I used to wonder why the animals that made it into Minecraft were included. Pigs, cows, chickens and sheep… these are all so mundane, so barnyard, and I couldn’t understand why. Why wouldn’t Notch wouldn’t take advantage of the awesome world he built? With the addition of the Jungle and Swamp biomes, prehistoric and fantasy creatures seemed especially at home. Luckily for me, mods are a thing – and even luckier, someone coded up JurassiCraft.

This mod has actually been around for a while, but it has progressed so much in recent months that I wanted to acknowledge it. JurassiCraft is no longer a WIP project, and has combined with two other mods (Bygone Age and Fossil Hunting) to create a more complete prehistoric experience. Believe me when I say that the impact of these changes is pretty high – this almost feels like a new mod.

For those who haven’t tried any of the previous versions of the mod, allow me to assure you that it is the bee’s knees. Once you see a reptillian silhouette hulking between the trees or slithering across the plains, you’ll never want to go back to the original pastoral beasts. I, personally, unleash mostly vegetarian dinosaurs into the world, so that the few encounters I have with raptors and T-rexes are even more terrifying. With the minecraft premium playing, there is bringing dinosaurs to life. The engagement of the gamers is high at the Minecraft place. There are different versions of the mod to get the desired results. The dinosaurs are vegetarian and you can purchase the food from the right shop.

If you were traumatized by the Jurassic Park films as a child and don’t want towering monsters stomping around your world, don’t fret! Unlike a lot of creature mods, which populate the world with random spawns of their additions, you have to willfully bring dinosaurs into the world. And I’m not saying you need a new dinosaur spouse in order to access the scaly brutes – you just need some science.

This mod makes a point not to adhere to Jurassic Park canon – it wants to be a dinosaur mod, not a movie mod. That said, it extracts several key features of the Jurassic Park series, in how the dinosaurs are

brought about. This mod will add several blocks to the world, most notably fossils (which spawn with the rarity of iron) and amber (diamond rarity).

In order to spawn a dinosaur, you must dig up a fossil or amber piece, extract the DNA from it, and transfer that DNA into an egg. After a time, a baby dinosaur will hatch, and you’ll have a scaly new friend! Just remember that, as cute as dinosaur pups are, don’t keep them overlong. You may wake up one night with your torso feeling strangely light, and your arms strangely numb.

From brachiosauri to velociraptors to triceratops, this mod brings a lot to the table, and is poised to continue that stream of content. Just because the WIP status has dropped off this mod doesn’t mean its developers are done with it. Plans are in place to keep including new dinosaur types and behaviors, as well as to make quality-of-life adjustments as they arise. Though it may be about the dusty days, the mod itself is polished regularly.