Minecraft Forever A Child mod: Features and download guide

Modified Apr 18, 2025 10:49 GMT

Forever A Child is a mod that allow players to control whether a mob grows into an adult or not. (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

In Minecraft, many mobs have a baby variant that gradually grows into an adult. The game has baby sheep, pigs, cows, chickens, axolotls, etc., which can be spawned by breeding two adult mobs. A set period after these babies are born, they will grow into adults. The only way to stop a baby's growth in the game is to tinker with its code through commands.

Since Minecraft has been out for so long, there is a mod for almost anything players want. In this article, we will explore a mod called Forever a Child, which tinkers with baby mobs' growth in Minecraft.

Features and download guide for Forever A Child mod for Minecraft

How does Forever A Child mod work in Minecraft?

This mod allows players to stop or resume a baby mob's growth. (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

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As mentioned, Minecraft has a straightforward method to prevent a mob's baby variant from growing into an adult. This is exactly what the Forever A Child mod offers.

This mod allows players to pause and unpause the growth of any mob's baby variant. It is a fairly simple mod since the modder used two in-game items — poisonous potatoes and milk buckets — to pause or unpause a mob's growth.

For example, if players want to stop a baby's growth, they can right-click on the mob with a poisonous potato. This will stop the baby mob from growing into an adult. On the other hand, using a milk bucket on the baby mob will unpause the growth, and it will eventually grow into an adult.

Through this mod, players can keep cute baby variants of many mobs as pets.

How to download and install Forever A Child mod for Minecraft

Forever A Child mod can be downloaded from the CurseForge website. (Image via CurseForge/Mrbysco)

Here is a short guide to download and install the Forever A Child mod for Minecraft:

Download and install the Forge or Fabric modding API for the game version 1.21.5.
Head to the CurseForge website and search for the Forever A Child mod.
On the mod's product page, find and download the latest mod file, which should be compatible with 1.21.5.
Copy and paste the mod file into the "mods" folder in the root Minecraft directory. For me, it's C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft.
Open the official game launcher and look for the Forge or Fabric 1.21.5 modded version.
Open the game and enter a new world to start altering a baby mob's growth with the mod.

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Akshat has been a Minecraft writer at Sportskeeda for almost three years. He has loved gaming since childhood, and the fact that Need For Speed Most Wanted is still installed on his PC is proof that the flame burns strong even today. This love for the racing franchise spilled over to F1 fandom, leading him to cover the sport as well for the company.

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Edited by Akshat Kabra