PMMO × Animal Weights Compat
Adds a bridge between Project MMO and Animal Weights that turns an animal's weight into something that matters for your skills — and gives players a way to influence it.
Heavier livestock are worth more XP to kill, more XP to breed, and worth feeding. The whole pipeline is data-driven through PMMO's existing entity configs, so pack authors don't need to learn a new system.
What it does
Weight-scaled kill XP
When a player kills an animal, the PMMO XP award for that entity is multiplied by a value indexed on the animal's weight (0–8). By default, animals with weight 0 or 1 award nothing — so culling underweight stock doesn't farm XP. Weight 8 awards 17× the base.
Weight-scaled breed XP
When two animals successfully breed, the parents' average weight scales the PMMO breed XP award. Encourages keeping a heavy breeding pair around instead of churning the smallest animals you can find.
Feed-to-love-mode weight gain
Right-click an adult animal with its food and — if the animal actually enters love mode (not on breeding cooldown, not already in love) — the mod rolls a skill-based probability to bump its weight up by 1. The skill defaults to Taming and is fully configurable. Higher skill = higher chance, capped at a configurable maximum.
This means feeding a herd is no longer just a breeding mechanic — it's a long-term husbandry investment.
Taming XP for feeding
The same event awards a small amount of PMMO XP using the entity's TAMING award map, scaled by a configurable multiplier (default 0.2). Skill choice here is driven by what the pack author configured on the entity in PMMO's data, so it'll match whatever your modpack already uses.
Configurable breed cooldown
Vanilla's 5-minute breed cooldown is too short for a system that rewards heavy, mature animals. The cooldown is exposed as a server config and applied automatically after every successful breeding.
Farmer's Delight knife bonus
If Farmer's Delight is installed, killing an animal with one of its knives applies an additional XP multiplier on top of the weight bonus (default 1.15×). Rewards using the right tool for the job. Disabled cleanly if FD isn't present.
Dependencies
Required
Optional
Configuration
All configuration lives in serverconfig/pmmo_animalweights_compat-server.toml and is split into themed sections:
- Animal XP — event-type selection and per-weight XP multiplier tables for kills and breeding
- Animal Breeding — breed cooldown in seconds
- Feed Weight Gain — skill, per-level chance, max chance, and weight cap for the feed-into-love-mode roll
- Farmers Delight Integration — the knife kill bonus multiplier
Every multiplier, skill, event type, and probability is exposed — no recompiles needed to retune the curve for your pack.
For pack authors
This mod intentionally does not ship any XP values of its own. It reads from whatever you've already configured in PMMO's entity JSON for DEATH, BREED, and TAMING event types, then scales those numbers. If your pack already has PMMO entity configs, the integration just works.
