MobGrab

A PaperMC plugin that lets players pick up mobs as items and place them back down — full entity state preserved (health, equipment, trades, name, variant, age, …). Includes a villager/mob preset engine.

• Website: https://thconman.github.io/MobGrab/
• Requires: Paper 26.1.2 or 26.2 · Java 25 — one jar, auto-adapts to the server version

Features

• Sneak + right-click a mob → it becomes a head item; right-click a block to place it back.
• All living mobs supported, each with a custom head texture (camel husk, parched, mannequin, nautilus, …; plus the sulfur cube automatically on 26.2 servers).
• Fireproof mob items (optional) so a pocketed mob survives fire/lava like netherite — toggle live from the admin GUI.
• Admin GUI (/mobgrab gui) with category filters, search-by-page, and bulk enable/disable.
• Region protection: respects WorldGuard / GriefPrevention / PlotSquared, plus a custom WorldGuard mob-grab flag to disable grabbing in specific regions.
• Per-world disable, per-mob permissions, RoseStacker stacks, Geyser/Floodgate (Bedrock) form GUI, and a preset engine for custom villagers/mobs.

Build

Requires JDK 25 (Paper 26.2's runtime). The Gradle wrapper is included.

./gradlew build                                   # -> build/libs/MobGrab.jar
./gradlew build -PpluginDir=/path/to/server/plugins   # build straight into a server

Commands

Command	Description
/mobgrab gui	Open the mob-toggle GUI
/mobgrab reload	Reload config & presets
/mobgrab enable|disable <mob>	Enable/disable a mob for pickup
/mobgrab status	Show enabled count + settings
/mobgrab give <player|@s> <preset>	Give a preset mob item
/mobgrab list	List presets
/mobgrab save <name>	Save the mob you're looking at as a preset
/mobgrab delete <name>	Delete a preset
/mobgrab update	Update the plugin from the latest GitHub release

Key permissions

• mobgrab.pickup.* — pick up all mobs (default op) (or grant per-mob/bundle to players: mobgrab.pickup.<mob>, .passive, .hostile, .utility, .villager, .boss)
• mobgrab.place — place mobs back down (default op)
• mobgrab.admin — GUI, reload, enable/disable, presets (default op)
• mobgrab.update — run /mobgrab update to install the latest release (default op)
• mobgrab.bypass.protection — ignore region checks (default op)

Admins (OP) can grab/place out of the box. To let non-op players pick up mobs, grant mobgrab.pickup.* (or a bundle) + mobgrab.place with a permissions plugin like LuckPerms.

Config highlights (config.yml)

• fireproof-items — mob items survive fire/lava (default true)
• disabled-worlds — worlds where MobGrab is fully off
• blacklist-mode, cooldown-seconds, sound/particle effects, enabled-mobs toggles

License

MIT — see LICENSE.