Alec’s Animal Husbandry! for Hytale

What this mod does

Alec’s Animal Husbandry! turns Hytale’s animals into persistent livestock and companions. You can tame them, breed them, care for them, name them, give them orders and take them into combat, and each one keeps its traits and progress.

Which animals

Almost all of the base game’s: livestock (cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, horses, camels…), neutral wildlife (deer, moose, penguins, turtles…), small critters (frogs, squirrels, mice…) and predators like bears, wolves, tigers, raptors or spiders.

How to tame them

• Livestock and wildlife: by feeding them their favorite food.
• Beasts: bring their health below 20%, knock them out with arrows or tranquilizer potions and feed them while they’re unconscious.

Care and progress

Animals have hunger, thirst and happiness; feeders help keep them in check. When happiness is high they breed on their own and the offspring inherit traits from their parents. They gain experience as you care for them, breed them and fight. With the flute you give them orders (follow, wait, go home, defend, attack), and with the Soul Lantern you store them without losing their name, look or traits.

Settings

With /tw settings you pick a preset (full, easier with no starvation damage, or simple with just taming and breeding), and with /tw config you fine-tune every detail. It pairs with Alec’s Cats! and Celly’s Wildlife Skins.

Update (Oct 12, 2026): with Update 7 (0.7) now out, the author has already released a compatible file: version 4.0.1 (October 9, 2026). What’s described on this page was tested with the previous version; check the author’s changelog in case anything has changed.

Mod video

Requirements

• Hytale (Early Access) 0.6.7 or later (Update 6) for version 3.3.1
• Alec's Tamework! 4.3.0 or later within the 4.x series
• Beacon, Celly's Avian Skins and Patchwork (required dependencies on CurseForge)
• Incompatible with Deer!, HyTame - Animal Breeding and More Mounts

How to install it

1. Open the Alec's Animal Husbandry! page on CurseForge and click Install with the CurseForge app so it also downloads the dependencies.
2. If you do it manually, download the mod, Alec's Tamework!, Beacon, Celly's Avian Skins and Patchwork from their Files tabs.
3. Copy all the files into the mods folder: on Windows %APPDATA%\Hytale\UserData\Mods.
4. Remove HyTame, Deer! or More Mounts if you had them, because they're incompatible.
5. In Hytale, right-click the world, check all the mods in the list and save the world settings (or install them in the server's mods folder and restart it).
6. In game, use /tw settings to choose how demanding animal care is.

Version history

1. 4.0.19 Oct 2026Current

   File for Hytale 0.7 (Update 7)

2. 3.3.13 Oct 2026

   New boost animations for flying with the frost dragon

3. 3.0.014 Sep 2026

   Redesigned interface, butcher knife, wild herds that travel together and translations into six languages

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