VO: Better Dogs

# 🐕 Better Dogs **No Backports:** This mod targets **Minecraft 26.1+**. Older versions are unsupported. > **Make Wolves Worthy Companions. Smarter, Safer, Livelier.** Every Minecraft player knows the pain: you spend hours finding a wolf, tame it, and five minutes later it jumps into lava or walks off a cliff. **Better Dogs** overhauls wolf AI to make them effective partners. Powered by a high-performance **Event-Driven AI Scheduler**, they act efficiently without sacrificing performance. Part of the **Vanilla Outsider Collection** — mods that refine the vanilla experience with modern standards. --- ## ✨ Features ### 🧠 Personality Intelligence When tamed, wolves develop one of three permanent personalities, visible via custom particles:

- 💢 **Aggressive**: The Guardian. Proactively attacks hostile mobs and scouts ahead. - ❤️ **Pacifist**: The Healer. Avoids combat unless you are hurt. High health, low damage. - ✨ **Normal**: The Classic. Balanced stats and standard vanilla-plus behavior. ### 🤝 Advanced Social AI - **Social Bonding (Affinity)**: Dogs form relationships within their pack. Socializing builds trust and reduces accidental infighting. - **Adult Correction**: Aggressive adults discipline misbehaving puppies, preventing death loops. - **Pack Genetics**: Puppies inherit personality traits and stats from their parents. - **Litter System**: Wolves can produce multiple puppies in a single breed — each with independent personality rolls and stats. ### 🛡️ Smart Survival AI - **Cliff Safety**: Wolves detect fatal drops and airborne targets, stopping dangerous chases. - **Hazard Awareness**: Improved pathfinding around lava, fire, and drowning hazards. - **Creeper Awareness**: Wolves flee from hissing Creepers! - **Dog Feeding**: Tamed dogs scavenge dropped raw or cooked food from the ground to restore health — no manual feeding required. ### 📡 Behavioral Specialization - **Scouting**: Aggressive dogs proactively range ahead to clear your path. - **Silent Alarm**: Pacifist dogs emit a high-pitched whine when they detect nearby monsters. - **Gift System**: Loyal dogs bring you treasures based on their personality. - **Debug Tools**: Use `/betterdogs debug` to test pack interactions and behaviors (Locked behind OP permissions and a safety GameRule). --- ## 🐕‍🦺 Tamed Wolf Guard Mode *(Added in v3.4.19)* Put your tamed wolves to work protecting your base while you're away. Right-click a tamed wolf with a bone (consumes 1 bone) to assign it to a **Guard Post** — it will anchor to that spot and defend the area on its own. - **Personality Patrols**: Each personality guards differently: - 💢 **Aggressive**: Wide outer perimeter sweeps, actively scanning and attacking hostiles. - ✨ **Normal**: Sit-sentry at the post, or structured radial star patrols outward and back. - ❤️ **Pacifist**: Close protective orbital pacing — acts as a watchdog and alarm system. - **Auto-Target & Chase Caps**: Guards automatically attack hostiles within range (16–24 blocks) but are hard-capped from chasing targets too far — they stay at their post. - **Watchdog Alarms**: Pacifist guards whine and emit warning note particles when threats approach, and optionally apply Regeneration and Resistance to nearby allies. - **Visual Indicators**: Subtle foot particles every 4 seconds (ASH / WHITE_ASH / MYCELIUM) show which wolves are on active guard duty at a glance. - **Ownership Locked**: Only the wolf's owner can toggle Guard Mode or issue commands — other players are ignored entirely. --- ## ✨ More Features ### 🌤️ Immersive Events - **Zoomies**: Dogs burst into hyperactive sprints in the morning or when it starts raining — pure joy! - **Group Howl**: Under a full moon, wolves trigger pack-wide howling sessions that spread to nearby pack members. - **Storm Anxiety**: Thunderstorms make dogs anxious — they whine, tremble, and pace nervously until the storm passes. ### 🏰 Wild Wolf Territoriality Wild wolf packs are now dynamic, territorial entities led by a dominant leader: - **Territorial Probability Matrix**: Pack interactions now utilize a complex, personality-driven matrix. No two disputes are the same! - **Dynamic Outcomes**: Depending on leader personalities, packs may **Merge** (Dominance based), engage in **War** (1v1 Duels or Pack Combat), or peacefully **Retreat** to maintain their own borders. - **Configurable Instincts**: Use GameRules to fine-tune exactly how Aggressive, Normal, and Pacifist leaders react to each other. - **1v1 Leader Duels**: If a dispute escalates to War, leaders engage in a cinematic 1v1 duel to settle dominance. - **Yield & Merge**: Defeated packs are not lost; they yield and **merge** with the winning pack, allowing for the natural formation of massive wolf colonies. - **Wild Personality AI (New Default)**: Out of the box, wild pack members exhibit unique behaviors (like Aggressive hunting or Pack Retreats) while anchored to their leader. - **Dynamic Spawning & Reinforcements**: When a pack goes to war or is challenged, nearby wild wolves can spawn or join as reinforcements to defend their pack's territory. - **Production Stable**: Fully compatible with high-performance engines like **C2ME**, ensuring safe multi-threaded AI execution. - **Performance Hardened**: All AI logic is performance-optimized using **DasikLibrary 1.7.4**, ensuring zero console spam and smooth server TPS even with massive packs. --- ## ⚙️ Configuration (Native Game Rules) No messy config files. Better Dogs uses the **Native Minecraft Game Rules** system. All 50+ mod parameters are grouped into a dedicated **"Better Dogs"** category in the official UI. > [!TIP] > **Want a GUI?** Install the optional **[Cloth Config API](https://modrinth.com/mod/cloth-config)** and **[ModMenu](https://modrinth.com/mod/modmenu)** to get a full categorized settings screen inside the game — no commands needed! *(Added in v3.4.16)* > [!TIP] > **Too many options?** If the game rule screen feels cluttered, we highly recommend installing **[Collapsible Game Rules](https://modrinth.com/mod/collapsible-gamerules)**. It will automatically group the settings into clean, expandable folders!

Optional Cloth Config GUI (left) · Native GameRule screen (right)

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