Animal Breeding?

[Nefertum 0]

I'm not quite sure how the breeding works in this game, and the wiki has no information on this.

I've tried to make animals follow me with different vegetables, none of them seem to work.

Also, my animals don't seem to be moving at all?

[VegasGoat 51]

It's in the agriculture section of the wiki. Only wheat will get animals to follow you. Other grains like barley or oats can be used for breeding.

[Kittychanley 1,002]

You must take Wheat and process it with a knife to get wheat grain. This is used to lure animals. You can process any type of grain in a similar process to get other grains that can be used for breeding. Right clicking on an animal with an empty hand will tell you it's gender, age (0 is adult) and for females if it is pregnant.

For example: If you wish to breed two cows, you must find an adult male and an adult non-pregnant female. Lure them relatively close to each other using the wheat grain, and then feed each of them grain (I suggest using something other than wheat, so you always have it for luring). You will get the vanilla heart particles, and the animals will get very close to each other. A minute or two later when you right-click on the female, it will say she is pregnant. Now you must wait a fair amount of time and eventually the female cow will give birth. Note that different animals will have a different average of offspring, pigs having the most.

[Voulxe 7]

Also, my animals don't seem to be moving at all?

I observed, that they start moving once a chunk is built and will stop moving after a short period of time. I was too lazy to check if there is already a bug report concerning this issue, though.

Right now I like to push the sheep and cows around and to build fences around them.

[transcengopher 349]

Also, my animals don't seem to be moving at all?

They are moving. Just when you're not looking.

Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And don't blink. Good Luck.

[Nefertum 0]

You must take Wheat and process it with a knife to get wheat grain. This is used to lure animals. You can process any type of grain in a similar process to get other grains that can be used for breeding. Right clicking on an animal with an empty hand will tell you it's gender, age (0 is adult) and for females if it is pregnant.

For example: If you wish to breed two cows, you must find an adult male and an adult non-pregnant female. Lure them relatively close to each other using the wheat grain, and then feed each of them grain (I suggest using something other than wheat, so you always have it for luring). You will get the vanilla heart particles, and the animals will get very close to each other. A minute or two later when you right-click on the female, it will say she is pregnant. Now you must wait a fair amount of time and eventually the female cow will give birth. Note that different animals will have a different average of offspring, pigs having the most.

Oh you need grain! Thank you so much

[aliceingame 114]

Animals are buged right now as they stop moving. I saw that Dunk fixed it somewhere for build 77. And as far as I can tell, tehre will not be any new hotfix until build 77

[Vaelkyri 26]

Just a warning to people, when breeding pigs be careful- they actually have proper litters not just the standard MC one piglet only.

I went from 2 breeding pairs to nearly 30 pigs. >.<

[Gwtheyrn 70]

You shall never want for bacon again!

[transcengopher 349]

Actually, I'd like to discuss one issue that we have in TFC right now. I call it dwarf cows.

I don't remember how many calves they birth, but what do you think if we ask developers to greatly buff cows in size and meat yield, while making them birth only one baby, with pregnancy lasting about 9-10 months (which is about right with cows).

[Vaelkyri 26]

You shall never want for bacon again!

Nearly 3 stacks worth, lets just say I have plenty of tribute to pay to the lady/lord of the land.

[Kittychanley 1,002]

Actually, I'd like to discuss one issue that we have in TFC right now. I call it dwarf cows.

I don't remember how many calves they birth, but what do you think if we ask developers to greatly buff cows in size and meat yield, while making them birth only one baby, with pregnancy lasting about 9-10 months (which is about right with cows).

The reason that cows seem so small, and what most people don't realize, is that in vanilla minecraft the original model for cows is this dwarf version, and they made it somewhere around 1.6 times larger when rendered in-game. When TFC was made, they used to original model, and never scaled it up so that they would be the same size as the Vanilla cows we are so used to. I do believe also that cows already have a greatly decreased offspring rate compared to all of the other animals. So it's simply a matter of resizing the model so the average cow is a little bit larger. A real cow only comes up to chest/shoulder height on the average human male, so the size shouldn't be that much larger.

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

Yeah. The reason that cow looks so small is because the player's head is 45 cm across. Bodies in minecraft are huge, so things look small by comparison.