Wild Packs and Territoriality

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🐺 Infobox: Wild Pack Dynamics Overview

Feature	Specification
Natural Pack Cluster Size	4 to 8 wolves (bd_wolf_spawn_group_min to bd_wolf_spawn_group_max)
Expanded Spawning Biomes	Plains, Forests, Meadows, Mountains (bd_wolf_spawn_expanded_biomes)
Territorial Scan Radius	96 blocks (bd_territorial_search_radius)
Fatal War Chance	5% chance dispute is to the death (bd_territorial_fatal_chance)
Exclusive Disputes	1v1 dispute locking enabled (bd_territorial_exclusive_disputes)

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⚔️ 1. Territorial Dispute Matrix (bd_territorial_rivalry)

Wild pack leaders scan for rival leaders within 96 blocks. Upon encounter, leaders execute a territorial dispute based on personality pairings:

Encountering Leaders	War (Fight) %	Merge (Yield) %	Retreat (Flee) %
Aggressive vs Aggressive	80% (bd_territorial_matrix_aa_war)	10% (bd_territorial_matrix_aa_merge)	10%
Aggressive vs Normal	50% (bd_territorial_matrix_an_war)	40% (bd_territorial_matrix_an_merge)	10%
Aggressive vs Pacifist	10% (bd_territorial_matrix_ap_war)	50% (bd_territorial_matrix_ap_merge)	40%
Normal vs Normal	20% (bd_territorial_matrix_nn_war)	50% (bd_territorial_matrix_nn_merge)	30%
Normal vs Pacifist	5% (bd_territorial_matrix_np_war)	45% (bd_territorial_matrix_np_merge)	50%
Pacifist vs Pacifist	0% (bd_territorial_matrix_pp_war)	50% (bd_territorial_matrix_pp_merge)	50%

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🌲 2. Pack Howling & Cluster Spawning

• Pack Cluster Spawning: Wild wolves spawn in coherent pack clusters. Each cluster selects an alpha leader to guide pack movement.
• Group Pack Howling: Pack leaders have a 1% chance per 50 seconds (bd_howl_chance) to initiate a group pack howl (betterdogs:entity.wolf.howl), causing nearby pack members to howl in chorus.

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🎨 3. Dynamic Climate Coat Variants (bd_dynamic_climate_variants)

When wild or spawned wolves generate in modded biomes (such as Biomes O' Plenty, Terralith, Regions Unexplored, etc.), Better Dogs executes a 3-tier priority pipeline to ensure wolves receive contextually appropriate coat textures:

1. Priority 1 (Custom Mod / Datapack Variants): If another mod or datapack explicitly registered a custom coat variant (e.g., somemod:frost_wolf), Better Dogs yields immediately and preserves the custom variant 100% untouched.
2. Priority 2 (Vanilla Tag Match): If Vanilla matched a specific specialized tag (Snowy, Ashen, Rusty, Striped, Black, Spotted), native selection is preserved.
3. Priority 3 (Better Dogs Dynamic Climate Engine): If Priorities 1 & 2 returned un-mapped default Pale/Woods fallback in modded biomes, Better Dogs evaluates the biome's actual climate physics at spawn time:
   • Cold / Snowy (temperature < 0.15 / Precipitation.SNOW): Assigns Snowy Wolf (minecraft:snowy).
   • Hot & Dry / Arid (temperature >= 1.0 & no rain): Assigns Ashen Wolf (minecraft:ashen) or Striped/Red Wolf (minecraft:striped).
   • Hot & Humid / Jungle (temperature >= 0.8 & high downfall): Assigns Rusty Wolf (minecraft:rusty).
   • Dense / Dark Taiga: Assigns Black Wolf (minecraft:black).
   • Cool Taiga: Assigns Chestnut Wolf (minecraft:chestnut).
   • Grove / Meadow: Assigns Spotted Wolf (minecraft:spotted).

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