Breeding and Growth Guide

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This page is your practical timing reference for line planning.

How Breeding Starts

Breeding is passive by default.

When two compatible animals (adult male and female of same species) meet breeding requirements, they will periodically produce offspring on their own.

You can also crouch and feed favorite food to breed manually.

This is useful when:

• You want to breed a specific pair immediately.
• You have disabled passive breeding.

How Breeding Is Gated

Your breeding pair must pass all of these checks:

• Tamed
• Adult
• One male, one female
• Not in combat
• Not sleeping
• Happiness above 80%
• Not on cooldown
• Not overcrowded

Manual breeding still respects these gates. If crouch-feeding does not start breeding, the animal is usually blocked by one of the checks above.

Litter Size, Capacity, and Pending Births

Fertility intentionally rolls a litter from zero through four offspring. Zero is a normal biological result, not necessarily an error or a duplicated callback.

Manual and passive breeding use the same birth-job and capacity rules:

• MaxNearbySameType is a hard execution-time ceiling.
• Live nearby animals and children reserved by other pending litters both consume headroom.
• If a planned litter is larger than the remaining headroom, only the admitted number can spawn.
• One parent can belong to only one active birth job, and a job can claim its spawn callback only once.
• Capturing either parent into a Tamework-managed coop before birth cancels the pending job; the delayed callback also checks that both parents are still valid before spawning.

Example: with a maximum of eight matching animals, seven already nearby, and a rolled litter of four, only one child is admitted. Two pairs starting near the limit share the same reservations, so their combined result cannot exceed the cap.

Livestock Breeding and Growth Reference

After breeding, animals will be unable to breed for the duration of their breeding cooldown.

Default livestock pairing/cooldown profile:

• Base cooldown: 45 minutes
• Random delay: 0-300 sec

Mob	Baby Stage	Base Breeding Cooldown	Random Delay Window	Time to Full Grown
Bison	Bison Calf	45 min	0-300 sec	150 min
Boar	Boar Piglet	45 min	0-300 sec	90 min
Camel	Camel Calf	45 min	0-300 sec	135 min
Chicken	Chicken Chick	45 min	0-300 sec	60 min
Chicken Desert	Chicken Desert Chick	45 min	0-300 sec	60 min
Cow	Cow Calf	45 min	0-300 sec	120 min
Goat	Goat Kid	45 min	0-300 sec	90 min
Horse	Horse Foal	45 min	0-300 sec	150 min
Mouflon	Mouflon Lamb	45 min	0-300 sec	90 min
Pig	Pig Piglet	45 min	0-300 sec	90 min
Pig Wild	Pig Wild Piglet	45 min	0-300 sec	90 min
Ram	Ram Lamb	45 min	0-300 sec	90 min
Sheep	Sheep Lamb	45 min	0-300 sec	90 min
Skrill	Skrill Chick	45 min	0-300 sec	75 min
Turkey	Turkey Chick	45 min	0-300 sec	80 min
Warthog	Warthog Piglet	45 min	0-300 sec	90 min

Beast Breeding and Growth Reference

Mob	Base Breeding Cooldown	Random Delay Window	Time to Full Grown	Max Nearby Same Type
Bear Grizzly	90 min	270-810 sec	180 min	3
Bear Polar	90 min	270-810 sec	180 min	3
Crocodile	100 min	300-900 sec	200 min	4
Emberwulf	85 min	255-765 sec	220 min	2
Fen Stalker	95 min	285-855 sec	170 min	4
Fox	60 min	180-540 sec	90 min	6
Hyena	75 min	225-675 sec	120 min	5
Larva Silk	50 min	150-450 sec	60 min	8
Leopard Snow	85 min	255-765 sec	140 min	4
Molerat	55 min	165-495 sec	80 min	7
Raptor Cave	80 min	240-720 sec	130 min	5
Rat	45 min	135-405 sec	50 min	10
Rex Cave	110 min	330-990 sec	210 min	2
Scorpion	70 min	210-630 sec	100 min	6
Slug Magma	50 min	150-450 sec	60 min	8
Snake Cobra	60 min	180-540 sec	90 min	7
Snake Marsh	55 min	165-495 sec	80 min	7
Snake Rattle	60 min	180-540 sec	90 min	7
Snapdragon	100 min	300-900 sec	190 min	3
Spider	65 min	195-585 sec	90 min	6
Spider Cave	70 min	210-630 sec	100 min	6
Tiger Sabertooth	90 min	270-810 sec	160 min	3
Toad Rhino	80 min	240-720 sec	130 min	4
Toad Rhino Magma	85 min	255-765 sec	140 min	4
Wolf Black	70 min	210-630 sec	120 min	5
Wolf White	70 min	210-630 sec	120 min	5
Yeti	120 min	360-1080 sec	220 min	2

[Screenshot Placeholder: Breeding pair ready state on two companions] [Screenshot Placeholder: Newborn/juvenile stage beside adult parent]