Cats and catnip

Since 0.3.0 vanilla cats and Stray Cats knock things off tables, but only while a player watches.

How it happens

Every 10 seconds an idle cat checks whether a player within 12 blocks can see it, its owner first. If so, it looks within 6 blocks for a knockable block at an edge with a drop on the far side. With a 25 % chance it walks up, stares at you for 2 seconds and pushes the block off. Then it rests for 5 minutes.

Knockable: flower pots (planted or empty), candles, the three plushies, the Rubber Duck block and the Lava Lamp. Nothing breaks: the block lands on the floor as its normal drops, a potted flower as the pot plus the flower. Seeing it gives the advancement "Gravity Check".

Sitting, lying, leashed and riding cats do not do it.

Stopping it

Turn off the game rule femboymod:cat_mischief, or vanilla mobGriefing. On NeoForge and Forge claim and protection mods can block it on their land.

Catnip

Catnip grows wild in Plains, Sunflower Plains and Meadows. It can be planted, put in a flower pot and spread with bone meal.

A cat that smells it within 3 blocks, or is fed a sprig, goes through a high:

1. zoomies for 10 seconds: it runs around fast
2. mischief for 1 minute: it looks for something to push off a table every 2 seconds, with 10 seconds between pushes
3. purring for 15 seconds, lying down
4. 5 minutes of tolerance, when more catnip does nothing

Feeding a sprig gives the advancement "Zoomies". An untamed Stray Cat fed catnip is tamed with a 50 % chance per sprig.