This datapack adds several unique variants of Cows, Chickens, and Pigs. These new variants can be unlocked by breeding animals using special Mutagenic Foods, then crossbred to unlock even more variants.

Overview

There are three main categories of variants added in this datapack: Chromatic, Luminous, and Mythical. Each category has 16+ mob variants, as well as a set of custom foods (Seeds, Carrots, and Wheat) required to breed mobs of those variants.

In general, breeding any two mobs with on tier of food will result in a child of that tier. Breeding mobs with ordinary wheat, seeds, or carrots will result in a child with the same variant as one of the parents.

Unlocking new variants does more than give you a fun looking variant - each new variant also has new mechanics. Chickens lay unique new eggs, Cows give new types of milk, and Pigs gain a variety of buffs when ridden in different environments.

Mutagenic Crops

There are three tiers of Mutagenic Crops which are required to breed the new variants. These foods can be found by growing and harvesting the previous tier of crop in a specific location.

If you want to make the process of finding these biomes less tedious, check out my Biome Scanner datapack!

Chromatic Crops

Normal wheat and carrots harvested in a Flower Forest have a chance to drop Chromatic seeds and carrots. Once found, these crops can be planted and grown in any biome. They grow like normal crops, and can be fed to mobs to unlock Chromatic variants!

Luminous Crops

Harvesting Chromatic wheat and carrots in the Deep Dark has a chance to drop Luminous seeds and carrots. These crops glow in the dark, and once found can be planted and grown in any biome. Feeding mobs these crops will result in a Luminous child!

Mythical Crops

When you reach the End, growing and harvesting Chromatic wheat and carrots has a chance to drop Mythical seeds and carrots. Once found, these crops can be grown in any biome.

Breeding

When you breed mobs using any of the Mutagenic Crops, the result will be one of the 50+ new variants, depending on a number of factors. Each variant has a tier (Chromatic, Luminous, or Mythical) and a base color (One of the 16 dye colors).

If either parent is fed a non-mutagenic crop, the variant of the child will be randomly chosen from one of the parents. Otherwise, the following process is used to determine the child's variant:

1. The tier of the child is determined based on the lowest tier food used to feed a parent.
2. If both parents are a vanilla variant, the base color of will be Red, Yellow, or Blue.
3. If one of the parents is a vanilla variant, the base color will be Red, Yellow, Blue, or the base color of the Mutagenic variant.
4. If both of the parents are a Mutagenic variant:
   a. If the child will be Chromatic, the child color will be determined from the parent colors using dye mixing rules (i.e. a Yellow and a Blue parent will have a Green child).
   b. If the child will be Luminous, the child color will be determined from the parent colors using light mixing rules (i.e. a Red and a Green parent will have a Yellow child). c. Otherwise, the child color will be randomly chosen from one of the parent colors.
5. For Mythical variants, the Dimension the mob is born in may also impact their final variant.

Variants

Chromatic

The Chromatic variants are colored variants for the 16 dye colors in Minecraft.
Chromatic pigs will travel faster on dyed blocks that match their color, and have an added bonus that they can be halted by pressing jump while riding them, to prevent them from running off of cliffs! Chromatic Chickens lay colored eggs that can be used to change the color of dyeable blocks when thrown. They can also be fired from a dispenser to create redstone contraptions with color changing blocks!
Chromatic Cows give Dyed Milk. Instead of removing all status effects, dyed milk only removes specific status effects when consumed.

Luminous

The Luminous variants are glowing variants for the 16 dye colors in Minecraft. Luminous mobs have a permanent Glowing effect and will glow with their color. If the player has VESE installed, Luminous variants will have emissive textures in addition to the glowing outline.
Luminous pigs will travel faster than their Chromatic counterparts on dyed blocks, and will give their passenger Night Vision while they are being ridden. Like Chromatic pigs, they can be halted by holding jump.
Luminous Chickens lay glowing eggs that can be thrown at blocks or entities. When hitting most blocks, a glowing colored outline will appear for a couple of seconds. When hitting dyeable blocks, the outline will remain until the block is removed. When hitting entities, the entity will gain a glowing outline in the color of the egg for 15 seconds.
Luminous Cows give Glowing Milk. Glowing milk will make a player who drinks it glow with the color of the milk for 15 seconds.

Mythical

There are 21 Mythical Variants, divided into a handful of subtypes.

Ore Variants

There are 7 Ore Variants: Coal, Copper, Iron, Gold, Redstone, Emerald, and Diamond.
Ore pigs travel faster on stone. Like other pigs, they can be halted by tapping jump. They can also mine the two blocks in front of them if their passenger taps sprint. When mining an ore that matches their variant, the drops are calculated as though they were mined with Fortune.
Ore chickens will lay a mix of stone eggs, which can be thrown at entities to hurt them, and ore eggs, typically a retextured raw version of a resource.
Ore cows give mineral enriched milk. Drinking mineral enriched milk will cause all nearby ores of that type to glow through walls, making mining more efficient.

Dessert Variants

There are 3 Dessert Variants: Chocolate, Vanilla, and Berry.
Dessert pigs will harvest and replant crops when walking over them.
Dessert chickens lay cake eggs, which are a good source of food.
Dessert cows give ice cream, which completely restores hunger but also gives the player slowness.

Nether Variants

There are 3 Nether Variants: Crimson, Warped, and Crying.
All Nether variants are fireproof.
Crimson
Crimson pigs travel faster on common Nether blocks, crimson wood blocks, and crimson nylium. Crimson chickens lay crimson eggs, which will cause the level of status effects on targets to increase, while causing the remaining duration to decrease. Crimson cows give crimson milk, which does the same thing to status effects on the player that drinks it.
Warped
Warped pigs travel faster on common Nether blocks, warped wood blocks, and warped nylium.
Warped chickens lay warped eggs, which will cause status effects on targets they hit to be inverted. Warped cows give warped milk, which inverts status effects on the player that drinks it.
Crying
Crying pigs can teleport between the Nether and the Overworld when their passenger taps sprint.
Crying chickens lay a mix of obsidian eggs, which can be thrown at entities to hurt them, and crying eggs, which will teleport entities they hit between the Nether and the Overworld.
Crying cows give crying milk, which teleports the player that drinks it between the Nether and the Overworld.

Elemental Variants

There are 8 Elemental Variants: Water/Ice/Steam, Earth/Sand/Gravel, Fire, and Void.

Water
Water pigs move very fast in water and don't sink.
Water chickens lay water eggs, which function as splash water bottles with the range of a thrown egg.
Water cows give buckets of water.

Ice
All Ice mobs are immune to powdered snow.
Ice pigs move fast on snow and ice.
Ice chickens lay egg-shaped snowballs.
Ice cows give buckets of powdered snow.

Steam
Steam pigs can levitate by holding space while riding them.
Steam chickens lay egg-shaped wind charges.
Steam cows give buckets of steam, which when placed creates a cloud of levitation.

Earth Earth pigs move faster on dirt and grass blocks.
Earth chickens lay dirt eggs, which can be thrown at entities to hurt them.
Earth cows give buckets of dirt, which can be used to place a dirt block without triggering block updates.

Sand
Sand pigs move faster on sand and sandstone.
Sand chickens lay sand eggs, which can be thrown at entities to hurt them and summon a large cloud of particles. Pocket Sand!
Sand cows give buckets of sand, which can be used to place sand without triggering block updates.

Gravel
Gravel pigs move faster on gravel.
Gravel chickens lay gravel eggs, which can be thrown at entities to hurt them and summon a large cloud of particles. Sand cows give buckets of gravel, which can be used to place sand without triggering block updates.

Fire
All Fire mobs are immune to fire damage.
Fire pigs swim on the surface of lava and give their passengers fire resistance.
Fire chickens lay flaming eggs, which light entities they hit on fire.
Fire coes give buckets of lava.

Void All Void mobs are immune to falling into the void, but take damage and teleport randomly when they touch water.
Void pigs can teleport in the direction their passenger is looking when they tap sprint.
Void chickens lay void eggs, which teleport entities they hit to the location the egg was thrown from.
Void cows give buckets of air, which can be used to place air without triggering block updates.