Feeding and watering animals - gkazan/ZAWA GitHub Wiki

Giving your animals food and clean water is an important part of animal care. Animals cannot survive without these two things. Both hunger and thirst values have 20 "points." If either of these values drop to zero, the animal will die.

This can be changed or turned off in the config files.

Food and hunger

All ZAWA animals have different diets and can eat from a different variety of food. The most reliable way to keep animals fed is to place a Food Barrel with something they can eat, and to keep it regularly stocked. Animals can also be hand-fed, or food items can be dropped on the ground near them.

Food an animal eats holds the same hunger or "shank" value as it would for a player. Enrichment factors into this, however, and a bored and unhappy animal will receive half of the food points it normally would from eating.

An animal's current hunger can be seen in the data book on the red meter.

Water and thirst

Tamed animals will search within 10 blocks of themselves for a water source to drink at. Animals drinking will not deplete a water block.

An animal's current thirst can be seen in data book on the blue meter.

Currently, the only way to give animals water is to have a water source block in their enclosure. There is a planned water dish in the future for smaller animals.