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FS25 Pasture Welfare

This is a beta - work in progress mod. It calculates a pasture condition based upon the weather and moisture, and the number of animals within the pasture. Compatible with RLRM, Moisture System and the Realistic Water and Soil Management mods - and it's recommended to use them. It can use the RWSM or Moisture System to better calculate the ground moisture, and poor condition can decrease the health of animals when using RLRM. The pasture can be managed within the games Animal screen, where you'll see an additional Manage Pasture button. You'll be able to make temporary repairs to the condition to help improve it for a price, or a longer term drainage repair for more money. Each pasture is set a maximum condition, which will limit the condition of the pasture, unless you upgrade the drainage. As the condition gets worse, or the wetness increases, you'll see dirt and mud patches appear in the pasture, which will turn back to meadow as the condition improves. This is primarily designed for players that want to manage multiple pastures, and rotate their sheep to maintain and manage the pasture conditions. It needs a more testing in a longer save which I'm doing at the moment, and I expect there to be a number of updates - in particular with the RLRM health balancing. There are a number of planned additions to the mod, this is only the first iteration to ensure that the base is functioning as intended. To be used with caution, but I appreciate all feedback and bug reports! Changelog: v1.0.2.0 Fixed the issue where a new pasture required a save and load, it's now automatically recognised and added to the welfare system. Fixed an warning in the log regarding the GUI. v1.0.3.0 A small update to add an external API for better compatibility with the Realistic Sheep Production mod This update adds hooks into the Freeform Pasture mod, and Golden Hoof mods to ensure that pasture/field condition is monitored and managed correctly. v.1.1.0.8 Mainlly under the hood calculations and rebalncing, better compatibility with the Freeform Pastures & Golden Hoof mods. Stocking calculation when RLRM is installed is now based upon weight and age rather than purely on headcount. Shelter integration with the Freeform Pasture mod to derive a shelter condition for a pasture. There is still work to do on this to affect a pasture condition based upon it's shelter score, and to include sheds as shelter v1.1.1.0 A covered building now matters for the shelter score, and provides a big boost compared to just trees and bush coverage. This works on both husbandry's and when a shed is within a Freeform Pasture. Field grazing is unaffected, as there shouldn't be buildings within a defined field v1.1.1.7 Compatibility with the Realistic Water Soil Management modv1.1.1.8 Mod name change to better reflect that it's not restricted to sheep.Due to the new mod name, it will be necessary to delete the old mod and add this to your mod folder.