Friendly Animals

Friends United: Friendly Animals 1.2
New Voices, Animal Personalities & Clearer Care

Friendly Animals 1.2 brings more personality to the existing animal roster with new voices, opossums playing dead, seals resting together, and clearer feeding feedback.

New animal sounds

• Added dedicated ambient, hurt, and death sounds for penguins, owls, seals, and opossums.
• Each species receives three ambient variations, two hurt variations, and one death sound.
• Includes 24 new audio clips across 12 sound events, with matching subtitles.
• New sounds are original synthesized game effects. Existing animal sounds remain unchanged.

Opossums now play dead

• Adult and baby opossums can react to nearby threats by lying down and remaining still before recovering.
• A visible, non-crouching Survival player sprinting within three blocks can trigger the reaction.
• Nearby visible mobs actively targeting an opossum can also frighten it.
• The reaction begins only when the opossum is calm and safely on the ground.
• Playing dead lasts up to 180 game ticks, normally nine seconds, before the recovery animation.
• A cooldown prevents repeated back-to-back reactions.
• Damage, interaction, water, lava, fire, losing ground contact, leashing, riding, or entering breeding mode interrupt the behavior.
• Playing dead does not grant invulnerability or guarantee that an attacker loses interest. Approach carefully and crouch to avoid triggering the player-based fright response.

Seals now rest together

• Adult seals can seek out a nearby resting adult companion and settle beside it.
• Seals use normal navigation to find a reachable resting spot with space between animals.
• Social resting requires safe ground and stops if conditions become unsafe or the companion gets up.
• A visible, non-crouching Survival player within three blocks can wake a settled seal.
• A non-crouching player within four blocks prevents an adult seal from starting or continuing its approach to a resting companion.
• Crouching avoids these new approach reactions. Creative and Spectator players do not trigger them.

Feeding and care improvements

• Successful healing now displays visible particles, including when feeding capybaras.
• Added action-bar feedback for relevant healing cooldowns, breeding cooldowns, and situations where an animal does not currently need food.
• Feeding animation requests now respect the animations supported by each species.
• Penguins, owls, seals, and opossums no longer receive unsupported eating-animation requests.
• Resting animals use their supported recovery behavior where appropriate.
• Corrected seal sleep entry to use its existing settling-to-sleep animation.

Existing care behavior remains intact

• Species retain their existing diets and breeding foods.
• Eligible feeding heals up to one heart, with a five-second healing cooldown.
• Breeding treats can help babies grow or allow eligible adults to breed.
• Feeding that provides no benefit does not consume an item.
• Breeding cooldowns and local population protection still apply.
• Following food remains a temptation behavior. This update does not add taming or a hunger system.

Models and existing features

• Preserved existing adult and baby models, textures, and animation assets, including the corrected seal eyes.
• All 13 enabled species remain available: capybara, raccoon, red panda, gundi, brown bear, deer, otter, duck, skunk, penguin, owl, seal, and opossum.
• Existing flight, swimming, resting, family behavior, natural spawning, and other

Configuration and modpack support

• Existing per-species enable, natural-spawning, spawn-weight, and group-size settings remain available.
• The natural-spawn weight multiplier retains its 1.1 default of 2.0.
• Existing local population protection remains enabled by default: 48 nearby Friendly Animals within a 32-block counting radius. This limits new admissions without deleting existing animals.
• Disabling a species prevents new animals of that species while preserving saved animals.
• Disabling only natural spawning leaves spawn eggs and breeding available when the species itself is enabled.
• Diets remain customizable through datapack item tags.
• Restart the world or server after changing spawning settings.
• Playing dead and social resting do not have separate configuration switches in this release.