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

• The food is stored with the piece, so all players see the same contents. Only the player who currently holds the station takes food out; another player's animal asks for it first, so no meal is eaten twice.
• Animals eat where the game runs their AI, as in vanilla.
• Every player and the server need the mod. Requires Jötunn.
• The dragon stations are for the Elemental Dragons mod and the Wolfborn in the wolf herd come from the Wolfborn mod. Without those mods the dragon stations take no food.
• Better Riding keeps every tame animal fed for 30 minutes after a meal (vanilla: 10). That is its own setting; this mod leaves it alone.
• Everything is built at runtime. There are no asset bundles.

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Deutsch

Schluss damit, Futter auf den Boden zu werfen. Jedes zahme Tier bekommt eigene Futterstellen in drei Größen (Hammer → eigene Registerkarte „Fütterung“, an der Werkbank):

• Hühner: Hühnernapf, Großer Hühnernapf, Körnersilo
• Eber: Ebernapf, Großer Ebernapf, Eber-Futtersilo
• Wölfe und Wolfborn: Wolfsnapf, Großer Wolfsnapf, Wolfstrog
• Bären: Bärennapf, Großer Bärennapf, Bärentrog
• Asksvin: Asksvin-Napf, Großer Asksvin-Napf, Asksvin-Trog (aus Schwarzholz)
• Lox: Lox-Zuber, Lox-Trog, Lox-Krippe (mit Heuraufe)
• Elche: Elch-Zuber, Elchtrog, Elchkrippe (mit Heuraufe)
• Drachen (Mod Elemental Dragons, jede Stufe): Drachenzuber, Drachentrog, Großer Drachentrog

Fressen: Hungrige zahme Tiere in Reichweite laufen zu einer Futterstelle ihrer Art und fressen. Fremde Futterstellen lassen sie stehen, auch wenn darin Futter liegt, das sie mögen. Ist eine Futterstelle nicht erreichbar oder voll belegt, versuchen sie die nächste. Satte Tiere heilen und paaren sich wie gewohnt; wie lange ein Tier satt bleibt, ändert die Mod nicht.

Größen: Die kleine Futterstelle fasst 20 Futter (Reichweite 12 m), die mittlere 40 (16 m), die große 80 (22 m). Hühner und Eber fressen 1 Futter pro Mahlzeit, Wölfe, Bären und Asksvin 2, Lox, Elche und Drachen 3. Jede Mahlzeit nimmt Futter heraus.

Bodenfutter: Was du hinwirfst, fressen zahme Tiere weiterhin wie gewohnt. Wer zu Hause nur Futterstellen will, stellt TameAnimalsEatFromGround auf WhenFollowing (nur Begleiter, die dir folgen) oder Never. Zähmen geht wie gewohnt mit Futter auf dem Boden.

Befüllen: E füllt rohes Futter ein, Umschalt + E auch Gekochtes (etwa gebratenes Lox-Fleisch für Drachen). Oder du benutzt ein Futter direkt auf der Futterstelle; Waffen und dein eigenes Essen benutzt du dabei wie gewohnt. Beim Hinsehen zeigt die Futterstelle Inhalt, Füllstand und die zahmen Tiere in der Nähe:

In der Nähe: Wolf ×2 (1 hungrig) · Lox (frisst an Lox-Futterstellen)

Wird sie abgerissen, fällt das Futter heraus.

Mehrspieler: Alle sehen denselben Inhalt. Futter nimmt nur heraus, wer die Futterstelle gerade hält; das Tier eines anderen Spielers fragt sie erst an, so wird keine Mahlzeit doppelt gefressen. Rezepte und Werkbank stellt der Server-Admin ein, sie gelten sofort.