Kindred

<div>Kindred turns your tamed mobs into a true companion roster. Bond a pet once, then call it to your side anywhere in the world — across dimensions, across deaths, across sessions. No more leaving your wolf at home, losing your horse in a cave, or starting over every time something dies.<p>Visit the <a href="https://mods.silvertide.net/kindred" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">website</a> for more info or to see some of my other mods.</p><hr></div>

Features

Bond with any tamed pet

Look at one of your tamed mobs, open the Pet Roster, and bond.

Bonded pets are stored on you — not in the world. They survive logouts, chunk unloads, and dimension changes.

* Works with any ownable, tameable mob out of the box (wolves, cats, parrots, horses, donkeys, mules, llamas, camels, foxes, axolotls — anything that implements vanilla ownership). * Optional datapack blocklist restricts bonding to saddleable mounts. * Optional datapack blocklist per bond — makes bonding feel earned, with the cost previewed before you confirm. * Optional datapack blocklist for species that shouldn't be bondable on your server.

Summon & Dismiss with a keybind

One key summons your active pet. Hold it again to dismiss. Open the roster with another key to switch active pet, rename, reorder, or break bonds.

* cross-dimensional summons prevents misclicks — configurable hold duration for both summon and dismiss. * Smart placement: pets within range walk to you naturally; farther pets teleport to a safe spot beside you. * Refuses to summon when the space around you is obstructed (configurable). * Cancels the hold if you take damage (configurable) — mirrors vanilla bow-draw / eating behavior. * Optional cross-dimensional summons so your pet follows you to the Nether and back.

Bring them back from the grave

By default, when a bonded pet dies, the bond doesn't break — it just goes dormant. Summon them again and they respawn at your side, gear and all.

* Loot drops pet returns on next summon. Optional revival cooldown adds weight without going full permadeath. * Loot drops flip a config switch and death breaks the bond for keeps. * Loot drops are off by default in soft-death mode (you'd just be picking your own saddle back up). Re-enable for vanilla behavior.

Pet Roster GUI

A clean inventory-style screen for managing your bonds.

* Live 3D preview of the selected pet. * Set active, rename, reorder (▲ / ▼), and break bonds with a hold-to-confirm. * Per-pet summon cooldown indicator. * Respawn timer for pets in revival cooldown. * "Limbo" / "Resting" state hints so you always know where each pet is.

Extremely customizable

Every behavior is exposed in `kindred-server.toml`:

| Category |Knobs | | ----------- |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | <strong>Bonding</strong> |max bonds per player, mount-only mode, XP level cost per bond | | <strong>Summoning</strong> |walk vs. teleport range, walk speed, cross-dimensional toggle, space-required toggle | | <strong>Cooldowns</strong> |per-bond summon cooldown, global per-player summon cooldown | | <strong>Death</strong> |permadeath toggle, loot drop toggle, revival cooldown | | <strong>Input</strong> |hold-to-summon seconds, hold-to-dismiss seconds, cancel-on-damage | | <strong>PMMO compat</strong> |skill gating, start level, linear or all-or-nothing unlock progression |

Datapack control

Four tags let server owners and modpack authors tune the experience without code:

* `kindred:bond_allowlist` (entity types) — when non-empty, only species in this tag can be bonded and `bond_denylist` is ignored. Leave empty to fall back to denylist behavior. * `kindred:bond_denylist` (entity types) — species that can never be bonded. Only consulted when `bond_allowlist` is empty. * `kindred:no_summon_dimensions` (dimension types) — dimensions where summoning is blocked. * `kindred:no_summon_biomes` (biomes) — biomes where summoning is blocked (great for boss arenas, dungeon biomes, PvP zones).~~~~

Project MMO integration

Optional gating via Project MMO.

* Choose any PMMO skill (default: `charisma`) to gate bond claims. * Linear mode: hit the start level and unlock all bond slots at once. * Linear mode: one slot at the start level, +1 every N levels, capped at your max. * The roster screen shows the next unlock requirement so players know what to grind.

Commands

For server admins and debugging:

``` /kindred claim — claim the entity at your crosshair /kindred list — list your bonds with indices /kindred summon <index> — summon a bond /kindred dismiss <index> — recall the active pet /kindred break <index> — break a bond /kindred active <index|none> — set or clear the active pet ```

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Why Kindred?

Vanilla pets are fragile, stationary, and easy to lose. Existing pet mods either turn them into items (which feels weird) or add a stable system (which feels like extra inventory management). Kindred takes a different angle: your pets live on you, not in the world. They're always one keypress away, they survive deaths, and the whole thing tunes from a config file so it fits any modpack — hardcore, casual, mount-focused, or RPG-progression.

Keybinds

| Default |Action | | ------- |----------------- | | v |Summon active pet | | g |Open pet roster |

Set them in Options → Controls → Kindred.

This mod was inspired by Callable Horses, which seems to not be moving past 1.20.1. I wanted to expand on it a little bit and include some new features and upgrades.