What Is This Mod?

"Cats deserve better." This mod reimagines tamed cats as real feline companions — with personalities, gender and skill variations, and loyalty that lasts a lifetime (or a few).

Cozy’s Improved Cats is a total AI and behavior overhaul for vanilla cats. It adds personality, progression, and polish to one of Minecraft’s most lovable mobs, transforming cats from fragile house decorations into complex, emotionally rich and interactive adventuring allies — while retaining Minecraft’s vanilla spirit.

Each cat becomes a unique companion with their own stats, class, gender, and emergent behaviors. Whether you're looking for a regenerative naiad, a protective guardian, a crafty witchling, a experienced dreamer, or a lucky partner-- this mod brings your cats to life. You’ll form bonds, build stories, and even bring them back from death when tragedy strikes.

The Heart of the Mod: Soul-Bound Companionship

If your tamed cat dies, it leaves behind a Cat Collar — a soul-bound item that lets you revive them at your side. No more leaving beloved pets at home out of fear. Bring them into danger. They'll return with you ✧

Major Features

🐟 New Items to Obtain

A few new items are now obtainable in game:

• Ancient Cod: Required for taming cats. Drops from cod. Also obtainable through fishing.
• Ancient Salmon: Required for taming cats. Drops from salmon. Also obtainable through fishing.
• Ancient Cooked Cod: Smelted from Ancient Cod, grants either a brief regeneration effect, a brief resistance effect, a brief lucky effect, or a bust of experience when eaten.
• Ancient Cooked Salmon: Smelted from Ancient Salmon, grants either a brief regeneration effect, a brief resistance effect, a brief lucky effect, or a bust of experience when eaten.
• Taming String: Crafted with 1 String, 1 Ancient Cod and 1 Ancient Salmon. Used to check and store the stats of any tamed cat~~~~ (shift + right click).
• Cat Collar: Obtained upon a cat death. Used to revive a specific cat using the soul stored within.

🧬 Unique Cat, Every Time

Each tamed cat is assigned:

• A Class (Naiad, Guardian, Witchling, Dreamer, or Lucky), each with a unique ability.
• A Gender (Male or Female), influencing breeding and name color.
• A full Stat Sheet:
• • Max Health
• • Affinity (proficiency with their class and its ability's strength.)
• • Bond (closeness with their owner)
• • Favorite Food

📊 Visual Stat Display

Sneak + right-click with a Training String to see:

• RPG-style stat bars for all stats
• Your cat's ability use count
• The number of times that cat has died

🎁 Class Abilities

Each class has its own ability, which scales in power as affinity is increased. Each class has its own conditions for growing affinity.

• Naiad = Applies regen to the owner if the owner reaches 25% health
• Guardian = Applies resistance to the owner if the owner takes damage
• Witchling = Slips witchly gifts into your inventory
• Dreamer = Passively stores experience within itself, dropping a bottle of enchanting once full
• Lucky = Grants you constant luck

🧠 Personality-Driven AI

• Tempt behavior: Cats follow you if you’re holding food.
• Smart teleporting.
• Contextual emotes based on time, weather, and cat state, as well as dynamic idle behaviors
• • Cat-to-cat emotes
• • Cat-to-player emotes
• • Cat-to-self emotes

💖 Interactions & Bonding

Pet, scratch, and interact with your cats, bonding with them. (Shift + Right click with an empty hand)

• Progress is shown visually.
• Owners are notified when others interact with their cat.
• Taking care of your cat and keeping them close will increase their bond with you over time, affecting how they act with you

🛡️ Grief Protection & Multiplayer Support

• Only owners can trigger breeding mode.
• Only owners can trigger revival, collars cannot be used by others.
• Friendly fire
• • Protection from owner friendly fire (active by default)
• • Protection from any player harming tamed cats (inactive by default)

🏆 20+ New Advancements

Track cat taming, affection, naming, and ability milestones.

Unlock secrets and earn lore-filled titles for each stage of companionship.

🌿 Immersive Polish

• Fully translatable with localization support.
• Sound events and particle visuals layered for immersive feedback.
• Tooltip text, stat bars, and UI overlays all integrated cleanly.
• Designed to enhance, not replace, vanilla behavior.

⚙️ Highly Configurable

Modify nearly everything with the full JSON config:

• Setting min/max ranges for all stats.
• Enabling/disabling gift digging, revival, interactions.
• Customizing interaction durations, emote distances, and follow behavior.
• Enabling/disabling notifications, emotes, and messages
• And more

Autoreloading supported as well with the command 'reloadcozycatsconfig'

Designed for clean integration with modpacks and tweakers, or those who'd like to customize their experience.

💻 Compatibility

Fabric + Quilt compatible. Requires Fabric API (or compatible Quilt equivalent)

• Forge not currently supported, potentially in the future if desired

Supports Minecraft versions 1.19.2 → 1.21.6. (Currently only 1.21.5, 1.21.6 updated to 1.2.0)

Light on dependencies and does not replace vanilla cats, only extends them.

Designed to integrate cleanly with other mob or survival enhancements

🎯 Why This Mod?

Because cats are more than red-collared sidekicks. They deserve emotion, progression, and protection.

This mod turns your cat into a real companion — with traits, emotions, history, stats, achievements, and moments you’ll remember across worlds. If you’ve ever loved your cat — this is the mod for you ✧

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Cozy's Improved Wolves 🐺