Butterflies and Dragonflies

Butterflies & Dragonflies

This datapack adds 12 unique variants of Butterflies and Dragonflies into your world! You can catch them in a bugnet, or kill them to display their bodies.

Butterflies:

There are 8 kinds of butterflies, and they can spawn almost anywhere other passive mobs can spawn. Here are the butterfly variants:

• Apollo
• Blue Morpho
• Colorado Hairstreak
• Clouded Sulphur
• Malachite
• Monarch
• Red Lacewing
• Zebra Longwing

You can see what each of these types look like in the gallery.

Dragonflies:

There are 4 kinds of dragonflies, and they can spawn around rivers and swamps. The dragonfly has a special ability to hover every little while. Here are the dragonly variants:

• Blue Dasher
• Eastern Pondhawk
• Eight-Spotted Skimmer
• Roseate Skimmer

You can see what each of these types look like in the gallery.

Bugnet:

You can craft yourself a bugnet with two sticks and three string. The recipe formation is shown in the gallery.

Right-click on a butterfly or dragonly with a bugnet to catch it! The bugnet will be displayed as a "Filled Bugnet" and will tell you in the lore of the item what insect has been caught. You can right-click again to release it.

Advancements:

This datapack comes with a custom advancement tree! I won't spoil that however, you have to play it and try to unlock all the advancements!

Other Info:

Once the datapack in installed, you can pull up a menu with "/function mb_butterfly:menu" where you can access all mobs and items added with this datapack.

Please note that this datapack was designed for Minecraft 1.19.4, and using lower versions may result in a few bugs (Get it?).

If you need a Spigot compatible version, reach out to me on my Discord -> https://discord.gg/NDpRZaJNn9

Thank you!