Animal Feeding Trough FAQ

Craft a Feeding Trough, place it on the ground near your animals, and right-click it with food to fill it. Animals within its range will eat from it automatically and breed on their own.

Use the same food each animal already eats to breed, like wheat for cows and sheep, carrots for pigs, and seeds for chickens. The trough accepts any valid breeding food and feeds whichever nearby animal it applies to.

The trough feeds animals in a radius around the block rather than the whole world. Place troughs closer together in large pens so every animal stays within range of at least one.

Yes, the mod is available for Bedrock and Pocket Edition as well as Java, so the trough behaves the same way across those versions. Check that you installed the build matching your edition before expecting it to appear.

The most common causes are an empty trough, the wrong food for that animal, or animals standing outside its range. Refill it with the correct breeding food and make sure the animals are close enough to reach it.

Yes, once animals eat from a stocked trough they enter love mode and breed without you feeding each one by hand. This makes it useful for automatic breeding farms where you just keep the trough filled.

Yes, place the trough in your pen and keep it stocked so animals breed continuously. Pair it with a way to collect the babies or drops so the pen doesn't overcrowd.

Babies don't breed, so they won't trigger the trough's breeding behavior, but they still grow up over time. The trough mainly benefits adult animals that can enter love mode.

It generally works with any animal that uses standard breeding food, including many modded mobs. If a modded animal uses a custom breeding item, feed it that item in the trough.

Each trough only checks nearby animals, so a reasonable number won't hurt performance. If you notice lag, reduce how many troughs you place or how often they're restocked.

It adds a trough block that holds food so nearby mobs can feed themselves. Mobs that can be tempted will seek out a trough containing their favorite food, enter love mode, and breed automatically.

It adds the feeding trough. You can put up to a stack of food into it, and nearby mobs will take the food from there.

Place the trough in an animal pen and put food inside it. Stay nearby, since the game might unload chunks otherwise, and mobs will take the food and breed.

Mobs that can be tempted will look for a trough with their favorite food, such as chickens for seeds and pigs for carrots. They behave as if a player fed them, entering love mode and eventually breeding.

It supports Minecraft 1.21.6, 1.21.7, 1.21.10, 1.21.11, 26.1.2, and 26.2.

It is available for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, and Quilt.

It requires Architectury API. For Minecraft versions below 1.19, it also requires Fabric API.

Yes, you can configure the trough to suit your gameplay needs.

The mod registers the feeding trough block. It does not add new mobs; it works with existing mobs that can be tempted by food.