Strap a harness on your wolf and it starts shooting back
Mob Defense adds three leather harnesses you can strap onto animals, and the animal wearing one starts using ranged weapons. A harnessed wolf fires arrows at whatever it is already angry at. A harnessed chicken throws eggs at anything that hits it. A harnessed horse becomes something you can shoot from while riding. Nothing else in the game changes.
You put a harness on your dog because it seemed funny, and then a skeleton at fourteen blocks takes an arrow from a wolf that has not moved. That is the whole feeling: your animals stop being escorts and start being crew. The chicken is the one that gets you. It does not pick fights and it does not follow you into any, but hit it once and for the next ten seconds it is throwing eggs at you, and the eggs make the sound eggs make. The horse is quieter and more useful than either, because it never wears out and it turns every ride into a firing position.
Fine on a server. Wolf arrows pass through you and your own pets, but not other people
New to this mod? Do these in order and you will have seen the point of it.
A harnessed wolf fires an arrow at its current target, but only between 3 and 16 blocks and only with a clear line of sight. Closer than 3 blocks it just bites, the way a wolf normally would. There is a 1.5 second gap between shots, and the arrow is fired with the same arcing maths a skeleton uses, complete with the skeleton bow sound.
A harnessed chicken throws eggs at whatever last hurt it, and only for about 10 seconds after being hurt. It never opens fire on its own. Shots are 1.25 seconds apart and there is no minimum range, so a chicken you annoy at point-blank will egg you at point-blank.
Put a Horse Defense Harness on a tamed horse, donkey or mule, ride it, and press R to fire where you are looking. It takes arrows out of your own inventory first and falls back to snowballs if you have no arrows. Half a second between shots. Llamas are excluded.
The wolf harness holds 128 shots and the chicken harness holds 64. Every shot spends one point. When it runs out, the harness breaks with the usual item-break sound and is gone for good. The horse harness has no durability at all, because it is spending your arrows instead.
The whole harness, damage value included, is stored in the animal's own saved data, so it survives a reload and a chunk unload. If the animal dies, the harness drops on the spot along with everything else.
Arrows fired by a tamed wolf are cancelled outright if they would hit that wolf's owner or any other tamed animal belonging to the same owner. The check happens at the moment of impact, so friendly fire simply does not land.
Turns one of your tamed wolves into an archer that fires at its own target from 3 to 16 blocks. 128 shots.
Where: Crafted: arrow on top, iron ingot in the centre, leather on the sides and bottom.
Makes a chicken throw eggs back at whatever hurt it for about ten seconds afterwards. 64 shots.
Where: Crafted: egg on top, feather in the centre, leather on the sides and bottom.
Lets the rider of a tamed horse, donkey or mule press R to fire arrows, or snowballs if there are no arrows. Never wears out.
Where: Crafted: string in the top corners, iron ingot in the centre, leather everywhere else.
Every texture this mod ships, at its real in-game size, scaled up so you can see each pixel. Most are 16×16, the same size as a vanilla dirt block.
Flavour, not rules. None of this changes how the mod behaves.
The three items are not magic and are not called anything clever. They are a Wolf Defense Harness, a Chicken Defense Harness and a Horse Defense Harness, made of leather and one piece of hardware each, and the game treats them like tack. You put them on the animal the same way you put a saddle on a pig, and you take them off by asking politely with an empty hand.
Minecraft 1.21.1 and MinecraftForge. That is it. There is no other mod it depends on.
No. Wolves must be tamed and yours, horses, donkeys and mules must be tamed, chickens can be any chicken. Babies never qualify, and llamas are excluded.
The wolf and the chicken make their own out of harness durability. The horse takes real arrows out of the rider's inventory, and snowballs if there are none.
No. Arrows from your own wolf are cancelled if they would hit you or another of your tamed animals. Other players and their pets are not protected.
Yes. Sneak and right-click the animal with an empty hand and it returns with whatever durability is left. It also drops if the animal dies.
Status: The jar compiles and the author has tested it himself, but it has not had a real playtest yet.
.jar file into your mods folder.This wiki documents the mods; it does
not host them. Builds live in the project's own repository under
mc-mob-defense/build/libs/.