Crow Buddy

Crow Buddy v1.0.0 — Changelog Features

• Crow Entity — New tameable crow with full AI, flight, and animation (GeckoLib)
• Taming & Diet — Tame with Black Oil Sunflower Seeds (bonus sunflower drop); heal with various seeds; cocoa beans/chocolate poison crows
• Swarm Intelligence — Attacking a crow alerts nearby crows; tamed crows defend their owner like wolves
• Scavenging — Crows pick up dropped items with preference for "shiny" objects (gold, diamonds, netherite, beacon items, piglin currency, trim materials)
• Companionship — Right-click to toggle sit/stand; sitting crows become neutral and disengage from combat
• Canopy Nesting — After breeding, a parent builds a nest above exposed leaves; nest incubates, hatches, and produces a baby crow; nests can be trampled like turtle eggs
• Baby Crows — Unique baby model with flight and nest-return AI
• Natural Spawning — Crows spawn in overworld land biomes (excludes oceans, rivers, badlands)
• Black Feather Crafting — Recipes for arrows, brushes, and writable books using black feathers
• Sound System — Crow caws, flight sounds, hatch sounds, and more (CC BY 4.0 / CC0 sourced from Freesound.org)

Technical

• Fabric API + GeckoLib integration for Minecraft 26.2+ (Java 25)
• Required on both client and server ("environment": "*")
• Custom entity renderer, model, and animation controllers
• Server-authoritative entity logic with client-side state sync
• Dimension-scoped swarm coordination manager
• Nest block entity with server-side incubation tick system
• Biome-spawn modification via BiomeModifications
• Loot table modification for Black Oil Sunflower Seeds (bonus sunflower drop)
• Damage/attack event hooks for swarm trigger system

Fixes & Polish (included in 1.0)

• Resolved sitting state issues during flight
• Balanced crow spawn rates
• Reduced speech bubble spam
• Improved nest-building eligibility checks
• Improved scavenging and sitting behavior
• Overhauled goal and navigation system for more reliable AI
• Fixed GeckoLib v5 model/animation paths and texture identifiers
• Fixed feeding and satiation decay mechanics