Animals settings can control the number of animals that spawn on your server, their armor and damage multipliers.

Based on Official Unturned Wiki and our experience.

"Animals": {
  "Respawn_Time": 180.0,
  "Damage_Multiplier": 0.75,
  "Armor_Multiplier": 1.25,
  "Max_Instances_Tiny": 4,
  "Max_Instances_Small": 8,
  "Max_Instances_Medium": 16,
  "Max_Instances_Large": 32,
  "Max_Instances_Insane": 64,
  "Weapons_Use_Player_Damage": false
}

Respawn_Time

How many seconds it takes for an animal spawn node to attempt to spawn a new animal.

This option doesn't make animals re-spawn more often and isn't very significant. It's just the time it takes for a spawn-point to attempt to spawn a new animal after the previous one was killed.

I recommend leaving this value at 180.

Damage_Multiplier

Multiplier on the damage dealt by animals. When greater than 1, more damage is dealt.

If you set Damage_Multiplier to 2, animals will deal twice as much damage as normal.

• Bears deal 20 damage per hit, so with a multiplier of 2, they will deal 40 damage per hit.
• Wolves deal 10 damage per hit, so with a multiplier of 2, they will deal 20 damage per hit.

💡 PRO TIP
Only bears and wolves attack players.

Armor_Multiplier

Multiplier on the damage dealt to animals. When greater than 1, more damage is dealt.

If you want to make animals harder to kill, you can set this value to 0.5. For example:

• Cow has 100 HP, so with Armor_Multiplier set to 0.5 player will have to deal 200 HP damage to kill it.
• Pig has 50 HP, so with Armor_Multiplier set to 0.5 player will have to deal 100 HP damage to kill it.

Max_Instances

The maximum number of animals that can exist at the same time on a map of specific size.

• Tiny - no official maps
• Small - Alpha Valley, Monolith
• Medium - PEI, Washington, Yukon
• Large - Russia, Germany
• Insane - no official maps

For example, if you're server is using Washington map and Max_Instances_Medium is set to 16 then the maximum number of animals spawning and walking around the map will is just 16.

I recommend increasing this value to make animals more common on your server. However remember that the number of animals that will spawn naturally is also limited by the number of spawn-points on every map. Washington only has 59 spawn-points for animals, so even if you set Max_Instances_Medium to 64, only 59 animals will spawn.

Number of animal spawn-points on official survival maps:

• PEI - 60
• Washington - 59
• Yukon - 35
• Russia - 85
• Germany - 126

💡 PRO TIP
You can set up more spawn-points for animals on any map and modify their loot using our Animal Manager plugin.

Weapons_Use_Player_Damage

Whether or not a weapon's player damage values should be used instead of the weapon's animals damage values. Most weapons do less damage to players than they do to zombies. When set to true, weapons will usually be weaker against animals than they are normally.

Video Tutorial

Learn how to configure animals settings with our video tutorial.