FeedingTrough

Feeding Trough — let your tamed animals feed themselves

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Tired of dropping carrots on the ground for your boars, only to pick them all back up the moment you walk past? Build a feeding trough, fill its 6 slots, and hungry tamed animals nearby come and eat from it on their own.

> New in 1.2.2: baby animals that eat (asksvin hatchlings, and babies that other mods make eat) use the trough too. Since 1.2.0: animals eat through a wall or a fence up to 1 m thick, so a coop or a small pen can keep its trough outside.

How it works

• Build it: hammer, Furniture tab, near a workbench. It is a small container with 6 slots, about the size of the game's wood chest but lower, so hens can reach inside.
• Fill it: open it like a chest and put food in. The food shows on the straw, and everyone sees what is left.
• They come and eat: a hungry tamed animal within 15 m walks to the trough, stands against its edge and eats one item, with the game's own eating animation and sounds.
• Through a wall: an animal that cannot walk all the way to the trough, because a wall or a fence is in the way, goes as close as it can and still eats if the obstacle is at most 1 m thick. That covers wood, log and stake walls, fences, and the game's stone walls, which are exactly 1 m thick (place the trough right against them). A thicker wall, or a trough on the floor above, stays out of reach.
• Same rules as food on the ground: one meal keeps an animal fed for about 10 minutes, and a fed animal can breed. Food lying on the ground is still eaten first.
• Babies: in the base game, piglets, chicks, wolf cubs, lox calves and moose calves never eat: they grow up on a timer (about 50 minutes, 100 for a lox calf), fed or not, so they don't come to the trough. Asksvin hatchlings do eat: since 1.2.2 they eat from the trough too, once every 10 minutes like the adults, and so does any baby that another mod makes eat.
• Nothing on the ground: the food stays in the trough, so walking by never picks it up.
• Each animal eats its own food, the same as in the base game:

| Animal | Food | |---|---| | Boar | Carrots, turnips, onions, mushrooms, raspberries, blueberries | | Hen | Seeds (carrot, turnip, onion, beech, birch), barley, dandelions | | Wolf | Raw meat, deer meat, lox meat, neck tails, raw fish, chicken meat, sausages | | Lox | Barley, cloudberries, flax |

Other tameable animals, including those from the newer biomes, eat from the trough what they eat in the game.

Five models

| Model | Size | Cost | |---|---|---| | Plank feeding trough | 140 × 76 cm, 44 cm high | 10 wood | | Hollowed log trough | 145 × 58 cm, 43 cm high | 6 wood, 2 core wood | | Hooped feeding tub | 90 cm across, 40 cm high | 8 wood, 4 resin | | Feed and water trough | 150 × 76 cm, 44 cm high | 12 wood, 2 resin | | Stone feeding trough | 140 × 74 cm, 42 cm high | 12 stone, 2 wood |

They all work the same way. The water in the feed and water trough is decorative: animals never get thirsty in Valheim.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/com.Azura.feedingtrough.cfg is created at the first launch. Each setting is described in English and in French.

| Setting | Default | Meaning | |---|---|---| | SearchRange | 15 | How far (in metres) hungry animals look for a trough | | FeedWildAnimals | false | Let wild animals eat from troughs too, which tames them over time like food on the ground | | ReachThroughWalls | 1 | The thickest wall or fence (in metres) animals still eat through. 0 = only troughs they can walk to | | LogMeals | false | Write every meal taken from a trough in the log (for troubleshooting) |

Installation

• Who needs it: every player and the dedicated server, as with any mod that adds building pieces.
• With a mod manager (r2modman, Thunderstore Mod Manager): click Install. BepInExPack Valheim is installed with it.
• By hand: install BepInExPack Valheim, then put FeedingTrough.dll in Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/.
• Texture mods: since 1.1.1, the troughs are also added when a texture or retexture mod (Custom Textures, HD packs...) has changed the game's materials.

Tested with Valheim 1.0.20 and BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2350.

En français

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Fini la nourriture jetée par terre pour vos animaux, que vous ramassez aussitôt en passant à côté. Construisez une mangeoire, remplissez ses 6 emplacements, et les animaux apprivoisés qui ont faim viennent y manger d'eux-mêmes.

• Construction : marteau, onglet Mobilier, près d'un établi. C'est un petit coffre de 6 emplacements, de la taille du coffre en bois du jeu mais plus bas, pour que les poules picorent dedans.
• Remplissage : on l'ouvre comme un coffre. La nourriture se voit sur la paille, et tout le monde voit ce qu'il reste.
• Repas : un animal apprivoisé affamé à moins de 15 m vient se placer contre le bord et mange un aliment, avec l'animation et les sons du jeu.