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Wan's Ancient Beasts

Wan's Ancient Beasts

Are you ready to meet all the beasts of Minecraft's ancient past? Like the Sniffer, they are all creatures from prehistory and each one brings with it amazing new features!

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Minecraft: Java Edition

1.20.x

Platforms

Forge

Supported environments

Client and server

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WanMine
WanMineOrganization

WanMine
WanMine mc.wanmine.net
Millenniar
Millenniar Developer
FedeRex
FedeRex Modeller

Details

Licensed ARR
Published 7 months ago
Updated last week
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Please note that this is a BETA version of the mod that adds only a few content and is not bug-free. In case you want to leave feedback, feel free to use the comment space below or the dedicated channel in the WanMine Discord server.

Are you ready to meet all the beasts of Minecraft's ancient past? Like the Sniffer, they are all creatures from prehistory and each one brings with it amazing new features!

Version 1.1.5 (12/03/2025) - Hotfix

Spoiler
  • Removed Sherds API dependency
  • New advancements
  • General rebalance of all ancient mobs (+ Sniffer)
  • Now Chisel is used to excavate suspicious ice instead of Brush.  Right-click on the block several times, and after quite a while it will drop the loot.
  • Remodel and upgrade of the Ancient club:
    • as much damage as an Iron sword
    • as fast as an Axe
    • now the more you hit your target the more damage it will deal every time (1hp x addition hit)

Version 1.1.0 (22/12/2024) - Flyers Update

Spoiler

NEW ANCIENT CREATURES

1) Glider

  • Egg found in the Abandoned Village
  • Passive mob
  • Can be tamed with pufferfish
  • Once tamed you can make it sit
  • When playing music on a jukebox it will start dancing
  • While dancing it can lose some feathers
  • It can be bred with Salmon

2) Soarer

  • Egg found in the Frozen Nest
  • Neutral Mob: it will attack the player if the player attacks it first
  • It will attack Toxlacanth on sight
  • Can be tamed with Raw Toxlacanth
  • Once tamed it will also be able to attack targets
  • Once tamed you can put a saddle on it and ride it
  • With this creature you’ll be able to fly for long distances in early game, but its stamina is not infinite and sometimes it will have to restore it by go to the ground
  • It can be bred with pufferfish

NEW MOBS

1) Toxlacanth

  • Very rare mob that can be found in:
    • Waterlogged Caves
    • Warm Oceans
    • Swamps
    • Mangrove Swamps
  • It can be bucketed
  • Its not part of the fishing lootable
  • If hit without killing it will spawn a little cloud that can cause Nausea, Poison and Weakness
  • Once slayed it will drop itself

NEW ITEMS

1) Glider’s Feather

  • This item is dropped by the Glider while dancing
  • It can be used in substitution of regular feathers when crafting arrows
  • It can be used to craft a new item the Hang Glider

2) Hang Glider

  • Can be used as a primitive elytra
  • It allows the player to freely glide instead of falling to its doom
  • It loses durability every time you glide
  • It can be enchanted with: Unbreaking, Mending
  • Unlike elytra you cannot use rocket to go faster or go upwards

3) Raw Toxlacanth

  • It can be cooked or eaten Raw
  • It can be used to tame the Soarer
  • If eaten Raw it will cause Nausea, Poison and Weakness

4) Cooked Toxlacanth

  • It can be eaten
  • It gives as much saturation as the ancient meat
  • But it still has a terrible taste, so it will cause Nausea

NEW BLOCKS

1) Straw Block

  • Can be crafted with Wheat and Sticks
  • Can be crafted into stairs and slabs
  • Can be Found in Frozen Nests
  • Can be used to craft the Nest

2) Frozen Straw Block

  • Can be found in Frozen Nests

3) Nest

  • Can be Crafted with straw Blocks
  • It can be used to speed up the hatching of egg, making it 3x faster than normal
  • If you place chicken eggs in it they will not hatch and it will function as a decorative block

NEW STRUCTURES

1) The Abandoned Village

  • Can be found in Jungle biomes
  • It has lots of Suspicious Gravel that allows you to find:   - Glider Eggs   - Fall Pottery Sherd

2) The Frozen Nests

  • Can be found in Mountains
  • It has lots of Suspicious Gravel that allows you to find:   - Soarer Eggs   - Beak Pottery Sherd

Version 1.0.0 (27/09/2024)

Spoiler

NEW ANCIENT CREATURES

1) Eater

Eater

  • Egg found in Mesa Temple
  • Neutral: attacks only if you are too close to it or you are near a baby
  • It scares every mob (except the Wither Boss and the Ender Dragon)
  • Its bites breaks the shields
  • When aggred it’ll roars and that will give you the “Fear” effect for a few seconds (a new effect that will make you no longer control your character)
  • If you give it some “ancient meat” there’s the chance it’ll give the “alpha” effect for 2:30 minutes (a new effect that increases your attacks by half heart for each kill)
  • If it kill an entity there’s a chance that it’ll drop an “Eater Tooth” (a new item that can be used to craft a new weapon, the “Ancient Club”)
  • It hunts every animal and pillagers
  • Cannot be tamed
  • Can be bred with every type of meat

2) Walker

Walker

  • Egg found in Ice Spike Castle
  • Passive
  • Can be tamed only when is baby with spore blossoms
  • Once tamed 4 players can ride it at the same time
  • Once tamed can be equipped with chests (it has 49 slots of storage)
  • Can walk over fences and walls
  • Can be heal with azalea leaves
  • Can be bred with spore blossoms

3) Crusher

Crusher

  • Egg found in Desert Ruins
  • Neutral: attacks only if you attack it first
  • It’s immune to projectyles
  • You can steal one of its spike with a chisel but it makes the Crusher angry
  • Cannot be tamed
  • Can be bred with hanging roots

NEW ITEMS

1) Ancient Klub: new weapon strong as an iron axe but fast as a normal sword

Ancient Klub 1 Ancient Klub 2

2) Reinforced Shield: it can be crafted upgrading a shield in the smithing table with a Crusher's Spike and the Upgrade trim. This shield will deal damage to everything that use a melee attack type (like a shield it negates projectiles)

Reinforced Shield qReinforced Shield 2

NEW STRUCTURES

1) Mesa Temple

Mesa Temple

2) Ice Spike Castle

Castle

3) Desert Ruins

Ruins

Dependencies: Geckolib

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/geckolib

The WAB mod is currently still in development and we hope to add more content very soon!

https://discord.wanmine.net/

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