Turkey Time!

🦃 Turkey Time!

Bring a Little Gobble to Your Overworld!

Wild turkeys, realistic behaviors, delicious meals, and a touch of Thanksgiving spirit—all in one lightweight Vanilla+ Minecraft mod!

Ever feel like Minecraft’s forests and plains could use a little more wildlife? Turkey Time! introduces wild turkeys to the Overworld, complete with unique appearances, natural behaviors, breeding, and new food options.

Whether you’re building a countryside farm, exploring the wilderness, or preparing a Thanksgiving dinner with friends, Turkey Time! adds a little more life to your world.

And the best part? Turkeys are here to stay, all year long!

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🌲 Meet the Turkeys!

Discover wild turkeys roaming Minecraft’s forests and plains in small, naturally spawning flocks.

These aren’t just chickens with different textures. Turkeys feature:

• Three unique appearances: Male turkeys (toms), females (hens), and adorable baby turkeys (poults).
• Custom animations: Watch toms proudly spread their tail feathers and strut.
• Natural flock behavior: Turkeys forage together, while poults follow nearby adults.
• Unique sounds: Hear custom gobbles and calls as turkeys explore their surroundings.
• Instinctive reactions: Sprinting players and nearby threats can send an entire flock scattering!

Approach slowly, or you might send your Thanksgiving dinner running into the woods!

🥚 Raise Your Own Flock

Bring wild turkeys home and start your own turkey farm!

• Tempt and breed turkeys using wheat, pumpkin, melon, or beetroot seeds.
• Raise poults and watch them grow into adults.
• Collect turkey eggs periodically laid by adult hens.
• Hatch your own turkeys: Throwing a turkey egg has a 1-in-8 chance of spawning a poult.
• Automate your hatchery: Dispensers can throw turkey eggs, just like vanilla chicken eggs!

From a small backyard pen to a sprawling turkey ranch, the choice is yours.

🍗 From Farm to Table

Turkeys aren’t just for decoration—they’re also a new source of food!

Hunting adult turkeys provides raw turkey and vanilla feathers. Cook your turkey using a furnace, smoker, or campfire.

Cooked Turkey

Enjoy a hearty meal with two different ways to eat:

• Eat it directly: Restores 8 hunger points (4 drumsticks).
• Serve it to others: Place cooked turkey on a sturdy surface to create a shareable meal containing 8 servings, each restoring 2 hunger points (1 drumstick).

Perfect for survival adventures, multiplayer gatherings, and rustic kitchen builds!

🍽️ Thanksgiving Feast

Gather your friends and celebrate with a proper holiday dinner!

Craft a Thanksgiving Feast, a decorative, placeable meal featuring a cooked turkey and delicious sides.

Each feast provides 8 servings, and the food visibly disappears as players help themselves.

Crafting Recipe

Arrange the following ingredients in a crafting table:

Bread	Cooked Turkey	Carrot
Wooden Slab	Wooden Slab	Wooden Slab
Empty	Empty	Empty

Recipe Notes:

• Any wooden slab type can be used.
• Mixing different wooden slab types works too!
• The bottom row must remain empty.

Whether it’s Thanksgiving or just another day in your survival world, there’s always room for a feast!

🍂 Seasonal Autumn Turkeys

During November, you might encounter something a little different!

Newly spawned wild turkeys have a small chance to appear with special copper-toned autumn plumage, adding a seasonal touch to the Overworld.

Fully Configurable

Server owners can customize:

• Seasonal event start and end dates.
• Timezone used for seasonal events.
• Chance of seasonal plumage appearing.
• Whether seasonal appearances are enabled at all.

Important: Seasonal features are purely cosmetic. Normal turkeys, breeding, food, and crafting recipes remain available throughout the entire year.

No need to uninstall Turkey Time! when Thanksgiving is over!

🏆 Advancements

Think you’ve experienced everything Turkey Time! has to offer? Try earning all five custom advancements!

Advancement	How to Unlock
🏹 Turkey Hunter	Kill an adult turkey.
🍗 Smells Good	Cook turkey.
🍽️ Happy Thanksgiving!	Place a Thanksgiving Feast.
🥚 Turkey Hatchery	Successfully hatch a poult from a thrown turkey egg.
🦃 Turkey Breeder	Breed two turkeys.

Can you complete them all?

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⚙️ Installation & Requirements

Supported Minecraft Version: Java Edition 26.3

Requirement	Version
Minecraft Java Edition	26.3
Fabric Loader	0.20.1 or newer
Fabric API	0.165.0+26.3 or newer, compatible with Minecraft 26.3
Java	25
Mod Loader	Fabric

Installation

1. Install the compatible version of Fabric Loader.
2. Install Fabric API for Minecraft 26.3.
3. Download Turkey Time! and place the .jar file in your Minecraft mods folder.
4. Launch Minecraft and start exploring!

Multiplayer Support: Turkey Time! works on dedicated Fabric servers. Install the mod and its required dependencies on both the client and server.

💚 Built for Vanilla+ Minecraft

Turkey Time! is designed to complement vanilla gameplay without overwhelming it.

• Naturally integrated wildlife.
• Lightweight, focused gameplay additions.
• Custom turkey models, textures, sounds, and animations.
• Survival-friendly breeding and food mechanics.
• Multiplayer support.
• Configurable seasonal cosmetics.
• Year-round content with no mandatory holiday events.

No complicated progression systems. No unnecessary clutter.

Just turkeys, good food, and a little gobbling.

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📜 Credits & License

Mod: Turkey Time!
Developer: MadReaper16
License: MIT
Mod Loader: Fabric

Thank you for checking out Turkey Time! If you enjoy the mod, consider leaving a comment, reporting any bugs you encounter, or sharing it with your friends.

Your feedback helps make future updates even better!

🦃 Gobble Your Way Through the Overworld!