Livestock

New animal support

• Added full support for rabbits, goats, and llamas.
• Each species now has its own needs, diet, breeding, gestation, recovery, and comfort rules.
• Rabbits now have care- and quality-influenced litters.
• Goats have their own litter rules and can produce milk after their first birth.
• Gold-quality goats produce milk slightly faster.
• Llamas must be tamed before breeding and have quality-influenced recovery.
• Donkeys and mules are now included in the equine system.
• Horse + donkey breeding now works symmetrically and produces sterile mules.
• Fixed inheritance of equine health, speed, and jump strength.

Chickens, nests, and shelters

• Chicken Houses now support 1 persistent hen slot; Chicken Coops support 4.
• Hens keep their assigned shelter slot after leaving to eat or drink.
• Stored hen positions remain stable after returning, reloading the world, or changing list order.
• A fifth hen is correctly rejected from a full Chicken Coop.
• A hen’s death releases only her own slot.
• Breaking a house or coop releases stored hens instead of deleting them.
• Improved shelter entry when the surrounding area is crowded or enclosed.
• Hens exit shelters from the front, using a safe forward position.
• Added a cooldown to prevent immediate exit/re-entry loops.
• Fixed natural nest creation in enclosed pens, under roofs, and on Dirt Path.
• Hens no longer create unnecessary wild nests when a valid shelter is available.
• Improved nest ownership and multiple-hen conflict handling.
• Roosters no longer try to enter Chicken Houses or Coops.
• Roosters stop courting hens that are nesting, brooding, pregnant, carrying fertilized eggs, hungry, thirsty, or otherwise unavailable.
• Improved mate validation to prevent unnecessary chasing and clustering.
• Quality eggs are now produced only by hens with the matching quality.
• Egg quality and inheritance persist through storage and incubation.
• Fixed egg visibility, opacity, and placement in nests.

Chicken storage and feathers

• Chicken Houses and Chicken Coops now open storage interfaces.
• Chicken Houses use a small-chest interface with 27 slots.
• Chicken Coops use a double-chest interface with 54 slots.
• Players can inspect and remove stored eggs and feathers individually.
• Storage is extraction-only, preventing accidental insertion or item loss.
• Contents persist through save/load and block breaking.
• Adult quality chickens can now grow feathers.
• Eligible chickens can be sheared for feathers.
• Added feather regrowth time.
• Feathers from stored hens are kept in their house or coop.
• Nests store up to 5 feathers.
• Removed the artificial feather visual from nests.

Small Feeding Trough

• Added the Small Feeding Trough.
• Available in all 11 wood variants.
• Can hold food or water.
• Designed for chickens, rabbits, babies, and other small animals.
• Small troughs now connect properly and share food, water, and capacity.
• Fixed connection issues that could break the block or render incorrect models.
• Slightly reduced the model height.
• Food and water now fill the entire inner basin.
• Fixed invisible borders, side cuts, and gaps between the contents and trough.
• Added dedicated visuals for:
  • seeds, wheat, and hay;
  • carrots;
  • potatoes;
  • beetroot.
• Fixed collision and outline behavior without creating invisible barriers for players.
• Animals can no longer climb into or become stuck inside troughs.

Troughs and water

• Wooden feeding troughs can now hold water.
• A wooden trough stores one bucket, equal to 16 drink servings.
• Iron water troughs store four buckets, equal to 64 servings.
• Water consumption now scales with animal size:
  • small animals and babies drink less;
  • medium animals drink a moderate amount;
  • cows, equines, and llamas drink more.
• Old water data is migrated to the new serving system.
• Fixed partial-bucket extraction.
• Fixed Creative-mode bucket interactions to prevent duplication.
• Different foods are no longer mixed or converted when troughs connect.

Trough AI

• Hungry or thirsty animals only seek troughs containing a usable resource.
• Satisfied animals ignore troughs.
• Empty troughs and troughs with incompatible food no longer attract animals.
• Animals immediately abandon a trough if another animal consumes the last serving.
• Trough approach now uses natural Minecraft navigation.
• Fixed animals standing still and staring at reachable troughs.
• Animals can reach troughs across slabs and small terrain changes.
• Serving distance now accounts for animal size.
• Animals cannot eat or drink from far away or through walls.
• Blocked or stalled routes are abandoned.
• Added coverage for horses, donkeys, cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, and rabbits.

Visuals and compatibility

• Added a shallow woven-twig rim beneath farm and twig nests.
• Kept the larger bedding area introduced in 0.5.63.
• Jade now displays the real wood variant for troughs, Chicken Houses, and Chicken Coops.
• Pick Block now returns the matching wood-variant item.
• Restored compatibility with CEM sleeping-pose resource packs.
• Improved Quality Food compatibility:
  • displayed product quality matches the animal’s actual quality;
  • eggs preserve quality;
  • compatible cooked products preserve quality;
  • existing quality progress is migrated safely.
• Maintained compatibility with Incubation and Blueprint.
• Updated the Patchouli guide with rabbits, goats, and llamas.

Fixes and performance

• Reduced repeated partner and entity searches.
• Added mate caching with immediate invalidation when a partner becomes unavailable.
• Nest and trough searches now stay within loaded chunks.
• Reduced unnecessary block scans, updates, and synchronization.
• Improved stored-hen rendering cache behavior.
• Fixed potential loss of hens, eggs, feathers, and ownership during save/load.
• Added migrations for old shelter ownership, water storage, and quality data.
• Removed obsolete temporary NBT data when no longer needed.
• Conservatively cleaned up duplicated code, dead code, and replaceable deprecated API usage.
• Expanded automated GameTest coverage for breeding, troughs, shelters, saves, quality, and compatibility.