Cozy Tales - Ranching

[0.6.3] - 11/1/2026

Fixed

• Animals teleporting to you: animals with a home, or told to stay, no longer turn up beside you when you are away from them, which could happen every day. The game pauses the world a little way from any player, and paused animals looked lost. Now they wait where they are, and animals in a house stay inside until you come back.
• Lost animals: an animal with a home that really is lost now comes back at its house, and one told to stay comes back where it stayed. Only animals following you come back beside you.
• Free milk from broken barns: breaking a house no longer drops the milk waiting in it, which got you filled buckets without bringing empty ones. Collect milk before taking a cow barn, goat shed or caravan shelter down, or it is lost; if you are online, chat tells you how much. Other products, like eggs, still drop at the door.
• Endless drops from killed animals: with animal protection turned off, a killed animal came back about a minute later and could be killed again for its drops. A killed animal now stays gone for 30 minutes, which server owners can change with DeathRespawnCooldownMinutes in the config (0 turns the wait off). The house page shows when a resident will be back. Animals that vanish any other way still come back after the usual minute.
• Capture crates and your animals: a crate now carries your actual animal, of any size. Before, your animal came back by itself while the crate held a copy, and opening the crate let out a stranger of the same kind. Now it stays in the crate with its name, hearts and traits, the crate's name shows them, and opening it brings the same animal back. Only an animal's owner can crate it, it moves out of its house when crated, and the Ranch Ledger shows it as in a crate.
• House displays leaked entities: a house whose chunk stayed loaded with no players near kept adding display animals the game parked out of the world, and they all came back as stacked copies when a player returned (thousands on a busy server). Displays are now only made where the world is ticking, and any parked copy that comes back is removed as it arrives. This was also the real cause of the "removed as it was added" log line from 0.6.2. Thanks to the server owner who tracked it down.