Instinct – Husbandry Overhaul

Instinct — Husbandry Overhaul

Worth raising.

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and GitHub Releases.
Visit the website for the full feature list,
config reference, and command guide.

Instinct is a husbandry overhaul for Minecraft 1.21.1 (Fabric) — the
animals you tame, breed, herd, and keep. Vanilla animals are disposable: pets
sprint into lava, breeding is click-spam, and the optimal farm is 500 cows in a
one-block pit. Instinct makes animals act like they want to live and makes time
spent tending them pay — on the animals already in your world, vanilla or
modded.

In development. The design and full behavioral spec are committed and
features are being built against them; this page describes the first release.

At a glance

• Minecraft 1.21.1, Fabric loader (0.16.10+), Fabric API required.
• Install on the server and every client.
• Every feature independently tunable through config/instinct.json —
  hot-reload with /instinct reload.
• MIT licensed.

Features

• Pets that look before they leap — tamed wolves, cats, and parrots path
  around lava and cacti, keep a 4-block berth from ignited creepers, and
  refuse to teleport to you while you’re falling or swimming in lava.
• Veteran pets — pets gain a rank at 10/30/60 days survived: +1 heart and
  +1 attack damage each, up to +3/+3. Crouch-look reads any pet’s days.
• Quality genetics — well-fed, uncrowded breeding raises bloodlines
  (ordinary → sturdy → prime). A prime cow drops +2 beef and +1 leather;
  overcrowded pits degrade. Three tended generations beat three hundred
  crammed ones.
• Flocking & herding — held food gathers a flock 15% faster with 2-block
  spacing. Herding, not shoving.
• The feeding trough — one wooden block that feeds and breeds the herd
  while you’re away, with a population cap so the farm never becomes a lag
  machine.
• The command whistle — copper and bone; one press toggles every pet
  within 20 blocks between Stay and Follow, right-click sends the pack after
  a target.
• Downed, not dead — lethal damage downs a pet instead of killing it;
  revive with a golden apple or a Vet Kit at the cost of one veterancy rank.
  Fire, lava, and the void remain final.
• Modded animals welcome — tameable/breedable modded animals are covered
  automatically; mods and packs deepen support with one-file tags and data.

Part of Concord

Part of Concord — a modular collection of
system overhauls. Install any, combine all.

Enhanced by (all optional, never required): Mercantile — butchers sell
Vet Kits and Pedigree Treats at high reputation · Tribulation — veterancy
accrues double at difficulty tier 3+ · Prosperity — Vet Kits and Pedigree
Treats in far-tier chests · Cultivation — farm produce feeds the trough ·
Distillation — a brewed remedy revives downed pets · Respite — swift
nights age pets on the same clock.