Yeah that should be covered by the ai interactions once I implement them, since I don't need to specify each individual entity anymore. I probably missed hyenas in the last go through and it is still using the old format, so they don't interact. Should be fixed come November when I get to this AI overhaul AzuliBluespots

Since there's stuff coming for the next big update, I'll have to mention that emus are being destroyed by a single hyena when they spawn, leading to a dozen dead ones in the same area since they don't fight back or run from the hyenas. Feels like most big birds are doing that too.

Yep, that'll come in the full 1.21 update. I'd just done a quick and dirty update so crashes wouldn't occur, I'll still need to spend 10+ hours on each pack implementing all the new features Shazza

Hey, just a head's up! I was trying to catch a pair of Tazzy nativehens, and I think their catching code is nonfunctional. No matter what bait I tried, or between the reed/papyrus chest traps, they never attempted to take it.

"basketCatchable": true,
"trapChance": 0.5,
"trapDestroyChance": 0.15,

Might need to be (from Chickens):

trappable: {
"small": { trapChance: 0.5, trapDestroyChance: 0.15 }

And if that's the case it'll probably need to be done for all of them! 😅

Thanks for saying so Fantast it's nice to hear my work is appreciated!

thank you for the update!! i really appreciate all the work you put into your mods <3

A small update to get it working without crashes in 1.21, the ai overhaul and other 1.21 features will come later.

 Cassowary... brings back bad memories from Rimworld...

I've got that on my bug report list Will go through and fix once my second job season is done Zinn

Newton's Mihirung Pelt(Male) cannot be converted to raw hide like the female version, though it still can be used for taxidermy

Tentharchitect

Please add compatibility with Butchering mod. We love hunt on this creatures and cook them! Yammy!

Thanks for the bug report

[Combat Overhaul] [EntityDamageModelBehavior] Entity 'casuariidae:dromornithidae-baby-female-genyornisnewtoni' does not have colliders behavior

same error for genders and adults as well.

8.6.2025 18:21:25 [Server Warning] [Combat Overhaul] [EntityDamageModelBehavior] Entity 'casuariidae:dromornithidae-adult-male-genyornisnewtoni' does not have colliders behavior
8.6.2025 18:21:25 [Server Warning] [Combat Overhaul] [EntityDamageModelBehavior] Entity 'casuariidae:dromornithidae-adult-female-genyornisnewtoni' does not have colliders behavior

That's due to the new Biomes update, know how to fix it and should have the fix posted on my next modding day!

Server console spam

10.5.2025 20:07:23 [Server Debug] Entity casuariidae:rallidae-nest-tribonyxmortierii-incubating is not blessed

Thanks Bleuzenn! The satiety and protein levels are very high for these birds, to the point it is better than a slow trickle of calories through the year, just all at once when they lay their eggs. Talked with some folks who have done emu farms on servers and I think I'll keep it as is for now.

Glad you're enjoying it and had a pleasant surprise Litesalt!

Downloaded this for the cassowaries and emus, but came across a cape barren in the wild and now I can never play without this mod. I work with them irl and it was a nice surprise (I didn't view the spoiler for sp list, wanted to find out for myself haha) 

Thank you for making these mods! Love this one especially- waterfowl included, 10/10 🦆

That might be simplest. For a full year, the payoff of those eggs would need to be large to justify keeping vs normal hens, though I do like seeing them in the wild.

Thank you for your mods, by the way, they add a lot of life and variety to the game. The server I'm playing on also uses them. 💟

I'll think about it, though might just set everything to 1-2 weeks instead of calculating anything special since realistic times aren't really celebrated

If the real cooldown can't be displayed or the false one hidden in the tooltip, I would at least mention the breeding method and yearly schedule here on the mod page, and ideally in the handbook too.

My main idea is that I'm waffling between keeping animals have an accurate breeding cool down or just having it be a week or two like the base game animals. As it is now, the Cape Barren Goose only breed yearly, but because there isn't a tool tip indicating longer than those two week cool down folks get confused when it takes so long

The Cape Barren Goose won't seem to breed or build a nest. I have a pair fenced in far enough away that my presence shouldn't interfere, but near enough that they're loaded in. The female has shown "several days left before ready to mate" for a whole season, and both her and the male have been fed a mixture of onions and dry grass from a large trough. Any ideas?

Noted!

BUG: emu pelts hang one block lower from antler mounts

Elephant birds are already on my planned roster, but they'll be in their own pack so folks can be more selective with them Sulka21

It would be awesome to see Elephant birds added to this list (even though they are Aepyornithiformes, but a close cousin to Casuarifomes) It could serve somewhat like one of your Rhinos, being a very large source of meat and resources, but also being dangerous to fight due to its sheer size

In theory they should be, though I may have missed some rope attachment points on all the birds. 

Is it intended that geese cannot be roped like other animals and dragged to a pen? I tried earlier and was unable to rope them either while they were awake and walking around or while sleeping.

Very strange, I've reduced their audible range down to 80 meters and reduced their idle call frequency in the recent updates. I'm not sure why only the geese are producing these results, though I do wonder if there is some sort of audio bug causing these issues that I'm not testing for, like if a certain combo of view distance, server situation or setting, or some other factor is at play. Could be other sounds have this issue but it's more noticable with the geese

I'm having the same problem with the sound of geese. They're super loud and they CONSTANTLY make sounds, it's like nonstop chatter when they're loaded. I am sure it's bugged because I once left an area with geese, and the game kept playing the sound files. Only a restart fixed it.

Thanks for saying so Crabembix! Glad you're enjoying them!

Can't tell you how jazzed I was to see a little baby emu bouncing around in the desert for the first time! Even if they aren't tameable, I'll enjoy having the little puffballs around.

Which is exactly what happens if a sound file is saved incorrectly. I've checked over the goose sound files and they all seem fine, but something is up. 

Tentharchitect I think a more exact way of describing it is that they sound like they're right next to you when they're really far away. It's like the sound is coming from right next to the player

They are supposed to be audible from 120 blocks like the wolves, though I have gotten some similar reports from other folks. Haven't yet figured out what explains these observations but you're not the only one who reports them being audible from 200+ blocks away

Hey loving the mod pack! I've noticed that the Cape Barren Geese are really loud compared to other animals. It feels like I can hear them from more than 200 blocks away. Is that intended?

Sure, you can use the Cassowary animations for a Vintage Story mod!

Hello, I'm making a mount for my first mod and wanted to see if I could use your Cassowary animations as a reference.

They do not sadly, I hadn't realized it at first but the nest system I implemented blocks gen progression. I might have to scrap the nests to get domestication of birds to work, though I'm undecided

So, Do the Emus get more tame if you breed them? Because that would be really nice if they did... instead of them running around like idiots like they do in RL XD

Place them down on the ground the hatch them, or cook them in basegame meals like chicken eggs. The eggs are not compatible with EF recipes

How do i use emu eggs? are they comaptible with EF?

Always for impatient french players...
Voici la traduction fr. pour la v1.0.09  fr.json

And making my rounds to here!
Cuddly_Khan was correct, the mods listed with Plus are those that have animals outside the family or subfamily it is named for. 

GracefulCarrot, the small troughs require white listing to get animals to eat from them and I'm admittedly procrastinating on figuring out the patching format. The large troughs are needed to feed FotSA animals

And to Pislikeller, that compatibility will likely have to come from the Butchering mod's side. 

Are any of these mods compatible with the Butchering mod? If not, will they ever be made compatible? Having it work with the Fauna of Stone Age animals would be amazing.

This is probably due to my own oversight and the fact that it is incredibly late...however, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to feed the geese. I just want tiny geese, how do I feed big geese T_T

I assume it's because the Cape Barren Goose (Cereopsis novaehollandiae) isn't part of the Casuariidae family, and likewise with the Dinornithiformes mod, there are probably some new zealandic flightless birds that were added to that mod that are from outside of that family of bird as well. TheNiteFox

Just curious, I see a couple of your mods have Plus in the name now. Does it mean anything over those that dont have a plus in the name? Or are you just naming it this way now for update sorting purposes? xD

XD no it wasn't intentional FennecFyre
I forget that a few of the default settings give animals double damage, and left the cassowaries aggro range instead of adjusting it. Should be fixed momentarily.

AlexanderRahl 
I do plan on making the great apes at some point but Neanderthals are outside my time range. If you contacted the creators of the bandits mod they might let you reskin the bandits into other hominids

I was listening to a video the other day about Neanderthal's and how they nearly wiped out our species long ago.

Im absolutely flabbergasted that nobody has made a Neanderthal's mod yet for this game. You could probably reskin drifters, give them clubs and spears, 50% more health than the player, a natural 0.5 damage resistance, and have them spawn in caves with campfires, flint tools and hay beds. Make them hostile to the player and have them wander around at night.

Ive caught some kind of bug lol. i NEED this sort of mod in my life, and i wish i knew how to mod to make it happen. But after subbing to several of your prehistoric animal mods, i think it would go great with them.

I'm not sure if it's intentional as a joke, but the new geese are stupidly aggressive, very loud, and seem to spawn in rather large, bloodthirsty flocks : P

That should work well enough, Thanks for the quick reply.

Yeah there isn't a current system to do so, you can go into the entity files and set the spawn chance to 0 for the species you don't want to see though

I don't use the Biomes mod, no. I'd rather not have to start a new world if it could be helped but i understand if disabbling some species wont work.

Are you using the Biomes mod? You could go into the Realms file and make the entire world count as the Australasian realm by deleting the other Southern Hemisphere realms and adding Australasia as the only entry in the Northern Hemisphere. This would let you add mods with content from multiple parts of the world and only have the Australasian content (Ie... Floral Zones Neozeylandic, a few of the Wild craft modules)

Np, I get it. As with a project of this scope it makes drawing a line neccesary. On a side note, I want to add the Dingo but most of the Canine pack wouldn't fit the feel, is there a way to disable some animals in any given animal pack?

Maaaybe, I would really like to add the extinct Vombatiformes but the Holocene and up rule is more to keep me from endlessly expanding my scope. I might do those after the 700ish Holocene animals I have left but I am open to commissions to bring certain clades up to the front of the list. My irl work hours are flexible and being paid to mod means I can take time off of that and get more modding done overall, so the more folks commission to have stuff made early the faster animals could come out over all.

Nice to hear you are going for an Australian play through! Got a couple more critter's you'll be able to add soonish before Australia won't get much content for a while

Hey Tenth, i was wondering if you could bend your 'Holocene and up' rule just a little and make a mini species pack with just Diprotodon and Thylacaleo in it so i could do a Australia pack and still have an animal that loosely fits the big 'cat' and 'rhino' niches? Although they could just be added into a Vombatiformes pack to be fair as they are both related ironically. I am very excited to see your future Animal and biome packs. (So far my main gimmick with the packs has been to treat vintage story as if it was set in australia)

On a side, "The emus are set to only lay a bunch of eggs once a year" That explains SO much of the issues i've been having trying to get them to breed . . .

Looking at the v1.0.6 patch notes...

Spawn nests with eggs, you say? I suddenly need to go play VS.

@TorbusB 
The emus are set to only lay a bunch of eggs once a year, so they have a long down time between

When I was young I lived by a farm that had an Emu on it to protect the cows. I had never seen one before and my first introduction to it was it coming out of the bushes while snarling at me. Being young, not getting a good look at it (my flight reflexes kicked in immediately), and having just watched Jurassic park, I thought it was a raptor, so I sprinted in the other direction. Mind you I'm American and we aren't used to seeing things like that, especially in Alabama. It took months to convince my parents that I even saw something in the first place. They finally asked the owner of the farm and it was indeed an Emu. 

Hello, love your mods!  I'm not sure if I'm having problem or if this is proper behavior, but my emus absolutely refuse to lay eggs!  I've had them for over half an in-game year now and they're still "Several days until ready to mate" with no end in sight.  Do they simply have a very long growth period or are they bugged?  I've tried several methods of "fixing" them but with no luck, so I figured it was time to come back to the source.

Understandable, the only subspecies i think might be worth adding of the three is the Tasmanian Emu anyway. Thanks for responding

Endarius_Termina
I was on the fence about adding them, but decided against it as getting into subspecies will wildly expand my scope. As for the Vombatiformes pack, that is exactly the roster I intended to do whenever I get to it. It'll likely be one of the two animal packs that goes with the North East Australian Floral Zone

Will the three Extinct subspecies of Emus be added eventually? and I've been wondering if a marsupial pack could be done, maybe Vombatiformes (Koalas, Wombats, Northern Hairy Nose Wombat, and Southern Hairy Nose Wombat)

No plans to do terror birds as they died out too far back for my scope. I'm on the fence about seriemas

Any plans to do Cariamiformes? Would love to have terror birds and seriemas running around the steppe, maybe even domesticateable as well.

I had to double take the third photo. Thought the bird had it's head in the ground lol xD

Just checked it, looks like it's bugged, I'm a couple days away from finishing the next animal pack, I'll do a bug sweep and fix that then!
Thanks for pointing it out corny

Is there a special way to get the pelt off these? I've noticed emus aren't dropping them, though I haven't checked with other birds yet.

Thank you for saying so! :) Glad you're enjoying them!

Oh that's great, I was worried that would mean I wouldn't see new animals in new areas. Thank you so much, loving all your mods :) Tentharchitect

dumfuu It works just like the base game population caps since 1.19. The population cap is only relevant to entities loaded in, so if you're on single player and you have a flock of 8 emu nearby you just need to walk around .5 to 1km away and another flock can spawn. Killing them until the local population is below the spawn limit (2 for emu 1 for cassowary) will allow more to spawn again locally as well.

Hi, I'm curious on how the population cap works. Does a population cap mean that if I find a certain amount of these birds and they're not killed, I will never find them spawning anywhere else assuming the cap is met? They'll only respawn if they somehow die?

Or is the population cap based on how many are loaded at a certain moment? Or location based? Thank you.

Sorry yapludepatte, I am HR! Bwuahaha!

But yes, I'd like to do the Moa at some point. They are pretty much guaranteed whenever Flish and I do the Neozeylandic plants and I do two animal packs to go along with them.

now do new zealand birds like the moa and familly, or... i... hmmmmm i will call HR !

All of them are compatible, though as more come out you might want to be selective based on your computer hardware and personal preference. I have 70-72 planned, so later on you might only choose a couple flightless bird packs, a handful of herd animals, one or two predators and so forth. With the Biomes mod enabled, they'll be more reasonably balanced across the world however, so from a gameplay perspective you could have all of them.

Can I use all of your fauna mods together?

Thanks itinerare, I agree, spending time to make 3-6 small packs versus one big one is probably a better use of my time as well. With how the spawn groups go it'll be more impactful to game play that way, and should fill out the world's animal diversity faster

I suppport more smaller packs that spread the variety out a bit! As cool as it is to see the big packs that cover large clades in depth, I also think it makes a lot of sense to favor a wider variety of animal life overall, and it definitely makes sense to go about all of this in whatever way reduces the risk of burnout.

And it's fixed!

No need to be sorry ;)

I guess I could switch to the english version before giving you the name tab... ^^

@Laerinok

Ah. Yeah no, mines does not show it for some odd reason so I am just waiting for the mod author to update when they have the chance. Again sorry I have no idea how to highlight names. 

Shunte

Sorry, I thought it was named "objects" in english, but it is "items". But I can see them in anyway

@Laerinok 

I am not sure what you mean by objects list but when I search under the everything tab they are not there either. I already let the mod author know on the discord and provided snap shots so it will be fixed in the next update. Also forgive me I do not know how to highlight names lol.

Aepyornithiformes, Dinornithiformes, Rheidae and Struthionidae are on my long list. I had been doing votes but was getting burned out after so many huge clades were leading the list, now I'm doing two animal packs after every plant pack I make with Flishster. For the most part those animal packs will have animals native to the same area the plant pack covers. The upcoming plant pack is the East Asiatic region, followed by the Neozeylandic and Mediterranean, so that should give you some idea of what's coming!

I'll get the bug where they are missing from the creature tab in the next update!
No plans for Phorusrhacidae, they died out a good while before my criteria but I do have some giant extinct birds on my planned list!

Any plans for Phorusrhacidae? 😄

Shunte

I can confirm. But you can find them in the "objects" tab.

OMG Yes!!! I was hoping for an Ostrich so you can ride on them like mounts. Maybe a future update?? But this is definitely going in my single player game I love these mods keep up the good work. 

Edit: Testing on my singleplayer world and I do not see them listed under creatures in creative?

Thanks for the translation Laerinok!

Thankfully the APR-F0015 serum wore off and they are back to their usual selves

with the firearms mod, it is finally time for revenge

and we're without even a single truck mounted LMG, this will be no fair fight. But we didn't expect the birds to fight fair.

Finally. Real dinosaurs.

˙˙˙˙ǝlqɐʎɐld sᴉ ʎɹoʇS ǝƃɐʇuᴉΛ ˙˙˙˙ʎllɐuᴉℲ

Hello.

Glad to see another animal life in game !

This is the fr.json

It is a personal thought, but I find the shape is a little too big. I know they are very big birds, but more than twice trader's cart height I find it's quite unreal 😅 (Althought we are in an unreal world ^^)

I can't wait to avenge our fallen brothers. YOU MAY HAVE WON LAST TIME YOU DAMN BIRDS, BUT THIS TIME YOU WILL KNOW MY WRATH!

The only good emu is a dead emu! Distant Klendathu noises