FeedingTroughs

Feeding Troughs – a feeding station for every herd

Stop throwing food on the ground. Every tame animal gets its own feeding stations in three sizes: a bowl or tub, a large bowl or trough, and a trough, silo or manger. Build them with the hammer and fill them. Hungry animals then walk to a station of their own herd and eat. A bear walks past the boar bowl even when it is full of blueberries, and a lox ignores the hens' grain silo full of barley.

| Herd | Small | Medium | Large | |---|---|---|---| | Hens | Hen Bowl | Large Hen Bowl | Grain Silo | | Boars | Boar Bowl | Large Boar Bowl | Boar Feed Silo | | Wolves & Wolfborn | Wolf Bowl | Large Wolf Bowl | Wolf Trough | | Bears | Bear Bowl | Large Bear Bowl | Bear Trough | | Asksvin | Asksvin Bowl | Large Asksvin Bowl | Asksvin Trough | | Lox | Lox Tub | Lox Trough | Lox Manger | | Moose | Moose Tub | Moose Trough | Moose Manger | | Dragons | Dragon Tub | Dragon Trough | Great Dragon Trough |

Each station is built to the size of its animals: a hen bowl is small, a dragon tub is big. The mangers carry a hay rack, and the great dragon trough is bound with iron.

Building

Hammer → own tab Feeding, near a workbench.

| Herd | Small | Medium | Large | |---|---|---|---| | Hens | Wood 6, Resin 2 | Wood 10, Resin 4 | Fine wood 10, Wood 10, Bronze nails 8 | | Boars | Wood 8, Resin 2 | Wood 12, Resin 4 | Fine wood 12, Wood 12, Bronze nails 10 | | Wolves | Fine wood 6, Iron nails 4 | Fine wood 10, Iron nails 6 | Fine wood 14, Wood 10, Iron nails 10 | | Bears | Wood 10, Resin 4 | Fine wood 10, Bronze nails 6 | Fine wood 14, Wood 10, Bronze nails 10 | | Asksvin | Blackwood 6, Iron nails 4 | Blackwood 10, Iron nails 6 | Blackwood 16, Iron nails 10, Iron 2 | | Lox | Fine wood 8, Iron nails 4 | Fine wood 14, Iron nails 8 | Fine wood 16, Core wood 8, Iron nails 12 | | Moose | Fine wood 8, Bronze nails 4 | Fine wood 14, Bronze nails 8 | Fine wood 16, Core wood 8, Bronze nails 12 | | Dragons | Fine wood 10, Iron 2 | Fine wood 16, Iron 4 | Fine wood 24, Core wood 10, Iron 8 |

Feeding

1. Build a station of the herd near your animals.
2. Fill it (see below).
3. Hungry tame animals within reach walk to a free place at its rim, stop and eat a meal.

• Only their own herd. A station serves one herd. Animals walk past other herds' stations, even when the food there is food they like.
• They eat what they eat. A station only takes food its herd likes. The lists come from the game itself (and from other mods), so a wolf eats meat, a boar carrots and mushrooms, a hen seeds and barley, a dragon serpent and lox meat. They take the oldest food first.
• It is the game's own hunger. A fed animal heals and breeds, as in vanilla. The mod does not change how long an animal stays fed.
• Food on the ground still works. Tame animals eat what you throw to them, as in vanilla, and also go to a filled station of their herd. If you want stations to be the only way at home, set TameAnimalsEatFromGround to WhenFollowing or Never.
• Taming wild animals works as before, with food on the ground. Stations are for your herd.

Not too easy:

• Stations hold a limited amount, and every meal takes food out.
• Big animals eat more per meal.
• Animals only come from within reach, and they need a path to the station. If one station cannot be reached or all its places are taken, they try the next one.
• Every herd needs its own stations.

Filling

• E: put in raw fodder from your bag (meat, carrots, berries, barley, seeds…).
• Shift + E: also put in cooked or prepared food, such as cooked lox meat for the dragons. The plain fill leaves your own meals alone.
• Use an item on it (hotbar key while looking at it) to put in that stack only. Weapons, tools and your own meals are equipped or eaten as usual.

Look at a station to see what is in it, how full it is and which tame animals are nearby:

> Nearby: Wolf ×2 (1 hungry) · Lox (eats at lox stations)

The food lies in the station on a bed of straw, and the hay in a manger's rack rises and falls with it. If you tear a station down, its food drops out.

The numbers

| Size | Holds | Animals come from | |---|---|---| | Small | 20 | 12 m | | Medium | 40 | 16 m | | Large | 80 | 22 m |

| Herd | Food per meal | |---|---| | Hens, boars | 1 | | Wolves, bears, asksvin | 2 | | Lox, moose, dragons | 3 |

Configuration

BepInEx/config/jan.feedingtroughs.cfg

Gameplay (server-synced, admin only):

• General: Station (piece_workbench, empty for none), TameAnimalsEatFromGround (Always (default), WhenFollowing or Never), WildAnimalsEatFromStations (off).
• Sizes: SmallCapacity, SmallReach and the same for Medium and Large.
• One section per herd: Animals (which prefabs belong to it, * as wildcard), PortionsPerMeal, and RecipeSmall, RecipeMedium, RecipeLarge ("Item:amount,Item:amount"). Recipes and the station apply at once, also when they come from the server.

Client:

• ShowFoodInStation (on): show the stored food lying in the station. Off: only the straw bed rises and falls.

Animals from other mods that no herd lists eat at any station that holds food they like. Add them to a herd with its Animals setting.

Multiplayer and compatibility