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Build a Farmyard Petting Zoo for Your Players

All four companions react when players interact with them, so they make a great centerpiece for a spawn town or a lobby. Here's how to set up a small petting zoo that shows off each one.

Build the pens

1. Pick a flat area near spawn where players pass often.

2. Build four small fenced pens using vanilla blocks. Use fences with gates, hay bales, and a few flowers or grass for atmosphere.

3. Place a sign at each pen naming its resident: Colonel the Chicken, Pim the Pig, Sneezy the Cow and Shyler the Sheep.

4. Write a short hint on each sign about what happens, for example "Say hi and he'll sneeze!" for Sneezy, or "She's shy, so watch her blush" for Shyler.

Place the companions

1. Stand inside each pen and spawn the matching companion with the commands from the pack's installation guide.

2. Give Colonel some open ground to work with, since his ground-pecking animation looks best with space around it.

3. Keep Pim's pen a little apart from the others if you like, because his farting effects are the loudest joke in the yard.

4. Interact with each companion yourself to confirm its animations play before you open the area to players.

To make sure the zoo survives a server restart, test it after your next restart. If anything breaks, run /meg reload and then /mm reload, and respawn any companion that's missing.