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[metroidfood]

Sophisticated Wolves

What is Sophisticated Wolves? It's a mod that aims to improve wolves in the games through a series of gameplay tweaks, AI improvements, and added features. The focus is not to have overpowered items or crazy abilities, but rather balanced additions that make sense in the world of MC. Essentially, wolves should be able to better respond to your actions and take care of themselves, so you don't have to consider them a liability when mining, exploring or fighting.

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Requires ModLoader!

To Install:
1. Install ModLoader if you haven't already
2. Unzip folder
3. Drag contents into minecraft.jar

This mod modifies the EntityWolf, RenderWolf and Pathfinder files, and uses item ID 1557-1559.


Features:

Nametags
One of the most oft-requested features, names to differentiate between your pets. Craft a leather Dog Tag and you'll be able to give your pet a proper title (12 chars max). They behave like normal player nametags when standing but are not visible through walls when sitting.

Nameplates will also change color according to the health of your wolf. White = full health, and it gets progressively more red as a wolf's health goes down.

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For those who want the recipe:

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*String can also be placed diagonally above leather

Breeding
Wolves are now able to produce offspring like other animals. Feed two tamed wolves a Dog Treat made out of two wheat and a porkchop (raw or cooked) and they'll produce a puppy. Puppies are automatically tamed and won't attack mobs (they deal 0 damage anyways

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For those who want the recipe:

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*Works with either raw or cooked pork

Biome-Specific Wolves
Wolves' appearance will vary depending on the biome they spawn in. Taiga wolves are the classic gray, while forest wolves are brown.

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Extinguishing
Tired of your wolves burning to death? So are they. If they happen to catch on fire, they'll stop and shake to put themselves out.

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Feeding
Wolves will now also gobble down fish for 1 heart raw and 2.5 hearts if cooked. In addition, they will no longer wander around while begging, so you don't have to chase them down trying to feed them.

Attack Pausing/Canceling
Crouching with Shift will make any wolves currently attacking a creature stand still and stop attacking. Holding down Shift for around 5 seconds will cancel their attack entirely, so they don't slaughter your flock of sheep because you accidentally punched them. Wolves will also lose interest in a target if you're far enough away from it when they teleport to you.

Evil Detecting Dogs
Though they won't attack Creepers, wolves will growl to alert you if one is nearby.

And more! Check out the changelog for more detailed notes.

Videos

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Extras
RickyTheHedgehog made this great 32x resolution Dogtag sprite for those who use a 32x texture pack. To install, open the minecraft.jar and replace the dogtag.png in the sophwolves/items folder with the one from the link below.
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Changelog

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-v1.7.2
+added config file, you can now change item ids, toggle wolf respawning/despawning and custom wolf textures.

-v1.7.1
+fixed bug with wolf breeding

-v1.7
+updated for 1.1
+a little spring cleaning

-v1.6
+added wolf breeding and puppies
+puppies will follow the player but won't attack mobs
+added dog treat item for breeding
+added biome-specific wolves and brown wolves that spawn in forest regions
+fixed being able to name other players' wolves
+fixed wolves not responding to right clicks when full and player is holding meat
+added alternate dogtag recipes

-v1.5
+updated for 1.0.0

-v1.4.1
+balanced wolf spawning rate

-v1.4
+wolves respawn (still being tweaked)
+wolves now teleport onto ice, and should not teleport on cactus or into lava/water/fire
+increased wild wolves' max health to 6
+wild wolves will only attack sheep if angry

-v1.3
+updated for 1.8.1
+health restoration from meat set to vanilla MC values
+wolf nametags change color to reflect wolf health
+fixed wolves turning black while wet

-v1.2
+making a wolf sit will cancel that wolf's attack

v1.1
+Tweaked following behavior to make large packs of wolves less annoying
+slightly improved navigation around fire/cactus
+nearby wolves won't wander around while you're mining
+wolves won't move/teleport while you're on a ladder

v1.0
+Changed pork (raw/cooked) healing to 4 hearts
+Wolves now eat fish (raw/cooked) for 2.5 hearts
+smoke effect shows when healing
+wolves now follow more attentively
+wolves will not wander while sneaking or while begging for food
+if standing in fire, wolves will move away
+if set on fire, wolves now shake to extinguish themselves
+wolves growl when creepers are nearby
+wolves bark less when sitting down
+right clicking with food in your hand while a wolf is at full health no longer makes him sit
+added dogtag that allows you to set customizable names
+wolves will not attack while sneaking and will cancel their attack if you sneak for ~5 sec
+wolves will cancel their attack if they teleport far enough from the target

Special Thanks
RaustBlackDragon for help with fixing wolf breeding

Feel free to leave a comment below. I'm continually updating this mod (more improvements to come) so I appreciate the feedback!

[ItsWolfyy]

BEST MOD EVARRR

[Ancorage]

Nice mod Realy like the fire feature

[Haegemonia]

awesome

[sakon183]

i'll donwload :3

[Animator1]

This is AWESOME. +1 rep for you.

[xBeemlord]

This sounds like a pretty good mod. I often find myself completely overlooking wolves because of their tendency to kill me and themselves. Perhaps this will solve that. Does this mod keep your wolves from pushing you around? haha

[Amber Tonerre]

cool mod can you make (if its not too hard) wolf health bars so its easier to see there health. if you could do this i would appreciate it thanks!

[hotwheel105]

Geez finnaly a wolf mod

[asbecker]

Hey, could you make a configurable health meter? Dogs' tails aren't all that reliable when it comes to determining their current health. The number one thing I've wanted to be added to the wolves in minecraft since they came out.

[metroidfood]

xBeemlord, on 26 August 2011 - 11:59 PM, said:

This sounds like a pretty good mod. I often find myself completely overlooking wolves because of their tendency to kill me and themselves. Perhaps this will solve that. Does this mod keep your wolves from pushing you around? haha

Better pathfinding and wolves not wandering while you're mining is one of the things I have planned, I just need to look at their AI more to figure out how it works.

Amber Tonerre, on 27 August 2011 - 12:00 AM, said:

cool mod can you make (if its not too hard) wolf health bars so its easier to see there health. if you could do this i would appreciate it thanks!

I'm trying not to add too many GUI elements, but I'm looking into some other things to make it easier to tell how healthy they are.

[Blueblade11]

Ive been waiting for something like this fro ages! Thankyou!

[Telerian3]

Awesome mod man, I've taken to keeping dogs and imagining they are standing guard outside. It'd be great if they growl even if sitting down.
I like the less barking noises, but an eventual whimper would be a good addition.
But would I would like to see most, is if you can make them pay attention to height like mobs do. Where as they won't just jump around and fall off ledges when your going up and down hills and through tunnels. Probably more advanced but I'd love to see it happen.
Keep up the good work.

[Amber Tonerre]

metroidfood, on 27 August 2011 - 12:06 AM, said:

Better pathfinding and wolves not wandering while you're mining is one of the things I have planned, I just need to look at their AI more to figure out how it works.


I'm trying not to add too many GUI elements, but I'm looking into some other things to make it easier to tell how healthy they are.

ok cool i cant wait to see what you come up with!

[Yayofangamer]

looks pretty much good!

[King Dedede]

Awesome! This looks like an extremely useful mod.

I was thinking, it would be wonderful if you could get your wolves to come to the Nether with you. Maybe when given a certain item (Netherhound Pendant?) they would automatically teleport to the Nether, and if given another certain item (Earthly Amulet?) they would teleport to the overworld.

Another cool thing would be tracking. It wouldn't exactly make them easier to take care of, but it makes sense. You could sacrifice an item to them and they would find the mob that drops that specific item. E.g., give them a unit of Gunpowder and they would find a Creeper/Ghast.

Just some idea, in case you needed 'em. Anyway, here are some Spiders for your hard work:

[Paddaaay]

I have installed the mod correctly, (i've installed mods before) but the dog tag doesn't show up on Too Many Items or the recipe book mod. im certain its not a clash against another mod because the only other mod i've installed is the Elemental Creepers mod.

But anyway, this looks really good and im looking forward to more good work

[metroidfood]

Paddaaay, on 27 August 2011 - 12:37 AM, said:

I have installed the mod correctly, (i've installed mods before) but the dog tag doesn't show up on Too Many Items or the recipe book mod. im certain its not a clash against another mod because the only other mod i've installed is the Elemental Creepers mod.

But anyway, this looks really good and im looking forward to more good work

Woops, that's not supposed to happen. I'll see if I can fix that.

[metroidfood]

Paddaaay, on 27 August 2011 - 12:37 AM, said:

I have installed the mod correctly, (i've installed mods before) but the dog tag doesn't show up on Too Many Items or the recipe book mod. im certain its not a clash against another mod because the only other mod i've installed is the Elemental Creepers mod.

But anyway, this looks really good and im looking forward to more good work

So I checked with TMI and RecipeBook and it seems to show up fine for me, you might need to double check your installation.

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[Zen42]

I like it, it could be "better than better than wolves"