Configuration - sekelsta/horse-colors GitHub Wiki

These instructions assume you haven't used a launcher to install your mods. If you have, see here instead (and look for a file named horse_colors-common.toml).

Navigating directly

The path to the file will depend on your system, and you still need to have started up Minecraft with the mod installed at least once to generate the initial config file.

Linux: ~/.minecraft/config

Windows: %appdata%.minecraft\config

Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/config

From Minecraft

Start up modded Minecraft. From the main menu, select Mods -> Open mods folder.

That should take you to the mods folder:

Go one folder up to get to the .minecraft folder. Inside there should be a folder named config.

Inside the config folder:

For Minecraft 1.13+ the config file will be named horse_colors-common.toml, or for Minecraft 1.12 it will be named horse_colors.cfg. Close Minecraft before editing the file.

Find the config file (see above) and close Minecraft if it's open. Open the config file using a text editor such as notepad (Windows), Text Edit (Mac), or gedit (some Linux). It needs to be a text editor, not a word editor. Then edit it to change the options, save, and start up Minecraft.

Within the config file, some lines will start with a hash and some will have an equals sign. The ones that start with a hash are comments for you to read, describing the option below them. The computer reads what comes after the equals sign. For instance you might see:

#Enables or disables all features relating to gender.
enableGenders = false

Then to enable genders, you could change it so it reads:

#Enables or disables all features relating to gender.
enableGenders = true

Be careful to follow the format exactly. For instance, typing True instead of true will confuse it and make the game crash. If this happens, or for any other reason you want to restore the default settings, just delete the config file and a new one will be generated.

In Windows, choosing to open with Notepad:

Editing with notepad:

If you want to be super fancy - and this is totally not required! - you could install Atom for your text editor. Then when you edit, different parts of the text will be different colors depending on what they're for. The default color theme shows values you can change in orange, syntax mistakes in white, and other stuff that you shouldn't change in other colors.

Alternately on Minecraft 1.12

Start up Minecraft. From the main menu, click Mods -> Realistic Horse Genetics -> Config. Pick a category and you'll see options you can change. Mouse over the options' names to get a description of what they do. Some options won't take effect until you restart Minecraft.

To change all configuration settings back to the default, simply delete the file. The next time you run modded Minecraft, it will be re-generated with the default settings.

If playing together over LAN, make sure everyone has the same config settings. Other than that, it's the same as single-player.

Changing config settings on a dedicated server may be different depending on how the server is hosted. If you are hosting it yourself, you can probably figure it out. If you have a hosting provider, see if they have a way for you to change it.

Either way, it's best if players have the same config settings as the server.

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How do I set the times to match serene seasons?

You can control color change rate, time for foals to grow up, and pregnancy length (if genders are enabled) independently. A full year in serene seasons is 96 minecraft days (32 hours) unless you set it to something else. So to set the color change to go by serene seasons years, you would change yearLength to 96.0 in the config. If you have genders enabled and want pregnancy to take a full serene seasons year (which I do not recommend - but if you want to wait 32 hours of actively playing for a foal, it's your choice) pregnancyLength is measured in ticks so you would set it to 96 days * 24000 ticks per day = 2304000 ticks. Then if you want to start riding your horses at 3 years old - and again, I don't really think it's worth waiting 96 real life hours for that just for the sake of consistency - you would set growTime to 96.0 * 3 = 288.0.