🐕 Better Dogs

No Backports: This mod targets Minecraft 26.1+. Older versions are unsupported.

Make Wolves Worthy Companions. Smarter, Safer, Livelier.

Every Minecraft player knows the pain: you spend hours finding a wolf, tame it, and five minutes later it jumps into lava or walks off a cliff. Better Dogs overhauls wolf AI to make them effective partners. Powered by a high-performance Event-Driven AI Scheduler, they act efficiently without sacrificing performance.

Part of the Vanilla Outsider Collection — mods that refine the vanilla experience with modern standards.

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✨ Features

🧠 Personality Intelligence

When tamed, wolves develop one of three permanent personalities, visible via custom particles:

• 💢 Aggressive: The Guardian. Proactively attacks hostile mobs and scouts ahead.
• ❤️ Pacifist: The Healer. Avoids combat unless you are hurt. High health, low damage.
• ✨ Normal: The Classic. Balanced stats and standard vanilla-plus behavior.

🤝 Advanced Social AI

• Social Bonding (Affinity): Dogs form relationships within their pack. Socializing builds trust and reduces accidental infighting.
• Adult Correction: Aggressive adults discipline misbehaving puppies, preventing death loops.
• Pack Genetics: Puppies inherit personality traits and stats from their parents.
• Litter System: Wolves can produce multiple puppies in a single breed — each with independent personality rolls and stats.

🛡️ Smart Survival AI

• Cliff Safety: Wolves detect fatal drops and airborne targets, stopping dangerous chases.
• Hazard Awareness: Improved pathfinding around lava, fire, and drowning hazards.
• Creeper Awareness: Wolves flee from hissing Creepers!
• Dog Feeding: Tamed dogs scavenge dropped raw or cooked food from the ground to restore health — no manual feeding required.

📡 Behavioral Specialization

• Scouting: Aggressive dogs proactively range ahead to clear your path.
• Silent Alarm: Pacifist dogs emit a high-pitched whine when they detect nearby monsters.
• Gift System: Loyal dogs bring you treasures based on their personality.
• Debug Tools: Use /betterdogs debug to test pack interactions and behaviors (Locked behind OP permissions and a safety GameRule).

🌤️ Immersive Events

• Zoomies: Dogs burst into hyperactive sprints in the morning or when it starts raining — pure joy!
• Group Howl: Under a full moon, wolves trigger pack-wide howling sessions that spread to nearby pack members.
• Storm Anxiety: Thunderstorms make dogs anxious — they whine, tremble, and pace nervously until the storm passes.

🏰 Wild Wolf Territoriality

Wild wolf packs are now dynamic, territorial entities led by a dominant leader:

• Territorial Probability Matrix: Pack interactions now utilize a complex, personality-driven matrix. No two disputes are the same!
• Dynamic Outcomes: Depending on leader personalities, packs may Merge (Dominance based), engage in War (1v1 Duels or Pack Combat), or peacefully Retreat to maintain their own borders.
• Configurable Instincts: Use GameRules to fine-tune exactly how Aggressive, Normal, and Pacifist leaders react to each other.
• 1v1 Leader Duels: If a dispute escalates to War, leaders engage in a cinematic 1v1 duel to settle dominance.
• Yield & Merge: Defeated packs are not lost; they yield and merge with the winning pack, allowing for the natural formation of massive wolf colonies.
• Wild Personality AI (New Default): Out of the box, wild pack members exhibit unique behaviors (like Aggressive hunting or Pack Retreats) while anchored to their leader.
• Dynamic Spawning & Reinforcements: When a pack goes to war or is challenged, nearby wild wolves can spawn or join as reinforcements to defend their pack's territory.
• Production Stable: Fully compatible with high-performance engines like C2ME, ensuring safe multi-threaded AI execution.
• Performance Hardened: All AI logic is performance-optimized using DasikLibrary 1.7.0, ensuring zero console spam and server TPS even with massive packs.

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⚙️ Configuration (Native Game Rules)

No messy config files. Better Dogs uses the Native Minecraft Game Rules system. All 50+ mod parameters are grouped into a dedicated "Better Dogs" category in the official UI.

[!TIP] Want a GUI? Install the optional Cloth Config API and ModMenu to get a full categorized settings screen inside the game — no commands needed! (Added in v3.4.16)

[!TIP] Too many options? If the game rule screen feels cluttered, we highly recommend installing Collapsible Game Rules. It will automatically group the settings into clean, expandable folders!

Optional Cloth Config GUI (left) · Native GameRule screen (right)

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☕ Support

If you enjoy the Vanilla Outsider collection, consider fueling the next update!

[!NOTE] Indonesian Users: SocioBuzz and Saweria support local payment methods (Gopay, OVO, Dana, etc.) if you want to support me without using PayPal/Ko-fi!

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📜 Credits

Role	Author
Creator	Dasik (Rifaditya)
Collection	Vanilla Outsider
License	GPLv3

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