Alec's Animal Husbandry! - Taming, Breeding, Mounts, Combat Pets, Leveling, Hunger, Thirst, and more!

1.6.0 - Companion Progression and Talent Trees - 2026-05-30

Added

• Added Animal Husbandry leveling configs for all 92 checked-in tamed companion roles, split across harvest livestock, non-harvest livestock, neutral wildlife, critters, and combat Beasts.
• Added Animal Husbandry talent trees for all companion archetypes, with more talent options than available points and branching paths for conditioning, care, production, breeding, recovery, and combat specialization.
• Added utility talents for slower hunger/thirst decay, happiness gain, breeding cooldown, fertility, trait mutation chance, appearance mutation chance, harvest cooldown, revive cooldown, and restrained combat scaling.
• Added appearance mutation talent branches alongside trait mutation branches so players can opt into mutation-focused breeding paths without blocking the core breeding line.
• Added separate livestock progression and talent coverage for animals with harvest functionality versus livestock that cannot be harvested.
• Added carnivore and omnivore needs configs, with related feed-item and wiki updates for diet-specific companion care.

Changed

• Tuned companion leveling around long-term but achievable goals: critters near 15 hours, neutral wildlife near 20 hours without combat, livestock near 30 hours, and Beasts near 30 hours when moderate combat use is included.
• Added 15-minute feed XP cooldowns and raised care/breeding/harvest XP values so regular care matters without letting repeated feed clicks dominate progression.
• Updated livestock harvest templates to use Tamework harvest alarms, allowing harvest cooldown talents to scale reset timers.
• Updated release metadata for Alec's Tamework 2.12.x, Hytale 0.5.x, and manifest version 1.6.0.
• Updated README/wiki documentation to describe XP levels, passive talents, talent trees, traits, and progression config files as active systems.
• Updated taming reference and getting started wiki images to use Markdown image/link markup for cleaner rendering in feed tables and trough instructions.

Fixed

• Fixed milk and other container-style harvest luck behavior so harvest bonuses can preserve the harvest cooldown instead of duplicating filled buckets.
• Fixed livestock harvest interactions so bucket/shears requirements route through the correct item-specific harvest checks.
• Fixed wolf combat spacing and retreat tuning so white and black wolves retain intended combat behavior after progression template changes.