Yeah i know, i was making a joke, sorry

@DinoDanger Read the description; this mod is now essentially present in vanilla. If you want a balance-tweak or graphics-tweak version, I'm open to that if people ask specifically, but the core of the mod is redundant in 1.3, so I don't plan to update.

1.3?

You did this before it was cool :)

RIP

Congratulations on making a Mod that is so good that it is now in the Vanilla rendition. Good job!

@test: Yep; see the last paragraph of the description.

and by that i meant that 1.3 added straw floor

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Graze Up and similar will allow animals to eat grass things in special ways, but don't do anything about terrain so far as I see (floor is terrain). From a superficial look, Animals Forage is probably looking for the Diggable terrain affordance, which doesn't apply to straw floor (and shouldn't, because you can place it on top of stone). I don't think there's anything there that really applies here. If Animals Forage were to supply anything special for compatibility, then I'd be happy to support that, but it doesn't advertise doing so.

Graze Up might be an example, since it allows animals to forage for grass through snow, though I actually share your concerns about balance in this case. Grass generally won't grow through a straw floor AFAIK, and if animals are eating the straw it should be destroyed same as if they were eating the hay normally.

That said, the mod Animals Forage might be more appropriate, since then your chickens are rooting around for bugs, which I could easily see getting into a hay floor. But you might already be compatible with that mod (?) because I thought I saw chickens digging up bugs recently. I just can't remember weather they were doing so on my new barn floor...

@Caelaran: That's probably possible, but not in a purely-XML mod so far as I know, and I'm not* writing C# mods. (*yet? I'm proficient in Java, so C# would be easy to pick up). I'd have to see what "some of the grass mods" do—examples would be helpful.

More importantly, I don't think it would be balanced to have it work that way, unless we went down the rabbit hole of upkeep, rotting, relative nutrition values, etc. … so I'll probably just keep it simple. As it stands, it's a more than viable option for general flooring earlier-game, especially on some maps, so I'm sensitive to ideas that would buff it.

Any way to have the floor be a persistent food source for the animals, in a way similar to some of the grass mods around here?

@Phant0m5: MoreFloors and Expanded Floors. I've updated the description.

So this looks fantastic and I'll be trying it out immediately, but I'm curious what other mods add straw flooring since you mentioned them in the mod description.