Realistic Livestock RM V1.4.2

Realistic Livestock RM V1.4.2

Replaces FS25’s simple animal clusters with individually tracked animals – each with unique genetics, breeding, diseases, and production traits. A maintained version of Arrow-kb’s Realistic Livestock mod.
Every animal is tracked separately with its own identity, genetic makeup, health status, and production output. Genetics are inherited through breeding, diseases can spread and require treatment, and production is driven by each animal’s individual traits. Everything is managed from the RL Menu – a dedicated tabbed interface for browsing, trading, moving, filtering, and automating your herds.

This is a maintained version of the original Realistic Livestock mod by Arrow-kb, who has discontinued development. The goal is to keep the mod working, fix bugs, and make improvements where needed.

Features
– Individual animal tracking with unique identity
– Genetics system with heritable traits that affect production output
– Genetics display in animal names with configurable detail level (average score or full trait breakdown)
– Breeding and reproduction with pregnancy mechanics and genetic inheritance
– AI insemination system with semen dewars
– Disease simulation with ten diseases across cows, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens, horses and alpacas – a hidden phase before symptoms on harder settings, spread within a pen, immunity, vaccination, paid treatment and culling, with five difficulty levels and a per-disease on/off list
– Animal monitoring to track individual animals over time
– Weight system tied to genetics and feeding
– Animal marking and castration
– RL Menu: a standalone tabbed menu covering all animal management – browsing, moving, selling, buying, AI straw purchases, messages, and trailer loading
– Saveable animal filters, cycled with F across the menu tabs
– Herdsman automation: daily sell/buy/castrate/naming/AI/move/horse-care tasks driven by saved filters
– Animal Country of Origin setting for new animals
– Dealer controls: choose which animals and age groups the dealer offers, and its stock quality (Budget, Standard, Premium)
– Daily summary mode for message log
– In-game help pages
– Beans and Alpacas DLC support: Brahman cattle, and alpacas with fleece, leading and shearing
– Highland cattle support, with ear tags, monitors and bull nose rings
– Animal pack system: third-party mods can add new breeds or adjust animal balance
– Map support: Hof Bergmann (ducks, geese, cats, rabbits, alpacas, quail) with automatic version-aware compatibility
– Map support: Witcombe (UK breeds – Jersey, Gloucestershire Old Spot, Texel, Suffolk, Blue Faced Leicester, plus Hereford heritage profile) with automatic version-aware compatibility
– Map support: Le Mechet (French breeds – Charolais, Montbeliarde, Simmental, Vosgienne) with automatic version-aware compatibility
– Simple support for butchers using Extended Production Point (EPP) mod
– Mod compatibility checks at startup: hard-block dialog for incompatible mods, plus a dismissible warning tier for mods known to degrade gameplay
– Mod compatibility bridges: coexists with Seasonal Wool Production (Argsy Gaming) without double wool output
– Multiplayer support

V1.4.2.0
Version 1.4.2.0 – Beans and Alpacas DLC support
Alpacas arrive as a full animal type, and Brahman join the cattle, for players who own the Beans and Alpacas DLC. Alpacas grow fleece, can be led out of their shed on a leash, and can be sheared by hand or by the animal worker. This release also fixes the Animals page, renaming and ridden horses in game version 1.25, and keeps saved straws, dewars, and dealer farms on the correct animal type when a DLC or mod comes or goes.

Highlights:
– Alpacas – a new animal type with the Beans and Alpacas DLC, with ear tags, monitors, fleece and happiness.
– Leading and shearing – lead alpacas on the leash and shear them by hand, or leave both to the animal worker.
– Brahman cattle – a new breed with the Beans and Alpacas DLC, with ear tags and monitors.
– Highland cattle – adults now carry ear tags and monitors, and bulls’ nose rings.
– Game version 1.25 fixes – the Animals page, animal descriptions, renaming, ridden horses in singleplayer and multiplayer, and the animal worker’s horse care.
– Trade Animals permission – farm members without it can no longer mark, monitor, rename or castrate animals.
– Swedish – a new language, contributed by DSK-Modding.

Heads up before you update
– On Hof Bergmann with the Beans and Alpacas DLC, existing alpacas may change colour and stats, so back up your save first.

What’s changed
See the full changelog for every change in this release.