🦇 Better BATS 🦇

Transform Bats in Minecraft
This resource pack completely changes the appearance of bats, making them more detailed and consistent in pixel style while preserving the vanilla aesthetic of the game.

Variety of Species
- Standard black bat
- Brown variety
- Reddish variants (white, gray, and black bats with red details)
- Black vampire bat
- White vampire bat
- Rare Pokémon bat forms
Required Setup
For the pack to work, you need to install OPTIFINE or the combination of ETF and EMF mods.
Activation Settings
When using OptiFine, specific options must be enabled. With EMF/ETF, these settings are usually active by default.
Activation for OptiFine:
Options → Video Settings → Quality → Enable: Custom Entity Models and RandomEntities
Bat Acquisition System
- The "+" symbol indicates that the name can include other words:
- "+pokemon" — works if the name contains "pokemon" anywhere
- "pokemon+" — similarly works with additional words
- "+pokemon+" — any name containing "pokemon"
Species Table and Acquisition
| Type | Natural Spawns | How to Get by Renaming |
|---|---|---|
| Brown | Common, rarer below Y | Unavailable ❌ |
| Black | Common, more common below Y | Unavailable ❌ |
| Gray | Common, more common below Y | Unavailable ❌ |
| Red | Uncommon, common below Y | +Red+ / +rv+ ✅ |
| White Vampire | Rare, more common below Y | +Vampire+ / +vb+ ✅ |
| Black Vampire | Rare, more common below Y | +Vampire+ / +vb+ ✅ |
| Zubat | Extremely Rare, slightly less below Y | Zubat ✅ |
| Noibat | Extremely Rare, slightly less below Y | Noibat /Onbat✅ |
| Swoobat | Extremely Rare, slightly less below Y | Swoobat/Kokoromori✅ |
| All Pokemons | Extremely Rare, slightly less below Y | +Pokemon+ / +Poke+ / +pk+ ✅ |