Billey’s Mobs – Useful Pets

Billey’s Mobs – Useful Pets introduces a variety of unique and practical pets to enhance your Minecraft Bedrock survival experience. This addon features pet leveling, achievements, and even includes two boss encounters, adding depth and fun to your gameplay.

Installation / How to Use

Ensure that Beta APIs are enabled in your world settings before activating this addon to guarantee full functionality. Upon joining the world for the first time, you’ll receive an info book that provides comprehensive guidance on all pets and features included. This book is the best resource for learning about the addon’s mechanics and pet details.

You can teleport your pets along with you by using the command /preparetp or /billey:preparetp. Pets set to follow you will teleport with you within one minute of using this command. Additionally, you can make your following pets teleport instantly to your location by performing a double-sneak action.

Requirements / Compatibility

This addon is designed for Minecraft Bedrock Edition with Beta APIs enabled. It is compatible with the latest versions supporting addons. There is also a Java Edition port named “Practical Pets” for Forge 1.20.1, although it is still under development.

Key Features

• Diverse Useful Pets: Adds a wide range of pets including ducks, anglerfish, mercats, pigeons, sharks, and more, each with unique behaviors and abilities.
• Pet Equipment: Various wearable items for pets such as chef hats (enable cooking abilities for certain pets), crowns, bowties, and special hats like the rubber ducky hat with functional bonuses.
• Leveling System: Many pets can level up to improve their health, attack damage, speed, and reach. Leveling is achieved by using the pets in their specific roles, such as combat or item finding.
• Pet Teleportation: Pets will follow you when teleporting if prepared, or can be forced to teleport with a double-sneak.
• In-Game Pet Wiki: The info book includes a ‘Your Pets’ section where you can view stats, location, and health of your individual pets. You can also teleport pets to you or teleport yourself to them if you have operator privileges.
• Unique Pet Behaviors: Examples include mercats that can change weather, pigeons that can carry items and deliver them to players, and ducks that find rare items and can wear armor to protect their owners.
• Boss Fights: The addon features two boss fights to challenge players and add exciting endgame content.

Detailed Pet Summaries

Anglerfish

• Health: 14 (7 hearts)
• Damage: 10 (5 hearts) plus poison effect for 30 seconds
• Neutral to players; attacks various fish and monsters
• Spawns in oceans, especially deep waters
• Feeding glowstone causes it to spawn biome-appropriate fish temporarily
• Drops fish items and a special Anglerfish Light that affects fish behavior
• Features seven variants plus a rare golden variant with valuable drops

Swordfish

• Health: 20 (10 hearts)
• Damage: 12 (6 hearts) plus poison for 15 seconds
• Attacks anglerfish, pizzafishes, cods, and monsters; neutral to players
• Spawns in oceans
• Drops swordfish fillets and parts used to craft a specialized fish sword

Mercat

Mercats inhabit unfrozen lakes and rivers. They are tamed using raw piranha or sea pizza. Mercats cannot breathe underwater and must surface for air, but can survive indefinitely out of water. They only sit on land and can be controlled to move with a stick.

Using a nautilus shell on a tamed mercat toggles weather between clear and thunderstorms. In multiplayer, at least half of online players must be near mercats to activate weather changes.

Mercats bring sea-related items to you after you sleep if one is nearby and not sitting. They also aggressively eliminate groups of small fish after taming.

Zombie/Withered Cat

• Wild: 8 health (4 hearts), attacks cats and sometimes players, spawns in jungle at night, burns in daylight, tamed with fish or string
• Tamed: 20 health (10 hearts), peaceful with normal cats, brings random ores when you wake up

Skeleton Cat

Similar to Zombie Cat but tamed with nether wart. It delivers Nether items upon waking and can be neutral or aggressive. It is dyeable.

Pigeon

• Health: 6 (3 hearts)
• Multiple variants, spawn in plains and flower forests
• Tameable with seeds, bread, and carrots
• Alternates between walking and flying modes
• Produces pigeon poop periodically, which can be used as bone meal or for crafting potions
• New feature: Pigeon backpacks allow carrying and sending items to other players

Pizzafish

• Health: 10 (5 hearts)
• Shearable to drop pizza pieces, which can be reattached
• Friendly to all except monsters
• Spawns in coral reefs and regrows pizza pieces over time

Shark

• Health: 40 (20 hearts)
• Attack damage: 15 (7.5 hearts)
• Spawns primarily in deep oceans
• Attacks various fish and monsters
• Drops shark teeth to craft a powerful but low durability sword
• Petting yields shark scales used to craft armor that grants swimming speed and buffs

Endercat

• Wild: 16 health (8 hearts), attacks cats and sometimes players, teleports randomly, spawns at jungle nights and in the End, tamed with chorus fruit
• Tamed: 32 health (16 hearts), peaceful with vanilla cats, can teleport nearby monsters away on command, brings End-related items when waking

Picklepet

• Spawns in coral reefs, attacks drowned and pizzafish
• Tamed and healed with most sea items except sea pickles
• Grows and levels up, improving health, attack, and survival out of water
• Adult picklepets place sea pickles periodically and are breedable

Angel Cat and End Angel Cat

• Angel Cat: scares phantoms, creepers, hostile cats; drops phantom membranes; spawns in jungles; provides regeneration to pets and snails
• End Angel Cat: spawns in the End and jungle nights; teleports randomly; immune to water; tamed with chorus fruit; grants strength and speed to snails

Duck

Ducks appear in lakes and rivers and can be tamed with seeds, carrots, melon, or bread. Once tamed and active, they find random items including seeds, fishing loot, and occasionally ore nuggets like diamonds. Duck armor can be crafted to enable ducks to defend their owners, with special armors like the End Rod armor that allows ducks to shoot weakness-inducing projectiles.

The rare Rubber Ducky pet hat can be found by ducks and equipped on any pet to increase their combat effectiveness and encourage them to fight for you.

Ducks level up by killing mobs, with increased stats and better item-finding at higher levels. Level ranges from 1 to 10.

Angel Pig

• Health: 30 (15 hearts) wild, 40 (20 hearts) tamed
• Spawns rarely in plains and more commonly in flower forests
• Attack damage: 8 (4 hearts)
• Tamed with golden carrots
• Applies withering and levitation effects to monsters, resistance to pets, and converts pigeon poop into bone meal

Penguin

• Spawns on beaches, snowy beaches, and frozen ocean surfaces
• Health: 17 (8.5 hearts)
• Attack damage: 5 (2.5 hearts)
• Neutral; tamed, tempted, bred, and healed with sea pizza
• Can wear hats which can be removed by replacing them
• Feeding a hat-wearing penguin sugar yields an ice cream item that grants beneficial effects, stronger in warm biomes and the Nether, but harmful in cold biomes
• Penguins shed feathers used to craft boots that increase speed on snow, ice, and even sand

Piranha

• Health: 3 (1.5 hearts)
• Attack damage: up to 3 (1.5 hearts) with a brief slowness effect
• Two primary variants; spawn in lakes, rivers, and swamps in groups
• Untamed piranhas attack nearby non-piranha mobs periodically, with group aggression
• Not attacked by mobs but can die from self-defense
• Drop raw piranha and occasionally addon items
• A special Piranha Launcher item allows collecting and shooting piranhas; best used on mobs engaged in combat and cannot be used underwater or while sneaking