Iourus Farm — Changelog

Update 1.4.46 — Animal Feeding & Hydration Overhaul

Improvements

• Implemented a new AI system that allows animals to actively search for and approach feeders and water troughs.

• Improved pathfinding to locate accessible feeding and drinking positions.

• Added species-specific feeding and drinking animations with configurable durations.

• Introduced configurable feeding intervals for cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens.

• Rebalanced hunger depletion rates to significantly reduce excessive food consumption.

• Improved hunger and thirst restoration mechanics.

• Added new configuration options to customize animal needs and feeding behavior.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed animals consuming food too frequently.

• Fixed issues preventing animals from drinking water correctly.

• Prevented duplicate food and water consumption.

• Fixed instant resource consumption when refilling feeders and water troughs.

• Improved behavior when feeding or drinking stations are empty, blocked, or out of reach.

• Fixed interrupted feeding actions causing incorrect resource consumption.

• Improved persistence of feeding and hydration cooldowns.

Optimizations

• Reduced unnecessary resource searches and AI calculations.

• Added cooldowns between failed pathfinding attempts.

• Improved resource management when multiple animals share the same feeder or water trough.

• Optimized animal needs checks to reduce server performance overhead.