Guide Books - gkazan/ZAWA GitHub Wiki

The ZAWA mod has a few in-game books and documents to help players out in their zookeeping adventure. These are the Data Book, Animal Care Guide and Exploration Guide.

Data Book

The Data Book is one of the most valuable tools in a ZAWA player's arsenal. It's used to quickly check an animal's health, diet, enrichment and other information. We at ZAWA highly recommend that all survival players craft and use a data book as soon as they begin to encounter and tame animals.

Page one of the Data Book will tell you an animal's owner, sex, variant, and trait. It also shows what kibble is needed to tame it, as well as the individual animal's hunger, thirst and enrichment. You can also give orders to an animal to stay in place, wander in its enclosure, or follow you.

Page two will tell you what food items an animal can eat, and what enrichment it can use. This will include any modded items: having the Harvestcraft, Edible Bugs or Aquaculture mods installed will noticeably broaden animal diets.

Page three has IUCN status, scientific information, and a small summary of the animal in real life.

To craft a Data Book, you need a Kibble and a Book.

Animal Care guide

The Animal Care Guide is a quick, in-game reference on taking care of your tamed ZAWA creatures.

By default, players will be given an Animal Care Guide on joining a new world or server. However, some server owners or players may turn this off. If this is the case, or you misplace yours, you can craft a new one by putting an Animal Data Book in the crafting grid.

Exploration Guide

The Exploration Guide will show players where to find certain animals and mobs. On the left menu, you can select a biome, and be shown all of the ZAWA animals and NPCs that spawn there. If you have add-on mods, like Natural Fauna or Lil' Critters, it will show those animals as well.

Note: the Biomes O' Plenty Mod is installed in this screenshot. The Exploration Guide is compatible with some biome mods.

When you over over an animal spawn egg, there will be three numbers shown. These represent Weight, Minimum Spawn, and Maximum spawn.

Weight is how often, compared to other mobs, the mob will spawn: a mob with a weight of 20 will spawn much more often than a mob with a weight of 3. Weight is relative to other mobs, and not a guarantee that an animal will or won't be in a biome.

Minimum and Maximum Spawn are the smallest and largest numbers a group of this animal can spawn as: 1/1 will always spawn a single animal, while 1/7 can be one animal, or many.

To craft an Exploration Guide, you need a Book and a Grass Block.