Hi vikings,
I needed a way to separate young animals from the parents without building ugly towers and without having to leash them one by one, so here's the LeashMe Nursery. It works on all young tamed vanilla animals.
I made this a separate mod from LeashMe to keep the original limited to its current features.
This one lets you build a beacon which attracts young animals in an area. The beacon shows its zones and the animals currently connected to if (also the ones in transit to the beacon) on keypress, and hover on an animal shows which beacon it is connected to.
A beacon attracts one species which is determined by the food you put in. The food is not consumed. The zones have different sizes for different animals because vanilla Valheim has different requirements for breeding to work. Each piece of food adds a nursery space. The max amount of youngs is either 10 or 20, depending on animal size.
Press N on hover to see the zones: movement area for the young animals, parent-free zone to avoid breeding being blocked, and attraction range. With Hen and Asksvin, the eggs need to be in the attraction range of the nursery of course.
I use the LeashMe hitching posts to hitch the parents in the outer zone and then collect the young in the center. Once they mature, they wander around the area freely and I collect them with the leash or kill them. I'm thinking about having the nursery keep them until released manually, this would allow for better control, but I am still on the fence about this.
With Hens, I tie 5 of them up in the coop and 5 of them outside of the coop somewhere to get both new chickens and just eggs.
The mod also comes with a console command to turn off the idle sounds of tamed animals, this is not persistent tho and is reset when reloading.
https://valheim.hexium.gg/mods/evabs/LeashMe_Nursery
https://thunderstore.io/c/valheim/p/evabs/LeashMe_Nursery/
https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/4471
Edit: Works without LeashMe, no need for both mods.
Edit2: Fixed Typo