Carturs Feeding Trough

Cartur's Feeding Trough

A trough your animals eat out of, so you stop throwing food on the floor.

Build it with the hammer under Furniture — 10 wood at a workbench. It opens like a

chest. Fill it, walk away.

What it does

Animals come and eat from it. A hungry boar, wolf, lox, hen or anything else tameable

walks to the nearest trough in range, takes one item out and eats it, exactly the way it

would eat food dropped on the ground. Everything that follows from a meal follows from

this one too — taming progresses, breeding is unblocked, tamed animals stay fed.

The bowl shows what's in it. Put berries in and you see berries. It is drawn from the

items' own models and it is local decoration only: nothing to pick up, nothing to desync.

Animals won't smash it. A buildable piece is something the AI can decide to attack,

and a plain chest is on the "walk over and break it" list — the one thing you do not want

of the object you use to lure animals in. That is turned off here. A raid already fighting

you can still wreck it, which is the intent.

A taming bar. An animal being tamed gets a yellow bar under its health bar, and its

hover text gains the time left. Both read the game's own taming countdown, so the bar

stalls exactly when the taming does — while the animal is hungry or frightened. Vanilla

already tells you which; this just tells you how long.

Eight slots

Four by two. A trough is a meal, not a pantry.

Any food the animal in question eats works — it is the game's own list per creature, not

one written down here, so a modded animal that eats something new eats it out of the

trough too.

Multiplayer

Works. The trough is a container like any other. Whichever client's animal is hungry feeds

from it: if the trough is not open, that client takes ownership of it first, so two

animals do not eat the same berry twice. Nothing is taken out of a trough somebody else

has open.

Requires

Jötunn, which registers the

piece and renders its build-menu icon.

Known

The trough is a reskinned wood chest under the hood, so it inherits the chest's build

snapping and destroy behaviour. That is deliberate — it is what makes the mod small enough

to survive a game update.

Discord — bug reports, install help, and mod requests.

Bug reports get their own thread so nothing is lost in a chat scroll, and requests are voted on.

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