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About Marvelous Menagerie: Paradoxical
Marvelous Menagerie: Paradoxical is a conjoined remake of Marvelous Menagerie and Odd Organisms, the old Unusual Prehistory addons, now turned into a singular stand-alone mod!
This mod adds new mobs to the world of Minecraft that can be obtained through brand new innovative prehistoric creature "revival" system using rifts in time and space to bring these creatures back from the depths of time! But not everything is smooth sailing, as there are naturally occuring rifts that conjure abominations from within; Do you dare challenge these mighty foes to build the prehistoric park of your dreams?
Getting Started
Craft a Paleontology Toolkit and the Paleonomicon! Uncover fossils without breaking them within the time limit in a brand new minigame and defeat mighty foes emerging from natural Time Fractures to obtain the resources necessary to build an altar and summon creatures! Once you have summoned at least two of them it will be easier to build the park of your dreams, as you can begin to repopulate these marvelous creatures!
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[0.4.1-BETA] Marvelous Menagerie: Paradoxical 0.4.1-BETA
by VoidArkana on Mar 04, 2026
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# CHANGELOG
## Additions
## Additions
- Added a default missing entry that the Paleonomicon will default to if it cannot find an entry
- Fixed some advancements missing a translation key
- Fixed Elephant Bird carpet textures being corrupted and displaying as missing textures
- Fixed Elephant Bird Paleonomicon entry not opening when interacting with it
[0.4-BETA] Marvelous Menagerie: Paradoxical 0.4-BETA
by VoidArkana on Mar 01, 2026
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# **CHANGELOG**
## Additions
## Additions
- Added tooltips for item widgets in the Paleonomicon
- Revamped entity portraits to paleonomicon entries
- Added advancements
- Added two new paintings: "Professor" and "Geology"
- Changed Thylacine models
- Changed Dodo models
- Changed Hallucigenia models and animations
- Changed Elephant Bird models and animations
- Adjusted egg hatching times
- Made Ophthalmosaurus be not affected by bubble columns when ridden
- Adjusted color display of items in Paleonomicon to make them easier to see
- Adjusted Ophthalmosaurus riding pose and added animations to it
- Removed support for Dye Depot for Elephant Birds
- Fixed entities spawned through breeding having broken animations
- Fixed stone slabs not dropping correctly
- Fixed Trilobites, Arandaspis, Sacabambaspis, Baby Ophthalmosaurus and Anomalocaris spawned from creative buckets always being default and babies
- Fixed Flubbers spawned from creative buckets sometimes being adults
- Fixed itty trans trilobite texture being broken
- Fixed trilobites not moving outside of water
- Fixed Anomalocaris becoming babies after bucketing them
- Fixed Anomalocaris not shedding its eyes when growing up
- Fixed Baby Water Animals not being able to be fed sometimes to grow them up
- Fixed Flubbers being stuck when trying to get out of water
- Fixed Flubbers having a delay in the item they dig up and sometimes not digging anything
- Fixed Steller sea cows being too fat to breed
- Fixed some baby water animals despawning even when spawning from breeding
- Added missing translation key for Opal Bricks, Brown Trilobites and the Louisse's Dodo and Two Overworldlings paintings
- Fixed other abominations sometimes spawning when trying to purposefully summon a Chud
[0.3-BETA] Marvelous Menagerie: Paradoxical 0.3-BETA
by VoidArkana on Jan 20, 2026
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# Changelog
## Fixes
## Fixes
- Fixed a critical crash regarding Fractures
[0.2-BETA] Marvelous Menagerie: Paradoxical 0.2-BETA
by VoidArkana on Jan 20, 2026
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# Changelog
## Additions
## Tweaks
## Fixes
## Additions
- Aded baby models to Sacabambaspis, Borealopelta, Arandaspis, Flubber, Anomalocaris, Pikaia, Diplocaulus and Josephoartigasia
- Added support for JEI
- Added a config to adjust the weight of museums in villages
- Added default poses to Ophthalmosaurus, Steller Sea Cow, Molten, Beholder and Flubber for inventory display
- Added Chinese translation
- Doedicurus, Ophthalmosaurus and Borealopelta now defend babies of their species
## Tweaks
- Made aquatic mobs breedable without fintastic, but kept the compatibility
- Slightly remodeled Pikaia and changed its size
- Renamed Baby Flubber to Flubbling
- Made natural fractures despawn when you get far enough from them like monsters
- Adjusted Rift hitboxes to prevent them from spawning in half block gaps
- Adjusted Apthoroblattina dancing
## Fixes
- Fixed Diplocaulus entry returning to the wrong index
- Fixed Steller Sea Cow not breeding
- Fixed Flubber fossils not being obtainable from Triassic fossils
- Fixed dodos breeding with wheat
- Fixed some mobs using the wrong animations
- Fixed chest boats not saving their contents
- Fixed elephant birds giving you infinite carpets when right clicking on them with carpets
[0.1-BETA] Marvelous Menagerie: Paradoxical 0.1-BETA
by VoidArkana on Dec 30, 2025
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# **INITIAL RELEASE**
## **Entities**
### **Animals**
## **Entities**
### **Animals**
- Added Anomalocaris, a neutral breedable aquatic mob that drops Sclerites when fed Trilo Bites and Lenses when growing up. Sclerites can be used to craft Ophthalmosaurus Armor, or combined with Lenses to craft Anomalous Goggles, which increase vision underwater. The goggles can be enchanted with Cambrian Vision, which gives night vision underwater, or Infernal Vision, which allows for increased vision under lava. They can be bred if Fintastic is installed. They have multiple variants.
- Added Apthoroblattina, a giant cockroach from the Carboniferous period. The adults have slow falling and they dance when a jukebox is playing a disc. They can be bred with Honeycombs.
- Added Arandaspis, a fish that schools with others of its kind using boids. Can be bred if Fintastic is installed. They have multiple variants.
- Added Borealopelta, a neutral dinosaur that when bred lays eggs in certain blocks. These blocks can be changed through datapacks using the is_valid_block_for_dino_egg_hatching tag. They can be bred with ferns.
- Added Dawn Horse, a tiny relative of horses that drops its meat upon death, which can then be cooked. Untamed Wolves and Cats target them. They can be bred with Golden Carrots.
- Added Fossil Dawn Horse, a skeletonized version of the Dawn Horse. They spawn very rarely during night time and have baby zombies for jockeys. They drop Dawn Horse Fossils upon death.
- Added Zombie Daw Horse, a zombified version of the Dawn Horse. They can be obtained by using Rotten Apples from Domestication Innovation on a Dawn Horse or by using Chud Flesh.
- Added Diplocaulus, an amphibian-like creature that swims around the floor. They can be bred with fish.
- Added Dodos, a bird that loves to destroy pumpkins and melons. They can be stopped if fed glistening melons and re-enabled again if fed pumpkins and melons. They drop feathers every once in a while. They can be bred with any melon or pumpkin items. They have multiple variants. If named "nugget" their skin will change. A second secret nametag easteregg was also added.
- Added Doedicurus, a neutral giant extinct armadillo relative. They can be bred with Leaves.
- Added Elephant Birds, giant birds that can be fed golden carrots to obtain their eggs, which can be cooked. Boiled Eggs can then be crafted into Jumbo Omelettes which grant regeneration. Upon consuming the eggs or crafting them into omelettes, they leave eggshell fragments, which can be crafted into the Egg Shellmet, a new fragile helmet that grants the wearer with slow fall and knockback resistance. Elephant Birds can also be decorated with carpets and given chests. They can be ridden but not controlled. When an Elephant Bird is leashed, others will follow as well. They can be bred with Hay Blocks.
- Added Eolactoria, an ancient boxfish relative. They can be bred if Fintastic is installed.
- Added Falcatus, an ancient shark relative. They can be bred if Fintastic is installed.
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