Version 2.0.0 — Dinosaur Suite Relaunch

This is a breaking clean/reset release. Remove all older dinosaur mod and DinoCore/DinoRuntime ZIPs before installing. Also recommend deleting old config files just in case.

• Reorganized DinoCore into DinoRuntime, a lightweight shared dependency for combat utilities, safe-navigation helpers, and mounted-owner support.

• Removed species spawning, balancing, drops, and family-specific gameplay settings from DinoRuntime.

• Standardized every dinosaur family and DinoRuntime to version 2.0.0.

• Every dinosaur family now requires DinoRuntime 2.0.0.

• Cleaned and standardized mod names, filenames, manifests, versions, and dependency information.

• Moved family-specific spawning, behavior, combat, drops, configurations, and assets into their respective family mods.

• Fixed excessive dinosaur populations caused by both sexes independently initiating groups.

• Adult females now act as the primary natural and runtime spawn anchors, with males appearing as companions.

• Reduced world-generation spawn rates, nest generation, runtime repopulation, herd sizes, and nearby population limits.

• Disabled direct runtime baby spawning.

• Reduced Ocean Tyrant spawning frequency and improved nearby population checks.

• Moved Ocean Tyrant deep-ocean spawning, ship attacks, swimming, and depth control into the Ocean Tyrant mod.

• Added a one-time configuration reset when upgrading from older release lines so all installations begin with the supported 2.0.0 defaults.

• Existing customized dinosaur configs should be backed up before upgrading.

• Ocean Tyrant now uses OceanTyrantV20.json.

• Long Neck now uses LongNeckCfgV20.json.

• Legacy Ocean Tyrant, Long Neck, and DinoCore gameplay configs are ignored by 2.0.0.

• Newly generated 2.0.0 configurations remain editable.

Required game version: Vintage Story 1.22.3-1.22.5
Required dependency: DinoRuntime 2.0.0

butchery update

• Missing A Culinary Artillery liquid-egg language entries
• Horned Crown’s vanilla antler-path correction

Thanks willownezz for the corrections

reduced spawn rate and step height, removed folliage clearing

RC1 Changelog — Since 0.3.17

This is a major testing release for the updated dinosaur packs and DinoCore.

Dinosaur AI and Combat

• Large dinosaurs now use body-size-appropriate attack ranges.
• Improved retaliation and defensive behavior for herbivores.
• Reduced cases where dinosaurs stand directly over a target without attacking.
• Reduced unexplained attack animations when no valid target is present.

Movement and Terrain Interaction

• Large dinosaurs can destroy obstructing bushes, leaves, and soft vegetation.
• Vegetation destruction can be disabled in the DinoCore configuration.

Ocean Tyrants

• Added a nearby population cap to prevent ocean overpopulation.
• Ocean Tyrants avoid shallow water and are encouraged to remain in deeper ocean areas.
• Added full underwater movement with upward and downward pursuit.
• Improved detection of players above, below, and beside the creature.
• Increased underwater aggression and pursuit range.
• Reduced attacks from unrealistic vertical distances.
• Improved attacks against players swimming underwater and aboard ships.

Natural Spawning

• Expanded dinosaur spawning across hot, cold, temperate, tropical, wet, dry, coastal, mountainous, and snowy climates.
• Added climate preferences for individual species and variants.
• Added support for spawning over snow layers.
• Added support for TerrainSlabs and other compatible surface blocks.
• Improved male and female natural spawning.
• Ocean species are restricted to suitable deep saltwater environments.

Drops and Butchering

• Rebalanced meat and fat yields from dinosaurs.
• Large dinosaurs still provide meaningful resources without producing excessive amounts.
• Baby dinosaur yields are reduced appropriately.
• Added size-scaled yield limits and configurable butcher multipliers.
• Butchering compatibility is optional and is no longer a required dependency.

Compatibility

• DinoCore is required by the dinosaur family packs.
• PetAI, Jaunt, Butchering, and XSkills support remain optional.
• Improved PetAI compatibility for babies growing into adults.
• Improved ownership and domestication handling.
• Dinosaur families can be installed individually alongside DinoCore.
• Corrected family-specific compatibility patches so each standalone dinosaur pack includes its own files.

Configuration

DinoCore includes settings for:

• Dinosaur spawning
• Runtime population recovery
• Ocean Tyrant spawning
• Butcher yields
• Vegetation destruction
• Population limits
• Compatibility behavior

LongNeck currently uses an additional combat configuration for its special titan-scale combat.

Testing Priorities

Please report issues involving:

• Dinosaurs approaching but failing to attack
• Attack animations playing without a valid target
• Double hits or unusually fast damage
• Large dinosaurs getting stuck on vegetation
• Bushes or leaves not being cleared
• Ocean Tyrants failing to swim upward or downward
• Ocean Tyrants attacking from excessive distances
• Ocean Tyrants disappearing into very deep water
• Missing natural spawns in particular climates
• Errors when babies grow into adults
• PetAI, Jaunt, Butchering, or XSkills compatibility problems

Added speed configs for dinos, changed default spawn for dinos, still rare but not gonna go extinct if you kill them all

Version 0.3.9 → 0.3.12

0.3.12 — Optional Butchering Support

Dependencies

• Removed Butchering as a hard dependency from all 14 dinosaur mods.
• Dinosaur mods can now load and function without Butchering installed.
• Butchering compatibility is now conditional.

Butchering behavior

• When Butchering is installed:
• Dinosaur carcass items are enabled.
• Butcherable behaviors function normally.

• Dinosaur mods still load cleanly.
• Optional carcass assets remain disabled.
• No missing-class or dependency failure should occur.

0.3.11 — Final Spawn Audit and Corrections

Aquatic spawning

• Corrected Ocean Tyrants mistakenly checking Terrain Slabs as possible spawn surfaces.
• Restored Ocean Tyrants to water-only spawning.
• Preserved their live-birth reproduction system.
• Ocean Tyrants do not generate nests.

Population balance

• Adult dinosaur worldgen pressure is approximately 27% lower than the original versions.
• Nest generation pressure is approximately 91% lower than the original working rates.
• Runtime adult spawning remains disabled by default.
• Existing regions will not continuously refill with new adults unless runtime spawning is manually enabled.

0.3.10 — Natural Nest and Spawn Rework

Nest spawning fixes

• Repaired six dinosaur families whose nest spawn conditions were stored in the wrong JSON section.
• Restored natural nest spawning for:
• Birds of Prey
• Domed Head
• Fused Body
• Horrible Hands
• Plated Back
• Scythe Claws

Nest population balance

• Greatly reduced excessive natural nest generation.
• Natural nests now generate individually instead of in large clusters.
• Natural nests now receive one adult female guardian.
• Reduced natural nest hatch sizes by dinosaur size:
• Apex predators and sauropods: 1 hatchling
• Most medium and large dinosaurs: 2 hatchlings
• Smaller herd and pack dinosaurs: 3 hatchlings

Adult dinosaur spawning

• Rebalanced world-generation rates across all dinosaur families.
• Reduced excessive spawn pressure while keeping dinosaurs reasonably discoverable.
• Added explicit climate conditions to every adult dinosaur species.
• Runtime spawning remains disabled by default to prevent overpopulation in existing chunks.
• Runtime spawning settings now function properly when manually enabled.

Species-specific fixes

• Fixed Gigantspinosaurus being incorrectly nested inside another species’ spawn entry.
• Fixed Barsboldia having no valid natural spawn conditions.
• Removed excessively high spawn overrides from:
• Deinocheirus
• Paraxenisaurus

• Birds of Prey
• Sailed Spine

Terrain Slabs compatibility

• Added Terrain Slabs surfaces to valid land-dinosaur spawn checks.
• Added Terrain Slabs surfaces to valid nest spawn checks.
• Kept aquatic dinosaurs restricted to appropriate water blocks.

Configuration

Added new ConfigLib controls to each nesting dinosaur family:

• Nest worldgen attempts per chunk
• Maximum hatchlings from natural nests

Existing adult worldgen and runtime-spawn controls remain available.

Overall changes since 0.3.9

• Fixed natural spawning for all dinosaur families.
• Fixed natural nest generation for all egg-laying families.
• Reduced excessive nest clusters and hatchling counts.
• Moderately lowered adult worldgen rates.
• Preserved dinosaur visibility without allowing rapid overpopulation.
• Fixed broken species spawn entries.
• Added complete climate conditions.
• Added Terrain Slabs spawning support.
• Preserved compatibility with Place On Slabs.
• Preserved existing dinosaur, egg, nest and pet IDs.
• Made Butchering completely optional.
• Kept Butchering support functional when installed.
• No dinosaur species, nests, eggs, babies, models, textures, recipes or riding features were removed.

World-generation note

The revised adult and nest distribution mainly affects newly generated chunks. Existing dinosaurs, nests, eggs and tamed animals remain unchanged. Previously saved ConfigLib values may override the packaged defaults.

Changelog — Since 0.2.0

Applies to all 14 Legacy of the Phanerozoic dinosaur-family mods unless otherwise noted.
Current release: 0.3.8
Sailed Spine current release: 0.3.9

Vintage Story 1.22.3 Compatibility

• Ported the dinosaur mods for Vintage Story 1.22.3.
• Updated outdated entity, item, recipe, and patch paths.
• Corrected obsolete cooking-pot patch targets.
• Disabled an outdated boat-health patch that no longer matched the current game.
• Fixed several old dinosaur egg and meal compatibility patches that caused startup warnings.
• Restored adult and large dinosaur spawning through creative mode and commands.
• Kept each dinosaur family independently installable instead of requiring the entire collection.

Riding and Jaunt Integration

• Added compatibility with Jaunt 3.0.0-rc.3.
• Added working mounting and riding support to suitable dinosaurs.
• Added mounted walking and running sounds.
• Fixed mounted footsteps not playing while riding.
• Prevented mounted movement sounds from continuing while stationary.
• Preserved each dinosaur’s intended saddle and bridle setup.
• Improved movement behavior for large rideable dinosaurs.

Pet AI Integration

• Added compatibility with Pet AI 5.1.1.
• Added persistent player ownership for supported dinosaurs.
• Added an independent ownership scanner to every dinosaur-family mod.
• Added the following commands:
• Follow
• Stay
• Sit
• Lay
• Speak
• Attack
• Drop It
• Passive
• Neutral
• Protective
• Aggressive

Combat Fixes

• Restored functional dinosaur melee attacks.
• Fixed dinosaurs chasing targets without dealing damage.
• Corrected attack reach for very large dinosaurs.
• Prevented large dinosaurs from hovering directly over targets while attempting to attack.
• Added separate damage handling for wild and owned dinosaurs.
• Improved command-based attacking through Pet AI.
• Improved target cancellation when changing Pet AI combat modes.

Player Aggression

• Restored player aggression for dinosaurs that should naturally be dangerous.
• Large apex predators now actively detect and hunt players.
• Medium predators now use shorter and more appropriate detection ranges.
• Large herbivores now behave territorially or defensively instead of hunting players across long distances.
• Passive herd species primarily retaliate after being attacked or when protecting young.
• Player aggression continues to respect the world’s creatureHostility setting.

Examples of aggressively configured families include:

• Tyrant King
• Sharp Tooth
• Carnivorous Bull
• Sailed Spine
• Ocean Tyrant
• Larger Birds of Prey species

Dinosaur Ecology and Wildlife Protection

• Rebuilt predator prey lists to prevent dinosaurs from slaughtering nearly every animal in the world.
• Removed broad wildcard targeting of entire wildlife families.
• Removed livestock from normal dinosaur prey lists.
• Removed horses and commonly domesticated animals from normal prey lists.
• Removed tamed creatures from normal prey lists.
• Prevented predators from automatically hunting nearly every other dinosaur family.
• Added smaller, species-appropriate prey lists.

Examples:

• Large raptors primarily hunt small wild animals and wild birds.
• Large land predators primarily hunt wild pigs, gazelles, deer, moose, or bison.
• Spinosaurids primarily hunt fish and aquatic creatures.
• Mosasaurs primarily target aquatic wildlife.

Additional ecology changes:

• Reduced wildlife detection distances.
• Reduced prey-search frequency.
• Added shorter maximum chase durations.
• Increased post-kill satiation from approximately 20 minutes to approximately 2 hours.
• Predators now stop searching for new wildlife immediately after a successful kill.
• Reduced endless predator movement between nearby wildlife herds.

Spawn and Herd Balancing

• Reduced the combined natural dinosaur spawn attempt rate by approximately 39%.
• Disabled runtime spawning by default.
• Natural dinosaur spawning now primarily occurs during world generation.
• Reduced large predator spawning rates.
• Reduced oversized dinosaur family groups.
• Set a conservative nearby group limit for every family.
• Reduced the number of juveniles naturally accompanying female dinosaurs.
• Prevented many natural groups from spawning with multiple adults and several babies at once.
• Large apex predators now generally appear alone or as a pair.
• Herd species still form groups, but at substantially smaller sizes.

Breeding Balancing

• Reduced egg and offspring counts across all families.
• Reduced exceptionally large clutches that previously produced up to 20 offspring.
• Increased pregnancy and egg-preparation times.
• Greatly increased breeding cooldowns.
• Added especially long cooldowns for giant sauropods and apex predators.
• Reduced the number of incubating eggs generated by natural nests.
• Preserved breeding while reducing the chance of dinosaur populations overwhelming a world.

General breeding ranges now follow the size and rarity of each family:

• Small dinosaurs generally produce 2–4 eggs.
• Medium dinosaurs generally produce 1–3 eggs.
• Large predators and sauropods generally produce 1–2 offspring.
• Large species use considerably longer breeding cooldowns.

Butchering Compatibility

• Added integrated compatibility with Butchering 1.13.5.
• Dinosaur carcasses now correctly enter the Butchering processing system.
• Added support for bleeding, skinning, and harvesting dinosaur carcasses.
• Preserved appropriate meat, hide, sinew, blood, and original dinosaur drops.
• Removed the need for a separate dinosaur Butchering compatibility patch.
• Added compatibility independently to every dinosaur-family mod.

ConfigLib Support

• Added per-family configuration support through ConfigLib 1.12.0.
• Each installed dinosaur family creates its own YAML configuration file under:

VintagestoryData/ModConfig/

Examples:

dromaeosauridae.yaml

abelisauridae.yaml

spinosauridae.yaml

tyrannosauridae.yaml

Server owners can configure:

• Natural world-generation spawn rate
• Runtime spawn rate
• Group-size multiplier
• Nearby group limit
• Breeding enabled or disabled
• Minimum and maximum egg counts
• Pregnancy or egg-preparation time
• Breeding cooldown
• Roaming frequency
• Player aggression
• Player detection distance
• Attack chance
• Maximum chase duration
• Wildlife hunting
• Wildlife detection distance
• Post-kill satiation
• Retaliation behavior
• Protection of young
• Wild dinosaur damage
• Owned dinosaur damage
• Riding-related values
• Drop quantity multipliers

The safer curated prey lists remain built into the mods to prevent accidental wildcard targeting of all wildlife.

Packaging and Distribution

• Updated all mod versions to numeric-only ModDB-compatible values.
• Updated network versions to numeric-only values.
• Standardized the main release version as 0.3.8.
• Removed internal test labels from release filenames.
• Removed internal VR_TEST_README.md files.
• Cleaned release descriptions for public distribution.
• Repacked archives using metadata compatible with both Windows and Linux.
• Fixed Windows Explorer extraction failures caused by Unix-style ZIP metadata.
• Validated all archives and nested files after repacking.
• Regenerated release hashes and the build manifest.

Sailed Spine

• Fixed the adult Suchomimus taxidermy model referencing the wrong texture code.
• Replaced the leftover #spinosaurus-adult texture reference with the correct #skin mapping.
• Fixed the adult Suchomimus taxidermy item potentially appearing invisible, untextured, or incorrectly rendered.
• Updated Sailed Spine’s version and network version to 0.3.9.

Included Dinosaur Families

• Birds of Prey
• Carnivorous Bull
• Domed Head
• Fused Body
• Horned Crown
• Horrible Hands
• Long Neck
• Ocean Tyrant
• Plated Back
• Sailed Spine
• Scythe Claws
• Sharp Tooth
• Shovel Mouth
• Tyrant King