About:

Сhinchillas are amazing, and I have never seen a mod that adds them, so I decided to fix it myself. This mod adds cute and fluffy creatures, which try to fit in style of vanilla Minecraft and make your game feel more alive.

Adult Chinchilla

Twice as big as their real prototype, twice as fluffy.
Spawns in badlands and desert biomes.
Completely passive and immune to fall damage. They will panic when attacked and run away with almost 3x speed.
Can bathe in sand once every eight minutes, as long as it is on sand, red sand, or another block with 'sand' material. Supports other mod blocks.
After sand bathing will leave some Chinchilla Fur on the ground.
They try to avoid water. In case of immersion in water, the chinchilla's fur will get wet and she will not be able to surface, subsequently drowning.
Follows the player holding cactus, dead bush and grass. Will breed after being fed with one of these.
Does not follow player, but still eats apples, seeds and flowers. Will die eventually emitting poison particles after being fed with one of these. Don't do this.
They don't despawn or re-spawn again either. This works same as vanilla animals (in example pigs).
Drops 0-1 Chinchilla Meat (can be cooked) and 1-3 Chinchilla Fur upon death. Drops are affected by Looting enchantment.

Baby Chinchilla

Same size as real chinchilla
It takes 10 minutes to grow into adult form (by default)
Can be fed with glistening melon to prevent growing into adult form. This strange way will allow you to get a little pet chinchilla.
Can be caught in the bucket and released when needed. This will reset grow timer and chinchilla name (!). But the effect of glistening melon will stay.
Baby chinchilla that is affected by glistening melon has different name color when caught in a bucket.
Does not drop anything if killed

Blocks & Items

Chinchilla Fur. Dropped by adult chinchilla after sand bathing or when killed. Used for crafting String and Fur Blocks.
Chinchilla Fur Block. Negates fall damage, can be used as compact storage of chinchilla fur, or to craft carpets.
Chinchilla Fur Carpet. Like the fur block, it negates fall damage, but have no other uses.
Chinchilla Fur Set. Crafted by combining leather armor with fur blocks on a smithing table. A little bit weaker than iron armor, but provides various bonuses, like immunity to blindness and slowness, faster sprint and fall damage resistance. But wearing any item of this clothing has a disadvantage: you will sink in the water and won't be able to surface.
Raw Chinchilla Meat. A little bit better than raw rabbit meat. Can be cooked or used to feed dogs.
Cooked Chinchilla Meat. Has same stats as cooked mutton. Can be used to feed dogs or to cook a stew.
Chinchilla Meat Stew. A new food, that provides Speed and Sinking effects for 40 seconds. Crafted with cacti, chinchilla meat and a carrot.
Bucket of Chinchilla. Result of catching a baby chinchilla or non-growing chinchilla.
Potion of Sinking. Applies effect with the same name, which causes entities to sink when immersed in water. Can be made by brewing Chinchilla Fur into Awkward Potion. You can increase potion level or duration by brewing Redstone or Glowstone Dust into it.

Configuration

Mod configuration can be done via gamerules upon world creation, or in-game (in example: /gamerule chinchillaGrowTime 123). Currently the mod has these game rules:

chinchillaGrowTime. Determines the time it takes for a chinchilla to grow from a baby to the adult stage (in seconds). Default: 600
chinchillaSandBath. Determines how often adult chinchilla will bathe in sand (in seconds). Default: 480

Credits:

This mod is made by NoCube using MCreator
Textured with PaintNet and modeled with Blockbench

Permissions & FAQ:

You are allowed to make videos with mod or include in modpacks as long as this page is credited.
You are not allowed to use any mod resources in your projects.
You are not allowed to reupload the mod on any other sites.
This mod is not going to be backported, or ported to Bedrock Edition or Fabric.