Animal Feeding Trough
Jar: animal_feeding_trough-1.1.0+1.20.1.jar (mod id animal_feeding_trough, by Slexom). The single smallest mod covered in this category — its entire lang file is two lines, one item and one block, both just “Feeding Trough.” Unlike the other Delight-family add-ons, its fabric.mod.json doesn’t declare a hard dependency on farmersdelight; it’s a standalone quality-of-life mod that the modpack groups alongside the Farmer’s Delight add-ons thematically (farm automation) rather than technically.
The Feeding Trough is a placeable block that automatically feeds nearby farm animals from its inventory, saving players from manually right-clicking food onto every animal to trigger breeding/growth — a small automation piece that complements the much larger crop-and-cooking systems from Croptopia and Farmer’s Delight.
How you’ll use it here
Place a Feeding Trough beside your cow/pig/chicken pens and load it with the crops you’re already growing from Croptopia and Farmer’s Delight, so the animals breed and grow themselves while you’re off questing. It’s a convenience block, not a food source — you build it once you have a stable crop surplus. It matters a bit more on this server than in vanilla because hunger is heavier here and you’ll be slaughtering animals often for the meat that feeds the cooking loop, so keeping the pens stocked pays off.
Anticipated questions
Do I need Farmer’s Delight for the trough to work? No — unlike the other add-ons in this category it doesn’t hard-depend on farmersdelight; it’s a standalone quality-of-life mod grouped here for farm automation.
What do I put in it? Whatever the animals eat — the same crops you grow for the pack’s cooking loop; the trough just auto-feeds nearby animals so they breed without you right-clicking each one.
Is it worth building early? Generally only once you have a food surplus; before that your crops are better spent on the very first quest’s fruit or vegetable and on cooked meals.