Shepherd

Shepherd

Keep animals with buildable feed troughs, Husbandry perks and breeding records. Manage herd capacity, follow commands and offspring while preserving Wildblood's authority over creature stars.

Features

• Build plank or stone troughs; tamed animals walk over and eat, including supported young creatures with native food AI.
• Optional container feeding is off by default. Mark player-built containers with Shift+Use; private containers, graves and troughs are excluded.
• Raise Husbandry through taming, feeding, petting and breeding for faster taming, longer feeding intervals, calmer animals and tougher companions.
• Husbandry also improves butcher yield and animal produce; feeding young animals does not accelerate growth.
• Breeding records the sire at conception and can produce twins, with saved parents, generation, birth day and breeder.
• With Wildblood's Tamed Stars on, offspring can inherit both parents' stars. Without it, newborns keep the mother's level; taming keeps existing stars.
• With Solstice seasons enabled, breeding is faster in spring and slower in winter; existing pregnancies still finish.
• Optional strict herd limits delay births, land pens set local capacity, and breeding can pause on moving ship pens.
• Open the nearby herd book from the Meadworks menu or trough to inspect lineage and rename tames; supported animals also gain native follow/stay commands.
• Optional honey-rate controls use a daily amount or online player count; native hive conditions and capacity still apply.

Install and settings

Install with a Valheim mod manager to resolve dependencies automatically. Settings: F8 or Esc > Meadworks; BepInEx/config/. Host/server gameplay rules apply in multiplayer. Version 0.1.27. Required on the server and every client; use matching versions. Dependencies: BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2360, Jotunn 2.30.2, Crucible 0.3.39.

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