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Mod, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
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19 Nov, 2019 @ 8:34pm
10 May, 2024 @ 4:11pm
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Balanced Animals

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Balanced Animals

In my Balanced Food mod I edited the body size of every animal/creature/human to try to properly reflect the amount of meat that would be received in optimum butchering conditions.

Balanced Food = https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1909107910

1. Due to the resizing of the animals I made the decision create this mod to alter the hauling requirements for all animals. If the animal in question has a trainability of advanced it can now be trained to haul, regardless of how small it is. It might not haul much but it can haul.

"Monkeys and cats moving hats?!? WTF!?!"

2. Secondly, I decided to mod the vanilla animals and creatures for use as pack animals as well. As such the following vanilla animals/creatures can now be used as pack animals with visible packs in-game:

Elephant, Rhinoceros, Dromedary, Polar bear, Pig, Cow, Elk, Megasloth, Thrumbo, Grizzly bear, Caribou, Muffalo, Ostrich, Boomalope, Wild boar, Megaspider, Cougar, Panther, Warg, Deer, Alpaca, Ibex, Spelopede, Arctic wolf, Timber wolf, Capybara, Labrador retriever, Alphabeaver, Monkey, Husky, Gazelle, Cassowary, Emu, Goat, and Sheep.

"Strap 'em up! We're moving out!!!"

Special thanks to all the other pack animal modders for paving the way and making my life much easier.
30 Comments
Vartarhoz 5 Jul @ 6:02pm 
Dromery having size 9 and giving 1600 meat. I wonder if this mod causes this.
Limey Lassen 26 Aug, 2024 @ 11:50am 
Hi, I returned two errors on this mod:
The terms "deathActionWorkerClass" and "ToxicSensitivity" are both outdated.

For the Boomalope, Boomrat, and Insect_Base.

They should be <deathAction><workerClass>
and
<ToxicResistance>.

I tested these changes locally and it worked out.
retrobarbaari 23 Jun, 2024 @ 4:55am 
Pigs caravan? So I can play Hobbits.
Geoppetto Hosseltoff  [author] 20 Apr, 2024 @ 5:33pm 
Updated all versions to include adjustments to <baseHungerRate> in accordance to the <baseBodySize> amendments that were made to all the smaller animals.

Now you will receive less meat when butchering smaller animals without the animals starving to death prior to getting butchered.

Thank you @Asterai
Geoppetto Hosseltoff  [author] 20 Apr, 2024 @ 4:59pm 
Hello again @Asterai. As it turns out, you were onto something that I did not know at the time.
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General mechanics
Saturation is measured in units of nutrition. There are 2 distinct measures of saturation.

Maximum nutrition, or how much nutrition a pawn can store at any one time. It is dependent on the body size of the species as well as the body size factor and food max factor according to the pawns life stage. The function is species_body_size × body_size_factor × food_max_factor. For adult specimens body size factor and food max factor are both 1. An adult human (with a body size of 1) can therefore hold up to 1 nutrition.
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As such, making the smaller animals even smaller to provide less meat when butchered had a negative impact on the animal's ability to store food. Hence the reason my mod makes the smaller animals eat like it was the end of the world.

I will reassess. Thanks!
Ralathar44 20 Apr, 2024 @ 4:44pm 
One of the faster updates, sweet :D.
Geoppetto Hosseltoff  [author] 20 Apr, 2024 @ 4:27pm 
Updated to 1.5
Ralathar44 9 Dec, 2022 @ 4:41pm 
YAY. Thank you :D.
Geoppetto Hosseltoff  [author] 8 Dec, 2022 @ 10:06am 
Updated to 1.4
Ralathar44 2 Nov, 2022 @ 6:52pm 
any plans for 1.4 update?