Since this mod has been reported working in 1.5 I added it to the No Version Warning-mod
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2599504692

Does it need an update has anyone checked if it's working ?

last updated in 2022....I don't think we're getting a 1.5 update

Patiently waiting for an 1.5 update 🙏
I love this mod for the realism it adds 💖

@Narada the animals do eat the forage, i have seen it but they will generally only do it if they dont have another source available and its also based on their hunger bar. I got a breeding pair of pigs in one run and they would eat up the fungi everynow and then. its a supplement to their diet but not a replacement, if they can eat grass or kibble they will go for that instead.

Yeah do they actually eat what they forage? I keep seeing chickens foraging pieces of insect meat but they just leave it there and I have to pick up the garbage lol

Please add options to customize how this mod works. I want to like it, but my animals hardly ever dig anything up, and what they do forage, they don't eat. I was hoping this would help me keep my animals from starving when resources are scarce. What point is there to it if it can't even do that?

@Mlie your link points to the current page lol.
I got u fam

Thanks for all of your contributions, btw

Does it work with all animal mods, say Alpha Animals?

Added all of the Vanilla Animals Expanded-patches removed from the mod in 1.4 to my patch-mod Animals Forage - Patches
Hope it helps anyone!

Nice!

Update please!

also here looking for 1.4

1.4?

or maybe even just a autoforbid feature like what the game does for most animal food.

I legit turned on this mod, a ancient coyote foraged bones, my colonist went to auto equip them and he got shitstomped by it. Any ideas to configure it so I can choose what animals forage?

can this mod delete mid save?

a small problem i have with this mod to be honest is that the animals just do not actually eat their own food, instead eating grass. and/or i assume that the babies forage as much as the adults

Could you add some customisation to the mod? Id like to reduce the amount they forage, but there aren't any options to edit.

This is sort of hillarious because I have a duck pen with dangelions growing in it and ducks dig up fish.

"raw fish" from optimization meats doesn't get forbidden when foraged, so pawns waste a lot of time trying to haul fish from the entire map

@Simmin I am curious whether this mod would conflict with Optimization meats C# edition and Animals prefer grazing mods?

Not sure if this would cause a conflict as the first condenses meat (thus removing some of the meats the animals forage for) and the second changing animal eating preferences (possibly ignoring foraging behaviour).

Thank you for the update! <3

Blessings upon your house, mod maker. This is great!

I like it

Wow, this might help my maps maintain a more stable wild animal population during rough times when food becomes scarce. Thanks for taking the time to make this mod, Simmin.

Please use the proper changelog section of the Workshop (in addition to comments if you wish). I've not been checking the Workshop for updates in just two days and the amount of mod updates buried under comments is staggering. Thanks for understanding!

Thanks, that did the trick!

i made chickens and ducks not forbid the stuff they dig up (i didn't realize that tame animals couldn't interact with forbidden thing)

I'm going to waste everybody's time here and tell you about a fact I learned: Fish eggs can survive duck digestion. That means, they're able to give fish to random isolated lakes out there just by pooping undigested fish eggs. Pretty neat right? duck shit.

How do I make the fish my ducks are digging up not be be automatically forbidden? I want them to feed themselves.

Considering this mod depends on code made by sarg bjornson that is in VEF, it is a mandatory dependency. Also define "pollutes" its just a repository of code that other modders are fee to use, just like d9 framework or jesctools

Could you remove the hard dependency on Vannila Expanded Framework? It is a great mod, but I really dislike having VEF in my game, it pollutes everything.

Do you think this might work with Rimthreaded?

not much. might just make certain animals not desperate as often

How does this work with Desperate Hunger?

Darn

this mod does nothing to elephants

Does this mean those damned elephants will stay out of my corn??

there shouldnt be any performance impact

will this affect tps performance?

wonderful,thank you!

the fix is to be implemented in Vanilla Expanded Framework, im sure it will come soon.

is the problem with foodstuffs the animals dig up being allowed fixed?

ye there's no actual check for water, just imagine there's a lake just beyond the boarder of your map 😉

hey, it's a trade secret! don't snitch on the ducks @Alfuken!

Also, thanks @Simmin for the fixes.

Bug report: ducks are able to dig out raw fish out of the ground with no ponds on map. How cool is that?

thanks Simmin!

Awesome, thanks for the quick response!

hey, i talked to sarg and the stuff they dig up is meant to be forbidden, so that will be fixed