Milky Way

Overview

With this mod, certain resources offered by mobs such as cows and mooshrooms now rely on a cooldown. By default, this means cows can be milked with a bucket roughly twice a day (as opposed to one animal giving infinite and instantaneous milk). This duration is configurable. Other resources, such as harvesting mushroom stew from mooshrooms, are also dependent on a cooldown.

The mod offers some additional challenge on its own, but it's mainly meant to encourage the use of alternative milk farms. Or maybe improved organization in cow pens?

Got Alternative Milk?

Why yes! Here are a few (1.19.2) mods off the top of my head:

• Neapolitan: Although this mod primarily focuses on other crops and food-related mechanics, it adds the ability to farm milk out of cauldrons by placing cows over dripstone, similarly to water/lava. The output is slow, but it does allow for extra free milk.
• Simple Soy: Silly stigmas aside, this mod provides a vegan alternative in the form of soy milk, using the mod's titular crop.

Note: I'm not affiliated with either of these mods; I just think the options they provide are neat and under-utilized :)

Config

By default, mobs that are still on a cooldown will spawn a particle to indicate they're not ready to any impatient players. This can be disabled by setting angryParticle to false.

In the config, the values bucketTimer, worseBucketTimer, bowlTimer, and bottleTimer all correspond to the cooldown (in seconds) of the four types of milkable mobs, detailed below:

Entity Type Tags

There are four entity type tags: milky_way:bucket_milkable, milky_way:worse_bucket_milkable, milky_way:bowl_milkable, and milky_way:bottle_milkable.

• By default, mobs like cows are put into bucket_milkable, and mobs that would provide worse alternatives (such as mooshrooms or yak from Environmental are put into worse_bucket_milkable.
  • By default, a mob in worse_bucket_milkable has a full-day cooldown, whereas mobs in bucket_milkable only take half as long.
  • Putting a mob in both bucket_milkable and worse_bucket_milkable may have terrible consequences!! (I wouldn't know because I haven't tried, it's just that scary.)
    • Other overlaps like bowl_milkable and bucket_milkable are fine, though. For example, cows can configured to be milked with bottles using Neapolitan so they're put in both bucket_milkable and bottle_milkable.

If Cobblemon is installed, mobs that are milkable (only Miltank in the base mod) are put in the same boat as standard bucket-milkable mobs.

Item Tags

The item tag milky_way:buckets lets this mod maintain compatibility with mods that add alternative buckets, like Caverns and Chasms and their golden buckets.

Requires Blueprint 6.2.0+. Various optional dependencies are also built-in.

I know that there could be other mods that add their own fluids to cows, so feel free to extend suggestions and incompatibilities in the issue tracker. Thank you!