Feeding Trough

Your farm, on autopilot.

Feeding Trough adds a cozy wooden trough. Put animal food in it, and nearby farm animals walk over, eat and breed by themselves. No more clicking 40 cows with wheat!

🌾 How it works

• Fill the trough with wheat, seeds, carrots, potatoes, beetroots or dandelions (up to 64). Right-click it with the food.
• Every 2 seconds, hungry animals within 8 blocks walk to the trough and eat.
• Two adult animals of the same kind that eat fall in love and breed, just like when you feed them by hand.
• Babies take a bite too and grow up faster.
• Each animal eats only what it likes: cows and sheep eat wheat, pigs eat carrots, potatoes and beetroots, chickens eat seeds, rabbits eat carrots and dandelions, goats eat wheat.

🔧 Automation

• Hoppers can fill the trough from above or from the side. Hook it up to a farm and never refill it again!
• Hoppers can’t take food out of it.
• Comparators read how full it is.
• The food level is visible in the trough.

🐄 No lag, no mess

• Breeding stops when 24 animals of one kind already live around the trough, so your farm doesn’t explode.
• Pets and horses don’t use it, so your dog won’t eat the cows’ food.

Controls

• Right-click with food: fill the trough
• Right-click with an empty hand: see what’s inside
• Sneak + right-click with an empty hand: take the food back out
• Breaking the trough drops the food inside

Crafting

2 planks + 3 wooden slabs:

P . P
S S S

(P = any planks, S = any wooden slab)

Compatibility

• Minecraft 26.3: Fabric (with Fabric API), NeoForge and Forge
• Install it on the client and the server.
• Feel free to use it in modpacks!

Made by KandWMods. Happy farming! 🐔🐖🐑🐄