Penned In

## Introducing Penned In 1.3.0

### Pen tiers

Pens now come in five tiers, so the more animals a pen holds, the more it costs to make.

| Tier | Holds | Unlocks |

|---|---|---|

| Wooden | 16 | vanilla animals only |

| Iron | 32 | |

| Gold | 48 | mobs from other mods, the Hopper Pen |

| Diamond | 80 | |

| Netherite | 128 | |

- A newly crafted pen is **Wooden** (same recipe as before).

- **Pen upgrades** raise a pen one tier at a time. Right-click a placed pen with one, or craft it with a pen item. The pen keeps its animals, items and settings.

  - **Iron:** 8 iron ingots around a hay bale.

  - **Gold:** 8 gold ingots around an Iron Upgrade.

  - **Diamond:** 4 diamonds and 4 gold ingots around a Gold Upgrade.

  - **Netherite:** 4 diamonds, 3 gold ingots and a netherite ingot around a Diamond Upgrade.

- The **Hopper Pen** is now made from a Gold pen (or better) and a hopper, and keeps its tier.

- The tier shows in the pen's screen ("Iron pen · 12/32"), its tooltip, the info panel and Jade/WTHIT. The guide has a new Tiers page.

- A pen keeps its tier when it's picked up, broken, made into a Hopper Pen or cleared by crafting.

- **Existing pens aren't affected:** pens made before 1.3.0 count as Netherite, so nobody's pens get smaller.

### Pen Settings Card

- The Sides Card is now the **Pen Settings Card**. Cards you already have keep working.

- It's now crafted from a book, a hopper and a **comparator** (was a book and a hopper).

- **Sneak + right-click in the air** with the card to open its own screen. It shows the six faces it holds, using the same layout and colours as the Hopper Pen's Sides panel.

  - Click a face to change it, right-click to go back, and use the Feeds buttons for Input sides.

  - **Clear card** empties it.

  - A blank card starts with every side Off, so you can set up a card from scratch without copying a pen.

### 1.20.1: server settings in game

- The Config screen (Mods, Penned In, Config) has a new **Server…** button. It lists every server setting, including the new tier options, with each one's explanation as a tooltip.

  - In a singleplayer world (or a LAN world you're hosting) you can change them, and they're saved to that world.

  - On someone else's server they're shown but can't be changed.

  - From the title screen it tells you to open a world first.

### New server config options

- `penTiers`: turn tiers off and every pen holds `maxAnimals` and takes any mob, as before.

- `tierCapacities`: how many animals a Wooden, Iron, Gold and Diamond pen holds (Netherite always holds `maxAnimals`).

- `moddedMobsTier` and `hopperPenTier`: which tier unlocks modded mobs and the Hopper Pen (both Gold by default).

### Fixes

- Unusual Prehistory 2 mobs (the pterodactylus and the rest) were let into pens, which listed foods for them, but they never bred. Their food only heals them, grows babies or calms them down: they never breed from food, even outside a pen, because the mod hatches them from eggs. Pens now turn them away with the "doesn't breed on food" message, like other egg-hatched mobs. Any already in a pen stay there.

- Tameable modded mobs that breed without being tamed never bred in pens, because pens treated every tameable mob like a wolf or cat, which only breed once tamed. Pens now ask the mob itself, so these breed in pens as they do outside. They include Alex's Mobs kangaroos, raccoons, crocodiles, caimans, bald eagles, orcas, mudskippers and sugar gliders, and most Alex's Caves dinosaurs: atlatitan, grottoceratops, relicheirus, subterranodon and tremorzilla. Untamed wolves, cats and parrots still don't breed, as before.

- Some modded mobs list breeding food but never have young, even outside a pen: Alex's Caves' luxtructosaurus, and Alex's Mobs' sunbird, spectre, leafcutter ant and enderiophage. Pens now turn them away with the "doesn't breed on food" message instead of letting them in and never breeding them.

- Some tameable modded mobs only take breeding food once tamed. In Alex's Mobs these are the grizzly bear, elephant, gorilla, komodo dragon, crow, capuchin monkey, cosmaw, flutter, mimic octopus, mantis shrimp and warped toad. Pens wouldn't take them at all, even tamed. Tamed ones now go in and breed. Untamed ones are turned away with "only breeds once it's tamed: tame it first".

- Pens now also check that two of a mob would agree to mate. Some never do: Living Things' baby ender dragon, and vanilla **mules, skeleton horses and zombie horses**, which pens used to breed. These are now turned away. Any already in a pen stay, but won't breed.

- Alex's Mobs moose only accept their food some of the time, so pens sometimes listed no food for them and sometimes turned the food away. Pens now always recognise their food.

Thanks for the balance feedback that led to this!