Wheeky Wheels

Wheeky Wheels

A small mod that adds guinea pigs to Minecraft, and a kit that lets you drive one.

I’ve always enjoyed watching guinea pig videos, and one day I wondered what they’d be like in Minecraft, my favourite game. So I made them.

Guinea pigs

Guinea pigs live in meadows in herds of four to six, and on plains in smaller groups of two to four.

They come in six fur colours: Cream, Brown, Dutch, Tricolor, Himalayan and Golden. Golden is the rare one, at 5%. Each colour has its own spawn egg in the creative tab.

Hold food and the whole herd comes begging.

The rest of the time they graze, groom and nap.

If a fox, a wild wolf or cat, or a hostile mob gets close, they freeze and then run.

Taming and babies

Give a wild one a carrot or a dandelion to tame it (1 in 3 chance each time), or a golden carrot to tame it right away.

Feed two adults the same way and they’ll have a baby that takes after one parent’s colour.

The car kit

Craft the kit and right-click a tamed adult guinea pig with it. After that, anyone can ride it by right-clicking with an empty hand.

Sprint to go full speed, jump to hop, and left-click with an empty hand to honk. Puffs of smoke trail behind you as you drive.

Normal speed (top) and sprinting (bottom).

Driving makes your guinea pig hungry. A hungry one slows down, to as low as 40% speed, but it never stops. You can feed it from the driver’s seat: a carrot fills 25, a dandelion 15, wheat 10, and a golden carrot all of it, out of 100.

Food heals it too: a heart per carrot, half a heart per dandelion or wheat, and full health per golden carrot. A hurt guinea pig eats even when it’s full.

On foot, hold food and look at your guinea pig to see how full it is.

Only the owner can take the kit off, with shears or from the guinea pig’s inventory. The kit’s tooltip explains how.

Good to know

• This is a beta, so there may be bugs. If you find one, email contact [at] bodaboni.com
• Install it on both the client and the server.
• Fabric only, for Minecraft 26.3 and 1.20.1.
• Requires Fabric API and GeckoLib.
• Works with Better Mount HUD and Icy’s Better Horses: the carrot gauge moves up so it doesn’t cover the mount’s hearts.
• On 1.20.1, a kit taken out through the inventory can’t go back in there. Put it on by right-clicking the guinea pig instead.
• Available in English and Korean.

License

All Rights Reserved. You’re welcome to use it in modpacks (downloaded from Modrinth or CurseForge) and in videos or streams, monetized or not. Please don’t reupload it or reuse its code or assets.

NOT AN OFFICIAL MINECRAFT PRODUCT. NOT APPROVED BY OR ASSOCIATED WITH MOJANG OR MICROSOFT.

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