Salt's Animal Farm

Salt’s Animal Farm 0.2

This update focuses heavily on server performance, especially for crowded farms with many animals packed into small areas.

Performance

• Reduced CPU load from animal comfort pathfinding in crowded farms.
• Added throttling so animals do not constantly search for new comfort/space targets.
• Added a shared per-tick pathfinding budget for comfort tasks to prevent large groups from overwhelming the server thread.
• Added a per-search path check limit so one animal cannot spend too much time evaluating comfort spots.
• Added caching for nearby threat checks to reduce repeated hostile/fear calculations.
• Improved behavior gating so disabled systems skip more work instead of still running partial logic.

New Config Options

• Added comfortSpaceRetargetIntervalTicks. Controls how often an active comfort task can search for a better space target. Default: 40.
• Added comfortMaxPathChecksPerSearch. Limits how many pathfinding checks one comfort search can perform before deferring. Default: 12.
• Added comfortPathfindingBudgetPerTick. Sets a shared comfort pathfinding budget across animals each server tick. Default: 64.
• Added comfortOutcomeCopyRadius. When greater than 0, animals can copy a recent direct comfort result from another nearby animal instead of recalculating everything. Default: 0, disabled.
• Added onlyBredAnimalsUseWeightAndComfort. When enabled, only animals born from breeding use the weight, comfort, sickness, fear, and custom loot systems. Wild animals act vanilla. Default: false.

Behavior Changes

• Hide-from-rain behavior is now disabled by default to reduce unexpected pathfinding load.
• Animals that copy a comfort result do not count as valid sources for future copied results, preventing copy chains.
• Comfort outcome sharing only uses animals that directly completed their own comfort task within the last 5 minutes.
• Animals born from breeding now persist that status, so the bred-only config works across saves/reloads.

Compatibility

• Changes were applied across all supported versions and loaders:
  • Minecraft 1.20.1 Fabric
  • Minecraft 1.20.1 Forge
  • Minecraft 1.21.1 Fabric
  • Minecraft 1.21.1 NeoForge
  • Minecraft 1.21.11 Fabric
  • Minecraft 1.21.11 NeoForge
  • Minecraft 26.1.2 Fabric
  • Minecraft 26.1.2 NeoForge

Build

• Version bumped from 0.1 to 0.2.
• All loader builds completed successfully.