Fauna and Ecology Mod is a mod that's first goal is adding more realistic versions of existing Minecraft animals and their wild ancestors (or domestic descendants, as is the case with wolves), and eventually entirely new animals. Flora and fungus will also be worked on, but the focus is the fauna, at least for now.
Currently this mod adds the new horse, donkey, pig, sheep, llama, chicken, duck and cow along with their ancestors, and some horse relatives. All animals have needs based off of the Fossils and Archeology Mod, primarily hunger and happiness. Animals also have sexes and will naturally breed on their own, leading to dynamic populations in the wild. They will need to be tamed and are otherwise feral or wild, and after a few tame generations the newest offspring will be domesticated and become more useful and compliant.
Animals also drop their own meat, skins, bones, and fat which will tie into the Fossil and Archeology Mod DNA system when they update to 1.12 (which they're currently attempting to do). There is comparability with several mods and ore dictionaries, including some foods from Biomes O Plenty and Dynamic Trees, more will be added in time. There are also options for Flint tools and other crafting tweaks to better accommodate a primitive start and make use of the new animal drops.
This mod is highly configurable and all (and I do mean all) features can be enabled and disabled at will, meaning basically any aspect can be taken out if you so desire. Features including enabling vanilla hand breeding or disabling hunger. You can even just use the mod to give vanilla animals new drop options.
- AnarchCassius - coding, design
- cheetahman123444 - modeling, texturing
- Doctor Hyena - modeling, texturing
- Evo - modeling, texturing
- sargeantsatan - modeling, texturing, design
Discord Link (updated): https://discord.gg/FMykPgJ
I found out if you use a bucket on a bull he will emit the hurt sounds
The horses have taken over. Wild horses spawn everywhere. Everything else is rare. Devil dev don't care. Screenshot* included.
I don't know why or how, but when this mod is installed, Dynamic Trees do not drop sticks or logs. I removed Forest and Ecology, leaving everything else the same, and Dynamic Trees started dropping things again. Please fix this. The two mods complement each other thematically and I'd like to use them together.
EDIT: I found the wood punching config option. I didn't know this mod added hardcore tweaks. They're interesting, but I'm glad they're all configurable.
It would be cool if you were to add a stamina, temperature, and thirst bar if your trying to make Minecraft more realistic.
In reply to memerteameryt:
This focuses on animals and plants. Not the player. Download Tough as Nails if you want that kind of stuff.
In reply to ruleroftundra:
Tough as Nails was just discontinued, sadly.
In reply to valiant70:
Yeah, I found out a while back.
Do you plan on adding an animania-style breeding system for chickens? Where they automatically lay fertile eggs in nests if there's a hen and rooster?
I love the mod and I desperately want to use it in my personal modpack but I have tried every spawn control mod I can find and can't figure out how to reduce the number of wild horse spawns, which by default is incredibly high. Is there any way you could add spawn controls to the config file, or do you know of any outside mod that could work to accomplish this?
In reply to mspksy:
did you try biome tweaker?
In reply to mspksy:
I'm having the same problem. Too many horses, not enough of anything else.
In reply to mspksy:
Yeah, this mod's not fit to use yet, which is sad. It's got promise but the devs seem really apathetic.
is there any way to disable just the quaggas but not the other equines?
Because i'm playing with f&a and it feels kind of weird to have two quaggas
In reply to spinosgaming:
I think that everything is configurable, but I have heard people say that the game glitches out when you disable mobs…
You can, though.
Also, the wiki is mostly empty…
In reply to ruleroftwilight:
In reply to AnarchCassius:
Hi! You do know that F&A is out for 1.12.2?
In reply to ruleroftwilight:
the mods seems great, always loved the F&A and Fire&Ice style on animal raising and wondered how vanilla mobs would behave with it, but, as i was testing to see if it works, i stumbled on a major bug: soon as i right clicked a horse(from the mod) with the book, my game crashed, and when i went back to see if it wasn't a one time thing, well, the horse texture was all over the place, and the crash happened again when i clicked it... i'm not sure if it's not a compat issue since i'm on a heavily modded enviroment, and if i find reason to believe i'll definitely come back and say what exactly wrong, but for now, all i know is there's a major bug