Animals changes in Project Zomboid

Fixed another case of animal skeletons reappearing in the player's inventory after relogin

Fixed chickens in a hutch disappearing after relog

Fixed chickens sometimes disappearing after being placed inside a hutch

Fixed animals on a rope being unable to pass an open fence gate

Fixed animal stress instantly jumping to 100 when in range of an active car engine

Animal attachment commands can no longer be abused to spawn items in multiplayer.

Fixed an exploit that allowed item spawning via animal attachment commands.

Fixed a case of animals duplicating when picked up

Fixed Animal Info panel not opening and throwing errors

Fixed animals in the trailer disappearing after relogin

Fixed some animals being visible to one player but invisible to another

Animals can now be male as well as female.

Fixed all animals being female

Fixed animal leather items using the wrong item type.

Fixed animal weight changing after being placed on a butchering hook and removed

Fixed animal stats not properly updating while outside loaded chunks

Fixed animal skeletons reappearing in the player's inventory after relogin

Fixed incorrect animal icons being displayed in the inventory

Fixed being unable to inspect some animal tracks

A chicken hutch now burns down completely when fire reaches just one of its tiles, so the whole hutch is lost instead of part of it.

Fixed chicken hutch not being completely destroyed when a single tile is burned

Fixed animals being visible through walls and solid barriers

Fixed characters being unable to pet animals that were past a certain size threshold

Fixed Pipe bomb/Aerosol bomb not doing damage to players or animals

Animal stress has been rebalanced, both how fast animals get stressed and what the stress does.

- Animal stress gain & its impact have been rebalanced

Animals get less stressed in the rain, and only some kinds of animals mind it.

Petting an animal now calms it down more.

Stressed animals now take longer to reach the point where they start destroying objects.

Fixed the rope tied to an animal disappearing after relogin

Fixed petting animals not increasing the animal's acceptance or decreasing stress

Animal calls can now be heard from further away.

Increased animal vocal sound range from 40 to 70.

Fixed Animal Footsteps not playing when they run along fences

Animal trailers are now much heavier, going from 100 to 500.

The Handiknife can now be used to kill animals you are carrying in your inventory.

Animals no longer lose their milk too fast, so their babies no longer starve because of it.

Fixed animals losing milk too fast leading to baby animal's starvation

Fixed animals with 'full acceptance' not following player

A wild rabbit now loses its wild tag once you pick it up in multiplayer.

Fixed a wild rabbit doesn't lose the wild tag after being picked up

Fixed animals not moving when rope is attached

Ropes tied to animals in multiplayer now break the same way they do in single player.

Fixed attached animal ropes, which now break like in SP.

Fixed animal skeletons in containers yielding endless bones

Killing animals with a Pipe Bomb no longer crashes the game, but in multiplayer animals currently take no damage from bombs.

Fixed crash when killing animals with a Pipe Bomb.

• Fixed crash when killing animals with a Pipe Bomb. Note: In MP, animals are currently not receiving damage from bombs

Fixed blood splatters appearing where an animal was picked up and not where it was killed

Male raccoons now show the correct animal info and no longer attack each other.

Fixed animal info for male Raccoons.

• Fixed animal info for male Raccoons. Male raccoons shouldn't attack each other

Fixed being unable to obtain the animal info through the check zone (animal zone) window

Animals now run from vehicles at a greater distance, so it is harder to get close to them while driving.

Animals flee from vehicles from a further distance.

If you equip an item while holding an animal, the animal now drops to the ground.

Fixed animals not dropping on the ground when equipping items

Fixed Animal Extra Values cheat not being auto-disabled in MP game

Fixed rope attached to the animals not breaking

Animals in your inventory no longer get duplicated when you log back in.

Fixed animal duping in inventory after relogging

Fixed not being able to run over animals

Fixed not being able to kill a small animal while holding it in hands

Fixed chickens disappearing in hutches after relogging

Using Attach Animal to Rope no longer causes an error on the server.

Fixed server side exception when performing “Attach Animal to Rope”

Fixed animals pathfinding after being dropped to the ground

Fixed error when right-clicking on animals in trailers.

Animal thumping sounds now carry further, so you can hear them from farther away.

Increased the range of animal-thumping sounds from 30 to 40 squares.

Animal vocal sounds can now be heard from twice as far away.

Increased the range of animal vocal sounds from 20 to 40 squares.

The Make Mildew Cure recipe now accepts milk other than cow milk.

Fixed "Make Mildew Cure" craftRecipe only accepting cow milk.

Fixed an animal-duplication bug that happened when an animal moved between cells.

Fixed a dead animal possibly resurrecting, when it was the only animal in a cell when it died.

Loading a game no longer re-saves the animal cells every time.

Fixed animal cells being hot-saved each time a game is loaded.

An animal dying inside a hutch no longer causes an error.

Fixed an exception when an animal dies inside a hutch.

Fixed the animal radial menu ignoring the "Show/hide radial menus with each keypress" option being off.

Fixed old animal tracks possibly not being removed.

Rabbits now give the correct type of leather.

Rabbits now drop correct leather.

Small animals may be killed without a weapon, while held by the player.

You can now kill a chicken, mouse, rabbit, rat or baby turkey you are holding without a weapon, which makes animals taken from a trap easier to deal with.

This includes chickens, mice, rabbits, rats and baby turkeys.

• This includes chickens, mice, rabbits, rats and baby turkeys. This makes it easier to kill animals removed from a trap.

Fixed animal attacks possibly connecting through fences.

Dropping trapped animals no longer sets off the Animalpocalypse bug.

Fixed Animalpocalypse caused by dropping trapped animals.

Hovering the Check Zone option in the right-click menu now highlights the animal designation zone, so you can see which zone it refers to.

Animal designation zones are highlighted when the "Check Zone" context-menu option is highlighted.

Fixed animals sometimes getting stuck looping their attack animation while in the idle state.

Fixed Black Pig Head returning a Calf Skull instead of pig skull.

Fixed not being able to shoot animals

The right-click options to pick up, get bones from or butcher an animal corpse now highlight the corpse they apply to.

The "Pick Up Animal", "Pick Up Skeleton", "Get Bones" and "Butcher Animal" context-menu options now highlights the animal corpse, when the option is enabled.

A shot animal now runs away instead of dropping dead on the spot.

Shooting an animal will now make it flee instead of dropping dead instantly.

Animals now become domesticated (no longer wild) in a different way.

Changed how animals become domesticated (aka "not wild"):

Butchering animals now drops a new Animal sinew item, and the amount depends on things like the animal's size.

Added Animal sinew item.

• Added Animal sinew item. This drops when butchering animals and depends on the animal's size, etc

Animal milk powder has been added as a new item.

Added animal's milk powder.

This animal milk can now be given to any hungry or thirsty animal.

You can now give this animal's milk to any hungry or thirsty animal.

Being able to feed this milk to animals is meant to help you keep a baby animal alive if its mother died giving birth.

This is to help people keep the baby animal if the mother has died in labor.

A wounded animal now leaves a blood trail as it flees, and you can follow the trail to find its body.

Animal will flee while leaving a blood trail that can be followed to find the corpse.

Shot animals now flee for a while first; bigger animals like deer run longer than rabbits, and a higher aiming skill means a shot closer to the heart.

Animal will flee for some time, dependent on type (deer flee longer than rabbits as they're bigger and bleed out for longer) and aiming skill (to simulate if you've hit closer to the heart).

Before this change, an animal became domesticated as soon as it was put in a designated zone.

Before, it was when the animal was put in a designated zone.

Long Coats can now be made from the furred hides of different Cow and Calf breeds, each with its own look and qualities.

Long Coats, with respective textures and other qualities, can be made from the furred hides of different breeds of Cows and Calves.

Jackets can now be made from the furred hides of Cows, Calves and Deer.

Jackets, as above, can be made from the furred hides of Cows, Calves, and Deer.

Large and medium tanned furred hides from adult Cattle, Swine, Sheep and Deer can now be cut into halves, and Cattle hides into quarters, so small items no longer waste a whole hide.

• Tanned, Furred Animal Hides that are "Large" and "Medium" sized, adult Cattle, Swine, Sheep and Deer, can be cut into Half, and for Cattle, Quarter pieces; this is so they can be rendered into smaller pieces for crafting smaller leather/hide items without wasting an entire hide, such as making a hat or a wallet from a cow's hide.

You can now craft some garments from Cow and Fawn hides.

Added the crafting of some Cow and Fawn hide garments.

Fixed wrong animal size calculation when butchering animals using a butchering hook.

Animals eat drainable food left on the ground again, and they no longer drink from water containers that cannot catch rain, such as pop bottles.

Fixed animals not eating drainable food placed on the ground anymore.

• Fixed animals not eating drainable food placed on the ground anymore. Animals no longer drink from water containers that can't catch rain, e.g., pop bottles.

The game is better at detecting animals drinking from puddles while you are away.

Better detection for animal drinking from puddles when the player is absent.

The default maximum rat and mouse population in sandbox settings is halved, so there are fewer rats and mice by default.

Halved the default maximum rat/mouse population in the sandbox settings.

In the animal designation zone ui, highlighting an animal in the list will outline the animal in the world,

Rats and mice now have bone definitions, which were missing.

Fixed rat/mouse not having bones definitions.

Fixed animal radial menu working on butcher-hook animals.

Fixed hungry animals walking through gates and doors

Animal designation zones now count their roofed areas properly.

Fixed not calculating the roofed areas in animal designation zones.

Fixed roadkill animal giving 0 calories meat.

Fixed animals in trailer giving birth put the babies outside of the trailer.

Dead animals now rot correctly while their area is not loaded, but only on new saves.

Fixed animal rotting in meta. (only on new saves)

Fixed a crash with animals trying to eat grass from floors below or above them.

Fixed Creating animal zone in the basement throws an error

Fixed rendering issue when creating animal designation zones above or below ground level.

Fixed missing animal designation zone icon in the D-pad right radial menu.

Fixed a bug when petting an animal from too far away.

Rotten animals no longer give leather when butchered.

Rotten animals don't give leather anymore.

Deer now have a weight.

Rotten animals now give a skull instead of a head.

Rotten animals give a skull instead of their head.

Rotten animals have their head back, and that head is now rotten as well.

On a controller, pressing D-pad up now opens the animal radial menu, with options like pet and pick up.

D-pad up radial menu displays the animal radial menu (with pet, pick up etc).

Controller players can now create animal designated zones by picking start and end squares with the D-pad.

Animal designated zones can be created by selecting start and end squares with the D-pad.

Butchering an animal gives less meat, and less valuable meat, the longer it has been dead, starting once 12 hours have passed.

Butchered meat numbers/value will be reduced with time passed since animal's death (start lowering at 12h).

Dead animals now visibly rot, moving from fresh to rotten to bloody skeleton to skeleton before they disappear, and each stage takes 50 hours by default.

Added animal bodies rotten version, it takes 50h by default (hours for corpse removal sandbox option) to change the animal rotting stage (fresh -> rotten -> bloody skel -> skel -> removed).

The Maximum Rat Index sandbox setting now defaults to 50 and cannot go higher, so rat levels top out lower.

The Maximum Rat Index sandbox value has been changed from a default value of 100 to 50 and is also hard capped to 50.

The chicken coop window now has tabs, so egg-laying nests and roosts are shown separately.

Chicken coop. This is now a tabbed window separating the egg-laying nests from the roosts.

Animals now have info windows where you can do things like rename them.

Animal-info windows allowing renaming etc.

Animals now try to drink from a river they can reach before anything else.

Animals will try to drink from river they can access before anything else.

Animal corpses now rot, currently only into a bloodied skeleton, with a rotten corpse stage before the skeleton still to come.

Added rotting stage for animals, currently i only have bloodied skeleton, but rotten corpse (before skeleton) is coming.

Wild chickens and turkeys stop producing eggs and feathers unless you take care of them.

Wild chickens/turkeys stop producing eggs/feathers unless being taken care of.

Fixed duplication when spam-adding animals to trailers.

A sheep with wool no longer blocks its animal menu when you have no shears.

Fixed not having a shear when a sheep had wool blocking the animal context menu.

Fixed over-production of dung by Wild animals.

Animals hung on a butcher hook no longer turn into mismatched Frankenstein animals.

Fixed Frankenstein animals on butcher hook.

• Fixed Frankenstein animals on butcher hook. Sorry.

Animals now leave a limited amount of dung and feathers, and the limit depends on the size of their zone.

Limit the numbers of dung/feathers that can spawn according to the animal's zone size.

Meat butchered from animals now gives more nutrition.

Bumped nutrition values on animal meat when butchering.

You can now target animals properly.

Fixed not being able to target animals properly.

• Fixed not being able to target animals properly.
• CombatManager::removeTargetObjects no longer removes IsoAnimal.

Animals now make sounds when they break down fences and log gates, and there are new sounds for taking eggs from a hutch and for milking.

Added sounds for animals breaking down fences, log gates, grabbing eggs from hutch, milking animals.

Fixed the custom weight of trapped animals not being preserved.