Install Citadel, Then Alex's Mobs
1.20.1 on Forge or NeoForge, with Citadel installed first
The order is Forge or NeoForge for 1.20.1, then Citadel, then Alex's Mobs. Citadel is the animation library the mobs need to load, and 2.6.x matches the current mobs build. Skipping it is the usual cause of a first-launch crash.
After your first join, check two things before hunting. First, make sure the Animal Dictionary is in your inventory — the default config gives you one at startup, and if a pack disabled that you can craft the shapeless book or buy it from a Wandering Trader for 4 emeralds. Second, confirm a river or savannah actually spawned mod mobs; worldgen packs that remove vanilla biomes usually remove most of these animals too.
Craft the Animal Dictionary
One book, one mob drop, one green dye — any arrangement
You get the book for free on first join. If you lost it in lava, the 1.20 recipe is shapeless and cheap: any book, one of the mod's mob drops, and a green dye. The drop can be any of these — crocodile scute, bear fur, roadrunner feather, gazelle horn, rattlesnake rattle, komodo spit, centipede leg, moose antler, raccoon tail, cockroach wing, spiked scute, straddlite, emu feather, dropbear claw, cachalot tooth, capsid, or rocky shell.
Put the book on a lectern and it reads like an in-world wiki, painted olive and cream. This page doesn't repeat every entry — it points you to the ones worth your time.
Day-One Route: Feeder, Scute, Burger
Copper, a river, and a kangaroo — then you can stop
Hang a Hummingbird Feeder before you touch a sword. The recipe is copper around a glass bottle, with sunflowers in the bottom corners — four ingots, two sunflowers, and one bottle. Fill it and leave it; hummingbirds don't need babysitting.
Walk a river for crocodiles and a savannah for kangaroos. Cooked kangaroo meat gives 8 hunger and 0.85 saturation, but the burger — bread, cooked meat, bread — jumps to 12 hunger and 1.0 saturation, better than steak. Hide converts to leather if you're short, or you can save it for Outback Leggings later. There's no second burger recipe, so you don't need to hunt the whole herd.
Craft the feeder first and the burger second. If you only make one thing today besides the book, make the feeder — it keeps working even after you log out.
What's Worth Hunting (and What to Leave)
You can leave these mobs alone and still enjoy the addon
- Easy to skip. Flies, cockroaches, rain frogs, potoos, and most fish-in-a-bucket entries. Leave Cachalot Whales in open water — ambergris is something you rescue from a beach, not hunt.
- Walk by, don't farm. Skelewag make ocean boats expensive, and Straddlers turn basalt deltas into a shooting gallery. Grab one rattlesnake, one gazelle horn, and one raccoon tail, then move on.
- Worth a dedicated trip. Crocodile nest, kangaroo herd, grizzly, roadrunner, emu, cave centipede, Bald Eagle, Crimson Mosquito, and the Void Worm.
- Don't confuse this with the other Alex. Alex's Caves is a different mod with its own guide — this page is about the animals in the world you already have.
Overworld Jobs Worth a Trip
River scute, desert boots, raccoon toughness
Crocodile Chestplate is eight scute in the vanilla chest shape (S S / SSS / SSS). It gives 5 defense and 1.0 toughness with 330 durability, and repairs with scute. The numbers are close to Iron, but the real reason to wear it is the swim speed in rivers you now live on.
Roadrunner Boots sit on a leather boot with four feathers and two chiseled sandstone. They give 3 defense, 0 toughness, and 198 durability, plus a small movement-speed bonus while you stand on sand — but not sandstone or dirt. Frontier Cap is five bear fur, a leather cap, and one raccoon tail. It gives 3 defense, 2.5 toughness, and 221 durability, plus a small movement-speed bonus while sneaking. Wear it for the crouch-walk, not as a fashion statement.
Outback Leggings mix four emu feathers and three kangaroo hide. They give 4 defense, 0.5 toughness, and 144 uses, but the real value is a configurable chance to dodge incoming projectile damage. Emu feathers are fire-resistant, but these pants are no replacement for Netherite.
Tames That Earn the Food
Imprint the nest, hood the eagle — no need to tame everything
Crocodile babies imprint on whoever is standing at the nest when they hatch — that's the taming mechanic, not rotten flesh like a wolf. Be there at hatching, or you end up with a wild adult and a mess. Keep two tamed crocodiles at the river as a living scute farm, and only hunt others when you need the first scute for the Dictionary.
Bald Eagle falconry is two crafts. The Glove is leather plus bear fur; the Hood is three leather and one roadrunner feather. The hood goes on the bird and the glove on you — without both you just have a large angry chicken. Elephants, gorillas, and capuchins have their own food loops (acacia blossoms, bananas) and are more like bases than weapons. If a tame doesn't carry, fight, or farm, it's mostly a screenshot.
Armor That Is a Job, Not a Set
Armor stats from the 1.20 files
There is no full "Alex set." Each piece is a specialist. The durability and defense values below come straight from the 1.20 code, but the real reason to wear each piece is its bonus effect, not the armor number.
Crocodile
Frontier
Outback
CentipedeRoadrunnerCave Centipede Leggings are the climb piece: 7 defense, 0.5 toughness, 320 uses, seven legs in the vanilla pants grid. Against a wall and out of water they cancel fall damage and let you slide like scaffolding — that's the real reason to wear them, not the 7 armor. Froststalker Helmet is packed ice plus one horn: 3 defense, 0.5 toughness, 117 uses. Flying Fish Boots are 1 defense, 99 uses, plus a swim-speed boost and a hop — they're not raid boots.
Nether Blood and the End Worm
Sprayer, blaster, then one carver. Not a second bestiary
Crimson Mosquitoes drop blood sacs and a proboscis. The Blood Sprayer is two sacs, three nether bricks, one proboscis, and 100 durability. The Hemolymph Blaster is the upgrade — that sprayer plus three hemolymph sacs, mimicream, a warped muscle, and another proboscis, for 150 durability. Craft the upgrade once; you don't need to keep the old sprayer around.
Murmur tendons and Dropbear claws make the Tendon Whip ( CC / TTC / ST ). It is reach. It is not a Netherite sword. Ambergris from Cachalot Whales is a fuel item at 12,800 ticks. 64 smelts, between a coal block and a lava bucket. Two teeth, four iron, one ambergris become the Echolocator (100 uses). Surround that with four ender pearls for the Endolocator (25 uses). The second item points at End Portals. That is the only locator most worlds need.
The Void Worm does not spawn on its own. You have to combine a Mysterious Worm with an Enderiophage Capsid and a mosquito larva, then throw the result in the End. The carver itself is one eye, two mandibles, and two netherite ingots. The Dimensional Carver is Epic with 20 uses — hold right-click to mine a temporary air tunnel. The shattered version only has 4 uses, so spend your 20 on a path you'll walk again, not a scenic hole.
Four Loadouts That Pay Off
What to wear after the first river, the first cave, and the End
First afternoon. Dictionary, feeder, leather or Iron armor. Cook one kangaroo. There are no crocodile pants, so don't try to craft them.
River base. Crocodile chestplate, Frontier Cap if you have the tail, Iron legs and boots. The 2.5 toughness on the cap is better than another fashion helmet.
Caves and savannah. Swap to Centipede Leggings when you have seven legs. Keep the chestplate. Roadrunner boots only in deserts. Outback Leggings if you live on the savanna and already have hide.
Nether / End. Blood Sprayer until the Blaster exists. Tendon Whip if Murmurs showed up. Dimensional Carver after the worm, then put it in a shulker. 20 uses disappear if it lives on the hotbar.
Tips That Save a Hunt
Fuel, food ceiling, and the lectern
- Ambergris beats a coal panic. It burns for 12,800 ticks — 64 items. And hunting whale teeth doubles as an Echolocator hunt.
- Food caps at 12. The Kangaroo Burger and Shrimp-Fried Rice both give 12 hunger and 1.0 saturation — anything more is just variety.
- Imprint, don't melee. Adult crocodiles wreck boats, and scute comes from waiting at eggs, not fighting.
- The Carver is a ticket, not a pick. Twenty uses of an air tunnel, four if shattered — neither replaces a diamond pick.
Frequently Asked Questions
Citadel, Dictionary, scute, Void Worm
Related mods
Official Downloads
AlexModGuy (sbom_xela) · Citadel requiredOfficial Alex's Mobs 1.20.1 from AlexModGuy, plus a matching Citadel library.
Alex's Mobs
Citadel (required library)
Citadel is not extra animals. It is AlexModGuy's animation and entity library. Without a matching Citadel jar, Alex's Mobs does not start.