Penned In

Penned In keeps your farm animals inside a single block. They're saved as data instead of live mobs, so you can run big breeding and produce farms without the entity lag. Each pen changes its look to suit what's inside, the animals move about in it, and it does the breeding, milking, shearing and butchering for you.

Features

• One block, a whole herd. Each pen holds up to 128 animals of one kind. Pens tick in batches, so a field of them costs almost nothing.
• Every farm animal. Cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, mooshrooms, goats, rabbits, armadillos, turtles, sniffers, hoglins and pandas.
• Any other mob that breeds. including modded animals: llamas, horses, foxes, cats and more. Each one is stored exactly, keeping its coat, genes, stats, chest, armour and owner.
• A design for each animal. There are 12 farm pens (Pig Sty, Chicken Coop, Sheep Fold, Dig Site, Nether Pen and more) plus 6 designs for other mobs. Use the arrows in the pen's screen to change the look.
• Live miniatures. The animals look around, shuffle and hop. Sheep graze, and pens with mixed colours or variants cycle through them.
• Automatic breeding. Put food in the food slot and ready pairs breed on their own. Spare food speeds up the babies.
• The tool slot does the work. It shears sheep (each keeps its colour), milks with buckets, makes mushroom stew with bowls, and brushes scutes off armadillos with a brush.
• Natural produce. Chickens lay eggs, armadillos shed scutes, sniffers dig up seeds, baby pandas sneeze slimeballs and baby turtles drop scutes as they grow.
• Optional butchering. Put a weapon in the weapon slot and set a Keep number. Only adults above that number are taken, never babies or named animals. Looting, Fire Aspect and modded knives (Farmer's Delight) all work.
• XP is kept, not wasted. Breeding and butchering XP mends Mending gear in the slots, fills glass bottles with Bottles o' Enchanting, and otherwise stays stored in the pen.
• Hopper Pen. Craft a pen with a hopper. Hoppers and pipes can feed it from any side. Place it on a chest or barrel and products drop straight in.
• Choose each side's output. Set each side of a Hopper Pen to Off, Items, Milk or liquid XP. It works with Pipez and any other pipe mod, and uses whatever liquid XP your pack has.
• See it at a glance. Look at a pen to see adults, babies, breed timer, grow time, stored XP and more. Jade and WTHIT are supported, and comparators read how full a pen is.
• Pick it up and it keeps everything. Like a shulker box, a picked-up pen keeps its animals, slots, outputs and XP. The item's tooltip lists what's inside.
• Easy to fill. Right-click an animal with the pen item, or lead a group up to a placed pen. Use a lead on the pen to let one back out.
• Configurable. Pen size, timers, XP storage, blocked mobs and more can be set in the server config. A client config controls the info panel and ambient animal sounds.
• Works with modpacks. Tags control which mobs can be penned, which design a mob gets, which weapons can butcher and which items are never output.

Crafting

• Animal Pen: fence, hay bale, fence over three planks
• Hopper Pen: Animal Pen + hopper (shapeless)

Both recipes appear in the recipe book.

Versions

Available for NeoForge 1.21.1 and 26.1.2.

Modpacks

You're free to include Penned In in any modpack. It's MIT licensed.