Animal Food Calculator V1.2.0.1

Animal Food Calculator, or AFC, provides an overview of animal consumption, production and selling prices in FS25. It can display animal data and optionally scale in-game inputs and outputs according to the selected settings.

AFC does not automatically change animal consumption, production, prices, shearing times or husbandry capacities. These values remain unchanged unless you deliberately enable or adjust the corresponding AFC features yourself.

Features

• Input and output display: AFC shows directly in the animal menu which amounts your animals consume and produce.
• Depending on the animal type, husbandry and active mods, AFC can display food, water, straw, milk, manure, slurry, wool, eggs or goat milk.
• The display helps you estimate supplies, storage, feed planning and production amounts.
• AFC uses the actually available animal data and only displays values that make sense for the selected husbandry and animal type.
• Animal Value Advisor: AFC shows in the animal overview when your animals reach their best selling price.
• – X means: the best selling price will be reached in X months.
• TOP means: the animal is currently in the best price range.
• +X means: the animal is already X months beyond the best price range.
• – 6 = 6 months until the best price.
• TOP = the optimal selling range has been reached.
• +4 = 4 months beyond the best selling range.
• Price plateaus are supported. If an animal has the same highest selling price for several months, the entire period is shown as TOP.
• The Animal Value Advisor uses the currently active reference source. When switching between Map, Custom, Basegame or AnimalPackage, the purchase prices, selling prices, transport costs and displayed best selling time change accordingly.
• Reference sources: AFC can read animal values from different sources for display, calculation, scaling and animal prices.
• Basegame: AFC uses the animal values from the base game.
• Map: AFC uses the animal values from the currently played map, if the map provides its own animals.xml.
• AnimalPackage: AFC uses the values from FS25_AnimalPackage_vanillaEdition by BavarianRedneck. If the AnimalPackage is active, its animal types and values are handled accordingly.
• Custom: AFC uses its own animals.xml directly from the mod. This option is intended for players who want to adjust their animal values without changing the map or other mods.
• AFC checks whether a reference source matches the animal SubTypes of the currently played map. If a map uses its own animals or different SubTypes, incompatible references are not offered.
• The Custom reference is only offered if it fully contains all SubTypes of the map. If matching entries are missing, the Map reference remains the default values.
• Optional scaling: AFC can optionally scale the actual in-game inputs and outputs. This feature must be deliberately selected in the AFC settings.
• Scaling can be used to play more relaxed, manage more realistically, balance larger farms better, make longer months more useful, or set consumption and production higher or lower.
• Basegame scaling: No additional AFC scaling is applied. AFC uses the selected reference source but does not calculate an additional factor. The multiplier is effectively 1.0.
• Auto scaling: AFC scales automatically based on the selected days per month. If you play with more days per month, animals can consume and produce more over the course of the month.
• Manual scaling: AFC only uses the multiplier selected by you. Days per month are not included automatically.
• Hybrid scaling: AFC combines both systems. Values are scaled according to the selected days per month and additionally adjusted by your own multiplier.
• Custom animal values: AFC includes its own animals.xml inside the mod. This file can define custom reference values for consumption, production and animal prices, which can then be used through the Custom reference source.
• Depending on the animal type, the Custom file can contain values for food, water, straw, milk, manure, slurry, wool, eggs, goat milk, purchase price, selling price and transport costs.
• When Custom is active as the reference, consumption, production and animal prices form one shared AFC balancing profile. The Animal Value Advisor then uses the Custom prices as well.

Compatible with:

• EnhancedAnimalSystem
• FS25_AnimalPackage_vanillaEdition

With EnhancedAnimalSystem, AFC takes supported additional logic into account, such as lactation factors, so the display and calculations better match the extended animal behavior.