Livestock 0.5.71-beta

Wild animals and farm care

• Animals that have never eaten food from a player or feeding trough no longer seek Livestock pasture or breed automatically by default. Both parents must qualify; drinking natural water alone does not qualify them. Vanilla sheep grazing and wool regrowth remain available.
• Added onlyFarmFedAnimalsGraze and onlyFarmFedAnimalsBreed, both enabled by default. These settings can be changed independently.
• Added disableGrassHungerRestoration, disabled by default, for farms that require food instead of grass nutrition.
• Food history persists across saves. Existing positive feeding history is recognized; newborns do not inherit it. Manual breeding and offspring already on the way are unchanged.
• When the first-meal breeding restriction is enabled, unfed wild animals no longer occupy regional population places. Farm-fed animals still count regardless of hunger or sterility; existing pregnancies and pending fertilized eggs keep their reservations. Local crowding protection still counts all nearby animals.

Chicken population and shelters

• Fixed automatic breeding checks forgetting hens, chicks and fertilized eggs stored in loaded shelters and nests, including supported Incubation nests.
• Four-part Chicken Coops are counted once. Moving a pending fertilized egg into nest storage, or reloading a shelter, no longer loses or duplicates its population reservation. Ordinary eggs do not count.
• Population checks use loaded areas only, without force-loading chunks, removing animals or blocking manual breeding and births already in progress. These remain automatic-mating thresholds, not strict world-wide population caps.
• Prevented snow layers from appearing inside Chicken House and Chicken Coop roofs, including with Snow! Real Magic, without changing their models, stairs or collision.

Young animals and handbook

• Added doubleJuvenileGrowthTime, enabled by default: natural growth takes about 40 loaded minutes instead of vanilla's 20. Set it to false for vanilla speed. Stored chicks follow the same setting; existing ages, adult breeding cooldowns and feeding growth boosts are preserved.