Welcome to Exotic Birds!

This mod adds in more than 30 new birds to your Minecraft world, spawning in a variety of different biomes. Hear woodpeckers pecking high up in the trees, see swans swimming about in rivers, or listen to the lyrebird mimicking its environment. This mod helps to bring your world to life!

Exotic Birds 1.16.5,1.15.2,1.14.4 and 1.13.2 is a mod that focuses on the natural generation of all kinds of birds worldwide. Most of them are flying, but they’re all. In total, and for now, this mod adds a maximum of thirty species of birds, all based on natural bird species. Do you think Minecraft is missing birds? Well, here are 30 species.

To learn more about one or more species of birds, we can manufacture the “Bird Encylopedia,” which will allow us to illustrate each of the birds that adds this mod. The “drops” of these birds will be mainly eggs, which we can incubate to give our birds life.

At the moment, the available birds are parrots, owls, woodpeckers, roadrunners, swans, toucans, flamingos, pelicans, ostriches, penguins, crowned crane and the Phoenix, on which we can ride and take to the skies.

Features: 

Cassowary

• Hearts: x 10
• Habitat: Forest, Birch Forest, Taiga, Savannah
• Tempted by: Apples.
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: A very large, protective mob. It is passive, but when attacked will become hostile. The babies look different to the parents.

Duck

• Hearts: x 3
• Habitat: Rivers, Beaches
• Tempted by: Bread.
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Varieties: 2
• Information: A small bird found by rivers and beaches. It makes the well known ‘quack’. The baby ducklings are yellow so you don’t
• know if it’s a duck or a drake until it grows up.

Flamingo

• Hearts: x 6
• Habitat: ?
• Tempted by: Wheat seeds.
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: A fairly large pink bird. Can be found where there is water. They will stand on one leg to conserve body heat.

Gouldian Finch

• Hearts: x 3
• Habitat: Jungles
• Tempted by: Wheat seeds.
• Varieties: 6
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: These small, colourful birds are found in jungles. They make quiet chirping sounds and prefer leaving on their own in the wild.

Hummingbird

• Hearts: x 1
• Habitat: Plains, Forest, Birch Forest, Roofed Forest
• Tempted by: Sugar.
• Varieties: 5
• Can be bred? No.
• Information: These are very small, colourful birds that make a lot of noise. They hover around and flap their wings really fast. They can be attracted by holding sugar.
• Extra: Summon the different types by doing /summon exoticbirds.EB_Hummingbird ~ ~ ~ {Type:0-4}

Kingfisher

• Hearts: x 3
• Can be bred? No.
• Habitat: Beach, River, Swampland
• Information: These are small, quiet birds that live around water. Occasionally they will swoop in, retrieve a fish and fly around with it in their mouth.

Kiwi

• Hearts: x 2
• Habitat: Jungles, Forests
• Tempted by: Wheat seeds.
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: A very small bird. It lays the largest egg in relation to body size of any bird.

Lyrebird

• Hearts: x 4
• Habitat: ?
• Tempted by: Wheat seeds.
• Varieties: 2
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: Very clever birds capable of mimicking animals. During the day they will copy sheep/cow/pig noises and at night they will
• start replicating zombie/skeleton/creeper noises. The males have orange tail feathers, whereas the females do not.

Magpie

• Hearts: x 6
• Habitat: Forest, Birch Forest, Roofed Forest, Taiga
• Tempted by: Wheat seeds.
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: These are medium sized walking birds. Occasionally they will ‘scavenge’ and hold something in their mouth. You can retrieve this item by hitting them, but it will take a while for them to scavenge again, or be more kind and ‘swap’ the item using wheat seeds. You can hear them via the chatter they make.
• Extra: Summon a magpie holding something with /summon exoticbirds.EB_Magpie ~ ~ ~ {Equipment:[{id:clock}]}. This was coded to support ingots and compasses, so some items such as swords render incorrectly.

Ostrich

• Hearts: x 11
• Habitat: Desert
• Tempted by: Apples.
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: These are enormous birds that can be found in dry biomes. They lay the largest egg of any other bird.

Owl

• Hearts: x 6
• Habitat: Forests, Swamp
• Tempted by: Rotten Flesh.
• Varieties: 3
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: Owls are medium sized birds that will spawn in forests. They will normally only appear as individuals. They will fly away if attacked. Their eyes glow in the dark.

Parrot

• Hearts: x 4 (untamed) or x 10 (tamed)
• Habitat: Jungle, Forest, Birch Forest
• Tempted by: Wheat seeds.
• Varieties: 4
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: These colourful birds can be found in jungles. They can be tamed using wheat seeds and will follow you like wolves. You can also make them sit, walk or fly by right clicking them.
• Extra: Summon a tamed parrot using /summon exoticbirds.EB_Parrot ~ ~ ~ {Owner:Username}

Peafowl

• Hearts: x 6
• Habitat: Plains, Jungle, Forest, Birch Forest, Roofed Forest
• Tempted by: Wheat seeds.
• Varieties: 3
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: These birds were the first bird to be added to the mod. They can be found wandering around the world. The peacocks can be told apart from the peahens by the colourful plumage. Right clicking a peacock will change whether its train (tail feathers) are open or closed. You can also mate two peafowl using wheat seeds! There is also an elusive Albino Peafowl. Rumours say it lays golden eggs.

Pelican

• Hearts: x 6
• Habitat: Beach, River
• Tempted by: Fish.
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: Pelicans are fairly large birds that live by bodies of water.

Penguin

• Hearts: x 2 (Should be 5, but I messed up. Will be fixed next update)
• Habitat: Cold Taiga
• Tempted by: Fish.
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: Penguins are medium sized birds that live in cold biomes. They move pretty slowly, which is known as a waddle.

Phoenix

• Hearts: x 100
• Habitat: Does not spawn.
• Can be bred? No.
• Information: Phoenixes are large mythical creatures made out of fire. They can only be hatched out of Phoenix eggs with a light level of 9/10/11. Adult phoenixes can be saddled and flown. To fly up, look up. To fly down, look down. Upon death they drop a phoenix egg, so you will be able to rebirth your phoenix.

Pigeon

• Hearts: x 4
• Habitat: Forests, Plains
• Tempted by: Wheat seeds.
• Varieties: 2
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: Pigeons tend to be classed as vermin is certain areas of the world. In this mod there are two variants, the wood pigeon and the rock dove. They make a coo-ing noise so will be quite easy to find!

Roadrunner

• Hearts: x 6
• Habitat: Desert, Mesa, Savannah
• Tempted by: Wheat seeds.
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: A very very fast desert bird. It doesn’t make much noise, but you won’t be able to miss it! To get close, you need to be holding wheat seeds.

Seagull

• Hearts: x 4
• Habitat: Beach, River, Ocean
• Can be bred? No.
• Information: Seagulls will be found in near any biome with water. They will swoop round in circles and won’t stop!

Swan

• Hearts: x 6
• Habitat: Beach, River, Ocean
• Tempted by: Wheat seeds.
• Varieties: 4
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: These birds can be found in any biome by water. As this is their natural habitat, you will often find them swimming in rivers. You can hear them by the harsh honking sounds they make.

Toucan

• Hearts: x 4
• Habitat: Jungle, Savannah
• Tempted by: Wheat seeds.
• Varieties: 3
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: These birds can be found in tropical biomes. They have large colourful beaks and make a distinctive call.

Vulture

• Hearts: x 7
• Habitat: Desert, Mesa
• Tempted by: Meat.
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: A very large bird that can be found in deserts. They will fly into the sky and circle whilst looking for prey.

Woodpecker

• Hearts: x 4
• Habitat: Forest, Birch Forest, Roofed Forest
• Varieties: 3
• Can be bred? No.
• Information: You can find these birds high up in trees merrily pecking away holes. They will make a sound when doing so, meaning you will know when one is nearby. When disturbed they will fly to find another tree.

Crafting Recipes:

Bird Meat

Bird Meat is dropped by all of the birds. Just place the raw meat in a furnace to cook yourself some tasty grub!

Book of Birds

This book tells you about all of the birds in game. It includes their picture, the scientific name and a little caption about them. It can be crafted using a normal book and a peacock feather, like so:

It starts off blank, so you will need to find the birds and left click them with the book to log them. This will reward you with xp.

Eggs

Eggs can be found in two ways: collected from nests, or laid by birds. All eggs have a 10% chance of spawning a chick when thrown. This can be increased up to 50% by crafting the eggs with blaze powder, adding 20% each time. Any attempt to increase after 50% will consume the powder, but not increase the chance.

There are also unidentifed eggs. These are black with a question mark on them. To indentify these, you must use the egg sorter.

Eggshell

This item will occasionally drop from nests, and also when you throw any of the bird eggs. It can be used like bonemeal to speed up the growth of plants and to grow flowers.

Egg Sorter

It can be crafted using the following recipe:

Placing unidentified eggs in the top slot and redstone dust in the bottom will result in the eggs being identified. This is not always successful and may produce eggshells.

Nests

Probably the most important part of the mod. You will find these nests sitting atop leaves in your world. Breaking them will drop 0-3 different bird eggs and some sticks. Empty nests can be crafted using the following recipe.

You may right click on the nests to open the GUI.

Peacock Feather

Dropped by peacocks, these feathers can be used to craft the Book of Birds.

Phoenix Dust

This dust is used to create a phoenix egg. It can be found as a rare item in abandoned mineshaft chests. One is dropped by a phoenix upon death.

Phoenix Egg

Phoenix eggs are used to hatch the mythical phoenix. They require a light level of 9, 10 or 11 to hatch (a flame particle effect will appear when the light level is suitable). These can be found as a rare item in a monster dungeon, extremely rarely found in nests, or crafted by surrounding a chicken egg in phoenix dust.

Phoenix Feather

Dropped by a phoenix upon death. This feather does not yet do anything.

FIX ANH UPDATE Exotic Birds Mod

The 1.16.4 update for Exotic Birds. This is a very early build, so please let me know if there’s any bugs using the issue tracker, or on the Exotic Birds discord. Thank you!

v.1.1.0

1. Registered the nest feature correctly.
2. Changed the ‘allowEggs’ option in the config to true by default.
3. Increased the maximum spawn rate value to max_integer.
4. Swimming birds can now be properly logged with the bird encyclopaedia.
5. Fixed a crash caused when the bird capabilities were not present upon respawning.
6. Altered the eye level of most of the birds to prevent them suffocating in blocks.
7. Tweaked the hitboxes of the pelican, kookaburra, kingfisher, parrot and cockatoo.
8. Removed pelican and gull spawns from ocean biomes.

v1.0.3

1. Fixed a bug where birdcages could overwrite the entities inside.
2. Added a config option that allows any non-birds to be caught in cages.
3. Cages can now be waterlogged.

v1.0.2

1. Fixed an issue where opening the bird book whilst using incorrectly-registered entities would cause a crash.
2. Actually corrected one of the seagull subtitles.
3. Added feathers to bird drops.
4. Fixed an issue with the config; moved the client and server configs to be a common config. Hopefully this fixes the bird spawning issues.
5. Prevented woodpecker from taking fall damage after flying.
6. Birds are no longer classed as flying when in water. Seagulls look much better in ocean biomes now.

v1.0.1

1. Fixed a bug with kookaburra that causes the game to crash when opening the bird book.
2. Kookaburra spawn eggs now work again.
3. Corrected one of the seagull subtitles.

v1.0.0
New in 1.16.4:

1. Added warped and crimson birdcages. The recipe is the same structure as the other cages.
2. Birds can be identified by left clicking an entity with the bird book. This causes no damage to them.

Changes in 1.16.4:

1. Due to the way the biomes are registered, the bird book now displays ‘Biome list is currently unavailable’. This is purely cosmetic and *will* be fixed in a future update.

FAQ:

Which is the latest version of Minecraft Forge?
The latest version of Minecraft Forge is 1.16.5. The latest recommended version of Minecraft Forge is 1.15.2; Minecraft Forge (Modding API) is heavily installed at versions 1.15.2,1.12.2. Some mods require a specific version of Minecraft Forge. New version of Minecraft Forge 1.16.5 has less testing, and many mods do not support it.

How do you download Minecraft Forge?
First, head to Minecraft forge and download the program. You want to make sure that you download the version of Forge that corresponds to the version of Minecraft you have, Select the Minecraft Forge menu on the right side of this website.

Do you have to have Minecraft to use forge?
Yes, Make sure you have Minecraft installed.Minecraft Forge only works for Minecraft: Java Edition. Minecraft for PC, XBox One and PS4 cannot be modded.

Is modding Minecraft illegal?
No, modding Minecraft is not illegal.

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5 steps to successfully install Forge Minecraft

1. Access and Download select Minecraft forge version, then download the installer.

2. Requires installing Java on a computer. Open the .jar file you just downloaded, make sure ‘Install Client’ is selected, and click the OK button.

3. Run Minecraft and select the Forge profile, then click Play.

4. Select the Minecraft Forge menu on the left and the Mods button below Multiplayer.

5. Successfully, you can enjoy the mod just installed.

Download Exotic Birds Mod for Minecraft 1.16.5,1.15.2,1.14.4 and 1.13.2