Adorable Hamster Pets | Cute Companion Mod for Minecraft

Adorable Hamster Pets turns Minecraft into a hamster haven. Each pocket-sized companion brings procedural genetics, shoulder riding, diamond sniffing, and a whole lot of jiggle physics to your world. The mod by The_Scarlet_Fox leans hard into charm and utility, so your new furry friends are useful for inventory clutter, mob defense, and treasure hunting rather than just decoration.

What the Hamster Companion Mod Actually Does

This companion mod fills your world with wild hamsters you can tame, breed, dress up, and launch. There are no hardcoded interaction items, which means nearly everything is configurable. You can redefine their diet, tune the physics of the Hamster Yeet, adjust Green Bean zoomies, or rewrite the nutritional value of cheese to suit your pack.

Genetics, Variants, and Breeding

Wild Variants by Biome

Wild hamsters spawn with fur colors that match their biome, which makes exploration feel rewarding.

• Orange and Cream in Plains, Savannas, Deserts, Beaches, and Badlands
• Chocolate in Forests and Taigas
• Black in Swamps, Lush Caves, and Dripstone Caves
• Light and Dark Gray in Mountains and Caves
• White in Snowy biomes and Ice Spikes
• Blue, a rare find, only in Ice Spikes
• Lavender in Cherry Groves

Procedural Breeding

Tamed hamsters can be bred, and procedural genetics can produce up to roughly 2.2 million unique variants over time. That depth keeps collection and breeding runs fresh long after you have tamed your first few.

Taming, Sitting, and Personality

Bribe a wild hamster with Sliced Cucumber and it will follow you like a shadow. Right-click to make it sit or stand. Each hamster rolls one of three personalities at birth, and that personality changes how it sits and snoozes. Some sit prim and proper, others slouch.

Procedural Nap Animations

Tamed hamsters that are sitting may decide it is naptime. Watch their procedural Path to Slumber sequence move through dozing, settling, and deep sleep poses, plus occasional cleaning animations.

Shoulder Mounts, Creeper Radar, and the Yeet

Wear Up to Three Hamsters

Lure a hamster onto your shoulder or head with Cheese. You can wear up to three at once, jiggle physics included. A shoulder buddy doubles as a portable creeper radar and occasionally tips you off about nearby diamonds or other shiny loot.

Hamster Yeet

Press G to launch your shoulder companion as a furry, squeaky projectile. The Hamster Yeet is part defense tool, part comedy, and fully configurable. You can tune its velocity, damage, and cooldown.

Cheek Storage and Item Stealing

Feed a hamster Hamster Food Mix to unlock a six-slot cheek inventory. The hamster will even snack from its own cheeks to heal when it takes damage. Tamed hamsters can also play keep-away with your valuables, snatching items in a highly configurable stealing behavior you can dial up or disable.

Acorn Armor and Wander Mode

Craft Acorn Armor for your hamsters, starting from biodegradable Acorn shells and upgrading all the way to Netherite plating. When you want your tamed hamsters to stop trailing you, link them to Hamster Beds and enable Wander Mode. They will roam near their bed instead of following you across the map.

Decoration, Flora, and New Foods

Dress Up Your Hamsters

Right-click a hamster with Pink Petals to add floral flair. Cycle through styles or snip them off with Shears.

New Plants to Farm

• Wild Cucumber and Green Bean Bushes that you can find, harvest, and replant for hamster treats
• Upgraded Sunflowers you can harvest for seeds

Foodstuffs and Cheese

Grow cucumbers and green beans, then eat them sliced or steamed. Steamed Green Beans act as a superfood for hamsters with buff effects. Hamster Food Mix heals and unlocks cheek pouches. Cheese lures hamsters, feeds players, and arrives with a memorable sound of its own.

The Tips Guide Book

You receive a Tips Guide Book automatically, or you can craft one with a Book and Sliced Cucumber. It is packed with hints and doubles as a way to call your hamsters back to you.

How to Install Adorable Hamster Pets

1. Install a supported mod loader for your Minecraft instance. If you are new to this, our Minecraft mod install guide walks through the full setup, and we have dedicated primers for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, and Quilt.
2. Download the Adorable Hamster Pets JAR that matches your loader and Minecraft version.
3. Drop the JAR into your mods folder.
4. Launch the game. If you have Mod Menu installed, open the Adorable Hamster Pets config button in-game. Otherwise, edit config/adorablehamsterpets/main.toml by hand.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I tame a hamster?

Use Sliced Cucumber on a wild hamster. Once tamed it will follow you, and right-click makes it sit or stand.

What does pressing G do?

G triggers the Hamster Yeet, which launches your shoulder-mounted hamster as a projectile. Damage, velocity, and cooldown are all configurable.

How do I get more storage from a hamster?

Feed it Hamster Food Mix to unlock a six-slot cheek inventory. The hamster draws from its cheeks to heal when injured.

Can I stop my hamsters from following me?

Yes. Link them to Hamster Beds and enable Tamed Wander Mode so they roam near the bed instead of trailing you.

Is Adorable Hamster Pets still maintained?

The most recent release landed in April 2026, and the project has racked up several million downloads across loaders. It remains an active project, though you should always confirm current status on the project page before building a pack around it.

Pair It With Other Companion Mods

Adorable Hamster Pets slots cleanly into pet-heavy modpacks. If you want a fuller animal roster, try pairing it with Duckling, the Caracal cat, or Critters and Companions. The Fabric API is worth keeping handy as well since many companion mods lean on it.