{"id":173637,"date":"2026-06-10T01:55:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/zawa-essentials\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T01:55:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:55:39","slug":"zawa-essentials","status":"publish","type":"mod","link":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/zawa-essentials\/","title":{"rendered":"Essentials &#8211; A ZAWA Addon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A ZAWA:Evolved addon that adds all the parrots.<\/p>\n<p>All of them.<\/p>\n<p>(and some other stuff, too)<\/p>\n<p>Essentials adds all the stuff that isn&#8217;t interesting enough for the main ZAWA roster.<\/p>\n<p>It is made by ZAWA staff, and as such, features everything to ZAWA&#8217;s standard: adorable baby animals, expansive data entries and icons, and rare breed-only variants for species commonly kept in captivity. Essentials&#8217; animals breathe and walk with lifelike movement, and will feature real-recording calls and sounds the second Fisk can be bothered to clip them all from public-domain documentaries.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy new blocks to spice up your zoos, with engaging new enrichment for animals. Spice up your zoo with small, but welcome additions to the usual decor you never knew you needed. Essentials also features block swaps and tweaks of ZAWA staples, for when stripped wood would look that much better on a fence.<\/p>\n<p>Animal list<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Spoiler<\/summary>\n<p>Australian ringneck parrot* (twenty-eight parrot, Port Lincoln parrot, mallee parrot)<\/p>\n<p>Budgerigar (with 11 breed-only captive colors)<\/p>\n<p>Caique* (white-bellied caique, black-capped caique)<\/p>\n<p>Cockatiel (with 7 breed-only captive colors)<\/p>\n<p>Congo gray parrot (with 3 breed-only captive colors)<\/p>\n<p>Eclectus parrot* (Solomon Island eclectus, Tanimbar eclectus, Sumba Island eclectus, Vosmaer eclectus + 2 breed-only captive colors)<\/p>\n<p>Conure* (sun conure, jenday conure, nanday conure, mitred conure, golden conure, blue-crowned conure)<\/p>\n<p>Green-cheek conure* (green-cheek conure, painted conure, crimson-bellied conure, fiery-shouldered conure, ochre-marked conure, white-necked conure, black-capped conure + 5 breed-only captive colors)<\/p>\n<p>Hawk-headed parrot (with 1 breed-only captive color)<\/p>\n<p>Kakariki* (red-fronted kakariki, yellow-fronted kakariki, Antipodes island kakariki + 5 breed-only captive colors)<\/p>\n<p>Kea parrot<\/p>\n<p>Poicephalus parrot* (Senegal parrot, red-bellied parrot, Ruppell&#8217;s parrot, jardine parrot)<\/p>\n<p>Quaker parakeet (with 5 breed-only captive colors)<\/p>\n<p>Ringneck parrot* (Indian ringneck, moustache parrot, plum-headed parrot, Malabar parrot + 5 breed-only captive colors) <\/p>\n<p>Rosella* (crimson rosella, Eastern rosella, Northern rosella, pale-headed rosella)<\/p>\n<p>Moho* (Hawaii \u2018\u014c\u2018\u014d, O\u2019ahu \u2018\u014c\u2018\u014d, Moloka\u2019i \u2018\u014c\u2018\u014d, Kaua\u2019i \u2018\u014c\u2018\u014d)<\/p>\n<p>Greater prairie chicken<\/p>\n<p>Chinchilla (with 11 breed-only captive colors)<\/p>\n<p>Maned wolf (with 1 breed-only captive color)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<p>Blocks and enrichment list<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Spoiler<\/summary>\n<p>Flood light &#8211; stop lighting your modern zoos with torches, I will cry.<\/p>\n<p>Security camera &#8211; for when the Instagram exotic pet crowd keeps circling your kakapos, and won&#8217;t take &#8220;no&#8221; for an answer.<\/p>\n<p>Wood cable fence &#8211; ZAWA&#8217;s cable fence, except using vanilla log textures for a more natural look. Wood variants.<\/p>\n<p>Stripped wood cable fence: Wood cable fence, but scandalous. Wood variants.<\/p>\n<p>Bell toy &#8211; the most annoying toy this side of the Rockies. Connects to ZAWA ropes.<br \/>\nCup feeder &#8211; a dual-purpose feeder and enrichment item for animals with weird grabby appendages and\/or gumption. Connects to ZAWA ropes.<\/p>\n<p>Hanging perch &#8211; a fun swing for birds, complete with wood variants and pretty beads for them to gingerly remove and throw at you when you feed them an hour late. Connects to ZAWA ropes.<\/p>\n<p>Large bird toy &#8211; a solid stack of wood and leather for ripping, mauling, and shaking vigorously. Connects to ZAWA ropes.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<p>Credits:<\/p>\n<p>Mnesikos: Code<\/p>\n<p>Fisk: Everything else<\/p>\n<p>Shoresy: Extra textures<\/p>\n<p>Coda512: Item textures<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Shoresy, Sparrow, Coda512, Keaka and Chinchillin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every single parrot is essential to your ZAWA experience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":173638,"template":"","meta":{"_minecraft_slug":"zawa-essentials","_minecraft_project_id":"LK9h20MQ","_minecraft_author":"Mnesikos","_minecraft_license":"LicenseRef-All-Rights-Reserved","_minecraft_downloads":2643,"_minecraft_follows":9,"_minecraft_client_side":"required","_minecraft_server_side":"required","_minecraft_storage_type":"zip","_minecraft_archive_name":"zawa-essentials.zip","_minecraft_size_bytes":6897878,"_minecraft_version_count":7,"_minecraft_updated_at":"2026-05-15T18:09:02.108458Z","_minecraft_date_created":"2025-01-23T09:58:11.660776Z","_minecraft_date_modified":"2025-07-28T05:57:05.968164Z","_minecraft_project_url":"https:\/\/modrinth.com\/mod\/zawa-essentials","_minecraft_icon_attachment_id":173638,"_minecraft_imported_at":"2026-06-09T22:55:39+00:00","_minecraft_import_hash":"be90403c923ebbe95658a476eec9530f","_minecraft_versions":"","_minecraft_links":"","_minecraft_gallery":"","_minecraft_api_metadata":""},"mod_category":[87,156,104,137,159],"mod_loader":[106],"minecraft_version":[48,53,56,36],"class_list":["post-173637","mod","type-mod","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mod_category-adventure","mod_category-decoration","mod_category-forge","mod_category-mobs","mod_category-worldgen","mod_loader-forge","minecraft_version-1-16-5","minecraft_version-1-18-2","minecraft_version-1-19-2","minecraft_version-1-20-1"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Essentials - A ZAWA Addon - Minecraft<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/zawa-essentials\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Essentials - A ZAWA Addon - Minecraft\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Every single parrot is essential to your ZAWA experience\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/zawa-essentials\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Minecraft\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/vpesports.com\\\/minecraft\\\/mods\\\/zawa-essentials\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/vpesports.com\\\/minecraft\\\/mods\\\/zawa-essentials\\\/\",\"name\":\"Essentials - A ZAWA Addon - Minecraft\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/vpesports.com\\\/minecraft\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/vpesports.com\\\/minecraft\\\/mods\\\/zawa-essentials\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/vpesports.com\\\/minecraft\\\/mods\\\/zawa-essentials\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/vpesports.com\\\/minecraft\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/zawa-essentials-icon-528405dd542d468cf1bfb1be2023e6015d3919d9.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-09T22:55:39+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/vpesports.com\\\/minecraft\\\/mods\\\/zawa-essentials\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/vpesports.com\\\/minecraft\\\/mods\\\/zawa-essentials\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/vpesports.com\\\/minecraft\\\/mods\\\/zawa-essentials\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/vpesports.com\\\/minecraft\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/zawa-essentials-icon-528405dd542d468cf1bfb1be2023e6015d3919d9.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/vpesports.com\\\/minecraft\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/zawa-essentials-icon-528405dd542d468cf1bfb1be2023e6015d3919d9.png\",\"width\":400,\"height\":400},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/vpesports.com\\\/minecraft\\\/mods\\\/zawa-essentials\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/vpesports.com\\\/minecraft\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Mods\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/vpesports.com\\\/minecraft\\\/mods\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Essentials &#8211; 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