Animal Garden Prairie Dog Wiki & Guide

Prairie dogs spawn naturally in plains and meadow biomes during the day. They appear in small groups and come in several color variations, so explore these biomes and look for the distinctive upright animals on the ground.

You can tame prairie dogs with any food item in your inventory—there's no specific food required. Simply have food in your hand and interact with a wild prairie dog to tame it.

You can configure which items prairie dogs dig up by editing the mod's configuration file. If you want to disable digging entirely, check your config settings to remove all items from the dig list.

Tame a prairie dog first, then use the behavior modes to set it to follow mode. You can cycle through wander, rest, and follow modes by interacting with your tamed pet.

Yes—tamed prairie dogs bark a warning when an enemy targets you, giving you advance notice of danger. This makes them useful as an early warning system during fights.

Wild prairie dogs are designed to panic and flee when attacked, making them difficult to catch. You need to tame them peacefully with food instead of trying to capture them through combat.

The mod has a maximum spawn limit per area to prevent performance issues. You can adjust this limit in the configuration file if needed.

Wild prairie dogs go to sleep at night and won't spawn or move around. Tamed prairie dogs continue to follow their behavior mode regardless of the time of day.

Yes, the mod is fully configurable—you can edit which biomes prairie dogs appear in and adjust spawning rules in the configuration file.

Try moving away and back toward your pet, or switch its behavior mode to reset its state. If it's still unresponsive, check that it's actually tamed by attempting to interact with it again.