AnimalHerding – a Lite mod for FS25 by Arrow.
It includes the basic herding functionality of AnimalHerding, but without the advanced features that are still under development or theoretically exist.
These advanced features include customized animal behavior, animations, navigation grids, and pathfinding, which replace the engine's default behavior.
This requires rewriting most of the animal system from scratch, largely without reference code, as this code is hidden within the engine.
AnimalHerding is in advanced development but is not yet playable.
Once completed, the mod will allow for more dynamic animal interactions, such as dynamic milking parlors, individualized animal behavior (limping, tame,
scared, ready to escape, etc.), and much more.
AnimalHerding is a lite mod for FS25 that replaces the basic herding function with individual behaviors
(e.g., limping, friendly, scared, ready to escape) and much more. Features:
Button to toggle herding on and off in the current stable.
When this option is enabled, all animals in the stable can be herded.
Herdable animals react to the player and will walk/run away if the player approaches.
Otherwise, they will graze/stay randomly. Herdable animals are added to a stable as soon as they enter its range
(e.g., the fenced area) and can then no longer be herded.
This mod allows you to dynamically herd all your animals at will.
While herding, the animals move away from the player, allowing them to be interactively moved between pastures.
The Lite version of this mod only allows herding between stables, while the full version
offers more dynamic features such as pathfinding, stable navigation, custom animations, individual behavior, and more.
The entire visual animal system has been moved from the engine to LUA scripts, allowing for significantly greater control over the animals.
This mod allows you to dynamically herd all animals as you wish.
Animals will stop in front of buildings, objects, vehicles, and other animals, allowing you to create routes for them,
as shown in the provided screenshots.
Animals react to players in vehicles as well as players on foot.
Therefore, you can use vehicles like ATVs to herd the animals.
To begin herding, you must be in a stable and then press the "Start Herding" button (by default, left Shift + N).
All visible animals in that stable can then be herded and will respond to the player.
Animals being herded are automatically moved to a stable as soon as they enter it,
with the exception of their original stable.
This stable will only become available again after they have left the previous stable for a certain period of time.
Alternatively, you can press the "Stop Herding" button.
All herded animals will then be moved to the nearest stable, if one is available.
Currently, only single-player mode is supported; multiplayer is planned.
It is also planned that animals will follow the player when they are carrying a food bag.
It is not recommended to keep animals together in barns with very high floors, as the animals could get stuck.
