Tamable Foxes

A Paper plugin that lets you tame foxes — they sit, follow, sleep with you, and defend their owner.

⚠️ Don't /reload the server with this plugin installed — you may lose foxes. Restart instead.

If you hit any errors, open an issue.

Have you ever wanted to tame foxes? Now you can — feed a wild fox chicken to tame it (33% chance per feed), and use sweet berries to breed them.

Requirements

• Paper (or a Paper fork) for Minecraft 26.1.2
• Java 25+

This build targets 26.1.2 only. It is compiled Mojang-mapped against Paper via paperweight and ships marked paperweight-mappings-namespace: mojang, so Paper loads it without remapping. It will not run on Spigot/CraftBukkit or on other Minecraft versions.

Installation

1. Grab TamableFoxes-v<version>.jar from the Releases page (or download the TamableFoxes artifact from a build run).
2. Drop it into your server's plugins/ folder.
3. Restart the server.

Default config files: config.yml · language.yml.

Features

• 33% chance to tame (feed chicken); breeding with sweet berries
• Wild foxes pick berries from bushes and leap at targets
• Tamed foxes follow their owner and sleep when the owner sleeps
• Sneak + right-click to make a fox sit; sneak + right-click empty-handed to make it sleep
• Sneak + right-click lets a fox hold items
• A fox holding a totem of undying will consume it and be reborn
• Foxes attack their owner's target, and whatever attacks their owner
• Foxes attack chickens and rabbits
• Red and snow foxes, spawned naturally in the same biomes as vanilla foxes
• Death message when a tamed fox dies
• Fully translatable via language.yml; individual messages can be set to disabled (taming-tamed-message, taming-asking-for-name-message, taming-chosen-name-perfect, fox-doesnt-trust)
• /givefox to hand a fox to another player

Commands

Command	Alias	Description
/spawntamablefox [red|snow]	/stf	Spawn a tamable fox where you're standing (defaults to red).
/tamablefoxes reload	/tamablefox	Reload the plugin config.
/givefox [player]	—	Give one of your foxes to another player.

Permissions

Permission	Description	Default
tamablefoxes.spawn	Spawn tamable foxes.	op
tamablefoxes.tame	Tame a fox.	everyone
tamablefoxes.tame.unlimited	Bypass the per-player tame limit.	op
tamablefoxes.tame.anywhere	Bypass the banned-worlds list in config.yml.	op
tamablefoxes.reload	Reload the plugin config.	op
tamablefoxes.givefox.give	Give your foxes to other players.	everyone
tamablefoxes.givefox.give.others	Give another player's fox to someone.	op
tamablefoxes.givefox.receive	Receive foxes from other players.	everyone

Building

Requires JDK 25+ and Maven; Gradle comes from the bundled wrapper.

./build.sh

The output jar is written to Plugin/target/TamableFoxes-v<version>.jar (and copied to run/plugins/).

Under the hood the build spans two tools (see build.sh):

1. mvn install — install the parent POM and the Utility module to the local repo.
2. 26_1_R1/gradlew publishToMavenLocal — build the Mojang-mapped NMS module with paperweight-userdev against the Paper 26.1.2 dev bundle.
3. mvn -pl Plugin package — shade everything into the final plugin jar and stamp the Mojang mappings namespace.

CI runs the same flow: build.yml on every push/PR, and release.yml publishes a release with the jar.

Metrics

Tamable Foxes collects anonymous server statistics through bStats. You can opt out in plugins/bStats/config.yml.