This mod adds butterflies with a full life cycle to the world of Minecraft. Butterflies can be caught or released using a butterfly net. Once caught, they can be bottled and placed in the world as decorative objects.

Butterflies will also lay eggs in leaves if they get close to them, and if a player collects these eggs they can plant them in other leaf blocks. The eggs will eventually hatch into caterpillars.

After living on the leaves for a short time, a caterpillar will eventually build a chrysalis. These will then hatch into new butterflies within the world.

This mod features 16 butterfly species, mostly based on real-life butterflies but a couple of are purely fantasy butterflies.

If you want to breed the butterflies in this mod, then be sure to keep your cats away from them!

Check out the Modding Diaries here!

• Updated Forge to current recommended version (47.2.0).

• First release of the butterfly mod.

• Chrysalises will now spawn in the correct position.

• Moved butterfly eggs to Spawn Eggs section of creative inventory.

• Made butterfly egg-laying 16 times rarer.

• Fixed emperor chrysalis texture.

• Butterflies et al. are now Animals instead of AmbientCreatures.

• Cats now attack butterflies.

• Created textures for chrysalises.

• First pass Chrysalis implementation

• Caterpillars can now crawl on surfaces in all directions.

• Fixed mangrove and cherry leaf blocks not spawning caterpillars.

• Fixed immortal butterflies being spawned if a bottled butterfly is destroyed by lava.

• Added multiple textures for bottled butterflies.

• Added advancements for collecting butterfly eggs.

• Fixed JSON format of achievements.

• Added caterpillars.

• Added butterfly eggs.

• Bottled butterfly recipe now unlocks if a player has both glass bottle(s) and a butterfly net in their inventory.

• Nets and bottles will now describe if they are empty.

• Added bottled butterflies

• Updated Forge to version 47.1.42 (supports Minecraft 1.20.1)

• Updated Forge to version 47.0.35 (supports Minecraft 1.20.1)

• Fixed butterfly release code.
• Reduced butterfly speed to make them easier to catch.
• Made fishing rod recipe a bit more readable.

• Added the butterfly net.

• Added the Clipper and Buckeye Butterflies.

• Added the Longwing Butterfly.

• Added the Admiral Butterfly.

• Butterfly bodies now face the right way.

• Replaced Common Butterfly with Birdwing Butterfly.

• Added the Cabbage Butterfly.

• Added the Monarch Butterfly.

• Butterflies will now spawn in different biomes depending on type.

• Renamed method in ItemRegistry to be more descriptive.

• Butterflies can now spawn on leaves.

• Update to Forge 1.19.4.

• Created butterfly entities that can spawn in the world.

• Basic configuration and setup for the mod.