Season Manager (add-on) - 12 Stage Dynamic Seasonal Wildlife

The Dynamic Seasonal Wildlife Ecosystem

(Inspired by VESTIGIA Legacy Version (1. 0), Improved Wildlife ALPHA 0. 7. 1, and Kiddo's World Wildlife Weather and Visuals)

Animal AI and behavior are no longer static; they are now governed by a 12-stage seasonal cycle of survival, based on a database of seasonal rules.

🐻 Population & Ecological Cycles

• []Summer: Animal populations are at their peak, with spawn rates more than doubled. The world feels alive and abundant.

  []Winter: Animal populations are at their lowest, with spawn rates plummeting to just 25% of normal levels.

Animal behavior is now driven by seasonal scarcity.

• []Energy Conservation: In winter, animals actively conserve energy. Prey animals will rest for double the time. Hibernators like bears waiting up to 20 minutes between active cycles.

  []Food & Water: In the middle of winter, grazing time is cut in half, and the time animals spend looking for food is 15x longer. The time between drink attempts is drastically increased from 2 minutes to 20 minutes to simulate frozen water sources.

  []Skittishness: Prey animals are extremely skittish in winter. They will give a much shorter warning before fleeing and will run much farther away.

  []Boldness: Predators are bolder and more desperate. Wolves and bears are far less likely to flee from you in the winter.

• []Bait Effectiveness: In the plentiful summer, bait is less effective (attracting from 75m). In the dead of winter, starving animals are desperate, and bait is incredibly powerful, attracting them from up to 180m and lasting 3x as long.

  []Scavengers: In summer, you may see 1 scavenger at a kill. In the desperate midwinter, more scavengers will instantly detect and swarm a fresh corpse.

Movement and AI pathfinding are now tied to the environment.