Herdsman

Important note: You need to have the herdsman profession to use the abilities in this guide. You can select a profession by using the /mp command.

XP Gain

There are a couple of ways to gain XP for the herdsman profession:

1. Breeding animals
   For horses, you can use hay bales and the horses must be tamed.
2. Hunting domestic mobs such as cows, sheep, and pigs
3. Shearing sheep
4. Milking Cows

Skill Tree

The herdsman profession contains several skills that improve animal products, breeding, fishing, carts, and animal genetics.

Full Skill Tree

Butcher

Increases drop rate of domestic animals.

+4% per level
Maximum bonus: +20%

This skill increases drops from domestic animals such as cows, sheep, and pigs.

Scavenger

Domestic animals drop more bones.

+8% per level
Maximum bonus: +40%

This skill increases bone drops from domestic animals.

Hatchery

Breed chickens and get more eggs.

Craft bowl of eggs
+15% per level
Maximum bonus: +45%

This skill increases egg drops from chickens and unlocks the bowl of eggs crafting recipe.

Fishmonger

Collect worms with trowels.
Use worms as stronger lure.
Catch larger fish.

+20% per level
Maximum bonus: +60%

To collect worms, right click grass blocks with a trowel while it is raining.

When fishing, hold a worm in your offhand while using a fishing rod. There is a random chance to start a fishing minigame. When it starts, a bar appears at the top of the screen. You need to right click and fill the bar within the time limit to win the minigame and receive a better fish.

Horsepower

Craft and attach carts to horses for storage.

To attach a cart:

• Use a tamed donkey or horse
• The animal must be saddled
• Hold Shift and right click the animal to attach the cart
• You must have the Horsepower skill unlocked
• Once cart is attached, shift right click the animal to access the cart storage

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Shepherd

Gain more wool from sheep.
Allows for crafting shepherd's staff.

+15% per level
Maximum bonus: +75%

The shepherd's staff makes sheep follow you while you are holding it.

This skill also increases wool gain from sheep.

Dairy

Milk cows more often.

Lvl 1: 2 milk per cow per day
Lvl 2: 3 milk per cow per day
Lvl 3: 4 milk per cow per day

This skill increases how many times each cow can be milked per day.

Truffle Hunter

Use pigs to find truffles.

Increased truffle chance
+1% per level
Maximum bonus: +3%

To start the truffle minigame, leash a pig. The pig will begin moving in the direction of nearby truffles. You then need to find them by right clicking the ground.

Eating a truffle gives Speed for 10 seconds.

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Beekeeper

Increased yields from hives and nests.

+10% per level
Maximum bonus: +30%

This skill increases how much you get from beehives and bee nests.

Artificial Selection

Breed with barley for new breed chance.

Lvl 1: Unlocks genetics menu
Lvl 1: New cow breeds
Lvl 2: New chicken breeds
Lvl 3: New sheep breeds

To work with cow, sheep, and chicken genetics, the animals must be bred with barley. Then you can Shift + right click them to open the genetics menu. They do not need to be babies.

The temperature where cows are bred affects their genetics, along with some randomness.

You can also get barley seeds randomly when breaking wheat if you have the relevant skill unlocked.

Horse Genetics

To open the horse genetics menu, you need the relevant herdsman skill and must Shift + right click a baby horse with an empty hand.

Most of the stats are self explanatory, but bravery decreases the chance for the horse to rear when taking damage.

Feeding baby horses changes different stats:

• Apples increase health
• Barley and Wheat increases jump
• Sugar increases speed
• Horse hay bale blocks increase bravery

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