What It Does
Cobblemon: SafePastures solves one problem: pokemon wandering into things that hurt them. If you build a pasture and decorate it with a lava pool, a cactus patch, or anything else dangerous, any pokemon roaming that pasture block takes no damage from it. You get to build the pasture you actually want instead of a bare box.
The mod also cleans up after itself. Honestly, when a damage source gets blocked, any status effect tied to it, like being on fire, frozen, or drowning, gets removed too, along with the particle effects that come with it. So a pokemon standing in lava inside a pasture won't just take zero damage, it won't look like it's burning either.
Who It's For
This is for anyone running a Cobblemon server who wants pastures to double as scenery. If you've held back on lava, ice, cactus, or other hazard blocks near your pasture areas because you didn't want to kill your own pokemon, this removes that constraint. It's a small, focused mod rather than a broad pasture overhaul.
Installation and Sides
SafePastures only needs to run on the server. The client side is not supported or required, so players don't need to install anything themselves to see it work. That makes it easy to add to an existing server without asking your playerbase to update their mod list.
It's built for Fabric and NeoForge, and supports Minecraft 1.21.1 and 1.20.1.
Configuration
Everything is controlled through a config file at config/safepastures/safepastures.json. The main switch is preventPokemonDamageInPasture, which turns the whole effect on or off. Beyond that, you can enable useBlackList to restrict protection using a list of specific damage source types instead of blocking everything. That list is named damageSourceBlackList, and each entry can be toggled individually.
One thing worth knowing if you're running other mods alongside this: the config file may need to be deleted and regenerated when new mods are added, in case those mods introduce damage types the existing config doesn't account for yet.
Compatibility Notes
SafePastures is released under the MIT License, so you're free to use and modify it within those terms. It's a narrow, single-purpose mod. It changes how damage works inside pasture blocks and nothing else, so you shouldn't expect it to touch combat, breeding, or other Cobblemon systems. If you're looking for a way to build hazardous-looking pastures without losing pokemon to them, this covers that specific case and stays out of everything else.
