# 🐾 Animal Pens Mod ## ✅ Optimize Your Farms & Reduce Lag! Tired of lag caused by massive animal farms? **Animal Pens** lets you store animals in specialized **pens** and **aquariums** while keeping full functionality! No more overcrowded barns - keep your animals neatly contained while still breeding, shearing, milking, and collecting drops like normal. *** ## 🎮 How It Works: ✔️ **Animal Cage & Container** – Capture land animals with the **Animal Cage** and water creatures with the **Animal Container**. ✔️ **Feeding animals acts as breeding** – No need for free-roaming animals, just feed them inside their pen! ✔️ **Most vanilla interactions**(1) are possible, including: 🗡️ _Animal farming_ for loot ✂️ _Shearing sheep_ 🥛 _Milking cows, mooshrooms, and goats_ 🍄 _Collecting mushroom stew from mooshrooms_ 🐝 _Bee pollen regeneration_ 🐢 _Turtle scutes dropping based on settings_ 🖌️ _Brush scutes from armadillo_ 🧺 _Water bucket to pick up fishes or axolotls_ ✔️ **Custom Interactions:** 🔹 Chickens, Turtles and Sniffers – Use a bucket to collect eggs. 🔹 Turtles – Drop **scutes** after feeding (configurable timing). 🔹 Sniffers – Require a bowl to drop seeds. 🔹 Fish Feeding – Fish eat **kelp & seagrass**, while other water creatures eat **fish**. 🔹 Frogs – Drop **Frog Lights** when fed a Magma Cube. ✔️ **Variant Storage & Selection** • Picking up an animal **saves its variant** inside the cage. • Right-click an empty-handed pen to **view stored variants**. • If _visual animal growing_ is enabled, you can adjust the display size of the animals. ✔️ **Releasing animals** by crouch clicking on ground. ✔️ Animal Pens and Aquariums can send **Redstone** signal with comparator. ✔️ **Dispenser** can be used on Animal Pens and Aquariums with certain tools. (1) Features not added: Any animal transformation Any animal interaction with other entites *** ## 🔧 Customizable Settings: Easily adjust gameplay with the **mod’s configuration file** _\[config/animal\_pen\_config.json\]_, allowing you to tweak: ⚙️ **Cooldowns for actions** – Example: • Feeding animals • Shearing sheep • Collecting eggs from chickens/turtles • Milking cow 🗡️ **Attack cooldown** - Allows to change how fast players can kill animals in pen. 📦 **Drop Limits** – Prevent item overflow: • 🐑 Wool drop limit • 🥚 Egg drop limit 📏 **Animal Growth System** (Optional): • If enabled, **more animals = larger pen display**. • Adjustable growth multiplier. 🎨 **Stored Variants** – Allows to change how many variants can be stored per pen. 🚫 **Blocked Animals List** – Prevent specific mobs from being captured. *** ## 🔧 Data Driven Settings: ### Added Two New Item Tags: These tags define which items can attack their respective blocks: * **`animal_pen:can_attack_aquarium`** – Items in this tag can attack the **Aquarium** block. * **`animal_pen:can_attack_pen`** – Items in this tag can attack the **Animal Pen** block. ### Example: Adding Custom Weapons To allow **custom\_knife** and **modded\_dagger** to attack pens, create the following file in your **datapack**: #### 📂 **For Minecraft 1.20.6 and Below:** Path: `your_custom_datapack/data/animal_pen/tags/items/can_attack_pen.json` #### 📂 **For Minecraft 1.21 and Above:** Path: `your_custom_datapack/data/animal_pen/tags/item/can_attack_pen.json` ``` { "replace": false, "values": [ "mod1_id:custom_knife", "mod2_id:modded_dagger" ] } ``` This allows **custom weapons** to be used for attacking animal pens and aquariums. ### Customizable Food Items You can also add or change food items for each animal. You can do it with data packs. To add/change animal food you need to create a file: `/animal_foods/.json` #### 📂 **For Minecraft 1.18.2-1.21.1** ``` { // optional value. Defines when the food items should be loaded "condition": "mod:", "food_items": [ { "item": ":" }, { "tag": ":" } ] } ``` #### 📂 **For Minecraft 1.21.2 and forward** ``` { // optional value. Defines when the food items should be loaded "condition": "mod:", "food_items": [ ":", // for items "#:" // for tags (# at front) ] } ``` *** ## 📜 Commands: Use these commands (server moderators) to manage the mod: 💾 `/animal_pen reset` – Resets the config file to default values. 🔄 `/animal_pen reload` – Reloads the config file without restarting the game. *** ## 🛠️ Requirements: 📌 **[Architectury API](https://modrinth.com/mod/architectury-api)** (Required). 📖 **[Patchouli](https://modrinth.com/mod/patchouli)** (Optional, adds an in-game guidebook). *** ## 🎨 Mod Artwork: Credit to **Breadcrumb5550** for the mod’s blocks and items! *** With **Animal Pens**, you can **reduce lag, keep your farms organized, and maintain full interactivity!**

Animal Pens

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Minecraft: Java Edition

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A variant selection screen

Variant Selection Screen with cooldown widget