in love, one goes looking for the nearest sand block to build a nest on. If an empty nest is already nearby, it uses that one to lay its egg instead. The egg then needs some time before a baby ostrich hatches.^[6]

• Ostrich Nest: you can place it yourself, and an ostrich might lay an egg into it. If you mine it without a silk-touch tool it falls apart and gives you a few sticks.^[29]
• Ostrich Egg: right-click a nest that contains an egg to get the egg out. An ostrich that was about to build its nest can also drop one.^[30]
• Hatching: place the egg in an ostrich nest to hatch a baby ostrich.^[30]
• Riding: ostriches are fast runners and can be ridden without a saddle.^[6]

Summoning and hatching rituals

To summon the Ancient Blaze, place a Jack o'Lantern on top of two glowstone blocks. It has 125 hearts of health and deals 3 hearts of damage. Its attacks are 6 large fireballs and small fireballs, which the in-game guide lists with an infinity sign.^[11]

After it spawns, the Ancient Blaze is invulnerable until it has charged up its 6 large fireballs. You can see how many it has by counting the sticks flying around it. When it dies it drops its helmet and spawns 4 normal blazes to avenge it. The Ancient Helmet gives you the Fire Resistance effect while worn.^[11][12]

The Baby Enderdragon hatches when you place a dragon egg on top of a purpur pillar. You tame it with chorus fruit, and a tamed one follows you around. It has 5 hearts of health.^[10]

Taming, breeding and interactions

• Elephant: tame it with apples. A tamed elephant can be equipped with a saddle and then a chest. Only tamed elephants breed, and they use wheat.^[4]
• Owl: tame it with wheat seeds. Breed it with melon seeds, pumpkin seeds or beetroot seeds.^[31]
• Snail: (sneak-)right-click it with any dye to recolor it. It breeds with carrots or apples.^[32]
• Shroomie: give it a mushroom and it plants at least one. It breeds with wheat.^[33]
• Seahorse: right-click one with a water bucket to capture it in a bucket.^[34]
• Shark Tooth: dropped by sharks and used for arrows. It can also be crafted into bone meal.^[35]
• Banana: you get it by breaking jungle leaves, and you can eat it.^[36]

LivingThings doesn't have tiers or a crafting ladder. It's a mob and animal mod, so progression here is about where you travel and what you're ready to fight. The mod's own guide groups its mobs as hostile, neutral and passive, and that's a handy way to plan your trips.^[14][15][16]

Unverified We haven't found any quest in this pack that involves LivingThings, and the mod isn't on the ATM Star quest path, so nothing here is gated by quests.

Step 1: Craft the Lexicon

Start with the LivingThings Lexicon. It holds the knowledge about the mod's mobs and items. The pack changed this recipe from the mod's own, so use the one below.^[13][17]

LivingThings LexiconChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Book
• any lapi gems

Recipe id: livingthings:lexicon

Step 2: The Savanna

Four of the mod's mobs live in all Savanna biomes: lions, elephants, giraffes and ostriches. That makes the Savanna your first real stop.^[3][4][5][6]

• Lion: dangerous, with 10 hearts of health and 2.5 hearts of attack damage.^[3]
• Elephant: 30 hearts of health and 3.5 hearts of attack damage, and it gets angry if you attack it. You can tame it with apples, then equip a saddle and after that a chest.^[4]
• Giraffe: 15 hearts of health and 2 hearts of attack damage, and it also gets angry if you attack it.^[5]
• Ostrich: a fast bird you can ride without a saddle.^[6]

Step 3: Cook the meat

These animals drop Raw Lion Meat, Raw Elephant Meat, Raw Giraffe Meat and Raw Ostrich Meat. Crabs from Swamp and Beach biomes drop Raw Crab Meat. Each raw meat can be eaten, but cooking it gives you the cooked version.^{[18][19][21][22][23][24]}

Every raw meat has a smelting recipe plus campfire cooking and smoking versions. The cooked results are Cooked Lion Meat, Cooked Elephant Meat, Cooked Giraffe Meat, Cooked Ostrich Meat and Cooked Crab Meat. All of these are the mod's own recipes, unchanged by the pack. Lion meat is shown as an example.^[17]

Cooked Lion MeatMod recipe

Smelting

• Raw Lion Meat

Recipe id: livingthings:cooked_lion

Step 4: The ocean

Sharks live in all Ocean biomes and hunt players. They have 11 hearts of health and hit for 3 hearts. They drop 0-3 shark teeth, which can be used for arrows or crafted into bone meal.^[7][35]

Step 5: Nether and End challenges

The Nether Knight is a deadly fighter guarding the nether fortress.^[37]

The Ancient Blaze is the mod's boss, with 125 hearts of health and 3 hearts of attack damage. To summon it, place a Jack o'Lantern on top of two glowstone blocks. It stays invulnerable until it has charged its 6 large fireballs, and you can count them by the sticks flying around it. When it dies it spawns 4 normal blazes and drops its helmet, which gives Fire Resistance when worn.^[11][12]

If you want a pet, the Baby Enderdragon has 5 hearts of health and is tamed with chorus fruit. You can hatch one by placing a dragon egg on top of a purpur pillar.^[10]

The only quest chapter in the sources for this section is "Eternal Starlight", which has 193 quests. None of its item tasks name an item from this mod's namespace. Its item tasks ask for items from the eternal_starlight namespace, plus a few vanilla ones such as Redstone and Flint and Steel.^[38]

Unverified The kill tasks in the chapter don't say which entity they target in the data I have, so whether any of them involve this mod is unconfirmed.

How the chapter starts

The chapter opens with "The Gatekeeper and The Gate" quest, a structure task about finding the Portal Ruins in the Overworld and winning the Gatekeeper's duel. Two quests come right after it: "Orb of Prophecy" quest, which asks for the Orb of Prophecy, and "Eternal Starlight" quest, a dimension task for reaching the Starlight dimension.^[38]

Most of the rest of the chapter hangs off "Eternal Starlight" quest. That includes biome quests such as "Starlight Forest" quest and "The Abyss" quest, mob quests such as "Seekers" quest, and material quests such as "Deepsilver" quest.^[38]

Boss paths

1. "Finding the Bosses" quest asks for the Seeking Eye, which is used to locate boss structures.^[38]
2. Cursed Garden route: "Monstrosity Items" quest, then "Cursed Garden" quest, then "Burn it!" quest, then "Lunar Monstrosity" quest.^[38]
3. Golem Forge route: "Golem Items" quest, then "Golem Forge" quest, then "Powering down" quest, then "Starlight Golem" quest.^[38]

Rewards unlock after those fights. "Petal Scythe" quest, "Moonring Greatsword" quest and "Moonring Bow" quest follow the Lunar Monstrosity quest. "Energy Sword" quest and "Mechanical Crossbow" quest follow the Starlight Golem quest. "Wilted Crossbow" quest needs both bosses.^[38]

The sources for Living Things only cover version bumps, so you can see which version each pack release shipped but not what each update changed inside the mod.^[2][39][40]

• All the Mods 10 2.25 or earlier: Living Things was already in the pack by this release.^[2]
• All the Mods 10 4.1: updated from 1.21.1-2.2.0 to 1.21.1-2.3.0.^[40]
• All the Mods 10 8.1: updated from 1.21.1-2.3.0 to 1.21.1-2.3.1. This release ships the NeoForge jar livingthings-neoforge-1.21.1-2.3.1.jar.^[2][39]

Unverified The mod's own changelogs for the shipped jars are not stored, so the sources here do not show what changed in 2.3.0 and 2.3.1, such as new content, fixes or balance tweaks.