Pet Insurance Guide
Protect your tamed animals with prepaid insurance. While a policy is active, your pet takes no damage and outsiders cannot leash, name-tag, or capture it.
Pet insurance is a prepaid policy on a tamed animal you own. You pay for a number of days up front. Until the policy expires (or you cancel it), that pet is fully protected.
| While insured | What happens |
|---|---|
| Damage | All damage types are blocked — the pet stays invulnerable. |
| Other players | Non-owners cannot leash, name-tag, put it in a boat/minecart, or use capture-style items on it. |
| You | You still own and control your pet as normal. |
You can insure as many pets as you want. Each has its own policy and expiry.
- Stand near a tamed animal that belongs to you (wolf, cat, horse, etc.).
- Either:
- Shift + right-click the pet, or
- Look at the pet and run /petinsurance (or /pi).
- The Insurance GUI opens.
- Choose a package — for example 1 day, 7 days, or 30 days — or enter a custom number of days in chat when prompted.
- Confirm. The cost is taken from your balance and the policy starts immediately.
Good to know:
- Cost is charged per day (server default is often around $10/day — check the GUI for the live price).
- Maximum length is typically 365 days per purchase.
- Only tamed pets you own can be insured.
Opening the GUI on a pet (or from the list) shows:
- Whether a policy is active
- Expiry date and remaining days
- Recent events (last 10) — e.g. blocked hits or capture attempts
- Options to buy or extend coverage
- Cancel — ends the policy early with a refund for full remaining days
Use cancel if you no longer need cover; you get money back for unused full days.
- /petinsurance listList every pet you have insured
- /pi listSame command (short alias)
From the list you can jump into a pet’s GUI to check status, extend, or cancel.
While a policy is active:
- All damage — mobs, players, environment, etc. (particles and a sound can play when a hit is blocked)
- Non-owner interactions — leash, name tag, boat, minecart, and generic item use that would move or capture the pet (including capture nets)
You can still interact with your own insured pets as the owner.
- Policy expiry — told straight away if you are online; otherwise when you next log in
- Hit or capture attempt — immediate if online, or on login if you were away
- Login summary — a short status of your policies when you join
Check /pi list or open a pet’s GUI if you want more detail than the login message.
- /petinsuranceOpen the GUI for the pet you are looking at (or show help)
- /petinsurance listList all your insured pets
Aliases: /pi, /petinsure.
You can also Shift + right-click your tamed pet to open the same GUI without typing a command.
- Insure: Shift + right-click your tamed pet → choose days → pay
- List: /pi list
- While active: no damage; outsiders cannot leash, name-tag, or capture
- Cancel: open the GUI → cancel for a refund of remaining full days
- Many pets: each has its own policy; list shows them all
- Insure pets you take into the nether, events, or busy towns where grief or combat is more likely.
- Buy longer policies for pets you leave at a base you visit less often, so you are not surprised by expiry.
- After a blocked hit or capture attempt, open the GUI to see it in the recent events list.
- Cancel early if you are retiring a pet — remaining full days are refunded.
- Untamed or other players’ animals cannot be insured; only your own tamed pets.