FS25’s basic animal clusters are replaced with animals you can follow one by one. Each animal gets its own identity, genetics, breeding, diseases and production traits. This is the maintained version of Arrow-kb’s Realistic Livestock mod.
You can keep an eye on every animal separately, including its genetics, health, identity and production output. Breeding passes traits on, diseases can spread and need treatment, and production comes from the traits of that particular animal. The RL Menu puts it all in one dedicated tabbed interface, so you can browse, trade, move, filter and automate your herds while you play.
Features
- Animals are tracked individually, with a unique identity for each one
- Heritable genetics affect the production output
- Animal names can show genetics at a configurable detail level, as an average score or a full trait breakdown
- Breeding and reproduction include pregnancy mechanics and inherited genetics
- AI insemination works with semen dewars
- Disease simulation brings ten diseases for cows, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens, horses and alpacas, with a hidden phase before symptoms on harder settings, spread inside a pen, immunity, vaccination, paid treatment and culling, five difficulty levels, and an on/off choice for each disease
- Animal monitoring lets you follow individual animals over time
- Weight depends on genetics and feeding
- You can mark and castrate animals
- The RL Menu gives you a standalone tabbed place for all animal management, browsing, moving, selling, buying, AI straw purchases, messages and trailer loading
- Save your animal filters and cycle them through all menu tabs with F
- Herdsman automation runs daily sell, buy, castrate, naming, AI, move and horse-care tasks from your saved filters
- New animals can use the Animal Country of Origin setting
- With dealer controls, choose the animals and age groups offered and set stock quality to Budget, Standard or Premium
- The message log can use a daily summary mode
- In-game help pages are included
- Beans and Alpacas DLC support adds Brahman cattle, plus alpacas with fleece, leading and shearing
- Highland cattle support includes ear tags, monitors and bull nose rings
- The animal pack system lets third-party mods add breeds or adjust the animal balance
- Hof Bergmann map support covers ducks, geese, cats, rabbits, alpacas and quail, with automatic version-aware compatibility
- Witcombe map support covers UK breeds, Jersey, Gloucestershire Old Spot, Texel, Suffolk and Blue Faced Leicester, plus a Hereford heritage profile, with automatic version-aware compatibility
- Le Mechet map support covers French breeds, Charolais, Montbeliarde, Simmental and Vosgienne, with automatic version-aware compatibility
- Butchers get simple support when using the Extended Production Point (EPP) mod
- At startup, compatibility checks can show a hard-block dialog for incompatible mods, while mods known to degrade gameplay receive a warning that can be dismissed
- Seasonal Wool Production (Argsy Gaming) can coexist through a compatibility bridge without double wool output
- Multiplayer support is included
Changelog
V1.4.2.0
Beans and Alpacas DLC support arrives with Version 1.4.2.0.
If you own the Beans and Alpacas DLC, you can now keep alpacas as a full animal type, and Brahman join the cattle. Alpacas grow fleece, can be led from their shed on a leash and can be sheared either by hand or by the animal worker. The Animals page, renaming and ridden horses also receive fixes for game version 1.25. Saved straws, dewars and dealer farms stay linked to the right animal type when a DLC or mod is added or removed.
- The Beans and Alpacas DLC adds alpacas as a new animal type, with ear tags, monitors, fleece and happiness.
- For leading and shearing, take alpacas out on the leash and shear them yourself, or have the animal worker handle both tasks.
- Brahman cattle are a new Beans and Alpacas DLC breed, with ear tags and monitors.
- Adult Highland cattle now get ear tags and monitors, and bulls get nose rings.
- Game version 1.25 fixes affect the Animals page, animal descriptions, renaming, ridden horses in singleplayer and multiplayer, and horse care by the animal worker.
- Farm members without the Trade Animals permission can no longer mark, monitor, rename or castrate animals.
- Swedish is now a new language, contributed by DSK-Modding.
Before updating Hof Bergmann with the Beans and Alpacas DLC, back up your save. Existing alpacas may change colour and stats.
You can find every change in this release in the full changelog at https://github.com/rittermod/FS25_RealisticLivestockRM/blob/v1.4.2.0/CHANGELOG.md.
V1.4.1.0
The Diseases dialog now lets you vaccinate animals against some diseases. Newborns from an immune mother start protected, while footrot is added for cattle, sheep and goats. Saved filters return to the trailer Transfer tab, starving animals lose health more slowly, and longer months no longer increase old-age and accident deaths.
- From the Diseases dialog, vaccinate cattle against BRD, pigs against PED, sheep and goats against pulpy kidney, and cows and female goats against mastitis.
- Piglets, lambs and goat kids born to an immune mother receive protection from the mother at the start of life.
- Footrot is a new cattle, sheep and goat disease, with a vaccine and treatment available.
- On the trailer Transfer tab, cycle saved filters to load or unload just the animals you want.
- The Diseases dialog is easier to read, with the most urgent disease first, a coloured icon on every row, and a prompt before treatment starts, resumes or stops.
- Health and death odds are fairer: starving animals lose health more slowly, good health genetics now help, and old-age and accident deaths no longer increase when more days are used per month.
There is much more to read at https://github.com/rittermod/FS25_RealisticLivestockRM/releases/tag/v1.4.1.0
V1.4.0.0
This is the disease update. The system was rebuilt from the ground up, so an illness now runs day by day, can stay hidden before symptoms appear on harder settings, and is controlled by a five-level difficulty setting. Four new diseases were added to the five already there, including colic, the first disease for horses. While symptoms are showing, a sick animal cannot be sold or sent to the butcher. Use treatment, or cull it from the Diseases dialog.
Updating an existing save clears every disease, immunity, part-way treatment and CVM carrier on the first load. Your herd then starts healthy, and the Diseases setting becomes Normal, or Off if diseases were off.
- The nine diseases are avian flu (HPAI), BRD, pulpy kidney, colic, mastitis, CVM, foot and mouth, PED and avian flu (LPAI).
- On Hard and Very hard, a newly infected animal looks healthy for a while because symptoms are delayed by a hidden phase.
- Choose among Off, Easy, Normal, Hard and Very hard, then use the Choose Diseases list to switch individual diseases off.
- Treat or cull a sick animal, but while it shows symptoms you or the herdsman cannot sell or butcher it. The new Cull button removes the animal for a share of its value.
- Illness reduces more than milk yield, with growth, breeding, eggs, wool and manure all suffering while the animal is ill.
Before you update, keep these points in mind:
- On the first load, the save’s disease infections, immunity, part-way treatments and CVM carriers are all cleared because the new disease records cannot read the old ones. The herd starts out disease-free and CVM-free.
- The Diseases setting is now a difficulty level. An existing save uses Normal, or Off when diseases were off. Disease Chance is no longer a setting.
- When a sick animal shows symptoms, neither you nor the herdsman can sell it or take it to a butcher. A herdsman sell rule for animals with any disease now sells none, so switch that rule off or change its filter.
- Foot and mouth treatment now takes one month, like every other disease, instead of three months.
