Dogs Unleashed

Good dogs. Big adventures. Dogs Unleashed is an open-source Fabric mod that adds five new dog breeds, a fetch system, dog beds, graves, a full advancement tab, and more. Every dog is unique. Every bark has its own personality. Your wolves have been carrying the team long enough.

Time to expand the pack.

Alpha Release

This mod is currently in alpha testing and we would love to hear your feedback! Any feedback that you have for us, please open an issue on the GitHub repository.

Who's This For

Builders who want a Shiba Inu curled up on their cherry-wood porch while they landscape.

Explorers who want a Husky howling at the full moon from a frozen peak.

Survival veterans who want a proper fetch system, dog beds their pets actually sleep in, and a grave marker when the worst happens.

Anyone who has ever looked at a vanilla wolf and thought "this is great but what if it was a wiener dog?"

What You Get

Five New Breeds

Each breed has its own stats, spawn biomes, coat variants, and bark sounds. They are not reskins. They are fully animated with GeckoLib, each with idle, walk, sit, sleep, shake, head tilt, and tail wag animations.

Breed	Health	Speed	Damage	Biome	Coats
Husky	25	0.30	5.0	Snowy Taiga, Snowy Plains, Ice Spikes, Frozen Peaks, Snowy Slopes, Grove	6 coats, 4 eye color combos
Dachshund	10	0.25	2.0	Plains, Sunflower Plains, Meadow	10 coats, our first wiener dog
Beagle	17	0.29	3.0	Flower Forest, Forest, Birch Forest, Old Growth Birch Forest, Meadow	12 coats, the most colourful of the bunch
Golden Retriever	24	0.30	4.0	Beach	The classic golden look
Shiba Inu	18	0.32	3.5	Cherry Grove	3 coats: Red, Black, Sesame

Husky

Dachshund

Beagle

Golden Retriever

Shiba Inu

Fetch (Yes, Actual Fetch)

Sneak-right-click your dog with a fetch item to enter play mode, then throw it and watch your dog:

1. Chase the projectile as it arcs through the air
2. Retrieve the item from where it lands
3. Return it to you and drop it at your feet

Full chase AI, carry animation, the works. Three fetch items are supported:

Item	How to get	Glide	Notes
Tennis Ball	Craft with slimeball + lime/white dye	Standard	Stackable (16)
Stick	Vanilla sticks	Standard	No crafting needed
Frisbee	Craft with 4× honeycomb + matching dye (16 colors)	Long and flat	Dyeable, name reflects color ("Red Frisbee")

The frisbee glides roughly three times further than the tennis ball before landing, making it the best fetch item for open terrain.

Dog Beds They Actually Use

16 dye colors. Craft one, place it, and assign it to your dog by sneak-right-clicking the dog then right-clicking the bed. Your dog will:

• Auto-sleep at night when within 32 blocks (clear weather required)
• Stay asleep until you wake them with a right-click
• Refuse to auto-sleep again if you wake them before morning (respect)
• Unassign with a sneak-right-click of the bed if your dog gets too big for it

Every breed uses its curled "sleep" pose in bed. Tiny loaf, giant loaf, same nap energy.

Husky Howling (Full Moon Only)

Huskies do not bark. Instead, they howl. And only on nights with a full moon (moon phase 0). The howl lasts 4.5 seconds with a 30-second cooldown. Stand on a frozen peak at midnight with your Husky and watch the animation trigger on its own. It is the most atmospheric thing in the mod.

Dog Graves

When a tamed dog dies, a grave appears near the death location with the dog's name and a flower matching their collar color. Mine it with a pickaxe to preserve the grave as an item with full NBT data (dog name, UUID, collar color). Place it anywhere as a memorial.

The grave avoids spawning on top of their bed. Because even in death, they want to be near home.

Advancements

The Dogs Unleashed advancement tab tracks the full pack experience: taming your first dog, collecting every breed, hearing a Husky howl, finishing a fetch return, seeing a dog sleep in bed, preserving a grave, and taming a Shiba Inu.

Collar Dyeing

Right-click any of your tamed dogs with any dye to change their collar color. All 16 Minecraft dyes are supported. Coordinated squad, colour-coded pack, rainbow chaos — your call.

Taming, Breeding & Naming

Tame dogs with raw or cooked meats and bones (1-in-3 chance per feed). On tame, a naming screen opens so your new friend gets a proper name immediately. Over 200 built-in name suggestions or type your own.

Breeding is same-breed only. Both parents must be tamed and not sitting. Puppies inherit their owner's UUID (preferring the player who clicked). Breeding roll tables include rare coat variants you will not find in the wild.

Cross-Dimension Loyalty

Dimension hop and your dogs follow. Portal, end portal, weird command magic, whatever: every alive tamed dog comes with you, unless they are sitting or sleeping in bed. Regular in-dimension teleports still only scoop up nearby dogs.

Pet Manager

Press the configured keybind to open the Pet Manager screen. Filter by breed, alive or deceased status, or search by name. Summon any alive dog from anywhere, even across dimensions. The system loads their chunk, finds them, and brings them to you.

Breed-Specific Barking

Every breed has its own bark sound set. Dachshunds have 14 different bark sound files — the most vocal of the pack. Beagles have 2, Goldens have 5, Shibas have 1. Dogs bark when you hold food nearby, when their health drops below 30%, when they have a target, or just because (1 in 7200 chance per tick, roughly once every six minutes).

Little Details

• Head tilting when you hold taming food nearby. It is impossible not to smile at.
• Tail wagging when you hold food or just because they love you.
• Shaking after leaving water — 20 tick delay, 22 tick animation, splash particles.
• Floof. So much floof.

Quick Start

1. Install Dogs Unleashed, Fabric API, and GeckoLib into your mods folder.
2. Launch the game, join a world, and find your first dog in its spawn biome.
3. Tame it with meat, name it, grab a tennis ball, and try fetch.

That is it. No config files to edit. No server setup required.

Controls

Keybind	Default	What it does
Open Pet Manager	Unbound	Opens the Pet Manager screen (set under Controls > Dogs Unleashed)

Settings

Open the settings screen via the cog button in the top-right of the Pet Manager, or via Mod Menu (if installed). All settings are server-authoritative and editable in singleplayer or by operators on a multiplayer server. Operators can also edit via /dogsunleashed config.

Setting	Default	Range	Effect
Spawn Dogs in the Wild	On	On / Off	Natural biome spawning. Requires world restart to take effect.
Dog Graves on Death	On	On / Off	Whether tamed dogs leave a grave block. Off drops loot normally.
Auto-Sleep at Night	On	On / Off	Whether dogs auto-sleep in their assigned bed at night.
Auto-Sleep Range (blocks)	32	4 to 128	How far a dog can be from its bed and still return at night.
Bark Volume	1.0	0.0 to 2.0	Multiplier on bark sound volume (0.0 mutes).
Husky Howl Volume	1.5	0.0 to 2.0	Multiplier on Husky howl sound volume (0.0 mutes).

The config file lives at <world-save>/dogs-unleashed/server-config.json and can be hand-edited while the server is offline.

Command

/dogsunleashed status
/dogsunleashed config spawn <true|false>
/dogsunleashed config graves <true|false>
/dogsunleashed config autosleep <true|false>
/dogsunleashed config autosleeprange <4..128>
/dogsunleashed config barkvolume <0.0..2.0>
/dogsunleashed config howlvolume <0.0..2.0>
/dogsunleashed config reset

The pet management subcommands are for operators inspecting and recalling a specific player's dogs server-side:

Subcommand	What it does
list <player>	Lists every pet the player owns: id, breed, name, alive/dead, dimension, last coords.
summon <player> <petId>	Recalls that specific pet to the target player's current location.
find <petId>	Prints the dimension and coordinates of a pet UUID across all loaded worlds.

All subcommands require operator permission level 2.

Mod Menu (optional)

If Mod Menu is installed, Dogs Unleashed appears in the Mods list with the same settings screen. Mod Menu is not bundled and not required.

Languages

Dogs Unleashed ships with translations for breed names, screens, commands, and chat feedback in:

Locale	Language
en_us	English (US)
zh_cn	Simplified Chinese (简体中文)
de_de	German (Deutsch)
fr_fr	French (Français)
pt_br	Portuguese (Português do Brasil)
ru_ru	Russian (Русский)
es_es	Spanish (Español)

Want your language in the pack? Translation PRs are very welcome! Copy en_us.json, translate the values (keep the keys and %s placeholders intact), and open a PR. Spotted a typo or an awkward phrasing in an existing translation? Please open an issue so we can fix it.

A few things to leave untranslated in the command.dogs-unleashed.* strings, since operators type them literally: command names (/dogsunleashed, status, config), config option identifiers (spawn, graves, autosleeprange, barkvolume, ...), and literal argument tokens (<true|false>, range markers like <4..128>). Translate only the surrounding prose. The longest, most idiom-heavy strings are the settings tooltips, so phrasing-polish PRs there are especially appreciated.

Compatibility

• Minecraft: 1.21.1
• Loader: Fabric 0.16.5+
• Fabric API: 0.107.0+1.21.1 minimum
• GeckoLib: 4.7+
• Java: 21
• Environments: Dedicated server and integrated server, fully multiplayer

Dependencies

Dependency	Version	Required	Reason
Fabric Loader	>=0.16.5	Yes	Mod loader
Fabric API	>=0.107.0+1.21.1	Yes	Fabric hooks and APIs
GeckoLib	>=4.7	Yes	Entity and block animations

Open Source

Dogs Unleashed is open source under the MIT license. Built with love and treats ❤️

If Dogs Unleashed made you smile on a long survival night, a star on GitHub or a coffee on Ko-fi means the world.