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Minecraft plugin: Adds a hunger system for captive animals: small fenced pens cause animals to get h

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AnimalCare v1.1.0

Now you have to care for every animal: keepers who lock mobs in tiny pens will watch them starve—AnimalCare makes you feed and house your livestock properly, rewarding open pastures and stocked trough barrels while punishing neglected cages.
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=== Feature Overview ===
  • Automatically maps nearby pens and classifies animals as WILD, PASTURE, or CAPTIVE by flood-filling open walkable space (default radius: 15 blocks, adjustable vertical tolerance).
  • Tracks hunger (0–100) for every supported animal via the PersistentDataContainer with configurable loss/regeneration rates, starvation damage at 0, and breeding locks until animals are fully fed.
  • Supports manual feeding, hopper loading, and trough automation that only affects configured entities, keeping villagers and NPCs untouched.
  • Recognises renamed barrels as [Trough], links double-barrel trough pairs, keeps lids open while stocked, and consumes just enough feed based on per-item energy values.
  • Ships with bilingual (EN/DE) default messages, an optional debug sword for live diagnostics, and a GitHub Actions workflow that builds on every push or pull request.

=== Configuration Snapshot ===
Code (Text):

pen:
  detection-radius: 15
  min-pen-size-xz: 12
  max-vertical-delta: 4
hunger:
  captive-loss: 6
  pasture-change: -1
  effects:
    low-threshold: 30
trough:
  name-tag: "[Trough]"
  max-feed-per-cycle: 4
 
=== Usage ===
  • Place or rename a barrel to "[Trough]" (double-barrel setups are linked automatically) and stock it with approved feed (wheat, seeds, carrots, potatoes, beetroot, or any item with configured energy).
  • Right-click the trough to add more food; the automation loop feeds nearby penned animals and updates barrel inventories immediately.
  • Small enclosures count as CAPTIVE and drain hunger faster, large pastures become PASTURE, and animals outside any pen remain WILD at 100 hunger.
  • Enable the optional debug sword in `config.yml` to inspect trough status, detected animals, and next feed cycles in-game.

=== Version Highlights ===
  • v1.1.0 introduces automatic double-barrel trough pairing with live lid animation, reliable hopper/manual feeding triggers, and visible inventory syncing after every cycle.
  • Adds wheat seeds as valid feed, honours configured per-item energy so animals eat precisely what they need, and treats every item with an energy value as trough stock.
  • Hunger processing now filters for explicitly configured entities, and pen detection accepts legacy `GRASS` while defaulting to modern blocks to avoid startup warnings.
  • Existing servers automatically back-fill new configuration keys during upgrades, preserving custom values.

=== Compatibility & Requirements ===
  • Spigot or Paper 1.20+.
  • Requires access to the PersistentDataContainer API.
  • No external databases required.

=== Build & Installation ===
  • Run
    Code (Text):
    mvn -B package
    to build the plugin (GitHub Actions mirrors this on every push/PR).
  • Copy the generated jar from target/ into your server's plugins folder, then restart or use /reload.

=== Support & Feedback ===
  • Report bugs and feature requests via GitHub Issues, including logs, Spigot/Paper version, and configuration excerpts for faster assistance.
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Total Downloads: 17
First Release: Nov 13, 2025
Last Update: Nov 13, 2025
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