VO: Better Dogs

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🐕 Better Dogs

> "Make Wolves Worthy Companions. Smarter, Safer, Livelier."

Every Minecraft player knows the pain: you spend hours finding and taming a wolf, and five minutes later it jumps into a 2-block lava pit or walks off a fatal cliff. Better Dogs overhauls vanilla wolf AI from the ground up to turn them into intelligent, durable, and highly capable companions. Powered by a high-performance Event-Driven AI Scheduler, every mechanic operates with near-zero tick overhead.

Part of the Vanilla Outsider Collection — modern mods designed to refine and elevate the vanilla Minecraft experience.

> [!NOTE] > 1 Jar 1 Version Policy: I build 1 dedicated JAR for each Minecraft version (e.g. MC 26.2, MC 26.3). Please download the exact build that matches your Minecraft installation.

✨ Features

🧠 Personality Intelligence

Upon taming, every wolf permanently develops one of three distinct personalities with custom stats, traits, and ambient patrol particles:

• 💢 Aggressive (The Vanguard): Proactively scouts up to 10 blocks ahead of the owner, targets hostiles up to 20 blocks away (+15% speed, -15% damage, -10 HP offset, 10% low-health flee chance). Emits red patrol dust (0xFF3333).
• ❤️ Pacifist (The Sentinel): Follows closely within 6 blocks (+20 HP bonus, -10% speed, +15% damage, +50% knockback, 100% low-health flee chance). Emits green/teal patrol dust (0x00FF88). Warns you of nearby monsters with vocal growls and alert stances.
• ✨ Normal (The Balanced Companion): Follows reliably within 10 blocks (balanced stats, 50% low-health flee chance). Emits golden patrol dust (0xFFD700).

🛡️ Tamed Wolf Guard Mode

Shift-Right-Click (Sneak + Right-Click) your tamed wolf with a Bone in your main hand to anchor them to their current spot in Guard Mode (consuming 1 bone).

• Posture Preservation: Seated wolves remain sitting in a stationary sentry posture at their guard post without breaking posture.
• Personality Patrol Styles:
• Aggressive: Active polygon perimeter sweep patrolling up to 8 blocks around the post.
• Normal: Radial sweeps up to 6 blocks, returning to the center.
• Pacifist: Tight orbital circular sweeps within 4 blocks.
• Watchdog Alarms & Threat Pointing: When hostile mobs approach a Pacifist guard, the dog stands, freezes, looks directly at the closest monster, emits directional red dust particles, and growls according to its unique sound variant.

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📄 Wolf Ownership Transfer (Adoption)

Transfer ownership of your tamed companion to another player safely and seamlessly:

1. Initiate Adoption: Shift-Right-Click your tamed wolf with Paper. The wolf sits down, clears aggression, and emits a sparkling Rose Pink particle trail.
2. Claiming: Any non-owner player can right-click the adoptable wolf with an empty main hand to claim them as their new companion.
3. Safety Protection: Taking any damage or a normal right-click by the original owner immediately cancels the adoption state.