Made the Dev ledger not suck (no longer requires a target, can summon animals to you, no longer overlaps horribly, etc. When using it make sure it finishes one task before beginning the next)

Animals SHOULD no longer breed while the owner is offline (needs further testing)

Animals now respond better to commands while fleeing or returning home. If an animal is injured and returning home, it cannot leave that mode until it sleeps at a bed or Pack Cart.

Predator requests now say how many blocks and direction. Not everyone is as good at directions as you are, however.

First attempt to fix companions sometimes being underground for no discernable reason. Stuck animals will now teleport to their bed>pack cart>player.

- Improved fetching and delivery through long, winding paths, stairs, and cellar approaches.
- Companions share familiar routes and recheck them before use. Blocked routes trigger recovery, allowing later companions to use an updated path.
- Frequently used routes remain cached longer; unused routes expire and memory use has fixed limits.
- Improved opening, passing through, and closing permitted doors when companion door use is enabled.
- Dropped-item searches now cover the camp's vertical range, helping with cellars and upper floors.
- More precise storage approaches reduce arrivals on top of the storage box and dropped cargo.
- Pickup and delivery planning receive priority over background cleanup within the existing shared planning budget.
- Improved navigation diagnostics and camp-scoped care targeting.

Made the Pack Ledger/storage logistics have an advanced mode, which sets the storage to the items currently inside of it, specifically. So now you can set up modded items easier, and set up your storage as specific as you want!

Also made the pack ledger/storage logistics able to affect (hopefully) every storage item, including modded ones

Milestones finally set:

World and discoveries
1. First temporal storm - Experience an actively occurring temporal storm.
2. Zero temporal stability - Be nearby when the owner reaches effectively zero temporal stability.
3. Snow - Encounter a nearby snow block.
4. Mature crop - Encounter a crop at its final growth stage.
5. Mechanical device - Encounter machinery such as a quern, helve hammer, windmill, pulverizer, fruit press, or mechanical-power block.
6. Trader - Encounter a trader for the first time.
7. Completed anvil - Encounter a finished anvil of any metal. Parts, molds, and decorative broken anvils do not count.
8. Natural beehive - Encounter a wild hive, including one growing inside a log. Player-made skeps do not count.
9. Visible gem - See a gem-* item dropped in the world or visibly placed in ground storage, a shelf, or a display case. Gem ore and gems hidden in closed storage do not count.
Ore discoveries
10. Copper ore - Encounter a native-copper or malachite ore block.
11. Tin ore - Encounter a cassiterite ore block.
12. Iron ore - Encounter a limonite, hematite, or magnetite ore block.
13. Gold ore - Encounter native gold in quartz ore.
14. Bountiful ore - Encounter any ore block whose grade is actually bountiful.
Ore pieces, nuggets, and inventory items do not satisfy these block milestones. A bountiful copper, tin, iron, or gold block grants both its metal milestone and the bountiful milestone.
Special hostiles
15. Bell - Encounter a normal Bell.
16. Bellhead Shiver - Encounter the Bellhead Shiver variant.
17. Gearfoot Bowtorn - Encounter the Gearfoot Bowtorn variant.
18. Double-Headed Drifter - Encounter the double-headed Drifter variant.
19. Corrupt Sawblade Locust - Encounter the corrupt sawblade Locust.

Added Milestones! The first time a Companion encounters something interesting, unique, or new from a pretty large list, they will gain a talent point and a pack point!
Added EXP and levelling! Companions earn EXP by helping defeat enemies, performing duties, going on expeditions, and more. Every level-up grants a talent point and a pack point.

This is a large new system and may still have some edge cases, but testing has been stable enough for release. Please report any issues!

Fix 2 for offline food

Made the pack ledger less annoying to create

Added some more flavor expedition notes

Made it so you can actually delete expedition ledgers

i messed up on my server. this fix hopefully

this also uh, completely overhauls the expedition system i guess. More details to come

Companions now chop trees better (not faster, better)
Companions now will complain about specifically which item they can't reach/get to/etc.
Companions (should) no longer get hungry when their owner is not online

Companions can now go on multiple expeditions, along with a pack cart talent to do more! I took some steps to migrate, but just in case: FINISH ANY EXPEDITION BEFORE UPDATING!!!!!!

Fixed animals recruited via expedition being "tamed" but not.

Fixed issues regarding linux

(we were using \ sometimes instead of / and linux apparently has a hissyfit with this)

No changes, just version bumping to hopefully quash a bug

Added a few missing sounds. Oops!

(finally) added config migration, so new settings get added on, and old settings do NOT get reset.

Fixed cats/kittens not eating. 

Added a dev ledger to restore the lost. 

Added icons for the ledgers and other dev tools

Made Breeding produce actual litters instead of single babies 
Multiple 'name me' popups now wait their turn instead of overlapping
Fixed babies not eating on their own
Fixed babies not technically being under player ownership
Fixed babies not displaying their name
Fixed babies not keeping their names when growing up
Really, just fixed babies.

oh god. 

Feral Kinship Companions v0.2.10

This update builds on the promoted v0.2.9 release with a large pass over companion life, work coordination, navigation, and pack control. Existing Work Carts, Pack Ledger routing, crate types, talent-board basics, and normal companion commands remain compatible; the changes below are the new systems and substantial improvements since that release.

New companion life and dialogue

• Added the dialogue archive: thousands of authored companion lines and kin-to-kin exchanges across the relationship tiers. (~8000 lines!)

• Added scheduled speaker/reply sequencing with cooldowns, anti-overlap, relationship-first selection, high-priority interruptions, persistent first-seen milestones, and broader weather, night, hunger, command, combat, expedition, search, recruitment, and rescue context.

• Added the persistent companion food system. Food is shown on the Overview, drains over time, and pauses while a companion is away or incapacitated.

• Dining Boards are now shared eight-slot food stores; companions select food they can actually eat from the nearest stocked board.

• Starving companions seek food or rest safely, and zero food prevents new duties, combat, ordinary commands, breeding, and expedition departure.

• Direct PetAI hand-feeding now also restores the Companion food meter while PetAI remains authoritative over validity, consumption, cooldowns, and obedience.

Duties and storage

• Replaced the fragile duty selection flow with a coordinated priority system. Higher-priority work is selected before lower-priority chores, so eligible dropped materials are handled before mowing.

• Added persistent, independently selectable Ground Cleanup subcategories for dropped items, cattails, flint, sticks, boulders, and loose rocks.

• Added independent controls for finished crops, berries, mushrooms, flowers, snow, snowball collection, and mowing.

• Ground Cleanup now recognizes loose natural flint and stone and safely backs off from targets whose route cannot currently be completed.

• Sort Storage now pulls misplaced items out of typed and General containers, then routes them to the best configured destination instead of only routing newly collected cargo.

• Added a dedicated Sort Storage duty/control surface. The Overview reports its state without acting as an edit screen.

• Added whistle Enable All and Disable All controls for quickly applying a duty selection across the pack.

• Added configurable, rate-limited duty and storage diagnostics. Logging is disabled by default and can be enabled temporarily for troubleshooting.

Work and performance improvements

• Work Cart cleanup, harvest, flower, snow, mowing, and dropped-item work now use shared incremental queues with bounded per-tick discovery and refresh budgets instead of repeated full-radius searches by every companion.

• Logging work now uses authoritative tree claims, worker leases, validation and felling cursors, stale-claim cleanup, and bounded batched block breaks.

• Multiple workers receive separate trees before sharing a remaining tree, and interrupted workers retain their claim and progress.

• Logging waits for important tree debris to be collected, while suspended canopy drops no longer deadlock the next tree.

• Duty state and active logging work recover correctly after save reloads.

• Added shared route reservations, stale-target checks, alternate approaches, progress-based stuck recovery, and unreachable-target backoff to reduce repeated pathfinding and camp stutter.

Navigation and safety

• Added collision-aware companion navigation for block and entity goals, including validated standing/approach points and bounded asynchronous route recovery.

• Companion door use is now an explicit server opt-in and only considers a door relevant to the failed route, with normal ownership, lock, and claim checks preserved.

• Improved snow recovery around doors, flaps, ledges, greenhouse roofs, and narrow passages without turning every snow layer into a high-priority job.

• Improved moving-target combat replanning and prevented combat failures from being misinterpreted as permission to shovel a path through a battlefield.

• Hardened player-owned juvenile companions with owner damage protection and owner target filtering while preserving their source growth and family AI.

Interface and administration

• Expanded the existing local UI sizing work with four selectable visual styles and measured text reflow across Companion, Pack, Talent, Work Cart, storage, whistle, and related screens.

• Whistle-applied duty changes now synchronize to the Companion window, including the Sort Storage state.

Known minor issue

• Feeding the final item in some food stacks may still open the Companion window afterward. The item is consumed correctly.

• Babies sometimes decide to starve themselves. Probably due to poor work conditions.

Requires Feral Kinship 0.4.3 and the normal Feral Kinship dependency chain.

Added tutorial for Pack Ledger

You can now hand-feed pets

Fox socks and Fox taming compatibility!

Cart now owns tasks, so each fox does not overload the server having to think about it

Added Reletively infinite cart range perk

Feral Kinship Companions v0.2.8

This update gives your pack places to work and a practical way to tell it where collected materials belong.

Work Carts and logging camps

Work Carts act as a second home for your companions. Place one where you want the pack to work, open its management screen, and assign companions directly or assign eligible companions within its horizontal work area. Companions travel to the cart normally and can use the existing long-distance fallback when the site is far away.

Logging Carts add the first real work-site job. Enable logging in the cart's Duties tab and assigned adult companions will find ordinary trees in the cart's work area, starting with the closest jobs. They claim a tree, remember their place if interrupted, and bring the work to completion before moving on.

Several companions can work on the same large tree. Separate trees are handed out first, so a whole pack does not normally crowd around one small tree; when there are no separate trees left, workers can share the remaining job and its progress.

Logging waits for ordinary tree debris to be collected before beginning the next tree. Logs, sticks, branches, and tree seeds are treated as primary cleanup. Leaves and branchy leaves are cleaned up afterward. Suspended drops that are stuck in a canopy do not permanently block the camp.

Logging Cart scans and job assignment are spread over time and shared by the cart, keeping large logging areas from making every fox perform its own full search. Duty settings and active logging camps recover after a world restart.

Mining and Quarrying Cart variants are included as foundations for future work; their actual jobs are not available yet.

More storage for pack work

The pack now has three purpose-built crate sizes:

• Wicker Crate: 8 slots, made from a basket and flax twine.

• Pack Collection Box: 12 slots, the standard pack crate.

• Trunk Crate: 36 slots, made from a trunk and flax twine.

All three are recognized as pack storage. Their names and tooltips are localized, including their typed storage variants.

Pack Ledger storage routing

The Pack Ledger is a small book for assigning jobs to storage. Craft it from any book, one charcoal, and one flax twine. Use it on a supported container to choose what companions should put there.

The Ledger works with Pack Collection Boxes, Wicker and Trunk Crates, vanilla chests and trunks, vessels, baskets, and Dining Boards. Unconfigured supported storage acts as a General destination.

Choose one category or combine several categories in the same destination. The available categories cover the materials companions already handle or are being prepared to handle: food, seeds, logs, sticks, leaves and branches, flowers, grass and reeds, ore, stone, flint, clay, ruins salvage, soil and sand, fiber and textiles, animal materials, metal and scrap, fuel, tools, pottery and vessels, and wood products.

Food uses the game's normal edible check, so modded food, wine, and other items the player can eat are treated as Food automatically. Boulders are not a separate category because they break into ordinary rocks and are handled as Stone.

When more than one destination can accept an item, companions use this order:

1. A box assigned only to that category.

2. A box assigned to several categories including that category.

3. A General box.

Within the same tier, the fullest suitable box wins; distance is only used to break a tie. Full or incompatible containers are skipped. General storage can also act as a staging area, moving matching items into a more specific box when one becomes available.

Companion improvements

• Added the first pack-wide talent board with easy implemented bonuses.

• Added Font- and Font+ controls and natural text wrapping throughout the companion windows.

• Added personality-influenced automatic names, editable gender-aware name pools, unlimited rename rerolls, and duplicate-name avoidance.

• Suppressed PetAI's duplicate naming screen when the Companion naming system is active.

• Added optional Tamables: Critters compatibility.

• Improved juvenile ownership, commands, combat safety, creative-mode drops, and multi-stack item pickup.

• Added a whistle command that makes companions drop held items and stand still briefly.

• Improved snow clearing priorities, route recovery, and cleanup reservations.

Still in development

• Mining, quarrying, digging, and ruins work are not implemented yet.

• A toggle for automatically moving items out of General storage is planned.

• A dedicated Pack Ledger tutorial is planned for a future update.

Added pack-wide traits! (not all of them were tested equally)

Added 'drop that' whistle that drops animals' carried item and freezes them for 10 seconds (so they cant grab it again)

Added my latest tamables: critters as companions. Flyers ground themselves to pathfind, but whatever. good luck taming a bird anyway

Added Default names! Animals will now name themselves, then you can choose to rename them. They don't mind!

Added FOOD! Animals now get hungry over time (rather generously, ~4 days before they starve) they will automatically eat from placed dining boards. 

Starving will not hurt animals, but they will refuse to do tasks if they get too hungry.

Food can be disabled in config

Added better Duties and at-ease AI.

Animals now clear Doors/flaps, then ledges they might get stuck on,. then glass with snow on/around it, then any snow after that for snow shovelling.

Duties

- Added compact, tabbed duty configuration to the Companion journal.
- Added individual checkboxes for Ground Cleanup:
  - Dropped items
  - Cattails
  - Flint
  - Sticks
  - Boulders
  - Loose rocks
- Preserved the cleanup priority order: cattails, flint, sticks, boulders,
  rocks, then lawn mowing.
- Ground Cleanup now uses the camp area around the active camp marker.
- Natural debris collection recognizes the small placed loose-rock pieces and
  boulders in addition to the normal free-cover variants.
- Flint collection preserves the normal vanilla drop amount instead of
  assuming every pickup is one flint.
- Cattail collection follows the knife-style harvest behavior and leaves the
  harvested bottom section in place.
- Added individual Finished Products choices for:
  - Mature crops
  - Ripe berries and fruiting bushes
  - Harvestable mushrooms
- Added Flower Removal for naturally spawned flowers.
- Added Snow Shoveling for thin snow layers only.
- Added optional snowball collection; it is disabled by default.
- Added snow-aware escape behavior. When Snow Shoveling is enabled, a
  Companion can clear a nearby obstructing snow layer with its attack
  animation, including snow on the upper side of a ledge.
- Improved companion movement over ordinary one-block ledges with snow.
- Kept Mow the Lawn restricted to naturally spawned tall grass and its
  explicit cut-grass drop. Bushes, berries, crops, flowers, and placed plants
  remain untouched by mowing.
- Removed the former automatic idle ground cleanup behavior. Ground Cleanup
  now runs only when selected.

Whistle

- Split the Companion whistle into two tabs:
  - Usual Commands for activity, combat, targeting, and risk settings
  - Duties for multi-selection duty orders
- Added duty checkboxes to the whistle so one order can apply a selected
  combination of chores to nearby adult Companions.
- Snowball collection remains independently selectable from the whistle.
- Preserved the existing nearby range and juvenile safety behavior.

Companion and camp fixes
- Added system messages when the player enters or leaves the camp area.
- Fixed the breeding opt-in control and its state refresh.
- Added clearer per-duty state feedback in the Companion journal.

Added the FotSA tamables 

Added a frankly huge amount of social and camp and liveliness to the at-ease animals. 

I could list them all, or I can let you guys find them naturally!

Fixed return home and rest from breaking if too far away (they now do as they should and pretend to walk back and then teleport safely)
Fleeing companions are no longer considered targets for enemies

Rename now actually works proper

BREEDING

Added breeding. Breeding requires two parents (of opposite genders) to share a room (with beds assigned) and at ease overnight (and also enabled in social tab of the interface). There is a chance every night if they are NOT interrupted to make the mother pregnant. When pregnant the mother moves slower, and contributes less in expeditions. Once a mother and a father have concieved, they will be bonded, and no longer be able to have children with any other animal, only within the bond.

When the child is born they will gravitate towards parents, on paper. I made them panic if they get too far away for too long and attempt to pathfind towards parents.

GUI can now scale without breaking spectacularly. 

Everything breeding related has NOT been tested extensively, things might break, things might be wonky. I'll fix things as I am made aware of them.

Did some more UI poking around. Made actual tabs, moved new menus to the bottom, etc.

Replaced Petai Whistle with a fake clone of it that uses Companion commands instead. Any non-compatible animal should still react to the whistle under the closest available command for them.

Made a bunch of changes to the UI, in an attempt to make it less compact.

ALSO FIXED ANY CUSTOM SOUND CRASHING YOUR GAME

Changelog:

Replaced Petai Whistle with a fake clone of it that uses Companion commands instead. Any non-compatible animal should still react to the whistle under the closest available command for them.

Made a bunch of changes to the UI, in an attempt to make it less compact.

Made foxes less hydrophobic. At-ease they still avoid water, but will still traverse through it to get where needed. Follow will path through water without skittering away like cockroaches. 

Added a Tutorial that pops up when first interacting with a tamed companion.

Added a handbook entry tutorial as well.

Changed everything to use localization files instead of hardcoded english, so if someone wishes to translate they can!

Fixed movement speed causing animals to sometimes fly into space, causing the world to generate a huge amount of land, overloading the server, then forcing the world to hang (and crash)

Added sounds! Button presses, Retreat state sounds, whistles for different commands, and more!

Journal given a readability and presentation pass

Most screens too!

Pack collection boxes that broke from unloading and reloading the mod in a world now attempt to re-assign to the correct pack

Added compatibility with Wolf Taming, and Cats mods! (with permission! thanks!)
https://mods.vintagestory.at/cats

https://mods.vintagestory.at/wolftaming

oh god

Companion AI replacement

• Feral Kinship Companions now directly controls runtime companion commands and combat.

• Commands work across all twelve supported companion species.

• Removed conflicts between companion routines and the former PetAI command system.

New companion controls

Added persistent controls to each companion’s journal:

• Activity: Follow, At Ease, Rest, and Return Home.

• Follow range: Close, Normal, and Hang Back.

• Combat style: Passive, Defensive, Protect, Assist, Aggressive, and Flee.

• Risk tolerance: Cautious, Steady, and Fearless.

These settings survive saving, reloading, chunk unloading, and game restarts.

Following

• Rebuilt following around proper pathfinding.

• Companions may travel outside their preferred follow radius when a longer route is necessary.

• Added catch-up teleporting when a companion becomes hopelessly separated.

• Follow combat range scales with the selected follow distance.

• Fixed companions becoming stuck, spinning in place, or abandoning valid routes.

• Combat no longer permanently prevents a companion from resuming Follow.

Rest and Return Home

• Rest sends companions to their assigned bed or Pack Cart.

• Rest suppresses wandering and combat while the companion recovers.

• Fully healed companions automatically return to At Ease.

• Very distant or repeatedly failed bed routes use the bounded Return Home fallback.

• Return Home checks for an assigned bed, then the Pack Cart, and finally the owner.

• Missing home markers no longer cause companions to disappear or become stranded.

Combat

• Passive, Defensive, Protect, Assist, Aggressive, and Flee now have distinct working behaviour.

• Companions never deliberately attack players or other tamed companions.

• Aggressive companions search around their owner while following.

• Fixed unreliable attacks from large and very small species by checking actual body contact.

• Mortally wounded companions cannot continue fighting or receive additional lethal damage.

• Fleeing uses bounded escape routes and can no longer continue indefinitely into unloaded terrain.

Species-based damage

Companions now retain species-appropriate base melee damage:

• Bear: 10

• Wolf: 8

• Hyena: 6

• Pig: 5

• Fox: 4

• Deer, goat, raccoon, and sheep: 3

• Gazelle: 2

• Hare: 1

• Chicken: 0.5

Combat talents continue to modify these species-specific values.

Self-preservation

• Cautious companions retreat below 40% health.

• Steady companions retreat below 20% health.

• Fearless companions never retreat automatically.

• Retreat decisions are announced in chat.

• Companions with a home switch to Passive and return there to recover.

• Companions without a home switch to Flee.

Added the rest of the Feral kinship animal list:

• Bear
• Chicken
• Deer
• Gazelle
• Goat
• Hare
• Hyena
• Pig
• Raccoon
• Sheep
• Wolf

(foxes remain on the list, too)

If the player has the config enabled that allows taming of all animals they will all join in the same pack.

Recruitment expedition now depends on the type of animal sent. Send only bears? find a bear. send 50/50 its a 50/50 between the two. NOTE: ANIMALS ARE WILD WHEN CLAIMED IF YOU ARE NOT A BEAR AND YOU CLAIM A BEAR YOU NOW HAVE A WILD BEAR AT HOME I DO NOT ENVY YOU

Added config option to allow anyont to tame all animals

Oh god. 130 test builds. one-hundred-and-thirty.

Im going to bed. dont break my mod while im gone.