Livestock

Livestock 0.5.63-alpha

Includes all changes from 0.5.60 through 0.5.63.

Chicken and nest improvements:

• Fixed hens creating or using nests through fences and other obstacles.
• Natural nests now require a reachable location.
• Preserved access to Incubation nests, including nests containing eggs.
• Removed the solid base from Livestock nests, leaving low straw and twig bedding.
• Widened the bedding sections by 50% for a fuller appearance.

Performance and code cleanup:

• Added indexed searches for nests and chicken houses, reducing repeated block scans.
• Nest searches avoid loading distant chunks.
• Nest placement and removal update the index directly.
• Added a shared comfort cache to reduce repeated environmental checks.
• Reused valid breeding partners while checking whether they remain eligible.
• Improved chicken-house rendering and reused stored chicken display entities.
• Skipped sleep-head calculations when Z indicators are disabled.
• Separated animal systems and debug commands into smaller classes.
• Removed unused duplicate guide-book source files.
• Preserved existing animal save-data keys.

Sleep and configuration:

• Sleeping and Z indicators are now disabled by default for new configurations.
• When enabled, sleeping is limited to pigs, chickens and eligible tamed wolves.
• Chickens still seek shelter at night and during rain independently of the sleep setting.
• /livestock debug now requires operator permissions and debug = true. Debug is disabled by default.

Existing configuration files may retain your previous settings.

This is still an experimental alpha. Please back up your worlds before updating.