HerdBell

HerdBell

Farm your herd without killing it: fed animals near a Herd bell grow hides, pelts, feathers and scales, and one ring brings it all in.

At a glance

• A ranch in the style of Palworld. Keep tamed, grown animals fed within 20 m of a Herd bell and each one builds up a yield every 15 minutes of fed time.
• One ring collects the whole herd. Everything they have ready drops at your feet, also in caves and basements.
• 77 creatures with a ready-made yield, from leather scraps off boars and feathers off hens to wolf pelts, troll hide and lox pelts.
• Hunting keeps its reward. Yields are things an animal could shed, grow back or gather: no trophies, and no meat beyond a neck's regrowing tail.
• Stars pay off: +25% yield per star, and each animal stores up to 4 yields until you ring.
• Sensible kill drops from starred creatures: 2x at 4 stars and 3.5x at 10, instead of the game's doubling per star (1024x at 10).
• Creatures above 2 stars keep the 2-star look and grow a little bigger with every extra star.

Needs Jotunn. Everyone on the server needs HerdBell, dedicated server included.

Features

The ranch

• Yields from fed animals. Each tamed, grown animal kept fed within 20 m of a Herd bell builds up one yield per 15 minutes of fed time. Tougher creatures take longer, based on their health (a lox about twice as long). Each star adds 25% to the yield.
• Storage. An animal holds up to 4 yields until the bell is rung. Optionally (off by default), animals drop each yield at their feet when it is ready, for auto-pickup chests.
• Stored yield on death. When an animal dies, slaughtered or otherwise, the yield it had stored drops where it fell, along with its kill drops.
• Yields at your feet. Ringing the bell drops the herd's yields right at your own feet, at the height you stand at: in a cave or basement dug under the ground they land down there with you, not on the land above.
• Herd ledger. The bell lists each kind of animal in reach, with yields ready and animals hungry or young. An animal shows its yield and progress, or why it is not producing.

Yields

• A yield for every tameable creature. 77 creatures have a ready-made yield of things they could shed, grow back or gather: hides, scales, feathers, bones, resin. No trophies and no meat (the neck's tail grows back), so meat stays the reward for hunting.
• Your own yields. Every creature's yield is a setting, and creatures from other mods yield their own material drops or whatever you give them.

Stars

• Gentler star drops. The game doubles kill drops per star: 8x at 3 stars, 1024x at the 10 stars breeding mods allow. HerdBell makes them grow like the bell's yields: 1.25x at 1 star, 2x at 4, 3.5x at 10. Drops that only come some of the time keep their chance; trophies and one-per-player drops are left alone.
• Looks above 2 stars. The game has no look for 3 stars and up, so such creatures look starless. HerdBell keeps the 2-star look and makes them 6% bigger per star above 2, up to 1.5 times the 2-star size, on your own screen.

How to use

1. Build a Herd bell with the Hammer (Misc tab, needs a Workbench): a post with a bronze bell that swings and rings. Default cost: 6 Wood, 2 Bronze, 2 Leather scraps.
2. Keep tamed, grown animals within 20 m of the bell, and keep them fed.
3. Look at the bell for the herd ledger, or at an animal for its progress.
4. Ring the bell. Everything the animals in its reach have ready drops at your feet.

| Key | Action | |---|---| | E | Ring the bell (the game's Use key; needs access to any ward covering the bell) |

Configuration

Settings are in BepInEx/config/anwo.HerdBell.cfg and can be changed in game with a configuration manager.

1 - Ranch

| Setting | Default | Scope | Description | |---|---|---|---| | Needs a herd bell | true | Server | Animals only build up a yield within reach of a bell. Off: every tamed animal yields anywhere | | Bell reach | 20 | Server | How far a bell reaches, in metres (5-60) | | Only while fed | true | Server | Animals only build up a yield while fed. Off: yields are free | | Minutes per yield | 15 | Server | Fed minutes near a bell for one yield of a small animal (1-240), in world time | | Big creatures yield slower | true | Server | Tougher creatures take longer per yield, based on their health | | Max stored yields | 4 | Server | Yields an animal holds before it waits for the bell (1-20) | | Bonus per star | 0.25 | Server | Extra amount per star, as a share (0-2); also used by Like the bell | | Drop automatically | false | Server | Animals drop each yield at their feet as soon as it is ready | | Stored yield drops on death | true | Server | An animal that dies drops what it had stored where it fell, as a ring would give it, with yields its fed time had earned added first. Off: the stored yield is lost with the animal | | Bell recipe | Wood:6,Bronze:2,LeatherScraps:2 | Server | Cost of a bell, as Item:Amount pairs with prefab names; applies without a restart |

2 - Products

| Setting | Default | Scope | Description | |---|---|---|---| | Bosses yield | false | Server | Lets tamed bosses yield (their entries under 4 - Creature yields) | | Product overrides | (empty) | Server | Yields for creatures with no entry under 4 - Creature yields: Creature = Item min-max chance%, ...; NextCreature = ... | | Excluded items | Meat, Trophy, NeckTail, Fish, Coins, HardAntler, CryptKey, Wishbone, DragonTear, YagluthDrop, QueenDrop, FaderDrop | Server | A creature's own drops whose names contain any of these words are never yielded |

3 - Display