🐕 Better Dogs

No Backports: This mod targets Minecraft 26.1+. Older versions are unsupported.

Make Wolves Worthy Companions. Smarter, Safer, Livelier.

Every Minecraft player knows the pain: you spend hours finding a wolf, tame it, and five minutes later it jumps into lava or walks off a cliff. Better Dogs overhauls wolf AI to make them effective partners. Powered by a high-performance Event-Driven AI Scheduler, they act efficiently without sacrificing performance.

Part of the Vanilla Outsider Collection — mods that refine the vanilla experience with modern standards.

✨ Features

🧠 Personality Intelligence

When tamed, wolves develop one of three permanent personalities, visible via custom particles:

• 💢 Aggressive: The Guardian. Proactively attacks hostile mobs and scouts ahead.
• ❤️ Pacifist: The Healer. Avoids combat unless you are hurt. High health, low damage.
• ✨ Normal: The Classic. Balanced stats and standard vanilla-plus behavior.

🤝 Advanced Social AI

• Social Bonding (Affinity): Dogs form relationships within their pack. Socializing builds trust and reduces accidental infighting.
• Adult Correction: Aggressive adults discipline misbehaving puppies, preventing death loops.
• Pack Genetics: Puppies inherit personality traits and stats from their parents.
• Litter System: Wolves can produce multiple puppies in a single breed — each with independent personality rolls and stats.

🛡️ Smart Survival AI

• Cliff Safety: Wolves detect fatal drops and airborne targets, stopping dangerous chases.
• Hazard Awareness: Improved pathfinding around lava, fire, and drowning hazards.
• Creeper Awareness: Wolves flee from hissing Creepers!
• Dog Feeding: Tamed dogs scavenge dropped raw or cooked food from the ground to restore health — no manual feeding required.

📡 Behavioral Specialization

• Scouting: Aggressive dogs proactively range ahead to clear your path.
• Silent Alarm: Pacifist dogs emit a high-pitched whine when they detect nearby monsters.
• Gift System: Loyal dogs bring you treasures based on their personality.
• Debug Tools: Use /betterdogs debug to test pack interactions and behaviors (Locked behind OP permissions and a safety GameRule).

🌤️ Immersive Events

• Zoomies: Dogs burst into hyperactive sprints in the morning or when it starts raining — pure joy!
• Group Howl: Under a full moon, wolves trigger pack-wide howling sessions that spread to nearby pack members.
• Storm Anxiety: Thunderstorms make dogs anxious — they whine, tremble, and pace nervously until the storm passes.

🏰 Wild Wolf Territoriality

Wild wolf packs are now dynamic, territorial entities led by a dominant leader:

• Territorial Probability Matrix: Pack interactions now utilize a complex, personality-driven matrix. No two disputes are the same!
• Dynamic Outcomes: Depending on leader personalities, packs may Merge (Dominance based), engage in War (1v1 Duels or Pack Combat), or peacefully Retreat to maintain their own borders.
• Configurable Instincts: Use GameRules to fine-tune exactly how Aggressive, Normal, and Pacifist leaders react to each other.
• 1v1 Leader Duels: If a dispute escalates to War, leaders engage in a cinematic 1v1 duel to settle dominance.
• Yield & Merge: Defeated packs are not lost; they yield and merge with the winning pack, allowing for the natural formation of massive wolf colonies.
• Wild Personality AI (New Default): Out of the box, wild pack members exhibit unique behaviors (like Aggressive hunting or Pack Retreats) while anchored to their leader.
• Production Stable: Fully compatible with high-performance engines like C2ME, ensuring safe multi-threaded AI execution.
• Performance Hardened: All AI logic is performance-optimized using DasikLibrary 1.7.0, ensuring zero console spam and smooth server TPS even with massive packs.

⚙️ Configuration (Native Game Rules)

No messy config files. Better Dogs uses the Native Minecraft Game Rules system. All 50+ mod parameters are grouped into a dedicated "Better Dogs" category in the official UI.

[!TIP] Too many rules? If the game rule screen feels cluttered, we highly recommend installing Collapsible Game Rules. It will automatically group the new Personality Matrix settings into clean, expandable folders!

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