Brk Critter Care

$19.99

BRK Critter Care — Animal & Livestock Interaction for RedM / VORP

BRK Critter Care expands the ways players can interact with animals and livestock throughout the RedM world.

Built primarily for VORP Core, Critter Care adds hands-on animal care and gathering activities for ranches, farms, homesteads, and servers that want the animals already in the world to have more purpose.

Players are not restricted to a single ranch or predefined interaction point. Configured animals can be interacted with wherever they are found.

Current Features

Animal milking
Sheep and livestock shearing
Animal washing
Animal brushing
Egg collection
Animal waste / manure collection
Configurable interaction rewards
Configurable supported animals
Inventory-based interaction tools
Equip / unequip animations for tools
Configurable job access
Configurable interaction restrictions
Discord webhook logging
VORP integration

Critter Care is designed so server owners can decide which interactions belong on their server, which animals support them, what players receive, who can perform them, and how the systems fit into their economy.

Critter Care V2 — In Active Production

Critter Care V2 is currently in production and is a high-priority BRK project.

The original Critter Care has been around since 2024, and V2 is a much larger pass over the resource rather than a small feature patch.

The goal is to expand the interactions themselves while also improving the tools, animations, configuration, feedback, compatibility, durability systems, and the way Critter Care connects with the rest of the BRK ecosystem.

Some of What Is Coming in V2

Expanded Animal Tools

Critter Care V2 uses a new shared BRK tool system for animal-care equipment such as:

Shears
Milk Bucket
Soap
Brush

Tools can be equipped and put away through the BRK tool interface, with appropriate props and animations rather than interactions happening entirely through prompts.

The same shared tool system will also be used by BRK Resourceful Ranger and BRK Fish Filet.

New Interaction Minigames

Animal interactions are being moved toward interactive skill-based minigames.

The new Drag minigame for milking is finished and requires repeated controlled inputs to complete the interaction, with support for success, failure, timing, difficulty, and configurable consequences.

You can get a sneak peek of one of the new minigames directly in your browser:

Try BRK Minigames:
https://brkscriptingstudios.com/minigames

This is the same minigame direction being developed for Critter Care V2 and other BRK resources.

Expanded Milking

V2 development includes configurable milking support across multiple appropriate animals, including:

Cows
Goats
Bison
Horses

Milking interactions include actual positioning, animations, a stool, bucket placement, animal handling, and interaction-specific behavior.

Improved Brushing

Brushing is being expanded with different behavior depending on the animal.

Where Red Dead provides appropriate native interactions, Critter Care can use them for animals such as horses and cattle. Other supported animals can use separate interaction behavior rather than forcing the same animation onto every species.

Tool Durability

V2 includes optional configurable durability for animal-care tools.

Server owners can determine which tools use durability and how durability behaves.

Planned integration with BRK RP Dice also allows outcomes such as:

Normal durability loss
Critical success avoiding durability loss
Critical failure potentially breaking a tool

These systems remain configurable rather than mandatory.

Better Animal Interaction Behavior

V2 puts considerably more attention into what the animal and player are physically doing during an interaction.

Development includes:

Walk-to positioning
Interaction distance checks
Animation handling
Prop placement
Mounted interaction rules
Wagon restrictions
Animal-specific positioning
Interaction cancellation
Safer cleanup when an interaction ends unexpectedly

The goal is for animal care to look like an interaction happening in the Red Dead world, not just an inventory transaction.

Expanded Configuration

The V2 configuration is being separated by interaction type so server owners can independently control systems such as:

Milking
Egg / waste collection
Shearing
Washing
Brushing

Individual systems can be enabled, disabled, restricted, tuned, or configured without needing to rewrite the resource.

Job restrictions are also being expanded so servers can choose how strongly professions control Critter Care interactions rather than being limited to one all-or-nothing job lock.

BRK Integrations

V2 is being built alongside the newer BRK shared systems and can make use of integrations such as:

BRK Notify
BRK Menu
BRK RP Dice
Shared BRK tools and utilities

Integrations are documented and only listed as supported once they have been properly tested.

Future Framework Compatibility

VORP remains the primary supported and fully tested framework, but expanded RedM framework compatibility is part of the V2 development direction.

Additional frameworks will be listed as supported once their implementation has actually been tested.

If you run another framework and would like Critter Care support for it, compatibility requests are welcome.

Development & Suggestions

Critter Care V2 is one of my current high-priority BRK development projects.

I would rather give the resource a proper V2 rebuild than rush a collection of smaller changes simply to call it updated.

Feature suggestions are also very welcome.

If there is an animal interaction, supported species, configuration option, framework integration, profession use, tool behavior, or quality-of-life feature you think would make Critter Care more useful, feel free to suggest it.

I cannot promise every suggestion will be implemented, but feedback from people actually using BRK resources is taken seriously and has already shaped a lot of ongoing development.