Animal Feeder+

Animal Feeder+ is a lightweight Fabric & Forge mod that adds a practical feeding trough for your farm animals.

Simply place the appropriate breeding food into the feeder, and nearby compatible animals will automatically use it only when they are ready to breed. This eliminates the need to manually feed every animal while preventing unnecessary food waste.

The feeder stands 1.5 blocks tall, visually connects to fences, and can serve multiple connected animal pens at once. Its height also helps prevent animals from jumping over it, making it a natural part of your farm’s fencing.

Designed to stay true to vanilla Minecraft, Animal Feeder+ provides a simple quality-of-life improvement without adding complicated automation or unnecessary mechanics.

How It Works

1. Craft and place the Animal Feeder.
   

   Plank   Empty   Plank
   Plank   Slab    Plank
   Fence   Plank   Fence

2. Fill it with the correct breeding food for your animals.
3. Any compatible animals within range that are ready to breed will automatically consume food from the feeder.
4. Once an animal has bred, it will no longer use the feeder until its breeding cooldown has expired.

This keeps food consumption efficient and prevents animals from continuously eating your stored food.

Animal Feeder+ Full Feature List

• Automatic Feeding & Breeding
  Nearby animals can walk to the trough and eat their normal food automatically when they are ready to breed.
• Animal Qeue System
  Instead of Animals clumping around the feeder, causing traffic jams and slow feeding, animals now partivipate in a qeue system. The feeder picks 4 eligable animals that can feed, and each has a spot reserved. After they've eaten, the spot opens up for a new animal, and the one that just ate will walk away. For babies, instead of holding up the line, they will eat, walk away, and then be eligable for a spot again more quickly, so that they can grow faster.
• Baby Growth Feeding
  Baby animals can eat from troughs to grow faster. Each trough can use Vanilla (1×), Efficient (2×), or Fast (4×) growth efficiency.
• Per-Trough Enable / Disable
  Each trough can be turned on or off individually without removing its food or changing its settings.
• Custom Feeding Range
  Each trough can use the normal feeding range or its own custom range.
• Reachability-Aware Feeding
  Animals only try to use a trough if they can actually reach it, preventing them from getting stuck behind fences, walls, or other obstacles.
• Per-Trough Animal Selection
  Each trough can feed all compatible animals or only the species you choose.
• Modded Animal Support
  Modded animals can be added using their entity ID and removed individually. Compatible modded animals can also use foods added by their own mod.
• Breeding Quotas
  Troughs can limit how many breeding events they cause. Limits can be unlimited, reset each Minecraft day, or continue until manually reset.
• Custom Trough Names
  Individual troughs can be renamed directly from the feeder screen, with names such as Cow Feeder, Sheep Breeder, or Horse Nursery.
• 9-Slot Food Storage
  Each trough has 9 slots for storing animal food.
• Visible Food Levels
  Food appears inside the trough and changes through several fill levels depending on how much food is stored.
• Trough Information Screen
  The feeder screen shows its active state, stored food, feeding range, baby-growth status, selected animals, and breeding quota.
• Feeding Effects
  Animals show food particles around their mouth and play a subtle eating sound when they eat from a trough. Baby animals also get a small visual effect when their growth is increased.
• Show Feeding Range
  A Show Range button displays the trough’s feeding area with a particle cloud that follows the ground and uneven terrain for around 10 seconds.
• Persistent Per-Trough Settings
  Each trough remembers its name, range, enabled state, animal selection, baby-growth settings, and breeding limits after leaving or restarting the world.
• Hopper Support
  Hoppers can automatically move food into troughs, allowing food to be supplied from nearby chests or other storage.
• Comparator Support
  Comparators can read how full a trough is, allowing its food level to be used in redstone builds.
• Wood Variants
  Troughs are available in different wood styles so they can match different farms, fences, and builds.
• Fence Connections
  Fences can visually connect to troughs so they fit naturally into animal pens.
• Side-by-Side Trough Placement
  Troughs placed directly beside one another keep a clear divider so separate feeders and their inventories are easy to distinguish.

Supported Animals

Supports all vanilla breedable animals.

Compatible modded animals that use Minecraft’s standard breeding mechanics should also work when added in manually to the eligable animals list.

Supported Versions

Animal Feeder+ is currently available for:

Fabric

• Minecraft Fabric 1.20.1
• Minecraft Fabric 1.21.1
• Minecraft Fabric 26.2

Forge

• Minecraft Forge 1.20.1
• Minecraft Forge 1.21.1
• Minecraft Forge 26.2

Each version is built separately. Be sure to download the version that matches your Minecraft installation.

Requirements

Required:

Fabric

• Fabric API

Forge

• No dependencies are required.

Animal Feeder+ does not currently support NeoForge, Quilt, or other mod loaders.