Food for Animal Breeding

v1.0.3.4BETA+

Animals are some of natures best recyclers. Various species use castoffs to create nests or provide protection from predators, or consume food waste that we would not normally consume. From a Minecraft perspective the player now has the ability to use various food items as breeding materials for animals.

Thermal Recycling adds breeding capability to Pigs. Main reason is that I think Pigs got the short of the stick. To to make things up to these sensitive animals Potatoes, Pumpkins, and Melon blocks can now be used to breed Pigs.

A modpack author can add additional breeding items for animals that are derived from EntityAnimal. The support for this feature is through the use of Minetweaker scripts:

// Modify some of the breeding items for animals!
import mods.recycling.BreedingItemRegistry;

// Chickens don't get enough Iron in their diets so they can now take Iron Ingots for breeding
BreedingItemRegistry.add("Chicken", <minecraft:iron_ingot>);

// Pigs no longer like the potatoes
BreedingItemRegistry.remove("Pig", <minecraft:potato>);

Notes:

• These items are for breeding. They cannot be used to lure an animal.
• The basic vanilla breeding items will always be available and should not be included using this feature.
• You cannot breed horses using this mechanic. Horse breeding is a bit complicated…