This mod allows you to configure how long it takes for your farm animals to grow up. This is not a re-skin; it changes the number of days it takes an animal to mature. As long as an animal is a baby, it won't produce anything, it will consume resources, and it will behave like a baby animal (ducklings will follow adult ducks around, for example.)

NOTE: With 1.5, you could see the changes immediately when you changed the aging time to "0" for a particular animal type (ie they would grow up almost instantly). 1.6 has changed things. Now if you change the aging time to "0", the animal will not grow up until the following morning.

Ways to use this mod:

• Make your game more immersive by buying baby animals in spring and setting the time they take to grow up to 28 days (a full season).
  

• Make your game more challenging by extending how long it takes baby animals to grow up (up to 255 days, or about two and a quarter years).
  

• Make your game cuter by keeping cute baby animals around much longer before they grow up (ducklings! piglets!)
  

• Make your game easier by instantly aging baby animals into adults (to get that truffle before winter so you can finish the Community Center!)
  

IMPORTANT NOTE: This mod affects ALL animals of a certain type, including fully grown ones. This means that if you set the aging period to be really long when in the middle of a game, adult animals may revert to being babies again! To avoid this, keep adult animals around for awhile before changing the setting and make sure the setting is lower than the adult animals' ages. If you accidentally revert an animal to a baby, don't worry, just lower the number until it turns into an adult again (it may take a moment to register in the game after changing it). You can also delete the config file and re-start to set the growth time back to the vanilla default for all animals.

Currently this mod only affects vanilla livestock (coop and barn animals) except dinosaurs (since dinosaurs hatch fully grown). It will work on vanilla animals which have had their appearance changed (the fox in the image is a pig that was re-skinned, but it's still a pig underneath.) It will not work on custom animals such as those created with Better Farm Animal Variety. If you would like to request support for a custom animal be added to the mod, please let me know. Or feel free to look at the code and use it as a base for your own custom animals.

This mod does not affect incubation periods of eggs. It only affects the birds after they hatch.

This mod may conflict with other mods that affect vanilla livestock. If one of your animals is not changing ages properly, please let me know and post a SMAPI log so I can see which other mods you have and adjust accordingly.

All settings can be changed by using the Generic Mod Config Menu mod, or by editing the config.json directly. Please see the ReadMe.txt included with the files for more details.



Please check out my other mods!

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Greenhouse-style Wood Floor Border for Alternative Textures by glymr: Adds a wood floor texture that matches the border in the vanilla greenhouse. Particularly useful with my Better Slime Hutch mod! https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/19311

Place Furniture Outside (Furniture Anywhere Redux): Allows you to place all vanilla furniture outside. 1.6 and 1.5 versions available! Includes new furniture from 1.6! https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/21147

Animal Aging: Change how fast or slow your animals grow from babies into adults. Keep baby ducks around longer! Have a full gaggle of chicks and ducks
following their mothers around! Or have piglets turn into pigs overnight: it's your choice! https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/16751

DustBeauty's Seasonal Path and Flooring for Alternative Textures: [/size]A conversion of DustBeauty's Seasonal Path and Flooring mod to work with Alternative Textures. https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/19106

Miizuki's Foresty Farm Buildings for Alternative Textures: A port of the lovely foresty, overgrown building textures by Miizuki, created with permission: https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/17432

Ali's Enchanted Garden Buildings for Alternative Textures: A port of Ali's Enchanted Garden Buildings, open permissions: https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/18645

Jorts and Jean Stardew Valley Expanded Compatibility Patch (Removes plank from SVE mountain path): Do you have Jorts and Jean installed? Do you have Stardew Valley Expanded installed? Do you have an annoying board that shows up on your Mountain Path? This simple mod will make that plank disappear! https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/18324