Difference between revisions of "Animal Husbandry"

Familiarization

All animals have a familiarity value which needs to be increased in order to interact in certain ways such as milking aurochs, shearing mouflon/sheep, riding horses/asses/mules, breeding animals, and naming animals. The specific values for each of these interactions varies from species to species, with some requiring more work than others. Familiarity can be increased by performing a particular action once every in-game day, resetting at 6 AM (except for milking which resets every 24 in-game hours). For animals that are familiarized through feeding, the player must offer the food while sneaking (Default: ⇧ Shift) as to not spook the animal. If an animal has been familiarized in the last 24 hours, the heart shown above their head will have a pinker background.

Animal		Action
	Bear	Feed Raw Fish until maxed out above 80%.
	Jungle Fowl	Feed Grain until maxed out above 30% for adults or 100% for babies.
	Pheasant	Feed Grain until maxed out above 25%.
	Aurochs	Feed Grain until maxed out above 30% for adults or 100% for babies.
	Deer	Feed Salt until maxed out above 70%.
	Wild Horse/Wild Ass	Feed Grain until maxed out above 30% for adults or 100% for babies.
	Wild Boar	Feed root vegetables until maxed out above 30% for adults or 100% for babies
	Pigs	Feed any food until maxed out above 30% for adults or 100% for babies	anything edible
	Mouflon/Sheep	Shear or Feed Grain until maxed out above 30% for adults or 100% for babies.
	Wolf	Feed Bones until claimed, then right click while sneaking to pet until maxed out above 30% for adults or 100% for babies.	⇧ Shift + Right Click

Familiarity will decrease slightly each day if it hasn't reached at least 30% and the animal hasn't been interacted with in the past day. Adult animals have a limit of how tame they can become through familiarization, with only baby animals having the ability to become fully domesticated, gaining familiarity much faster than adults. Baby animals retain 50% of their mother’s familiarity when born, unless she is close to maximum familiarity, in which case they will retain 90% of it.

Familiarity Indicator

Sneaking and looking directly at an animal will display a familiarity indicator. The indicator will fill with red as familiarity increases, turning gold when it has reached either the cap for the adult animal, or 100%. A white border around the indicator means that the animal has reached at least 30%, and that the familiarity will no longer decrease if the animal is not periodically familiarized.

Indicator
Percentage	0 - 8	9 - 16	17 - 25	26 - 29	30 - 33	34 - 41	42 - 50	51 - 58	59 - 66	67 - 75	76 - 83	84 - 91	92 - 99	100

Gender

Animals (excluding squid) have different genders (male or female), which is determined randomly at the time that the animals spawns. Other than bears, horses and wolves, these animals have visual cues to easily determine the gender such as antlers, horns, tusks, udders and different feather colors. For mobs that do not have visual cues, the player can Right Click on the animal for a chat message stating the gender.

Animal		Male Traits	Female Traits
	Bear¹	N/A
	Jungle Fowl	Red Feathers, Stands Upright	White Feathers, Vanilla Posture
	Aurochs	Long Horns, No Udder	Shorter Horns, Udder
	Deer¹	Long Antlers	No Antlers
	Wild Horse/Wild Ass	N/A
	Pheasant¹	Brightly Colored Feathers	Brownish Colored Feathers
	Wild Boar/Pig	Long Tusks	No Tusks
	Mouflon/Sheep	Large Horns	No Horns
	Wolf	N/A

¹While Bears, Deer, and Pheasants have different genders, they cannot be bred.

Breeding

All breedable animals with the exception of jungle fowl are bred by bringing two of the same familiarized animal of opposite genders relatively close together, and feeding both of them until they are full, and heart particles start appearing. The animals will consume 5 ounces of food each time they are fed. If both animals have heart particles, they will move to be close together for a few seconds, before the particles disappear. A successful breeding can be confirmed with a Right Click on the female animal, which will result in a chat message stating, "Pregnant".

Jungle Fowl

Jungle Fowl are bred through the use of a Nest Box. Hens will lay eggs once a every 1.5 days if there is a nest box, and if there's a rooster within 5 blocks of the nest box the egg will be fertilized. A fertilized egg is noted with a "Fertilized" tool-tip on the item. Removing the fertilized egg from the nest box will remove the fertilized state and it will only be food then.

Pregnancy and Babies

For all breedable animals other than jungle fowl, the female will become pregnant directly after breeding. Once a female animal has become pregnant, the gestation time must pass before she is able to give birth. Note: This calculation is based on months, not days. So a world with a longer yearLength configuration will result in longer pregnancies, because there are more days in each month.

When the pregnancy time is complete, the female will give birth. The gestation time, age until adulthood, and the number of offspring that are born is dependent on the type of animal.

Animal		Gestation Time	Babies	Adult Age
	Jungle Fowl	0.75 Months	1	4.14 Months
	Aurochs	9 Months	1	36 Months
	Wild Horse/Wild Ass	11.17 Months	1	30 Months
	Wild Boar/Pig	3.7 Months	8 to 12	15 Months
	Mouflon/Sheep	5 Months	1 to 3	12 Months
	Wolf	2.25 Months	1 to 2	9 Months

Baby Chicks

After a fertilized egg has been sitting in a nest box for 3/4th of a month, the egg will hatch into a baby chick. Note: This calculation is based on months, not days. So a world with a longer yearLength configuration will result in longer incubation, because there are more days in each month.

Genetic Traits

All genetic traits are inheritable, and when two animals mate the resulting offspring will have a value for the trait that is an average of the trait of both parents, plus a third randomly chosen value (except for the jump height of bred horses/asses/mules which is currently set at 3.0 blocks). In other words, breeding two animals with a high value for a specific trait will produce babies that have a statistically higher average value, and could possibly be a value that is not found in animals that spawned in the wild naturally.

Genetic traits include modifiers for size, strength, aggression and obedience. The size of an animal determines how large the animal actually is, as well as how much meat and the size of the hide that is dropped on death. The obedience and aggression of an animal determines how much familiarity it will gain with each interaction. The aggression and strength of a hostile animal, such as bears and wolves, determines how much damage the animal will deal when attacking other entities.

Resources

Animal		Butchery Products	Harvestable Products	Notes
	Aurochs	Raw Beef, Raw Hide, Horns (from males), Bones, Sinew	Milk	Female Cows can be milked once every 24 hours.¹
	Bear	Fur, Bones, Sinew
	Deer	Venison, Fur, Bones, Sinew
	Horse	Raw Horse Meat, Raw Hide, Bones, Sinew
	Jungle Fowl	Raw Poultry, Feathers, Bones, Hollow Bone	Eggs, Feathers	If the hens have a Nest Box nearby, they will lay eggs once every 1.5 days. ⇧ Shift + Right Click with an open hand to pluck feathers. Plucking hurts the bird and decreases its familiarity. The bird can be killed with the damage dealt by plucking.
	Pheasant	Raw Poultry, Feathers, Bones, Hollow Bone	Feathers	⇧ Shift + Right Click with an open hand to pluck feathers. Plucking hurts the bird and decreases its familiarity. The bird can be killed with the damage dealt by plucking.
	Wild Boar/Pig	Raw Pork, Raw Hide, Bones, Sinew
	Mouflon	Raw Mutton, Fur, Bones, Sinew	Wool	Right Click with shears or a knife on adult mouflon with white patch to get Wool.¹
	Sheep	Raw Mutton, Sheepskin, Bones, Sinew	Wool	Right Click with shears or a knife on adult sheep to get Wool.¹ Use a knife on the Sheepskin to get Wool and Raw Hide. If killed while shorn before regrowing wool, drops Raw Hide instead of Sheepskin.
	Wolf	Fur, Bones, Sinew

¹Requires high familiarity.

Configuration

Main article: Configuration

History

Gallery

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  A wild unfamiliarized pig.

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  White border indicating familiarity will not decrease.

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  A fully tamed baby sheep.

See Also

• The natural spawning of animals during world generation is based on the area's climate.