## Overview<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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?
\n### Got Alternative Milk?
\nWhy yes! Here are a few (1.19.2) mods off the top of my head:
\n– **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.
\n– **Simple Soy**: Silly stigmas aside, this mod provides a vegan alternative in the form of soy milk, using the mod’s titular crop. <\/p>\n
Note: I’m not affiliated with either of these mods; I just think the options they provide are neat and under-utilized \ud83d\ude42
\n## Config<\/p>\n
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**.<\/p>\n
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:<\/p>\n
### Entity Type Tags<\/p>\n
There are four entity type tags: `milky_way:bucket_milkable`, `milky_way:worse_bucket_milkable`, `milky_way:bowl_milkable`, and `milky_way:bottle_milkable`.
\n– 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`.
\n – By default, a mob in `worse_bucket_milkable` has a full-day cooldown, whereas mobs in `bucket_milkable` only take half as long.
\n– 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.)
\n – 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`.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
### Item Tags<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
—<\/p>\n
**Requires Blueprint 6.2.0+.** Various optional dependencies are also built-in.<\/p>\n
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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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