Animania Cats & Dogs for Minecraft

Review Animania Cats & Dogs

Animania Cats & Dogs is a small but very interesting mod that adds dogs and cats to the game. Unfortunately, the mod is compatible only with the old 1.12.2 game version.
However, it is not so easy to install it. The main mod consists of several separate add-ons that require special libraries. So, you will have to install the following extra mods: Animania Farm, Animania Base, Animania Extra Animals, and CraftStudio API. Otherwise, the main mod will not work.
  

All the animal species have been divided into groups and placed in different add-ons, which is quite reasonable, as you can now choose which animals you want to see in the game and which you don't. Among these add-ons, there are Animania Farm, Animania Extra Animals, and Animania Cats & Dogs

The first add-on is called Animania Farm. This mod adds only farm animals, namely chickens, pigs, cows, sheep, horses, and goats. It also adds a cart where you can put a box and carry it behind you. However, you can now harness not only a horse to it but also a pig. To do this, take the pig on a lead and click the RMB on the front of the cart. However, you will not be able to control the pig from the cart — you will either have to drag it on the lead or sit on horseback and use a fishing rod with a carrot. Besides, you can put some animal in the cart, say, a goat. To do this, just take the animal on a lead and drag it close to the cart. To remove the animal from the cart, it is enough to take it on the lead again.

The mod also adds a special wagon, in which only horses can be harnessed. But if you decide to drag it, a level 3 Slowness effect will be imposed on you.

Another innovation is the plough. You can harness a horse, cow, or yourself to it. There are several ways to do this. The first one is to drag an animal on a lead and then click the RMB on the plow. The second way is just to ride up to it on horseback and click the RMB. It remains only to start working. To harness yourself, you need to click the RMB on the plough. You can also put an animal on the seat if you drag it on a lead. If you go to the plow and click RMB + SHIFT on it, an interface with 9 slots will open. You can put water and seeds inside. If you put both water and seeds there, the plough will immediately plow the grass, water the soil, and plant seeds on the area of 3 blocks, which is very efficient and fast.

The next innovation is related to bees and honey. Wild bees' nests generate in trees but only in certain biomes, namely meadows, jungles, ordinary forests, swamps, and coniferous forests. If you find such a nest, you should be careful, as the bees will cause damage, even if you are not right next to the nest. Honey can be collected directly from a nest with an empty bottle or bucket. A nest can also be knocked down from a tree, and it will drop as an object. It is with the help of the nest that the hive is created. If you craft it, the bees will become domestic, work faster, and stop stinging you. The wild bees create 20 milibuckets of honey every 700 ticks, and the domestic bees create 20 milibuckets every 450 ticks, which is almost twice as fast. You can collect honey only after more than 1000 milibuckets of it are ready, and not earlier. Honey is quite a useful resource, as you can obtain 8 sugar piles from 1 bottle, or you can just drink honey and get the temporary regeneration effect.

The next new item is the riding crop. It is a special whip to make your horse move faster. To use it, you need to sit on a horse and click the RMB, holding a riding crop in your hand.

Another new item is the carving knife. With it, you can cut meat and cheese, and you can also castrate various animals, such as bulls or goats. You should be careful with bulls and goats, though, as if you hit them, they will start butting. However, if you manage to castrate them, they will no longer be aggressive. To castrate an animal, take a carving knife in your hands, hover the cursor, and click the RMB. This is an irreversible procedure, so you should be extremely careful, as these male animals will not be able to have offspring anymore. Besides, you can make straw from wheat with this knife, even though this is possible without it.

Straw is a litter for any animal. If there is straw in a pen at night, they will lie down on it.

The second mod in the series is Animania Extra Animals. It will add several species of decorative animals, such as ferrets, hedgehogs, peacocks, rabbits, and frogs, to the game.

Animania Cats & Dogs is the third mod that brings cats and dogs. It will add 7 breeds of cats and 13 breeds of dogs.

Of course, you will not find the new animals in the wild. They can only be bought from villagers of a new profession — pet merchants. The cost of the spawn eggs varies between 15 and 44 emeralds.

The untamed cats hunt small animals — chickens, rabbits, peacocks, hamsters, and frogs, so you should be extremely careful and immediately cook fish after buying the respective spawn eggs. The tamed cats are not aggressive to small animals at all and are also capable of scaring away creepers. They eat exclusively raw cod, but you can use any fish for their taming.

You can make a wool bed where a cat can sleep. It can be either round or rectangular. So that you do not constantly run for water and food, you should craft a bowl of three iron ingots. But one can only put raw cod or water in it. Such a bowl is suitable for dogs and hamsters alike. You can also create a trough for this purpose. In fact, it is totally identical to a bowl. That is, the same amount of food and water fits there, but it looks less compact and neat compared to a usual bowl. Exclusively as a decoration, you can craft a litterbox and a dog house. They have no application at all, though. The mod features 7 cat breeds: American Shorthair, Asiatic, Exotic, Norwegian, ragdoll cat, Siamese, and Tabby. Unlike the domestic cats, ocelots (which are also added by the mod) spawn naturally in hot biomes, such as jungles and savannas. The cats can be bred in the same way as the other mobs from the mod — you will need two cats. But you will have to wait a whole game day to see a kitten.
 

The mod also brings 13 new dog breeds: Bloodhound, Chihuahua, Collie, Corgi, Dachshund, German Shepherd, Great Dane, Greyhound, Husky, Labrador, Pomeranian, Poodle, and Pug. You can buy any of them only from a pet merchant.

The mod has also added wolves and foxes, but they spawn naturally. The wolves appear in the mountain, forest, snow-covered, and cold biomes. The foxes live only in forests and cold biomes. All of these animals, if not tamed, attack goats and hares. They eat raw beef of any kind. All the dogs can sleep either on a straw or on a special dog bed. Dog bowls can be filled only with beef meat and water. Only one dog breed currently has a special ability — the German Shepherd. They are capable of herding goats and sheep, or rather they can attract these animals. If sheep or goats see a German Shepherd, they will follow it. But since the dog is yours, it will follow you, thereby luring sheep and goats. As a decoration, you can create a dog house. It is crafted quite simply but is merely a decoration, and a dog will not sleep there. Both cats and dogs can be forced to stay still. However, you should keep in mind that if you leave cats or dogs on their own, they will begin to uncontrollably breed, provided that there is both water and food nearby. If you would like to prevent that, you can use a carving knife and castrate them.

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