Minecraft · Runic systems

Seal of Fauna

An honest answer to “is anything alive near me?”

Released Minecraft 1.21.1 NeoForge Client & server
A player holds a glowing green Seal of Fauna in a pine forest at sunset while nearby animals are marked in the world.

Why it exists

Not a radar. Not a live tracker. A straight answer read from what is already loaded in the world right now: is anything alive near me, of the species I asked for?

What it does

Craft the Seal of Fauna, right-click to open the catalog, pick a species, and scan. It checks the terrain already loaded around you and reports how many it found and where the nearest one is.

Snapshot, not a chase

The HUD gives distance in blocks, a plain-word direction (ahead, behind, left, right), and whether the target is above or below you. If the animal wanders off after the scan, the HUD keeps pointing at where it was found — not a live position.

The catalog builds itself

No hardcoded species list. Tabs come from vanilla MobCategory: Terrestrial, Aquatic and Ambient. Monsters, villagers and golems are excluded. Animals from other mods appear in the right tab with nothing to configure.

A cost on purpose

Each scan costs 1 XP (free in Creative) and has a 20-second cooldown. The Advanced Seal of Fauna pays that cost in the recipe instead: 0 XP and a 5-second cooldown afterward.

How it fits

It only reads what the world already loaded. Any entity from any mod that fits vanilla’s fauna categories is picked up automatically. The Pergamena della Fauna drops from village butcher chests and jungle temple chests (15% per chest). Still available from the Creative inventory.