How to Add Breeding & Daycare in Cobblemon for Eevee to Evolve
Minecraft’s Cobblemon mod doesn’t include built-in breeding that automatically produces eggs, but you can add that feature by installing either the Cobbreeding mod or the Daycare+ mod. If you want a clear walkthrough for breeding Eevee toward Umbreon or Espeon, Cobbreeding is the better reference point since it’s widely used and shows up in more modpacks.
Both additions follow a broadly similar idea: the Pasture Block acts as the breeding hub. For this guide, we’ll focus on Cobbreeding because it’s the more common option, and the steps below are written around that setup.
Here’s how to catch and evolve Eevee into Umbreon or Espeon in Minecraft using Cobblemon with Cobbreeding.
How to Breed Pokemon in Cobblemon (Cobbreeding)
- Requirement: Cobbreeding Mod (Modrinth)
After you install Cobbreeding, you’ll need to start breeding compatible Pokemon by placing them together inside a Pasture Block. Over time, the pair will generate eggs. Those eggs then require a real-time waiting period while you keep them in your inventory before they hatch into a baby Pokemon.
Here’s the process in a clear sequence.
- Build a Pasture Block, set it on the ground, and make sure there’s at least one empty block behind it.
- Use right-click on the Pasture Block to open its interaction options, then enable the egg function by turning on the egg icon in the top-right corner (it starts disabled by default).
- Place two Pokemon that belong to the same Egg Group and are opposite genders inside the Pasture Block.
- After roughly 6–12 minutes, the Pokemon will breed and an egg will appear inside the Pasture Block (you can access it from the back).
If the Pokemon you place in the Pasture Block move far enough away from the block, they’ll be automatically pulled back to the PC. To avoid that, build a fence around the Pasture Block.
Ditto can act as a substitute for either parent during breeding. However, Ditto can’t breed with itself, so you’ll only get Ditto through catching it in the wild or receiving it through trading. Also, genderless Pokemon such as Golurk and Rotom can only breed when paired with Ditto.
Pokemon in the Undiscovered Egg Group (meaning no eggs have been discovered for that group) can’t breed at all. This group is mostly made up of baby Pokemon, legendaries, Paradox Pokemon, and odd cases like Silvally and Gholdengo.
How to Hatch Eggs in Cobblemon
To hatch an egg, you must carry it in your inventory for exactly 10 minutes in real time. Each egg item includes a timer in its description showing how long remains until it hatches. If you move the egg into storage, the timer stops; it only continues once you put the egg back into your inventory.
If you want eggs to hatch faster, capture a Pokemon with Flame Body, Magma Armor, or Steam Engine. Put that Pokemon in your party while the egg sits in your inventory. This boosts the egg timer speed by 2x, cutting the required waiting time in half.
How to Get Eggs Fast in Cobblemon
Egg spawn speed scales with Minecraft’s tick speed. At the default setting of 20 ticks per second, you can expect one egg every 6.6–11.6 minutes. To get eggs more quickly, you either need to increase tick speed or adjust the egg timing values by editing the Cobbreeding mod’s configuration.
- To increase tick speed: Use the command /tick rate.
- To increase egg spawn rate in Cobbreeding: Open .minecraft/config/cobbreeding/main.json in a text editor, then lower the values for “minBreedingTimeInTick”: 8000 and “maxBreedingTimeInTick”: 14000.
For example, when “minBreedingTimeInTick” was set to 100 and “maxBreedingTimeInTick” to 200, eggs appeared roughly every couple of seconds. That’s far too fast and effectively breaks the game, so it’s usually safer to choose something closer to the 4000–5000 range.
