Kindred

Features

Bond with any tamed pet

Look at one of your tamed mobs, open the Pet Roster, and bond.

Bonded pets are stored on you — not in the world. They survive logouts, chunk unloads, and dimension changes.

• Works with any ownable, tameable mob out of the box (wolves, cats, parrots, horses, donkeys, mules, llamas, camels, foxes, axolotls — anything that implements vanilla ownership).
• Optional mount-only mode restricts bonding to saddleable mounts.
• Optional XP level cost per bond — makes bonding feel earned, with the cost previewed before you confirm.
• Optional datapack blocklist for species that shouldn't be bondable on your server.

Summon & Dismiss with a keybind

One key summons your active pet. Hold it again to dismiss. Open the roster with another key to switch active pet, rename, reorder, or break bonds.

• Hold-to-confirm prevents misclicks — configurable hold duration for both summon and dismiss.
• Smart placement: pets within range walk to you naturally; farther pets teleport to a safe spot beside you.
• Refuses to summon when the space around you is obstructed (configurable).
• Cancels the hold if you take damage (configurable) — mirrors vanilla bow-draw / eating behavior.
• Optional cross-dimensional summons so your pet follows you to the Nether and back.

Bring them back from the grave

By default, when a bonded pet dies, the bond doesn't break — it just goes dormant. Summon them again and they respawn at your side, gear and all.

• Soft death (default): pet returns on next summon. Optional revival cooldown adds weight without going full permadeath.
• Permadeath mode: flip a config switch and death breaks the bond for keeps.
• Loot drops are off by default in soft-death mode (you'd just be picking your own saddle back up). Re-enable for vanilla behavior.

Pet Roster GUI

A clean inventory-style screen for managing your bonds.

• Live 3D preview of the selected pet.
• Set active, rename, reorder (▲ / ▼), and break bonds with a hold-to-confirm.
• Per-pet summon cooldown indicator.
• Respawn timer for pets in revival cooldown.
• "Limbo" / "Resting" state hints so you always know where each pet is.

Extremely customizable

Every behavior is exposed in kindred-server.toml:

Datapack control

Four tags let server owners and modpack authors tune the experience without code:

• kindred:bond_allowlist (entity types) — when non-empty, only species in this tag can be bonded and bond_denylist is ignored. Leave empty to fall back to denylist behavior.
• kindred:bond_denylist (entity types) — species that can never be bonded. Only consulted when bond_allowlist is empty.
• kindred:no_summon_dimensions (dimension types) — dimensions where summoning is blocked.
• kindred:no_summon_biomes (biomes) — biomes where summoning is blocked (great for boss arenas, dungeon biomes, PvP zones).~~~~

Project MMO integration

Optional gating via Project MMO.

• Choose any PMMO skill (default: charisma) to gate bond claims.
• All-or-nothing mode: hit the start level and unlock all bond slots at once.
• Linear mode: one slot at the start level, +1 every N levels, capped at your max.
• The roster screen shows the next unlock requirement so players know what to grind.

Commands

For server admins and debugging:

/kindred claim                — claim the entity at your crosshair
/kindred list                 — list your bonds with indices
/kindred summon <index>       — summon a bond
/kindred dismiss <index>      — recall the active pet
/kindred break <index>        — break a bond
/kindred active <index|none>  — set or clear the active pet

Why Kindred?

Vanilla pets are fragile, stationary, and easy to lose. Existing pet mods either turn them into items (which feels weird) or add a stable system (which feels like extra inventory management). Kindred takes a different angle: your pets live on you, not in the world. They're always one keypress away, they survive deaths, and the whole thing tunes from a config file so it fits any modpack — hardcore, casual, mount-focused, or RPG-progression.

Keybinds

Set them in Options → Controls → Kindred.

This mod was inspired by Callable Horses, which seems to not be moving past 1.20.1. I wanted to expand on it a little bit and include some new features and upgrades.