FS25_CowBreedsRLRM

[!NOTE] The Ritter version of FS25 Realistic Livestock is required for this mod to work.

A companion pack for FS25 Realistic Livestock (RM) that adds 13 new cow breeds with their own textures, plus custom bull and calf models, per‑breed horns, and visual accessories for the base breeds. Breed economics (weight, feed, and outputs) are calibrated against RLRM's base breeds so each breed behaves the way you'd expect.

[!WARNING] Back up your save before installing. Existing animals are migrated automatically on load, but migration cannot guarantee every possible save state — if an animal's breed can't be resolved, RLRM may drop it. Always test on a copy of your save first.

Map compatibility. This pack replaces the game's cow husbandry configuration, so it will not work alongside maps that add their own extra cow breeds. It is not compatible with Le Mechet (its Charolaise / Simmental / Montbeliarde / Vosgienne breeds will not load), and the same likely applies to other breed‑adding maps. It is compatible with Witcombe Park.

Requires

• FS25_RealisticLivestockRM — required. Tested against v1.2.4.0+.

The breeds

Dairy (6) — Red Holstein · Ayrshire · Jersey · Guernsey · Kerry · Shorthorn Milkers Beef (7) — Red Angus · Charolais · Shorthorn · Irish Moiled · British Blue · Belted Galloway · Simmental

Hereford is not a separate pack breed — it's folded into RLRM's own Hereford, which this pack re‑skins with custom models and textures (see Compatibility).

Features

• Custom bull (male) models for the dairy, beef and Highland lines — males are no longer just the cow model.
• Custom calf models, including male calf variants, for dairy, beef and Highland.
• Per‑breed horns — a runtime system picks the right horns per animal:
  • Highland — always horned.
  • Swiss Brown, Kerry — mostly horned.
  • Hereford, Limousin, Charolais, Shorthorn, British Blue, Simmental — occasionally horned (bulls more often than cows).
  • All other breeds — polled.
  • Each animal's horned/polled state is fixed for its life (seeded from its ID), so a herd shows a natural mix.
• Visual accessories on the base breeds — monitors (with live ID digits), ear tags, sprayed markers and nose rings are wired onto Holstein, Swiss Brown, Limousin, Angus, Hereford and Highland.
• Custom Highland textures and models (adult, kid, baby, plus bull variants).
• Water Buffalo models bundled and remapped through the pack atlases.

Breed value calibration

Every pack breed is anchored to RLRM's base breeds by size and type. Values below are the peak (adult) per‑day figures. Milk is set per breed's real dairy ability — dual‑purpose beef breeds keep a useful yield, pure‑beef breeds stay low.

Base reference: straw is a type constant (dairy 95, beef/Highland 130); base max weight is 1200 (cow) / 1400 (bull); dairy milk ref Holstein 330, beef milk ref Angus 160.

Dairy cows

Beef cows

Dairy bulls

Beef bulls

Prices

Buy/sell anchored to the base tiers — premium beef (Charolais, British Blue) to the Angus/Limousin band, budget & dual‑purpose beef to the Hereford/Highland band, dairy to the Holstein/Swiss band. Dairy breeds earn from milk, so their sell (meat) value sits low by design. Transport cost is unchanged (cow 200 / bull 500).

Installation

1. Place FS25_CowBreedsRLRM.zip in your mods/ folder.
2. Make sure FS25_RealisticLivestockRM is enabled.
3. If adding to an existing save, refresh the animal dealer in settings so the new breeds appear straight away — otherwise wait a few in‑game days.

Compatibility

• Existing saves. Existing animals keep their breed and new breeds become purchasable once you refresh the dealer — but back up first (see the warning above): migration covers the known name histories, not every possible edge case.
• Maps. Works with Witcombe Park. Not compatible with Le Mechet or other maps that add their own extra cow breeds, because this pack overrides the cow husbandry configuration and only one such override can win.
• Automatic migration. Old subtype names are upgraded on load by Script/Migration.lua:
  • Pre‑release names (unsuffixed or lowercase _pack) → the current _PACK names.
  • HEREFORD_PACK animals → RLRM's base Hereford (the pack Hereford was consolidated into it; migrated animals keep the custom models but use RLRM's Hereford economics).
  • Leftover subtypes from earlier bridge builds (_vanilla / _mechet) → their base or _PACK equivalent.
  • No manual action needed — load, then save once to bake the new names in.
• New models need no migration. Which model a breed uses is resolved from breed + age at load, so existing animals adopt the new bull/calf models instantly.
• Multiplayer supported (install the mod zipped).

License

Released under the GPL‑3 license. See the LICENSE file for details.

Credit

• rittermod — the base structure of the mod that this pack builds on.