PetPatch

Tired of your Lox's head poking through the palisade of its pen? Of your wolf's head vanishing into a wall? Does your Viking pride suffer when a chick manages to push you around? Fed up with a herd of boars blocking access to your doors? Then this mod is for you!

PetPatch only affects tamed creatures. Wild creatures and combat are left untouched.

Features

Bodies stay out of walls

A creature only collides with the world through a short capsule, much smaller than its actual body: a Lox's muzzle sits 4.3 m from its center, its capsule radius is only 1.5 m. PetPatch measures the real body of each tamed creature from its skeleton and keeps it clear of buildings and obstacles. Doorways stay passable: the width never exceeds the vanilla collision capsule.

Destinations that make sense

Vanilla picks a random roaming point without checking whether it can be reached, so pets end up pressed against a wall or a closed door, often right in front of your entrance. Tamed creatures now only roam to places:

• reached by a complete path,
• with enough room to turn around without their head or rump entering an obstacle,
• not blocked by a player or another pet standing right in front of them.

Walking along a wall is still allowed, only the destination matters.

No more pushing

Walking creatures impose their velocity on whatever is in their way, whatever its mass, which is how a chick can push a Viking. A tamed creature now stops when a player or another pet stands in its way, and lets its next movement settle the conflict.

A calmer herd

Instead of picking a new destination on a fixed schedule, a roaming pet now stays in place for a random time (5 to 45 s by default) after arriving or being interrupted.

Configuration

File: BepInEx/config/Mordel2Berde.PetPatch.cfg, or any in-game config manager.

Section	Setting	Default	Description
General	Enabled	true	Turns every feature on or off, live.
General	BodyMargin	0.15	Clearance added around the skeleton, in meters.
General	ClearanceFactor	1.1	Multiplies the distance kept from obstacles.
General	PushSpeed	1.5	Speed at which a clipping creature is moved out of an obstacle, in m/s.
General	KeepTurningRoom	true	Only roam to reachable places with room to turn around.
General	IdleMinSeconds	5	Minimum idle time after arriving or being interrupted.
General	IdleMaxSeconds	45	Maximum idle time after arriving or being interrupted.
Traffic	StopForPlayers	true	Stop instead of pushing a player.
Traffic	StopForPets	true	Stop instead of pushing another tamed creature.
Debug	LogBodySizes	false	Log the body size measured for each tamed creature.

Multiplayer

No server installation required. A creature is simulated by the player who owns it (usually the closest one), so for consistent behavior every player should install the mod. Players without it simply see vanilla behavior for the creatures they own.

Known limitations

• A pet following you waits as long as another pet stands between you and it: move and it follows.
• Pathfinding ignores creatures, so a pet completely surrounded by others stays in place until one of them moves.