More Feeding Trough Variants for Minecraft

Review More Feeding Trough Variants

Colored Feeding Troughs

In Minecraft, one can not only mine resources or build houses but also breed different animals and tame them. Several mechanics have been added for that, and each of them has a specific approach. However, the game features no universal feeding system. Thus, you need to take wheat and approach every animal in a pen to feed it. That is not particularly convenient: when the player has several hundred specimens in such structures at once, each feeding cycle takes 5–15 minutes. Moreover, you have to spend more and more time on that. A familiar situation, right? Almost every Minecraft player goes through that, both at the initial game stages and in the middle of the path.

One modder has made a separate add-on called Animal Feeding Trough, which brings a feeding trough to Minecraft. You can put up to about a stack of food into it, and all the animals will automatically begin to eat from there. However, this mod features only one trough option, and another modder has decided to diversify this content. That is how the More Feeding Trough Variants mod we are going to consider appeared. It will not only add different types of troughs to the game but also allow you to breed in-game animals faster due to its unique mechanics.

As we have already noted, the new trough allows you to feed all the animals in a pen automatically. They will approach this block and eat everything it contains. Moreover, each mob will consume exactly those food types that are allowed by the basic functionality of Minecraft — thus, sheep and cows will eat wheat. The breeding mechanics in the vanilla game version work in much the same way, except that the player has to do all that manually, which is not particularly convenient. It is here where custom mods come to the rescue. But today, we are examining More Feeding Trough Variants, which adds different trough options.

The game will now feature more than ten different troughs, which can be used to breed mobs. The mechanics have remained the same: just leave this block near a pen with animals and put the necessary amount of food into it. The mobs will begin to consume it and breed automatically. Such an approach will allow you to significantly reduce the time spent feeding animals and do completely different things. All that is perfectly compatible with the vanilla gameplay of Minecraft and does not particularly affect the in-game economy or balance. The mod is compatible with both standard and custom mobs, provided they are also breedable using different types of crops or food. But here, you need to test it for each add-on separately to draw conclusions.

If you often breed animals and would like to get more different trough options, the More Feeding Trough Variants add-on is a must-have for your build. Even though it is a relatively new mod, its designer has already released a large number of different add-ons that have become popular among the Minecraft community. Moreover, he tries to promptly release updates to support new game versions. At the moment, you can already download More Feeding Trough Variants for Minecraft 1.21.3. The recipes can be seen in the screenshots, which feature several troughs at once so that you can see whether they differ from the basic option.

Thanks to this add-on, players can create full-fledged pens and divide them into sections — say, add red troughs for sheep, yellow for cows, etc. The color of a trough can now match that of the pen. Such a system allows you to delineate the territory and create efficient farms for automated livestock breeding. At the same time, the player does not have to participate in the process: it will be enough just to monitor the presence of food in the troughs. The more troughs you place near the pens, the faster the animals will breed, as they constantly roam throughout the territory, and if the feeder is far away, the breeding process is delayed.

Summing it up, we can conclude that the More Feeding Trough Variants mod implements really helpful and important functionality that allows us to take advantage of more different troughs in the game. However, you should keep in mind that the basic mechanic is implemented by the original Animal Feeding Through add-on! Both designers have done a good job and created very high-quality and useful mods for Minecraft, which players will apply on any server, both classic and modified. Thus, Animal Feeding Trough can already boast over 11 million downloads, being one of the most popular cattle breeding mods for the game.