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Aug 15, 2021 @ 8:27am
Aug 20, 2021 @ 6:04am
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Dog Metabolism Tweak

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I've been trying to play as a pack of bonedogs and keep running into frustrations and making mods to fix them.

Because bonedogs can't get in and out of bed, I end up spending days just standing and waiting to heal. It seems unusual to me that bonedogs heal more slowly than goats, or that they eat more than goats, so I cranked up bonedog healing rate and lowered their hunger rate. This cuts down on some of the tedium so you can focus on killing.

This works well with my Hungry Dogs mod, which lets them eat downed NPCs and enter buildings: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2570524873

This works well with my Pack of Mountain Dogs start, which starts you with 4 mountain dogs: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2573300846

This works well with my Stoic Dogs mod, which disables playing Limbs (this makes them stay put and behave more like humans): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2575001362

Edit: Now also applies to Boneyard Wolves; They get hungry a little faster, but they also heal a little faster.
5 Comments
lia Sep 24, 2023 @ 9:51pm 
omg thank you for this:steamthumbsup:
Teal May 29, 2022 @ 12:49pm 
haha, I think you are right. I wish there was a way, perhaps if some of the fcs settings change, where we could give 'some' of the attributes of people, like sleeping on their own, to the animals. I have arrived at the conclusion that as modders it is probably not possible. Anyway, thank you for the response and thank you for the cool mods.
Take care
sly~<3  [author] May 29, 2022 @ 12:36pm 
Cheers! The animal sleeping thing has always been a problem, I don't think it's being addressed. I did a shepherd with 8 goats and a human and spent 80% of my time lifting them in and out of beds. Ultimately though I believe the only way we'll ever see any type of "animal" getting in a bed on its own is if it's a custom human race, and I think those enforce the bipedal animations and inventory system, so the end result would probably be terrifying.
Teal Mar 20, 2022 @ 6:40pm 
Thank you for all the dog mods. I am a fan. I have been trying to do a animal party 2 dogs and 5 goats playthrough but found the animal sleep ai doesn't work for me. I was hoping it would, but I guess the devs have been busy with kenshi 2 so, maybe not for awhile. Since you have experience with the dogs and animals, have you tried this problem with animals only sleeping? I have reluctantly decided after three days, that perhaps I better have a humanoid in the group, or 'pretend' that they are sleeping. But I wish the pretending part wasn't necessary. If you figure this out could you give me a holler? I would love to have an animal only party that works with everything, but cooking and getting water from wells and farming is probably out. But some things should still be possible for animals.
Thanks for listening to me go on, I just thought you had more experience with animal mods, so I thought I would ask.
Thank you,
Teal
UnboundShadow Aug 29, 2021 @ 3:28pm 
thanks for this