v2.0.0

2.0.0 - Frost Dragon, Flying Companions, and Animal Equipment - Unreleased

Added

• Added the Frost Dragon as a fully supported Beast companion. Frost Dragons prefer Frost Essence, can fight on the ground or in the air with bites, Frost Bolts, and Freezing Breath, and can be ridden with a custom AvatarFlight model, combat abilities, animations, audio, launch effects, and icy flight trails.
• Added full taming and husbandry support for 17 passive flying companions: bluebirds, sparrows, parrots, ravens, crows, green finches, woodpeckers, brown and snow owls, bats and ice bats, pigeons, ducks, archaeopteryxes, hawks, pterodactyls, and vultures. Their companion panel includes a persistent Ground/Flight toggle, and they automatically land for food, water, sleep, and breeding before resuming flight.
• Added a craftable AH_Saddle and owner-only equipment interactions for every mountable tamed animal. Saddles persist with the animal, provide a movement-speed bonus, and can be removed for a full refund.
• Added persistent blankets in all 20 full-wool colors for horses, deer and antelope, moose, mosshorns, and skeleton horses. Recoloring or removing a blanket refunds the previous wool block, and offspring do not inherit equipped saddles or blankets.
• Added petting interactions for tamed Beasts and critters, including happiness gain and species-appropriate reactions.
• Added shoulder riding through the bonded companion panel's To Me command for tamed frogs, geckos, meerkats, mice, squirrels, and every supported flying companion except pterodactyls and vultures.
• Added a special Canada blanket appearance for tamed moose named Flash.

Changed

• Updated the required Alec's Tamework dependency to 3.x and the Animal Husbandry manifest version to 2.0.0.
• Gave all 32 native ground mounts species-tuned movement profiles, made tamed crocodiles mountable, and gave Tetrabird jumps a slower, glide-like descent.
• Migrated ground and flying follow, flying Hold, airborne transitions, and favorite-item pursuit to the shared Tamework 3.0 companion components while preserving Animal Husbandry's species-specific tuning.
• Autonomous flying companions now steer around nearby obstacles and return toward their owner or combat target when they wander beyond their configured range.
• Capped tamed Bluebird flight speed to keep its small-body movement stable.
• Equipment prompts now display the player's bound interaction key. Empty-hand removal prioritizes petting, then removes saddles before blankets, while returning the exact equipped item.

Fixed

• Fixed flying-companion and Frost Dragon roles failing Hytale validation after the shared Tamework aerial-component migration.
• Prevented accidental owner hits from leaving tamed livestock and flying companions with hostile target memory that made them repeatedly flee from or attack their owner.
• Updated tamed livestock food thought bubbles to show each animal's actual preferred food.
• Replaced direct Zone 3 predator spawn-table overrides with local Patchwork patches, preserving compatibility with the base game and other mods while keeping Animal Husbandry's Arctic Fox and Frost Dragon spawn changes.
• Fixed Frost Dragons failing to use Aggressive aerial combat consistently and made player-hostile creatures recognize supported tamed Beasts and flying companions as opposing targets.
• Fixed Frost Dragon follow recovery failing to teleport because it selected the owner's occupied position; recovery now chooses a clear position beside the owner without changing Defend or Aggressive mode.
• Fixed aerial companion templates, command policies, and valid landing block sets that could prevent birds from following commands or completing flight transitions.
• Fixed Frost Dragons displaying the wrong food cue instead of Frost Essence.
• Fixed the Animal Control Flute, Combat Beast Flute, and saddle using incorrect icon or rarity presentation.