Starborn Breeding – a rare star for a lucky litter

Breed your tame animals as always. Now and then the Norns smile on a birth: the newborn comes into the world with one star more than its parent. The chance is small, 1 in 30 by default, so a lucky cub is something to remember. Vanilla breeding cannot raise stars at all: a cub always gets its parent's level. With Starborn Breeding, patient breeding can lift a whole line of 0-star wolves to 2 stars.

Animals from other mods that breed the vanilla way are lucky too.

A lucky birth

1. Tame and feed your animals as usual. They fall in love and give birth as in vanilla.
2. At every birth the Norns roll once. With a chance of 1 in 30 the newborn gains a star.
3. If they do, every player within 64 m sees it, with a short chime and a golden glow on the newborn:

The Norns smile on your herd Wolf Cub – born with one star

• It stays for life. A lucky cub grows into a lucky wolf, and a lucky egg hatches into a lucky chick that grows into a lucky hen. Their young inherit the new level, as in vanilla.
• Sometimes twice. After a lucky roll the Norns roll once more. At 1 in 30 a newborn gains two stars with a chance of 1 in 900 (The Norns smile twice on your herd).
• Two stars at most. No newborn rises above 2 stars, the highest level vanilla shows. A 2-star parent has 2-star young, as before. A 1-star parent can only gain one more.
• You can tell them apart. A lucky animal or egg keeps a golden line in its hover text: Norn-blessed: one star more at birth. A star also changes how wolves, boars, hens, moose and asksvin look.
• Nothing else changes. Love, pregnancy time, the number of animals in a pen and the food they need stay as in vanilla.

The real thing

Vanilla breeding (Procreation): a fed tame animal next to a partner collects love points (hearts) over time. After 3 (lox 4) it is pregnant, and 60 s later (lox 120 s) the young is born. The young gets the level of the parent that carried it. A wild 1-star wolf you tamed has 1-star cubs; the stars of the other parent do not count. Starborn rolls at exactly that moment and adds its star on top.

How often luck comes at 1 in 30:

Configuration

BepInEx/config/zap.starbornbreeding.cfg

Luck (server-synced, admin only):

• ChanceOneIn (30): a newborn gains a star with a chance of 1 in this number. 1 makes every birth lucky, 0 turns the luck off.
• ChancePerAnimal (empty): own chances for single animals, for example Wolf:20, Lox:50, Hen:0. The parent's prefab name counts first, then the newborn's (Wolf_cub, ChickenEgg). 0 turns the luck off for that animal. Animals not listed use ChanceOneIn.
• LuckCanRepeat (on): after a lucky roll, roll once more at the same chance for another star. Off: never more than one extra star per birth.
• MaxStars (2): luck never lifts a newborn above this many stars. Raise it only with a mod that knows higher levels.

Client:

• Announce (on): message and chime when a lucky animal is born near you.
• ShowBlessing (on): the golden line in the hover text of lucky animals and eggs.

Multiplayer and compatibility

• The player whose game runs the animal rolls, once per birth, as vanilla handles the birth itself. The level is stored with the animal, so everyone sees the same stars.
• Every player and the server need the mod. Requires Jötunn.
• Works with Wolfborn (their cubs) and with feeding mods such as Feeding Troughs. Dragons from Elemental Dragons hatch from found eggs, not from breeding, so the mod leaves them alone.
• Starborn Breeding changes no prefab and adds no item. You can add or remove it at any time; animals keep their stars.

Deutsch

Ein seltener Stern für einen glücklichen Wurf. Du züchtest deine zahmen Tiere wie immer. Ab und zu sind die Nornen einer Geburt hold: Das Junge kommt mit einem Stern mehr als sein Elterntier zur Welt. Die Chance ist klein, 1 zu 30, also etwas Besonderes. Im Grundspiel bekommt ein Junges immer genau die Stufe des Elterntiers; mit Starborn Breeding kann geduldige Zucht eine Linie von 0 auf 2 Sterne heben.

Welche Tiere: Wolf (und Wolfborn), Eber, Lox, Elch, Huhn und Asksvin, dazu Tiere anderer Mods, die wie im Grundspiel Junge bekommen. Bei Huhn und Asksvin bekommt das Ei den Stern, das Küken schlüpft damit.

Der Moment: Jeder Spieler im Umkreis von 64 m hört einen hellen Klang, sieht einen goldenen Schein am Neugeborenen und liest:

Die Nornen sind deiner Herde hold Wolfsjunges – mit einem Stern geboren

Für immer: Das Junge behält den Stern beim Großwerden, das Ei beim Schlüpfen, und seine eigenen Jungen erben ihn. Glückstiere und Glückseier tragen im Hovertext die goldene Zeile „Nornensegen: ein Stern mehr bei der Geburt“.

Grenzen: Nach einem Glückswurf würfeln die Nornen noch einmal; zwei Sterne mehr gibt es mit 1 zu 900. Mehr als 2 Sterne gibt es nicht, ein 2-Sterne-Tier hat 2-Sterne-Junge wie bisher. Liebe, Tragzeit, Herdengröße und Futter bleiben wie im Grundspiel.

Einstellungen (zap.starbornbreeding.cfg, vom Server-Admin): ChanceOneIn (30; 1 = jede Geburt, 0 = aus), ChancePerAnimal (eigene Chancen je Tier, z. B. Wolf:20, Lox:50, Hen:0), LuckCanRepeat (zweiter Wurf, an), MaxStars (2). Für jeden selbst: Announce (Nachricht und Klang) und ShowBlessing (die goldene Zeile).

Mehrspieler: Gewürfelt wird einmal pro Geburt beim Spieler, dessen Spiel das Tier gerade führt; die Stufe steht beim Tier, alle sehen dieselben Sterne. Alle Spieler und der Server brauchen die Mod.

Changelog

1.0.1

• Eggs of starred hens and asksvin now count for recipes (cooked egg, mushroom omelette, pancakes, Viking cupcake and the like). In vanilla a hen's egg of quality 2 or more was never counted. Cooking takes ordinary eggs first and keeps lucky ones for last.
• A lucky hen that turns into a Cluck Fighter keeps her Norn blessing (the star always stayed).
• Checked with the ZAP pack: lucky animals drop twice as much per star like any other (also with Drop That), and lucky hens eat at Feeding Troughs bowls.

1.0.0

• First release: every birth of a tame animal has a small chance (1 in 30 by default) to give the newborn one star more than its parent. Works for wolves and Wolfborn, boars, lox, moose, and the eggs of hens and asksvin.
• After a lucky roll the Norns roll once more for another star (1 in 900 at the default), never above 2 stars. Chance, repeat, cap and own chances per animal are server settings.
• Players nearby see a message with a chime and a golden glow. The star stays when the young grows up or the egg hatches, and lucky animals and eggs say so in their hover text.