Advanced Creatures Free

AdvancedCreatures [Free Edition]

Next-Generation Custom 3D Living Entities — 100% Vanilla, Zero Client Mods

AdvancedCreatures Free brings custom 3D living entities, mounts, and wildlife directly into your Minecraft server without requiring any client-side mods, resource packs, OptiFine, or third-party launchers.

Powered by native vanilla BlockDisplay and Interaction entities combined with a high-performance server-side kinematics engine, your players see fluidly animated custom creatures directly on unmodified vanilla clients.

Unlike limited demo plugins, AdvancedCreatures Free gives you the real engine: full 20 TPS multi-track skeletal animation playback, complete autonomous AI goals, 3D physics & knockback, world persistence across restarts, and full access to our free web modeler MobForge!

⚖ Free vs. Premium Comparison

Feature · Free Edition · Premium Edition ★
Client Requirement · None (100% Vanilla) · None (100% Vanilla)
Max Active Creatures (Global) · 20 Creatures · Unlimited
Max Loaded Models (.creature) · 8 Types · Unlimited
Included Default Models · Create via MobForge / custom files · 30+ Ready-to-Play Models & Bosses
Natural World Spawner · Manual (/creature spawn) · Automatic Biome Spawning Engine
Biome & Environmental Filters · Not included · Full Biome Whitelists & Blacklists
Celestial & Weather Triggers · Not included · Day/Night, Storms, Moon Phases
Pack & Herd Spawning · Single spawn · Configurable Pack Sizes & Scale Drift
Vanilla Mob Replacement · Not included · Convert Vanilla Spawns to Custom
Spawn Diagnostics · Not included · /creature spawntest & /creature spawnrules
MobForge 3D Web Studio · Full Free Access · Full Free Access
Keyframe Animation Engine (20 TPS) · Included · Included
Autonomous AI & Combat · Included · Included
Mounts, Taming & Physics · Included · Included
Server Restart Persistence (PDC) · Included · Included

AdvancedCreatures Premium Spigot.

AdvancedCreatures Premium Magmaro.

★ What You Get in Free

• Full Animation Engine: Fluid 20 TPS multi-track animations (Walk, Run, Idle, Attack, Hurt, Death, Sit, Swim, Fly) with quaternion rotations.
• Unified Hitbox Collider: Clean, single interaction hitbox per creature that registers melee hits and arrows accurately from all angles.
• Living AI Brains: Stepping up 1-block terrain, predator-prey hunting loops, aerial raptor flight, and 3D aquatic swimming.
• Riding & Taming: Mount and steer large animals with realistic seating; tame companions with food.
• Mob Persistence: Creature data (health, scale, taming, baby state) automatically saves to chunk PDC across server restarts.
• MobForge 3D Studio: Free browser-based editor to design, texture, and animate your own .creature files.

🛠 Create Custom Models with MobForge (Free)

Create your own creatures in minutes with our free web editor:
👉 **mobforge.mipcraft.eu/**

1. Build your model using cubes in an interactive 3D viewport.
2. Paint textures using authentic Minecraft block textures.
3. Rig joints and animate walk, idle, and attack cycles on the timeline.
4. Export as .creature and drop it into plugins/AdvancedCreatures/models/.

⌨ Commands & Permissions

Permission Node: advancedcreatures.admin (Default: OP)
Aliases: /creatures, /animal, /animals

Command · Description
/creature spawn [scale] · Spawns a custom creature at your crosshairs.
/creature despawn [radius] · Despawns custom creatures within a radius (or all if omitted).
/creature list · Displays all installed creature models loaded on your server.
/creature reload · Hot-reloads models and config files without restarting.
/creature info · Shows active creature count, model limits, and engine status.

⚙ Quick Installation

1. Requires Paper, Purpur, or Spigot 1.20.4+ (Java 17+).
2. Drop AdvancedCreatures-Free.jar into your plugins/ folder.
3. Start your server.
4. Add your .creature files into plugins/AdvancedCreatures/models/ and run /creature reload.
5. Run /creature spawn to spawn your creature!

Need unlimited creatures, 30+ bundled models, and automatic biome world spawning? Check out AdvancedCreatures Premium.