🖼️ Icon Patch (v1.7.1)

• Added custom mod icon to Mod Menu

🧬 Config Clarity Update (v1.7.0)

✨ New Features

Separated Taming & Breeding Settings

The config menu now clearly distinguishes between:

• Taming Personality - Controls personality chances when taming wild wolves

  • Normal Chance (Def: 60)
  • Aggressive Chance (Def: 20)
  • Pacifist Chance (Def: 20)

• Breeding Genetics - NEW! Configure inheritance rules when breeding wolves

  • Same Parents % (Def: 80) - Chance offspring inherits same personality
  • Same Parents Other % (Def: 10) - Chance for each other personality
  • Mixed Dominant % (Def: 40) - Chance for each parent's personality (Normal+Other)
  • Mixed Recessive % (Def: 20) - Chance for third personality (Normal+Other)
  • Diluted Normal % (Def: 50) - Chance for Normal (Aggressive+Pacifist)
  • Diluted Other % (Def: 25) - Chance for each parent (Aggressive+Pacifist)

Fully Configurable Breeding

Previously hardcoded breeding genetics are now fully adjustable! Create aggressive-only bloodlines or make rare personalities more common through selective breeding.

🐕 Initial Release - The "Worthy Companions" Update (v1.6.0)

Welcome to the official Modrinth launch of Vanilla Outsider: Better Dogs! While this is the first public upload, the version is marked as 1.6.0 to reflect the intensive internal development, balancing, and feature refinement that took place before this release.

This mod transforms your wolves from fragile followers into intelligent, capable, and unique companions.

🌟 Key Pillars of this Release

🧠 The Personality System

Every wolf you tame now receives a permanent personality:

• Normal: The classic vanilla experience with modern speed/stat buffs.
• Aggressive: A proactive protector that hunts hostiles near you.
• Pacifist: A gentle loyalist that only fights when you are directly hurt.

🛡️ Technical AI & Safety

• Cliff Safety V2: Dogs will no longer suicide-jump off cliffs or into ravines while chasing enemies.
• Creeper Awareness: Dogs are smart enough to flee when a Creeper is about to blow.
• Fire/Lava Avoidance: Significantly improved pathfinding around hazards.

⚔️ Combat & Survival

• Armor Compatibility: Full support for vanilla wolf armor.
• Passive Healing: Dogs now slowly recover health over time when out of combat.
• The Gift System: Loyal dogs will occasionally bring you loot based on their personality (Hunter's trophies vs. Nature foraging).
• Friendly Fire Protection: No more accidental sword sweeps killing your best friend.

🎚️ Extreme Configuration (v1.6.0+)

We have exposed almost every internal setting to the Cloth Config menu. You can now adjust:

• Personality spawn weights (e.g., make aggressive dogs rarer).
• Per-personality stats (Health, Speed, Damage, Knockback).
• Follow and Teleport distances.
• Gift cooldowns and Storm Anxiety frequency.

🛠️ Internal Fixes (Pre-Release Polish)

• Fixed a crash related to personality persistence in NBT data.
• Refactored attribute modifiers to use direct Mojang mappings (improving performance).
• Optimized skeleton-targeting logic for aggressive wolves.
• Fully localized all config keys into English (en_us).

Welcome to the pack! 🐺✨