Extra Farm Animal/Horse/Pet Interactions (Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons)

[clockworkprince]

I'm a big old softie and I miss some of the interactions you can do with your farm animals that are a thing in the games series of Harvest Moon and Story Of Seasons. I also added some extra ideas that aren't in either series, but that I think would be fun anyway.

I'm aware that there's a husbandry mod where some of this functionality is kind of included, but it only offers a treat bowl you can fill, which isn't quite what I'm looking for. (Though I guess it works for the pet bowl idea outlined in this thread, but not quite the other stuff.)

Interactions I would love to have in the game:

• Being able to feed farm animals by holding hay in your hands. (Optional: be able to feed certain other treat foods to your animals, such as apples and cave carrots to rabbits, amaranth to cows, etc.) This would be nice as a way to get a little extra affection from your animals, but shouldn't be too overpowered. Preferably enabled both when the animals are indoors and outdoors.
• Reduced effectiveness for just the vanilla feeding and petting interactions for balancing reasons. (Preferably toggleable.) I'm guessing the easiest way to do this is make the total affection points needed to reach a higher heart level, but lowering points per interaction might also work, depending on how it's coded.
• Ability to get hay from the hay storage in the coop/barn, even when all feeding spots are filled up, to make hand feeding less of a pain.
• Being able to feed your pets by hand to raise their affection levels faster, e.g. certain fish for cats (do not feed pufferfish to cats!), bones (skeleton enemy drops) for dogs. (Optional: pet treat items you can buy at Pierre's or Marnie's.) (Optional: Toggle to mmke feeding your pets mandatory or not; bowl you can stock with fish or bones.)
• Being able to feed and brush your horse, along with the horse's speed improving when your affection with the horse improves. Would probably need a slight movement speed reduction when you first get the horse, for balancing reasons. Marnie's ranch seems like a good sale place for the brush. Horses can eat hay, fruit or veggies. (Optional: Toggle that allows you to enable or disable horse care as necessary for the horse to have the energy to carry you on their back the day after you either feed or neglect to feed them. Or have a toggle for horse affection dropping if you don't feed and brush them daily.)
• Optional: Switch that enables or disables the auto-feeder in the deluxe coop/barn.

If needed, I can make graphics for this mod, such as e.g. a brush icon. I just don't have the programming skills to make the code part happen. Hit me up in the official Stardew Valley Discord if you have questions or want to work with me!

[ghost]

Can feed the horse with Horse Overhaul, it also has speed, don't know about the other things :c