Description

This mod includes the sloth bear, the moon bear, the spectacled bear and the base game bears with new models, cool animations and AI behaviors. I will be adding a few extinct bears, and then eventually some variations of other bears, like grizzly, kodiak, spirit bear, golden moon bear, etc...

Untamed Wilds: Ursidae is compatible with almost all other creature mods right out of the gate. If you want all creature mods to interact with each other, you can download my other mod Entities Interact which adds predator/prey compatibility behavior to most creature mods.

The bears spawnrate is nearly equivalent to the base game. Females and cubs spawn at half the rate of males, which spawn solitary. If you want to change the spawning rate of my bears, or any creature from the base game and most other mods, check out Entities Configuration, which will allow you to quickly change the spawnrate of creatures with an in-game menu and sliders.

I am not a fan of being assassinated by silent ninja bears and wanted to change them in the base game. However, I also wanted to try my hand at modeling and animating, so instead I made this!

New Additions

• Added the 3 missing bears that aren't in the base game.
  
  • Sloth Bears - A very aggressive bear
  • Spectacled Bears - A short faced bear with unique facial markings
  • Moon Bears - A heavily furred bear, with unique chest markings.
• Bear pelts! When you harvest bears, you no longer receive hides but instead get the bear's pelt.
  • This pelt can be placed on the ground and used as a decorative bear rug.
    • You can place the pelt in the crafting grid to convert it into a wall mounted rug, and vice versa.
  • You can place the pelt into the crafting grid with a knife to receive the equivalent hides they would have dropped.
  • The next part of this project is to add taxidermies that will use the pelts as part of the recipes. If you have any ideas or feedback of what types of taxidermies you would like to see, let me know!
• Head mounts! There are recipes to craft a taxidermy head mount for every bear, which can be placed on an antler/shield mount.

What to expect

One of the goals of this mod is to bring bear behavior closer to how they act in nature without losing the challenge of the base game. Some things have been changed to provide a new experience when dealing with the ursidae family. With that being said, things are subject to change for a balance of game mechanics and fun for the player.

• Bear aggression is not always 100% (sloth bears and polars are extremely aggressive).
  • The seek behavior for most bears won't trigger when near a player as long as they are saturated, unless you get too close.
• Mama bears aggreession is much higher.
  • Cubs will not seek out a player, but they will defend themselves if harmed.
• Bears diets include fruits and they will eat berries; some might go for your crops, most will eat berry bushes.
  • Bears hunt more often, whether it is for insects, fruit, meat or the player.
    
  • Bears can eat loose items from the ground (if it is in their diet) and they will eat from troughs.
• Brown bears base speed is faster than the player, the polar bear is the slowest.
  • Polar bear swim speed is the fastest, though you should be able to barely outswim them (I think).
• Bears will make noises as you wander through the area.
  
• Bears can be bred like all creatures from the base game.
  • The breeding process takes a bit longer than other animals in the base game.
  • They are not pets and are not domesticated , just tamed (maybe someday).
• Female bears are nearly equivalent in health and damage as the base game bears.
  • Male bears are a little more deadly, larger and drop a little more loot.
• The spawn conditions for bears are more in line with Earth.
  
  • Bears only spawn on runtime.
• Bears are scavengers and will eat carcasses from the FotSA mods.
• Bears from the base game have been disabled.
  • If you use EntitiesConfiguration, make sure to disable the base game bears as it overrides this mod's disabling patch.

Roadmap

• Brown Bear
  
• Black Bear
• Panda Bear
• Polar Bear
• Sun Bear
• Moon Bear (asian black bear)
• Sloth Bear
• Spectacled Bear
• Giant Short-Faced Bear (extinct)
  
• Short-Faced Bear (extinct)
  
  • I may settle on a different species, but since I've already added compatibility for these 11 in Entites Interact, I may decide not to.
• Steppe Bear (extinct)
• Proper bear cub models (not mini-mes)
• Taxidermies and bear pelts; maybe bear trophies
• Bear meat
• Bear sub-species (grizzly, kodiak, spirit, etc...)
• Additional animations
• Additional sounds
• Bear dens (possibly, would have to look at the spawner mod)
• Butchering compatibility
• Biomes compatibility
• Bear mounts and saddles (1.20), would likely require a new animation since currently bear running is very bouncy

A real big thanks to TenthArchitect for a lot of help and guidance. And a thanks to everyone else who were willing to give me feedback.