Version History

8.1.1

• 1.12: Fix crash with zotzpyre
• 1.12: Fix most of "Received passengers for unknown entity" log spam

8.1.0

• Add zotzpyre
• Add bobbit worm
• Revamped shark animations to reduce choppiness
• Added "Ultimate Succening" advancement for getting succed by a lamprey, bobbit worm, and zotzpyre
• Boars will now more actively seek crops to eat them
• Fixed feral wolf tail receding into body when tamed and added wagging for tamed wolves
• Fixed sharks attacking slowly/holding enemies and doing nothing
• Reduced water slowdown of bears
• Made squirrels immune to fall damage
• Added thaumcraft aspects for zotzpyre and bobbit
• Update Spanish translation to 8.1.0 features
• Update Russian translation for 8.0.0 features
• Update Japanese translation for 8.1.0 features
• Update German translation for 8.0.0 features
• Fix some entities with glowing eyes causing water behind them to be invisible
• Fix rare crash caused by some mods with armor displays and modeled

armor (capes/hirschgeist skull). Test case Modern Warfare mod.

• 1.14: Brown Bears, Black Bears, and boars will now eat berries similar to foxes
• 1.14: Brown Bears and Black Bears are now immune to bush damage
• 1.14: Brown Bears will now attack salmon
• 1.14: Rewrote shark movement AI
• 1.14: Fixed some water mobs spawning on land (actually this time)

8.0.0

• Add moose
• Add turkey
• Add new songbird variant
• Add pheasant egg
• Add turkey egg
• Add fried egg
• Add turkey legs
• Add edible turkey block
• Update models for Feral Wolf (and heads)
• Lower reindeer health to 30
• Split coyote head into its own head (on 1.14 this will request an ID change, you WILL lose any coyote heads upon updating!)
• Add polish translation (slightly out of date)
• Fix being able to breed pheasant with wheat instead of pumpkin seeds
• Make deer drops better (always drop 2 antlers, sometimes venison)
• Fix coyote dropping wolf pelts
• Removed broken update checker
• 1.12: Fix fox dropping wolf pelts
• 1.12: Add oredictionary support to taming items config (format: "ore:oreName")
• 1.12: Add Thaumcraft 6 Aspects
• 1.12: Fix crash from Boar eating crops before the world is loaded
• 1.12: Fix cascading worldgen lag
• 1.12: Fix strange desync with lamprey
• 1.14: Fix heads, hand of fate, and trillium not dropping ever
• 1.14: Add campfire and smoker recipes for most cookables
• 1.14: Make nautilus by default despawn again (oops!)
• 1.14: Add Crab Rave support for Essential Features' Portable Jukebox
• 1.14: Fix crash when placing heads on tall grass or two-high plants
• 1.14: Internally rewrite configs and entity registration
• 1.14: Fix config not always generating with modded biomes (delete configs to get a new one)
• 1.14: Added waterlogging support for heads and hand of fate
• 1.14: Fix tame items config not working
• 1.14: Add tag support for tame item config (format: "#tagdomain:tagname")
• 1.14: Fix some water mobs spawning on land
• 1.14: Fix 'Unknown custom packet identifier' warnings in log

7.1.2

• 1.14: Fixed crashes for forge 1.14.4-28.1.0+

7.1.1

• Sharks will now retaliate
• Added a configuration option under all entities for despawn allowance
• Sharks now have limits on the size of things they can grab
• 1.14: Fixed "Get Badgered" happening whenever you take damage
• 1.14: Increased nautilus shell drop rate from nautilus (1/500 to 1/25)
• 1.14: Made lammergeiers less derpy and broken
• 1.14: Fixed crash with Forge 28.0.92+ (28.0.92+ REQUIRED for the mod from now on!)

7.1.0

• Added 25 advancements
• Entities killed by lamprey no longer drop items, to reduce clutter and lag
• Updated shark animations so their pitch relative to their trajectory
• Fixed lamprey not syncing grabs properly since 7.0.2
• Updated Chinese (simplified) translation
• 1.14: Fixed placement conditions for water entities (fixes things spawning outside of water)
• 1.14: Defer addition of biome generation features to prevent concurrent modification (fixes crash during loading sometimes)
• 1.14: Fix dismount firing on lampreys if the chunk is not loaded (fixes crash when loading new areas)

7.0.2

• Updated German Translation
• (Maybe?) Fixed "received passengers for unknown entity" spam
• 1.12: Fixed bear cape not rendering "arms" on armor stand
• 1.14: Fixed crash with shark dismounting targets
• 1.14: Fixed random crash with shark when grabbing some entities like skeletons

7.0.1

• Updated Russian Translation
• Updated Japanese Translation
• Added config to allow goat to dispense vanilla milk instead
• Flipped the nautilus so it swims in the right direction
• 1.12: Fixed lamprey spawning in ocean again, darn things!
• 1.12: Fixed snowy/classic wolf cape having broken texture and recipes
• 1.14: Fixed sided crash on server when using entity heads
• 1.14: Fixed crash from breeding unnamed reindeer
• 1.14: Fixed modded biomes not auto-generating in configs (also preventing spawns in modded biomes)
• 1.14: Fixed water entities not always spawning in water properly

7.0.0

• Added crabs
• Added nautilus
• Added sharks
• Added horseshoe crabs
• Added bear heads
• Added wolf capes (with baubles support)
• Added wolf pelts, used for crafting capes or wool and leather, drops from wolves
• Added bear capes (with baubles support)
• Added bear skin, used for crafting bear capes or woll and leather, drops from bears
• Added crab meat, drops from crabs
• Added a configuration option to allow variants to be selected based

on biomes (white feral wolves -> snowy biomes), off by default

• Added Italian translation, thanks to Gaber373!
• Moved kermode bear into black bear egg as a rare variant
• Renamed creative tab and mod info name from "Better Animals+" to "Better Animals Plus"
• Added a secret with crabs (try mixing the disk of the skeleton and creeper with the raw crustacean) wink
• Fixed lampreys not dismounting upon death properly
• Fixed bears sometimes dropping the wrong head type

6.0.3

• Fixed random crash killing tameable animals
• Fixed desync of taming item config for servers and clients

6.0.2

• Added configuration for taming items
• Fixed milk bucket not being returned (again)
• Fixed crashes caused by animal heads
• Fixed taming items that are replaced by mods not working even though they match
• Fixed some broken loot tables
• Lamprey now drop fish
• Lamprey no longer spawn in the ocean by default (please re-generate configs for this)
• Lamprey now wander when not attacking
• Updated French Translation (Thanks to @Neerwan on GitHub)

6.0.1

• Fix crash from Lamprey moving (unknown cause)
• Fix invalid lang key on Hirschgeist daytime attack message

6.0.0

• Added Badgers
• Added Lampreys
• Added Songbirds
• Trillium now match biome grass color
• Lammergeiers have new animations
• Deer are breedable (wheat)
• Tamed Fox are breedable (raw rabbit or chicken)
• Hand of Fate has breaking progress and a nicer bounding box
• Deer no longer run without a single leg on the ground
• Deer will eat grass
• Goats will eat grass
• Lammergeiers will now land on the ground before sitting
• Fix some translations that were not working
• Fixed bug with deer drops/loot table causing it to not exist or not drop
• Fixed crashes with DataManager keys on Jellyfish
• Fixed heads with corrupted or invalid NBT data causing client to crash
• Fixed doSpawning config option doing nothing
• Fixed deer head icons not matching their antlers
• Removed doRegister from config
• Added config option to make coyotes always hostile
• Coyotes can now be tamed with cooked or raw chicken, rabbit, and pheasant as opposed to just raw rabbit.
• Code refactors (as usual) that make development easier

5.0.2

• Fix bug that caused modded biomes to be unable to spawn BA+ entities and made the configuration unable to affect it

5.0.1

• Fix random crash on client when loading chunks with Trillium or Hand of Fate, where the TE loads before the block.

5.0.0

• Added Boars
• Added Squirrels
• Added Boar heads
• Animal head items have textures for each variant
• Spawn eggs now show in the Better Animals Plus tab
• Added biomes configuration for spawning
• Fixed jellyfish floating/being too large
• Fixed reindeer neck rotating strangely when eating
• Fixed lammergeiers derping before attacking ("hesitating")
• Fixed minor offsets on resting leg models (should prevent feet half clipping into the ground or being angled)
• Fixed Esperanto translation
• Fixed some random crashes with Entity datamanager (may still afflict

old worlds with older entities, try removing mod, loading world, and re-adding mod)

• Redo render factory system (use method references)
• Removed the useless "Common Proxy"

4.1.0

• Fixed bug where animal heads would not drop their item after being broken by external sources (like water)
• Added config options to disable natural spawning instead of removing entities alltogether
• Rewrote configuration / entity registration system to add more options (min, max) and categorize entities
• Lowered Coyote and Goat spawnrates slightly
• Increase size of deer hitbox by 0.2 blocks
• Coyotes no longer growl while tamed (unless attacking) and don't bark
• Tamed feral wolves will growl when attacking
• Foxes will not bark
• Fixed bug where HOF recipe was stuck on last oredict for stone
• The wearable Hirschgeist skull can now be repaired with bones and antlers
• Breaking and replacing wolf, deer, or reindeer skull will no longer pick a new variant, but instead persists through the item
• Wolves, deer, and reindeer will drop heads that match their skins
• Drop rate of heads greatly reduced
• Increased goat health
• Lammergeier now accepts any food for healing
• Fixed incorrect translation for "fox" in Hungarian
• Added more oredictionary values for venison (listAllvenisonraw/cooked, foodVenisonraw/cooked) (Pam's HarvestCraft)
• Added fox head (also drops correctly and such)
• Updated all translations for new content except Arabic and Chinese
• Updated hirschgeist skull (wearable) model on head
• Fixed bug where the worn hirschgeist skull would render backwards in the inventory screen

4.0.1

• Added naming a reindeer "Rudolph" and fixed spawning logic for red-nosed versions
• Fixed crash with Wings, Horns, and Hooves (chaning internal lang layout)
• Fixed all the translations (big oops)

4.0.0

• Added reindeer
• Added reindeer head
• Fixed bug where wolf skulls didn't save their type
• Added both antler variants to the deer head
• Added baby deer
• Added Translation: Hungarian
• Updated Translations:
  • German
  • Esperanto
  • English
  • Spanish
  • French
  • Japanese
  • Portuguese
  • Russian

3.0.1

• Fixed Hand of Fate breaking bug
• Added a secret :D (red-nosed deer on christmas)
• Updated Translations:
  • German
  • Esperanto
  • English
  • Spanish
  • French
  • Japanese
  • Portuguese
  • Russian

3.0.0

• Added jellyfish
• Added pheasant
• Added pheasant meat
• Fixed bug where bucket would not be returned when making goat cheese
• Adjusted spawn rates, fixed BIG spawning bug

2.0.0

• Add goat
• Add goat cheese
• Add goat milk
• Add wolf head (includes coyote)
• Add deer head
• Fix server crash with loading and unloading Trillium on servers
• Fix error in configuration where Hirschgeist spawn weight was named "weight"
• Fix pesky off center-ness with Hirschgeist skull
• Fixed drops and placement being wrong for Hirschgeist skull
• Feral Wolves attack goats
• Fixed some loot tables for mobs
• Fixed large deer hitbox
• Increased size of Wolf/Coyote/Fox hitbox
• Updated translations with new content:
  • English
  • Spanish
  • Russian
  • Japanese
  • Esperanto

1.1.4

• New Languages:
  • Arabic (by MicroDroid)
  • German (by ekrempel)
  • Esperanto (by its_meow)
  • English (by its_meow)
  • Spanish (by its_meow and ikerleon02)
  • French (by slabruyere)
  • Japanese (by B_Wither)
  • Portuguese (by alexaldr)
  • Russian (by kellixon)
  • Chinese (Traditional) (by han880805)
  • Chinese (Simplified) (by han880805)

1.1.3

• Fixed fatal server crash
• Added config options to disable spawning of mobs/generation of trillium

1.1.2

• Reorganized internal codebase
• Fixed bug where some users would experience overspawning
• Updated to new entity registry system (the fix for spawning)
• Added configurable spawning weights (in mod config)
• Update mcmod.info to include proper update/project/site links and fix typo

1.1.1

• Added antler drop for deer (My bad)

1.1.0

• Added venisons to OreDictionary (listAllmeatraw and listAllmeatcooked)
• Fix hirschgeist bones sometimes moving out of the ghost part
• Added sound for hirschgeist and footstep sounds
• Added Russian Translation (Thank you to kellixon!)
• Fix invalid domain errors (May reset model of trillium and burning status of hand of fate)
• Added particle system (not used)
• Removed misc unused code (reduce filesize, cleanup)
• Added lammergeier landing to make taming easier
• Made some hostile mobs spawn in peaceful but are unable to attack
• Added rotation to trillium (rotate different placement directions like a chest)
• Fix bug where mobs that check for daytime (hirschgeist, coyote) would not always register daytime/nighttime
• Fix hirschgeist spawning in groups of more than one
• Add logo to mcmod.info
• Lammergeier now puts its head down while sitting (midair)
• Buffed feral wolf health (now more than normal wolves)