Life Cycle - Hytale Plugin

🐾 Life Cycle – Animals Grow

A Hytale mod that brings animal growth to life by letting baby animals mature naturally over time — just like crops 🌱

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✨ Features

1) Animals Grow Over Time

• Growth is based on in-game time — sleeping speeds it up!
• Uses the same time system as crops in Hytale
• Animals take 1 in-game day to fully grow
• Applies to all animals, whether:
  • Naturally spawned by the world
  • Manually spawned by players

2) Fence Detection

• Animals stay inside pens as they grow
• No growing into or clipping through:
  • Fences
  • Walls
  • Other solid blocks

3) Groth Particle Effects

• A green glow effect when animals grow up
• Makes it easy to spot when babies mature

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🚧 Planned Features

• 🧬 Breeding system
• 📘 Breeding book
  • Shows which food each animal needs
• 🏷️ Nameplates
  • Name and identify your animals

Details About the Repo & Code/Test Structure

Scripts

Quick Start (Build, Deploy, and Run Server)

./run.sh

Deploy to server mods (and automatically reload the plugin on the server):

./deploy.sh

Build in test framework

Launch Command Forwarder (allows plugins to send OP commands to server, use with caution and never on public servers!)

./commandForwarder.sh 

Run Tests

./test.sh

Connecting to the Server

To find the server IP address:

hostname -I

Connect your Hytale client to the first IP address returned (typically the container's network IP).

Example: If hostname -I returns 172.17.0.2 172.18.0.1, connect to 172.17.0.2:5520

Useful Commands For Developing Mods in Hytale

Search for Hytale import

Swap out "DefaultEntityStatTypes|EntityStatTypes"

find . -type f -name "*.jar" -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 sh -c 'jar tf "$0" 2>/dev/null | rg "DefaultEntityStatTypes|EntityStatTypes" -n --no-line-number && echo "-- in: $0"'

jar tf /workspace/.local-assets/HytaleServer.jar | rg "particle"

jar tf /workspace/.local-assets/HytaleServer.jar | rg -i "particle" | sed -n '1,200p'

Credits

This project was started from the dev container example repo by Jacob Cohen (farakovengineering.com) here: https://github.com/farakov-engineering/bazel-hytale-plugin-pipeline