🐕 Make Wolves Worthy Companions (Fabric Edition)

[!CAUTION] No Backports: I will NOT backport this mod to older versions. Please do not ask.

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.

Vanilla Outsider: Better Dogs completely overhauls wolf AI to make them smarter, safer, and livelier. Now powered by a high-performance Event-Driven Scheduler (v3.0+), wolves act efficiently without lagging your world.

✨ Key Features

🧠 Unique Personality System

When you tame a wolf, it develops one of three permanent personalities, visually distinct by their particle effects.

Icon Personality Behavior 💢 Aggressive The Guardian. Proactively attacks hostile mobs. Enforces pack discipline. ❤️ Pacifist The Healer. Avoids combat unless you are hurt. High health, low damage. ✨ Normal The Classic. Balanced stats and standard behavior.

🐕 Advanced Social AI (The "Snitch" System)

Wolves now interact with each other in complex, organic ways using our new Event-Driven AI:

• Baby Retaliation (The One-Bite Rule): If you hit a baby wolf, it bites you back EXACTLY ONCE to teach you a lesson, then forgives you.
• Adult Correction (The Snitch System): If a baby bites you, nearby Aggressive Adults will intervene. The baby "snitches" on itself via the Event System, causing one adult to walk over and discipline it with ONE BITE.
• Blood Feuds: Sometimes, discipline goes too far. There is a small chance (5%) that a correction turns into a permanent Blood Feud, where the wolves will fight to the death.
• Play Fighting: Large packs of wolves will now engage in safe, non-lethal play fights to burn off energy.
• Natural Follow: Dogs now try to catch up by running faster before they resort to teleporting. The teleport distance has been increased to 18 blocks (up from 12).
• Personality-Scaled Teleportation: Teleport thresholds now scale with personality. Aggressive dogs can wander up to 90 blocks (5x range) to hunt, while Pacifists stick close (0.5x range).
• Native Integration (v3.1.20+): Full support for the vanilla Edit Game Rules menu. No more external config dependencies; manage your pack's behavior directly through the Minecraft UI.
• Ultraguard Sync (Internal): Config files now automatically merge new settings, purge stale ones, and protect against corruption with atomic writes and auto-backups.

🛡️ Smart Safety AI

Stop worrying about your dogs killing themselves:

• Cliff Safety: Wolves detect airborne targets and STOP chasing instead of jumping after them.
• Lava & Fire Avoidance: Wolves actively pathfind around dangerous blocks.
• Creeper Awareness: Wolves flee when they hear a Creeper hiss!

🎁 The Gift System

Like cats, your loyal dogs will now bring you treasures based on their personality!

• Aggressive: Brings "trophies" from their hunts (Bones, Rotten Flesh).
• Pacifist: Brings "foraged" items from nature (Berries, Flowers).

⚙️ Configuration (Native Game Rules)

Better Dogs has fully transitioned to the Native Minecraft Game Rules system for its configuration, ensuring 100% compatibility with snapshots and a seamless vanilla-style experience.

[!IMPORTANT] Better Dogs Custom Category (v3.1.20+): To keep your settings organized, all 30+ mod parameters are now grouped into a dedicated "Better Dogs" folder inside the "Edit Game Rules" screen.

• Native UI: No need for Mod Menu or Cloth Config in 26.1+.
• Legacy Support: Version 1.21.11 still uses the old Cloth Config system.

🛠 What can you configure?

• Per-Personality Stats: Set unique Health, Speed, and Damage modifiers for Aggressive, Pacifist, and Normal wolves.
• Social Probabilities: Adjust the exact chance for Zoomies, Group Howls, Play Fighting, and Blood Feuds.
• Genetic DNA: Fine-tune the chance for puppies to inherit their parents' characteristics.
• Safety & Quality of Life: Toggle Friendly Fire protection, Cliff Safety, and Teleportation ranges.

📦 Installation

1. Download the latest Minecraft 26.1 Snapshot.
2. Install Fabric Loader.
3. Install Fabric API.
4. Place the Vanilla-Outsider-Better-Dogs.jar in your mods folder.

🧩 Compatibility

Feature Fabric (26.1+) Multiplayer ✅ Mob Mods ✅ Sodium/Iris ✅

☕ Support the Development

[!NOTE] Indonesian Users: SocioBuzz supports local payment methods (Gopay, OVO, Dana, etc.) if you want to support me without using PayPal/Ko-fi!

📜 Legal & Credits

Role Author Creator DasikIgaijin Collection Vanilla Outsider License GNU GPLv3

[!IMPORTANT] Modpack Permissions: You are free to include this mod in modpacks, provided the modpack is hosted on the same platform (e.g. CurseForge). Cross-platform distribution is not permitted.

**Made with ❤️ for the Minecraft community** *Part of the Vanilla Outsider Collection*