Cptnobvious

I've found it's possible to force season changes with large set-times on my server (IE set time 6000000). As SSP is going to be based on the SMP code soon enough, just enable cheats and set time to change seasons.

Try deleting it with an inventory editor.

To make up for the fact it's going to takes 6 months (that is a lot of out of game hours man) to grow an animal to full size I suggest we should get more useful things from each animal. I'd suggest a 'fattening' mechanic, letting us grow our pigs larger than normal before we slaughter them, possibly with slop or another special feed, but we're only supposed to have one suggestion per thread so moving on. The main idea is when you kill an animal it would drop a corpse. The corpse could either be a block in the case of larger animals or an inventory drop in the case of small things like chickens. Using a knife with the corpse would open a butchering GUI and let you cut things off the animal at the expense of wearing down your knife. I don't support a gory GUI here but a menu of things that can be harvested would be nice instead of just "right click with knife, item explosion" scenarios. Bones, hide/fur, fat, meat, guts, scraps and maybe anything else worth including (feathers for chickens, ink sacs for squids) would be here. If there's a way I'd suggest using the already existing code for metal cooling to keep track of decomposition, but that also implies a way of curing or storing things. Sorry for forcing the double suggestion in there but right now pigs have felt pretty useless and un-meaty compared to cows.