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Better genetics is a 1.20.6 datapack that adds a twist to animal breeding. Wild animals now spawn with random statistics. Your goal is to find animals with good properties and breed them together.

BASICS

Craft an Animal Analyzer with a wheat and a carrot on a stick, as shown bellow.

Better Genetics Minecraft Data Pack

Right click an animal with the Animal Analyzer to view its statistics. Hover over lines of text in chat for additional info about a certain statistic.
Note 1: Right-clicking some animals (horses, wolves, llamas etc.) may not trigger the scan. To get around that either punch them or try standing furether away (approximately 6-7 blocks away works best).
Note 2: Punching an animal with the Animal Analyzer or a mutation catalyst (see below) deals no damage.

FEATURES
  • Most animals get asigned a Growth stat (determines how fast babies grow into adults) and a Fertility stat (determines how often they can breed).
  • Most animals have the ability to get asigned a Special Mutation.
  • Cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, rabbits, horses and llamas now drop different amounts of meat, leather, feathers etc. depending on their stats.
  • Chickens may lay eggs more often depending on their Egg Laying value.
  • Sheep have a chance of spawning with the ability to regrow wool without having to eat grass.
  • Some rabbits are more likely to drop rabbit's foot.
  • Bees can produce honey faster depending on their stats.
  • Wolves now spawn with randomly generated Attack damage, Armor and Movement speed attributes.
  • Cats will bring players different morning gifts based on their Personality. Some cats will also give their owners positive potion effects.
  • Some parrots will apply negative potion effects to hostile mobs.
  • Foxes have many boosts that help accelerate the breeding process of nearby animals.
  • Striders and camels will spawn with varied speed.
  • Goats have varying ramming damage and aggression.
BREEDING

Animal breeding is the main focus of this datapack. Offspring inherit stats from their parents: the baby's stat value is the average of both parents with a small chance for it to be increased by one. If the Easy Breeding setting is turned off, the stats may also be lowered by one. You can get perfect animals by selecting babies with stats better than their parents and breed them together.

MUTATION CATALYSTS

Mutation catalysts are special items that allow you to increase most stats of an animal without breeding. They come in two varieties:
  • Weak catalyst (common): increases one non-max stat by 1
  • Potent catalyst (rare): increases all stats that can be increased by 1.
Punch animals with mutation catalysts to use them.
Catalysts can be found in most types of loot/treasure chests and are more common in rarer structures (i.e. strongholds).
Mutation catalysts do not work on bees for technical reasons.


COMPATIBILITY

  • Version: Minecraft Java 1.20.5 or higher
  • Servers: This datapack is compatible with any 1.20.5+ vanilla server. I cannot guarantee it will work on Spigot and other modded servers.
  • Other datapacks: Better Genetics will conflict with any datapack that changes animal loot tables, such as datapacks that make animals drop their heads. It should work in combination with most other datapacks.
FINAL NOTES

Depending on the feedback I may update the datapack to support more animals, add more features to already supported mobs or balance them (because all animals are balanced but some animals are more balanced than others). Therefore any feedback and suggestions are highly apreaciated.

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1.20.6 compatibility : by Sunna 05/01/2024 9:12:42 amtoday

  • The datapack is now compatible with Minecraft 1.20.6
  • A normal carrot on a stick no longer works for scanning animals. You have to craft an Animal Analyzer.
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11/11/2023 3:28 pm
Level 9 : Apprentice Prince
Kaiiak
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Hello, I am using Better Genetics on a 1.20.1 Paper server, and for some reason whenever I breed mobs, it sends some numbers in chat.
"241", "226", and some others, depending on the animal.


Any way to solve?
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10/14/2023 7:49 am
Level 1 : New Miner
Ginuska
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i have bred my camels and i have got camel with speed 46 i dont think it is normal
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08/12/2023 7:29 amhistory
Level 1 : New Explorer
Mabra_
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Are the mutations and other stats that aren't just numbers hereditary, random, or both ?

Is there a list of all the mutations somewhere ?
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07/25/2023 10:55 am
Level 1 : New Collective
ip-sylotl
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you are genius! IT`S VERY COOL,NICE,GOOD! thumb_up
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07/09/2023 6:33 pm
Level 1 : New Miner
Morticiandrigby
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I am having an issue where bees are not able to breed more than once. Once a bee has been bread once it wont accept flowers to breed again. Thank you
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07/22/2023 6:33 am
Level 65 : High Grandmaster Technomancer
Sunna
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Thanks for reporting the bug. I'm working on a fix rn
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06/17/2023 4:19 pm
Level 1 : New Miner
Morticiandrigby
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best data pack ever
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06/11/2023 12:36 am
Level 1 : New Miner
Morticiandrigby
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can you update it to 1.20. I love this data pack
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06/11/2023 4:39 pmhistory
Level 65 : High Grandmaster Technomancer
Sunna
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I'm working on a 1.20 update. In the meantime you can keep using the current version in 1.20. All camels will get their stats assigned when you update (I'm not adding genetics to sniffers because they hatch from eggs and the system I'm using wouldn't work with them).
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04/30/2023 4:16 pm
Level 2 : Apprentice Miner
UserNinetyNine
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how compatible is this with custom mobs from other datapacks?
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