Animal Kinship

<h1>Feral Kinship</h1> <p>Animals recognize their own kind, and supported wild animals can be tamed through PetAI. Matching your animal helps with taming. It does not make biting them polite.</p> <h2>Kinship and taming</h2> <p>Matching animals normally stop treating you as something to flee from or attack. Retaliation still applies if you attack them. Recognition follows your supported player model or a configured kinship override.</p> <p>Anyone can use ordinary food to tame supported animals. Matching kin gain taming progress three times as quickly. A properly baked matching meat or vegetable cookie completes the tame; dough and partly baked cookies do not count.</p> <h2>Supported families</h2> <ul> <li>Bears, chickens, deer, foxes, gazelles, goats, hares, hyenas, pigs, raccoons, sheep, and wolves.</li> </ul> <p>Fish recognition does not mean fish are included in the normal taming list.</p> <h2>Settings</h2> <p>Edit <code>ModConfig/FeralKinship.json</code> and restart the server or singleplayer world to apply changes.</p> <ul> <li><code>AllowAdultTaming = true</code>: allows taming adults.</li> <li><code>AllowBabyTaming = false</code>: allows taming babies when enabled. Both age switches can be enabled together.</li> <li><code>EnabledTamingAnimals</code>: all supported families are enabled by default. Remove a family to disable its taming, or use an empty list to disable all taming. The deer entry includes moose.</li> </ul> <p>These settings control taming; kin recognition remains active.</p> <h2>After taming</h2> <p>Pets use PetAI commands including sit, lie, stay, follow, passive, neutral, protective, and aggressive. Tamed variants preserve features such as sex and antlers. A mortally wounded pet has a 24-hour rescue window rather than being deleted immediately.</p> <p>For personalities, duties, talents, and expeditions, add <a href="https://mods.vintagestory.at/animalkinshipc">Feral Kinship: Companions</a>.</p> <h2>Requirements and compatibility</h2> <p>Requires <a href="https://mods.vintagestory.at/petai">PetAI</a> 5.1.0 or later. <a href="https://mods.vintagestory.at/playermodellib">PlayerModelLib</a> and an animal player model are optional.</p> <p>Kin recognition covers supported Animalica models and explicit aliases for other supported player-model packs. It does not automatically recognize every model in the large compatibility packs. Diet changes belong to Animalica Core, not this mod.</p> <p><a href="https://discord.gg/pJeMvtUWeg">Discord</a> &mdash; updates, questions, bug reports, and whatever I am working on next.</p> <p>This mod was made with AI assistance. Pls no hate.</p>