Mod «[Kit] Graze up» for Rimworld (v1.2 - 1.5)

• (configurable) Animals no longer destroy the plants that they eat outright. The list of animals that does destroy plants can be adjusted, there are none by default.
• Grazing removes a portion of growth equal to the nutrition eaten.
• (configurable) Animals can now graze for plants covered in snow. These plants do not grow while snowed under, and may die from age.
• (configurable) Plant nutrition and lifespan modifiers.

In summary, chickens no longer clear out a pasture in three seconds flat, you can cycle through pastures and your animals can find grass that's been snowed under, your dreams of a reindeer colony can finally come true.

No, these changes only apply to grazing, not harvesting.

Grazing does not look at the nutrition value of what can be harvested from a plant, but at the plant's base nutrition value. Grass and plants that don't die from being harvested are king (wild berry bushes and ambrosia bushes).

• This affects all plants, not just vanilla grass, for instance, mods that add sowable grass or custom grass also benefit. Alpha Beavers are probably also a bit less destructive by default, though you can of course make them destructive grazers.
• (configurable) Regrowing plants like berry bushes are treated a bit closer to vanilla, where they provide multiple times their base nutrition value.
• (configurable) Plants that are snowed under can be grazed, this is enabled by default.
• (configurable) Global plant lifespan and nutrition can be modified, if you're annoyed by plants having very short lifespans in general, you can add a soft floor, where plants that are under that lifespan get nudged halfway towards the floor value. This of course would make base game flowers more viable.
• (configurable) Certain animals can engage in destructive grazing, this is disabled by default.
• I'm still working on it, if you have good low-impact ideas that fit the mod, they can be implemented, make your suggestions below, I'll probably respond.
• My workshop image is much cooler, of course.

Probably, mods that mess with plant ingestion are incompatible.

This mod can substitute for the following mods:
Grazing Lands