VFP MobDrops
As of: mc1.12.2-4.1.0 (Oct-2017)
VFP adds many new passive mob drops and a couple hostile mob drops to the standard Minecraft game. The VFP drops will add to the regular drops for the large farm animals like pigs and cows, and will introduce something new for bats, squid, wolves, horses, llamas, ocelots, polar bears, and even guardians. For example, if you can actually catch the little buggers, bats will give you bat meat, small bones, and even guano (yes, bat poop) for fertilizing your crops or making lingering potions.
You can disable all of the mod's new drops by setting the drops_enabled configuration option to false. Note that this option controls all kinds of drops not just mob drops. To disable a one or two specific drops, use the per-mob options described below.
Many of the new drops will be very useful if you play in peaceful mode where you cannot easily obtain some critical items, like string or slimeballs, from hostile mobs. VFP doesn't add any new base potions, but several of the new drops allow you to make new custom potion blends of existing items.
- Although named
upsize_meat_dropsthis configuration option applies to all items normally dropped by animals. So it includes things like hide, feathers, or wool as well as meat. - Item quantity up-sizing and many uncommon drops only occur for direct kills by real players.
- Any animal that can drop bones is affected by the
include_bone_dropsconfiguration option. - Drops are usually exclusive to adult animals. Calf Stomach Lining is the notable exception as it's dropped by adolescent cows only.
- Many new items are not dropped ever if the animal is on fire when it dies (typically from lava or a tool with Fire Aspect enchant). These items are flagged as such.
- Meat will usually be dropped as a cooked (or charred) version if the animal is on fire when it dies.
- Ocelot drops are living drops; you must keep the animal alive and healthy to obtain.
To ensure you always get the new animal drops, use a butchering tool; otherwise, the new items may or may not get dropped as that's randomly selected by the game. A Butchering Axe is very easy to make but has a fairly limited durability and cannot be enchanted. Note that a butchering axe is meant to be used on animals, gourds like pumpkins and melons, and large mushroom blocks. It's not a very effective weapon against other players or against hostile mobs.
Craft a Butchering Axe from any flint and a stick.
A butchering tool doesn't only help with new animal drops, it increases the efficiency of existing animal drops as well. This means you get more food for each animal killed with such a tool. You can also use a butchering tool as a substitute for the flint cutter item in crafting recipes (the tool takes 1pt of damage per recipe).
Related configuration: include_pig_drops.
| Item | Name | Loot | Luck | Axe | Description |
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Pig Hocks | y | - | Y | Pig hocks. Dropped from adult pigs only. Can be salted before smoking (smelting). Looting has a fixed effect and a single pig will drop at most three(3) hocks. Cooked food points:  . |
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Pigtail | - | - | Y | Pig's tail. Dropped from adult pigs only. Must be salted before using. Looting has no effect and a single pig will drop at most one(1) tail. Cooked food points:  . |
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Bone | y | y | y | Up to two(2) bones can drop from an adult pig if none have been dropped by other mods. |
Related configuration: include_bat_drops.
| Item | Name | Loot | Luck | Axe | Description |
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Bat Meat | y | - | y | Meat dropped from bats. At least two(2) pieces if using a butchering axe or item with fortune. Much more if bat is NOT on fire. Cooked food points: . |
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Bat Sonar Sac | - | y | Y | Special single drop from bats. Use to brew night vision potions. Never dropped if bat is burning on death. Required for 'Bat Splat' achievement. |
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Bat Poop or Guano | Y | - | Y | Animal waste as dropped by a fighting-mad bat. Lots of uses: as bonemeal substitute, as poison additive (eg to make rotten flesh), or for brewing lingering potions. Much lower chance to drop if bat is burning. |
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Small Bone | - | - | - | A single small bone might be dropped from a bat if it's not burning. |
Related configuration: include_bear_drops.
Note #1: if you kill a polar bear with fire, the meat dropped is the burnt variant of the raw meat and it can poison you still.
| Item | Name | Loot | Luck | Axe | Description |
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Bear Meat | - | - | - | Meat dropped from adult polar bears only. Poisonous if consumed directly when raw; should be prepared for safe use in food. Cooked food points:  . |
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Polar Crystal Heart | y | Y | Y | Uncommon drop from adults used to create Polar Crystals for brewing potions of Bear's Spirit I+II. Never dropped if bear is burning on death. |
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Bones | y | y | y | At least two(2) bones always dropped unless blocked by another mod. Looting and butchering-axe affects quantity not drop chance. |
Related configuration: include_wolf_drops, exclude_wolf_meat.
| Item | Name | Loot | Luck | Axe | Description |
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Wolf Meat | y | - | y | Meat dropped from adult untamed wolves only. Cooked food points: . Looting and butchering-axe affects quantity slightly. |
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Wolf Spirit Essense | Y | Y | Y | Uncommon drop from tamed and untamed wolves used to create Wolf's Essense for brewing potions of Wolf's Spirit I+II. Note: drops rarely from tamed wolves and only enhanced looting levels affect drop chance. |
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Small Bones | y | - | y | Bones dropped from untamed wolves only unless blocked by another mod. Looting affects quantity slightly. |
Related configuration: include_squid_drops, exclude_squid_meat.
Note #1: because so many other mods already add squid meat drops, VFP's raw squid drop is disabled by default. Re-enable it by setting the exclude_squid_meat option to false.
| Item | Name | Loot | Luck | Axe | Description |
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Raw Squid | Y | - | Y | Squid meat dropped always. Delicious in chowder! Cooked food points: . |
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Ink Pearl Fragment | Y | y | Y | Common drop used to create Ink Pearls and to brew potions of The Ocean Deep. Never dropped if squid is burning on death. Luck affects quantity slightly not drop chance. |
Related configuration: include_llama_drops, exclude_llama_meat, llamas_drop_regular_wool.
| Item | Name | Loot | Luck | Axe | Description |
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Llama Meat | - | - | y | Llama meat. Dropped from adult llamas only. Cooked food points:  . |
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Fleece | - | - | - | Llama fleece blocks. Dropped from adult llamas only. Each block produces 6 strings. Not dropped if llama is on fire at death. There are four types of fleece blocks, one for each coloring variant of llamas. |
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Bone | y | y | y | Up to two(2) bones can drop from an adult llamas if none have been dropped by other mods. |
Related configuration: include_horse_drops, exclude_horse_meat.
Note #1: most of the drops described apply to horses-horses, donkeys, and mules. Any items dropped by horses only are flagged as such.
Note #2: the animals will not drop any of these additional items if they're on fire at death (as when killed with lava or a sword carrying the Fire Aspect enchant). This includes the meat drops!
| Item | Name | Loot | Luck | Axe | Description |
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Horse Meat | Y | - | Y | Meat dropped from horses, donkeys, and mules; adolescents drop at most one(1) piece regardless of looting or butchering axe use. Cooked food points:  . |
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Horse Hoof | - | - | Y | Up to two(2) hoofs can drop from an adult horse, donkey, or mule. Use to obtain slimeballs and to create Sticky Paste. |
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Horse Tear | y | y | Y | Uncommon drop from adult horses used to brew potions of Regeneration II. Looting affects only the final quantity not the drop chance. |
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Horse Sweat | - | y | y | Uncommon drop from adult horses, donkeys, and mules used to brew potions of Strength. An adult horse will drop at most one(1) gland regardless of looting. |
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Bones | y | - | y | At least two(2) bones always dropped unless blocked by another mod or horse meat drops are excluded. Looting and butchering-axe affects quantity not drop chance. |
Related configuration: include_calf_drops.
Note #1: calves will not drop any of these items if they're on fire at death.
| Item | Name | Loot | Luck | Axe | Description |
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Calf Stomach Lining | - | - | Y | Drop from adolescent cows. Used to create rennet or curdling agent for cheese making. Never dropped if animal is on fire at death. |
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Small Bone | - | - | - | A single small bone will drop from a calf. |
Related configuration: include_ocelot_drops.
Note #1: ocelots will not drop any of these items if they've been tamed, are in poor health (health less than 1/3 max), or are fed anything other than raw pufferfish.
| Item | Name | Loot | Luck | Axe | Description |
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Felis Life Essence | - | - | - | Living drop from untamed ocelets that are fed pufferfish. Used to reanimate villagers from dropped zombie villager's souls and to brew potions of Undying. |
Neither luck nor looting have an effect on the amount of life essence you get from an ocelot. The only way to possibly increase the drop rate is with the special "Bane of Ocelots" pufferfish dropped occasionally by Creepers. Tip: To improve your chance of getting the essence drop, try to slow down the ocelot with a potion of slowness or other means, before feeding it the pufferfish.
Related configuration: include_guardian_drops, exclude_guardian_meat.
Note #1: these drops are for regular guardians only, not the boss elder guardians.
Note #2: (VFP pre 4.2) because guardians are hostile mobs, a Butchering Axe is ineffective. Use a proper weapon with looting if trying to get special drops.
| Item | Name | Loot | Luck | Axe | Description |
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Guardian Meat | y | - | - | Meat dropped from guardians. If eaten raw, will give a player food poisoning about 25% of the time; best to cook before eating. Cooked food points: . |
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Tail Fins | - | - | - | Guardian tail fins. Use guardian fins to create shulker boxes. If VFP is the only change to standard guardian drop tables, fins will replace prismarine shard drops about 50% of the time (so shard drops are reduced by same amount). |
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Air Sac | - | - | - | Air or Lung sacs dropped by regular guardians. Right-click to refill your air supply under water with a short-term water-breathing potion buff. Each air sac has 4 uses or "puffs" before it's used up. |
Related configuration: include_ocelot_drops.
Note #1: these drops are linked to ocelot drop configuration as they require ocelot life essence drops to be of any use.
| Item | Name | Loot | Luck | Axe | Description |
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Tainted Villager Soul | - | - | - | Special item dropped rarely by zombie villagers. Use to reanimate villagers when combined with an ocelot's Life Essence. |