Welcome
Wild animals, hunting bounties and a busy ecosystem
WilderNature fills the Overworld with animals that have lives of their own. Deer sleep in the grass and bolt when you sprint, raccoons raid your chests, squirrels hoard hazelnuts, and lions doze through the savanna heat.
Many animals react to you: some grow to trust you, some can be ridden, and a few are best left alone. Around them the world changes too, with termite mounds, beaver dams, hollow tree stumps and mushroom colonies.
At the Bounty Board you can take on hunting, gathering and exploration contracts and earn rewards such as the Blunderbuss, banners and the Fur Cloak.
Bounty Board
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Take on contracts, complete them and collect your reward.
Open the Bounty Board to see the current contracts. Accept one and you receive a contract item that tracks your progress. When it is complete, bring it back to the board to claim the reward.
There are four kinds of everyday contracts: Tracking Orders (hunting), Provision Requests (gathering), Field Notes (observing an animal through a Spyglass) and Pathfinder's Calls (finding a biome). Bigger tasks pay better.
Guild Commissions are special, larger contracts with unique rewards, such as the Blunderbuss, the Fur Cloak, the Bison Horn or one of the banners.
The board gets new contracts every three in-game days. If you lose a contract, you can restore it at the board for one Emerald.
- Hunt, Gather, Observe and Explore contracts
- Guild Commissions with unique rewards
- New contracts every 3 in-game days
- Lost contract? One Emerald restores it
Custom Guild Commissions
Add your own Guild Commissions to the Bounty Board with a datapack.
Every Guild Commission is a JSON file in data/<namespace>/guild_commission/. Add a new file to create your own, or override an existing one with a datapack to change or disable it.
Example (Horn of the Plains):
{
"id": "wildernature:horn_of_the_plains",
"enabled": true,
"title": "guild.wildernature.horn_of_the_plains.title",
"description": "guild.wildernature.horn_of_the_plains.desc",
"type": "hunt",
"target": "wildernature:bison",
"amount": 18,
"allow_peaceful": false,
"icon": "wildernature:guild_commission",
"reward": {
"item": "wildernature:bison_horn",
"count": 1,
"experience": 24
},
"weight": 1,
"repeatable": true
}
title and description can be translation keys from a resource pack or plain text.
id: a unique ID for the commissionenabled: false turns the commission offtype: hunt, gather, observe or exploretarget: an entity for hunt and observe, an item for gather, a biome for exploreamount: how many kills, items or sightings are neededallow_peaceful (optional): read by the mod, but currently has no effecticon: item shown on the Bounty Boardreward: item, count and optional experienceweight (optional): how often it is picked, default 1repeatable (optional): true brings it back for a player on the next 3-day refresh, false means only once per player; default true
Trophies and Banners
Trophies with a special use, and banners to show off your Guild Commissions.
The banners are rewards from Guild Commissions: 50 rabbits for the Bunny-Stalker Banner, 40 cod for the Cod-Catcher Banner and 30 Swift Foxes for the Fox-Trapper Banner.
The trophies are currently only available in Creative mode. Right click one to use it. The Deer Trophy marks animals within 32 blocks as prey and gives you Hunter's Sense, so you deal more damage to them. The Swift Fox Trophy makes nearby chests, spawners and other special blocks glow. The Bison Trophy lets out a roar that pushes back creatures in front of it and briefly gives you Resistance, at the cost of a little dizziness.
- Deer Trophy: Marked Prey and Hunter’s Sense
- Swift Fox Trophy: reveals nearby special blocks
- Bison Trophy: pushes creatures back
- Banners: Guild Commission rewards
Deer Trophy
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Swift Fox Trophy
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Bison Trophy
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Fox-Trapper Banner
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Bunny-Stalker Banner
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Cod-Catcher Banner
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Termite Mound
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A savanna mound full of termites, and sometimes a hidden storage chamber.
Termite Mounds stand in the savanna. Their
Termites gather wood from nearby logs and carry it home. Some mounds hide a storage chamber inside.
Logs near a mound slowly turn into
Rotten Logs.
Rotten Log
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A log eaten hollow by termites. Clean it out, fill it with dirt and farm in it.
Termites turn logs near their mound into Rotten Logs and sometimes move in. Use a shovel on an infested log to drive them out; you get some
Woodmeal for your trouble.
Right click an upright hollow log with Dirt to fill it, then till it into farmland. Crops, stems and
Mushroom Colonies grow in it, faster when it is kept moist.
Hollow Cache
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An old tree stump with a hiding place inside.
Hollow Caches are tree stumps found in forests and plains. Open them like a chest; they often hold nuts, fruit, sticks and bones, and sometimes a Truffle or a
Loot Bag.
Squirrels and raccoons use them as pantries, and injured raccoons and boars eat from them.
Burrow
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The dog’s stash. Tamed dogs bury what they find here.
Tamed
Dogs dig a Burrow and store the things they carry around in it. You can open it like a chest.
Beaver Dam
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Built by beavers in and around rivers. A handy source of sticks.
Beavers build these piles of branches near water. Break them for sticks.
Mushroom Colonies
A renewable patch of mushrooms that slowly spreads.
Plant a colony on dirt, grass, podzol, mycelium or a tilled
Rotten Log. Once it is fully grown, right click it to harvest mushrooms; the colony stays and grows back. Mature colonies slowly spread to nearby ground. Bone Meal speeds up growth.
Brown Mushroom Colony
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Red Mushroom Colony
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Blunderbuss
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A loud old gun. The reward for hunting eight elephants.
The Blunderbuss is the reward of the "Big Game Hunter" Guild Commission. It needs ammunition in your inventory and has to be reloaded for a moment after every shot.
Flint Ammunition fires a spray of four to eight small pellets, great at close range. Diamond Ammunition fires a single, hard-hitting bullet. Both are crafted from Gunpowder plus Flint or a Diamond, sixteen at a time.
- Flint: 4 to 8 pellets, 2 damage each
- Diamond: one bullet, 12 damage
- 1.5 second reload
- Repair with Iron Ingots
Flint Ammunition
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Diamond Ammunition
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Bison Horn
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Blow it to scatter nearby monsters. Dropped by Bison.
Blowing the horn makes monsters within ten blocks forget you and stumble away. It then needs ten seconds to recover.
Bison sometimes drop one, and the "Horn of the Plains" Guild Commission gives one as a reward.
Loot Bag
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A raccoon’s stash. You never know what is inside.
Right click to open the bag and get one random item. Most of the time it is something to eat, often a Hazelnut, now and then an Emerald and, very rarely, a Diamond.
Raccoons drop Loot Bags and sometimes leave them in their caches.
- Usually a random food
- 20% Hazelnut
- 1% Emerald
- Very rarely a Diamond
Fish Oil
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Crafted from two fish. Burns as long as coal.
Thick Leather
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Dropped by elephants, giraffes and hippos. Cut it into regular leather with shears.
Throw Thick Leather on the ground and right click it with shears to cut it into three Leather.
Woodmeal
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Wood dust from termite work. A small fuel.
Fur Cloak
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A warm swift fox cloak. The reward for the "Winter Pelt" Guild Commission.
Stylin’ Purple Hat
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So stylin’ it almost hurts. The reward for finding a savanna.
Field Guide
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A little book about the animals around you. Your first reward from the Bounty Board.
Burst of Experience
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A bounty reward. Use it to receive the experience stored inside.
Turkey Egg
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Laid by turkeys. Throw it and a baby turkey may hatch.
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Bison Meat
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Dropped by bison. Cooked, it is as filling as a steak.
Cooked Bison Meat
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Venison
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Dropped by deer. Cooked, it is as filling as mutton.
Cooked Venison
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Turkey Meat
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Dropped by turkeys. Works like chicken.
Cooked Turkey Meat
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Cassowary Meat
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Dropped by cassowaries. Works like rabbit.
Cooked Cassowary Meat
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Fire Aspect
Bison, boars, cassowaries, deer, minisheep and turkeys drop their meat already cooked when hunted with a Fire Aspect weapon.
Truffle
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A rare find that makes any food 20% more filling.
Boars sometimes dig up Truffles while rooting, and they can turn up in Hollow Caches.
Combine a Truffle with any food in the crafting grid to refine it: the food then restores 20% more hunger and saturation. Nine Truffles can be packed into a Truffle Bag.
Hazelnut
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A quick snack from Hazelnut Bushes, and the favourite food of squirrels.
Hazelnut Bushes grow in plains, forests, flower forests, birch forests and along rivers. Pick them like Sweet Berry Bushes. Plant a Hazelnut to grow your own bush.
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Deer
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Shy herd animals of forests and taigas.
Deer notice when you sprint or hold a weapon and the whole herd runs off. At night they look for shelter and sleep, preferably on grass.
Very rarely you meet a white deer. Hunting one brings bad luck: you get Bad Omen and Slowness.
- Forests and taigas
- Drops Venison and Leather
- Breed with Short Grass
Bison
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Big savanna herds that defend each other.
Bison live in herds in the savanna. Attack one and the others may join in, and if one panics, the whole herd stampedes.
- Savanna
- Drops Bison Meat, Leather and sometimes a Bison Horn
- Breed with Wheat or Hay Bales
Boar
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Roots around in the dirt and sometimes finds truffles.
Boars dig through grass and dirt looking for food. They turn up mushrooms, roots, seeds, vegetables and now and then a
Truffle. Handing them a Truffle encourages them to dig.
With Farm & Charm installed, their digging turns dirt into Fertilized Soil.
- Forests, savannas and taigas
- Drops Porkchops
- Digging respects the mobGriefing rule
Cassowary
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Territorial and dangerous, especially near its chicks.
Cassowaries warn you first, then attack if you stay too close. Their hits slow you down, and they are even more aggressive when chicks are nearby.
- Savanna
- Drops Cassowary Meat and Feathers
- Breed with seeds
Dog
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A loyal companion that fetches, hunts skeletons and hides its treasures.
Tame a dog with cooked meat. Tamed dogs chase skeletons, pick up items and either bring them to you or bury them in their
Burrow. They warn you about creepers and raccoons, look for shelter when it rains and like to nap near their owner.
- Plains
- Tame and breed with cooked meat
- Drops Bones
Hedgehog
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Curls into a spiky ball when threatened.
Hedgehogs sleep during the day and sniff around for mushrooms and berries at night. When threatened they curl up, take less damage and prick anything that touches them.
- Forests and taigas
- Drops nothing
- Breed with mushrooms
Minisheep
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Small, fluffy and surprisingly protective of each other.
Minisheep follow a leader and sleep at night. If one is attacked, the rest of the herd defends it. Shear them for wool.
- Meadow
- Shear for wool, drops Mutton
- Breed with Wheat
Raccoon
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A cheeky thief that raids chests and nibbles your crops.
Raccoons open doors, loot containers and stash their finds in caches. At night they nibble on crops without destroying them. With Farm & Charm installed, they also steal eggs from chicken coops.
- Plains and Sunflower Plains
- Drops Loot Bags
- Breed with fruit, vegetables or cooked fish
Squirrel
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Hazelnut hoarders that bring gifts to their friends.
Squirrels pick hazelnuts from bushes and hide them in Hollow Caches. Offer them seeds, sticks, saplings or hazelnuts: if they accept, they trust you a bit more. Trusted squirrels bring you little gifts.
- Plains, forests and taigas
- Drops Hazelnuts
- Breed with Hazelnuts
Swift Fox
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A sly little fox that steals from your hands.
Swift Foxes snatch items from the ground and even from your hand, then hide them somewhere. Bribe them with berries, chicken, rabbit or eggs to win their trust; trusted foxes return what they took and sometimes bring gifts.
- Old Growth Pine Taiga
- Bribe with berries, chicken, rabbit or eggs
- Breed with cooked meat once they trust you
Turkey
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A plump forest bird that lays Turkey Eggs.
- Forests
- Drops Turkey Meat and Feathers
- Lays Turkey Eggs
- Breed with seeds or Bread
Elephant
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A gentle giant you can ride once it trusts you.
Elephants roam the savanna and defend themselves when attacked. Feed one to earn its trust, and it will let you ride it.
- Savanna
- Feed with melon, pumpkin, apples or sugar cane
- Rideable once it trusts you
- Drops Thick Leather
Giraffe
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Peaceful herds that flee fast and kick hard.
Giraffes stay together in small herds and avoid players. If threatened they run far, and they can defend themselves with a powerful kick. They can be ridden.
- Savanna
- Breed with Short Grass
- Rideable
- Drops Thick Leather
Hippo
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Looks sleepy. Is not.
Hippos graze on land and head for the water during the day. They get more and more annoyed when you come close, give a warning yawn and then attack. They also snap at fish and attack boats. Feeding them fish or raw meat calms them down.
- Rivers
- Feed with fish or raw meat
- Drops Thick Leather
Lion
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Prides of lions and lionesses that nap through the day.
Lions live in small prides in the savanna and rest during the day. Disturb them or threaten the pride and they fight back.
- Savanna
- Breed with raw beef
Beaver
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Busy river builders that will trade you their stripped logs.
Beavers build
dams along rivers and collect stripped logs. Hand one an apple, sweet berries, a sapling or a Loot Bag and it gives you the logs it has collected.
- Rivers
- Breed with sticks
- Drops sticks
Scorpion
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Hides in the sand and strikes with neurotoxin. Can be tamed with patience.
Scorpions burrow into sand and dirt and ambush anything that comes close. Their sting inflicts Neurotoxin, which deals damage over time, slows you and makes you stagger.
To tame one, sneak and feed it Spider Eyes or Rotten Flesh to slowly earn its trust, then finish with a Fermented Spider Eye.
- Desert
- Sting causes Neurotoxin
- Tame with Spider Eyes or Rotten Flesh, then a Fermented Spider Eye
Termite
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Tiny workers that live in Termite Mounds.
Termites leave their
mound to gnaw on nearby logs and carry the wood home. Sometimes you catch one carrying
Woodmeal.
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Animal Spawns
Where the animals live, and which vanilla animals make room for them.
Most animal spawns are controlled by biome tags such as wildernature:spawns_deer, so datapacks can add or remove biomes.
By default, pigs and chickens no longer spawn in forests, farm animals are removed from savannas, swamps and jungles, and frogs are added to jungles. All of this can be turned off in the config.
Configuration
Spawn weights, group sizes and world features can be adjusted.
- Spawn weight and group size for every animal
- Remove vanilla animals from savannas, forests, swamps and jungles
- Turn Hazelnut Bushes, Termite Mounds and Hollow Caches on or off
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