Nature's Appetite

Overview

Nature's Appetite is a Forge 1.20.1 mod that automates animal feeding and breeding:

• Animals can seek and eat dropped breeding food automatically.
• Adult feeding is gated by breeding cooldown (age == 0) to prevent continuous waste.
• Baby animals can continuously eat (configurable) to speed up growth.
• Food quality is data-driven and can add healing, love-time bonus, growth bonus, extra baby chance, herd signals, and temporary special drops.

Current Features

• Auto-feed goal injection for whitelist animals.
• Tag-driven whitelist/blacklist control.
• Owner attribution for breeding credit.
• Reloadable JSON-based quality system (data_maps/item/food_quality.json).
• Per-level dropped-item candidate tracker for better farm performance.
• GameTest + unit test scaffolding.

Server Config Keys

Main keys in natures_appetite-server.toml:

• enableAutoFeed
• enableAdultContinuousFeeding
• enableBabyContinuousFeeding
• scanRadius
• scanIntervalMin
• scanIntervalMax
• maxCandidatesPerScan
• pathTimeoutTicks
• ownerAttributionRange
• enableQualitySystem
• enablePackBehavior
• enableSpecialDrops

Datapack Tags

Only entities in whitelist are enabled; blacklist always overrides whitelist.

data/natures_appetite/tags/entity_type/auto_feed_animals.json

{
  "replace": true,
  "values": [
    "minecraft:cow",
    "minecraft:sheep",
    "minecraft:pig",
    "minecraft:chicken"
  ]
}

data/natures_appetite/tags/entity_type/auto_feed_blacklist.json

{
  "replace": true,
  "values": [
    "minecraft:pig"
  ]
}

Apply datapack changes:

/reload
/datapack list