Livestock

Changelog — versions 0.5.82 through 0.5.98

Animal Care and Troughs

• Added separate configurable detection ranges for feeding and watering troughs, from 1 to 128 blocks horizontally, with an adjustable vertical range.
• Set the default horizontal trough range to 32 blocks for farm-fed animals. Animals that have never been fed retain a nearby 12-block range until their first meal. Existing configuration values are preserved.
• Added an option to control whether extended trough detection requires previous feeding. Drinking alone does not unlock the extended range.
• Animals now choose closer reachable natural water instead of always prioritizing a farther watering trough.
• Improved shoreline approaches, fixing cases where animals—especially small birds—stopped near water without drinking.
• Animals can try another natural water source when the nearest one has no accessible drinking spot.
• Small troughs now support adult animals too, using the same diets and detection rules as regular troughs. Their smaller capacities remain unchanged.
• Fixed young animals repeatedly switching between following their mother and seeking food or water.
• Improved long-distance returns to the registered mother after feeding and drinking, without reducing trough ranges.
• Young animals retain their original mother rather than switching to a nearby adult. Blocked return routes pause before retrying without losing that link.
• Improved care-route handling when a selected trough becomes unloaded.

Trough Appearance

• Updated regular and small wooden troughs with matching vanilla plank textures.
• Fixed overlapping faces at connected trough corners that could cause flickering.
• Preserved existing recipes, trough dimensions, capacities and iron trough appearances.

Compatibility

• Added individual compatibility switches for Incubation, Quality Food, Jade, Patchouli and Livestock: Untitled Duck.
• Integrations are enabled by default when their required mods are installed. Changes to these switches require a game or server restart.
• Expanded shared care, quality, egg inheritance, maternal following and nesting support for addon animals.
• Added registered addon animals to shared quality indicators and relevant debug commands.
• Improved handling of disabled integrations while preserving saved data and access to existing stored eggs.
• Fixed stored egg quality being lost when breaking managed Incubation nests.

Rendering and Handbook

• Fixed egg lighting inside chicken houses and coops, including Incubation egg models.
• Eggs now respond to local lighting, directional shading and ambient occlusion. Each bedding area in collective coops is lit independently.
• Reworked the English and Brazilian Portuguese handbook with clearer, more immersive explanations.
• Organized the handbook into four sections: getting started, life in the pasture, farmyard birds and tending the land.
• Refreshed the book’s parchment pages and decorative borders.
• Updated guidance for feeding history, trough ranges, brooding breaks, feathers, milk, quality, fertility and land salting.
• Kept addon-specific duck and goose guidance in the addon, so its chapter only appears when the corresponding integration is available.

Performance

• Optimized trough discovery by sharing a position index between animals instead of repeatedly scanning unrelated block entities.
• Reduced repeated chunk and fluid checks during natural-water searches without reducing search range.
• Reused chicken-house and coop collision shapes instead of rebuilding them during repeated checks.
• Reduced unnecessary nest-comfort searches and optional-mod installation checks.
• Streamlined connected-trough totals, shared-fill synchronization and nest egg-status calculations.
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• As a precaution, back up your world before updating in case you encounter any unexpected issues.