Improved Wolf AI

Vanilla wolves keep attacking after their target dies, and any loot they leave behind can despawn before the player reaches it. This mod changes those routines. A wolf stops attacking once the target is dead, lunges at the corpse and grabs the meat, then brings it back to the owner. Dropped items near a crouching player can be sent to the wolf for fetching, and the wolf shows the carried item in its mouth.

The mod adds a hostile detection routine: a wolf growls when hostile mobs are nearby, which works as an early warning in caves or at night. Growling does not interrupt combat or other behaviors. Detection ranges, the crouch signal, the fetch timing and the growl timing can be adjusted, and every feature can be switched on or off in the config file. It is published for Forge and NeoForge, with files for 1.20.1 – 1.20.6, and both the server and every player need it.