Doggy Talents Behavior Modes

A dog's behavior mode determines how it reacts to other entities and to you. The current mode is shown as a tip above the dog's name, and modes are switched from the dog's information menu.

• Docile (D) - the dog follows you but attacks nothing, and will play fetch when you throw a Throw Bone or Throw Stick.
• Wandering (W) - the dog stays near its food bowl and waits for commands; set its bowl by placing one and bringing the dog within 1 block of it.
• Aggressive (A) - the dog follows you and attacks anything that attacks you or that you attack.
• Berserker (B) - the dog follows you and attacks any mob that comes near.
• Tactical (T) - the dog follows you but only attacks the entity you mark using a command beam (with the appropriate item in hand).
• Incapacitated (I) - in older versions, when a dog's health drops to 1 HP it becomes covered in blood, refuses to fight or be interacted with (except to be made to sit), and cannot die until its health recovers; feeding it a cake forces a full-health recovery. This mode can be disabled in the configuration.

The dog also tracks hunger, shown as a number between the mode and gender tips above its name. The maximum is 120 points; once hunger reaches 0 the dog starts taking starvation damage. Genders, which are configurable, affect breeding: with genders enabled a dog is male (M) or female (M/F tips) and will only breed with a dog of the opposite gender.