Quail Breeding
Quail Breeding
Requires Minecraft Forge for 1.20.2!
When updating to a newer version of this mod, I recommend deleting your old config file.
This mod is inspired and modeled after the seemingly now defunct Chickens mod, as well as Forestry.
- Four types of quails can be found naturally spawning in the wild (tier 0):
- Brown Quail,
- Painted Quail,
- Elegant Quail, and
- Northern Bobwhite
Quails, like chickens, lay eggs (quail eggs!), and can be bred using any type of seed. While breeding two quails of the same type will always produce a child of the same, two quails of different types, when bred together, may have a chance to yield another type. There are 8 tiers of quail types. Each type has its own drop to replace their eggs, and some have extra properties like the ability to be milked, or extra loot dropped upon death. These pairings can be found in JEI under Quail Breeding.
Both chicken and quail eggs can now be smelted or cooked to produce a fried egg - a food item. Also, both can be combined with a water bucket and sugar to produce another food: pickled eggs. Quail eggs can also be used to craft cakes in place of chicken eggs.
The Quail Jail can be used to catch a quail and hold it in the player's inventory, then release it when used again. Quail Jails are single-use.
When the Quail Meter is used on a quail, this item will print its stats, such as breed, laying time, and laying amount. These values can vary from quail to quail, and can be bred for by choosing the right parents.
A Quail Meter is also used to craft the Strong Quail Jail. This acts the same as a Quail Jail, but is reusable. Also, all the stats that the Quail Meter displays will appear on the Strong Quail Jail's tooltip when it is holding a quail.
The Voider is a block that accepts input from Hoppers and Droppers like any other container, and, upon receiving an input item, destroys it. These can be used to destroy overflows of items in a farm.
A chest can be upgraded to a storage shelf which has 4 rows instead of the chest's 3. In addition, replacing the chest in the above recipe with a 4-shelf rack upgrades it to a 5-shelf rack, and so on up to 8 shelves - the maximum rank. The storage shelves interact with Hoppers and Droppers just as a chest does.
The Quail Nest can hold up to any number of quails specified in the config, and will automatically collect their drops which can then be collected with a Hopper. Deposit a quail by using a filled Quail Jail (Reusable or single-use) on the nest, and use an empty Quail Jail on the nest to withdraw one quail. Applying a redstone signal to the quail nest will slaughter one quail and collect its drops. Breeding material (e.g. seeds) can be fed into the nest using a hopper, and will automatically breed together two random quails within the nest after it has undergone a set cooldown period, using up 2 breeding items in the process. A comparator can extract the number of quails in the nest as signal strength, ranging linearly as a fraction of the maximum quail number.
Mod Materials:
A handful of quail types for common mod materials exist in this mod, although they are disabled by default, meaning they cannot be produced by breeding. You can enable them by editing the config file. Also, when using them, make sure they lay the proper item or tag for the mod(s) you are using.
- Tin
- Aluminum
- Lead
- Silver
- Ruby
- Sapphire
- Rubber
Tree Breeding
A pollen swab can be used to gather pollen from tree leaves and pollinate other leaves to produce a hybrid sapling. Traits of different trees can be combined, and breeding different species together may result in a new species sapling! Get started by crafting a Pollen Swab with sticks and a block of wool, and start collecting pollen from vanilla leaves and using them on other leaves.
The trees are still in-progress, so maybe don't spend too much effort in hybridizing specific traits, as they may still change.
Installation:
Install the proper version of Forge for Minecraft Java Edition 1.16.4. Then, download the mod file for Quail Breeding and move(without extracting) to the mods folder of your Minecraft installation.
JEI can be used to view Quail breed hybrids, as well as tree species hybrids.
Using the QuailTypes.Extras array of tables in the TOML config file, additional custom quail types can be defined. Their textures should be introduced via resource packs.
The quail sound effects were downloaded from Freesound. This mod uses one sound uploaded by Lococleta, and one by Dobroide under the Attribution License.