Doggy Talents Next - Changelog

Update List Key (+) A new feature (-) A removed feature (#) A changed feature (*) A bug fix (/) Other

1.19.1 - 25th August 2026 The Dynamic Update II (ft. 旺旺 🕯️🦴🎹)

Developer's Note: This update means a great deal to us. Not only does it significantly breathe more life into the dogs, but we are also dedicating this release to WangWang — a mother dog whose story inspired the world. Because DTN is fundamentally about celebrating the bond between humans and canines, we wanted to build a permanent sanctuary for a mother who fought valiantly for her own. Here, players can finally give her the love and care she was denied in the waking world. 🌸

A Tribute to WangWang (旺旺)

"O benevolent mother, you fought bravely to protect your own. Now lay down your burdens and let the origin of all that's good and mother to us all (Ya big furball!) embrace you in her maternal warmth and guide you to a place where the sun never sets on you or your children."

• Added 1 model and 2 skins of WangWang. These skins are fully compatible with model accessories.

• Added WangWang to Doggy Spin World Load Icon.

• Added "Wang Wang" and "旺旺" to Random Name pool.

  Major Dog Animation Overhaul!

Your dogs now move and interact with the world in a drastically smoother, more fluid, and lively way. They now ask for belly rubs, sniff around, stretch, and get petted... with more style!

• New Animation State Machine & Blending Mechanic: Transitions between procedural movement states and keyframe animations are now significantly smoother, greatly reducing visual snapping.

• Dog Anim Debug Item: Now allows freezing of headYRot, headXRot, banking, and tailXRot for better posing scene setups.

UI Fix (Dog GUI > Style > Skins > Show Info View):

Shifted the info scroll view downward slightly to prevent overlapping with the search field.

Added new names and cleaned up the Random Name Registry (names.json).

Localization: Temporarily removed the French (fr_fr.json) localization. The previous translation

contained heavy slang and terminology that did not match the mod's intended tone; a fresh translation will be required in the future.

Clean up:

• Skins: Reorganized skin.json, removed some skins, and removed the otter model.

• Accessories & Items: Disabled several trivial pop culture references, accessories and items for now.

• Fixed a visual animation desync/skipping issue caused by batched latency updates.
• Fixed old data parsed models persisting after a resource reload instead of invalidating correctly.
• Fixed potential animation blending bug caused by radians vs. degrees mismatch.
• Fixed back leg unnecessarily lifting up in neutral sniff animation.

Doggy Talents Next - Changelog

Update List Key (+) A new feature (-) A removed feature (#) A changed feature (*) A bug fix (/) Other

1.19.1 - 25th August 2026 The Dynamic Update II (ft. 旺旺 🕯️🦴🎹)

Developer's Note: This update means a great deal to us. Not only does it significantly breathe more life into the dogs, but we are also dedicating this release to WangWang — a mother dog whose story inspired the world. Because DTN is fundamentally about celebrating the bond between humans and canines, we wanted to build a permanent sanctuary for a mother who fought valiantly for her own. Here, players can finally give her the love and care she was denied in the waking world. 🌸

A Tribute to WangWang (旺旺)

"O benevolent mother, you fought bravely to protect your own. Now lay down your burdens and let the origin of all that's good and mother to us all (Ya big furball!) embrace you in her maternal warmth and guide you to a place where the sun never sets on you or your children."

• Added 1 model and 2 skins of WangWang. These skins are fully compatible with model accessories.

• Added WangWang to Doggy Spin World Load Icon.

• Added "Wang Wang" and "旺旺" to Random Name pool.

  Major Dog Animation Overhaul!

Your dogs now move and interact with the world in a drastically smoother, more fluid, and lively way. They now ask for belly rubs, sniff around, stretch, and get petted... with more style!

• New Animation State Machine & Blending Mechanic: Transitions between procedural movement states and keyframe animations are now significantly smoother, greatly reducing visual snapping.

• Dog Anim Debug Item: Now allows freezing of headYRot, headXRot, banking, and tailXRot for better posing scene setups.

UI Fix (Dog GUI > Style > Skins > Show Info View):

Shifted the info scroll view downward slightly to prevent overlapping with the search field.

Added new names and cleaned up the Random Name Registry (names.json).

Localization: Temporarily removed the French (fr_fr.json) localization. The previous translation

contained heavy slang and terminology that did not match the mod's intended tone; a fresh translation will be required in the future.

Clean up:

• Skins: Reorganized skin.json, removed some skins, and removed the otter model.

• Accessories & Items: Disabled several trivial pop culture references, accessories and items for now.

• Fixed a visual animation desync/skipping issue caused by batched latency updates.
• Fixed old data parsed models persisting after a resource reload instead of invalidating correctly.
• Fixed potential animation blending bug caused by radians vs. degrees mismatch.
• Fixed back leg unnecessarily lifting up in neutral sniff animation.

Doggy Talents Next - Changelog

Update List Key (+) A new feature (-) A removed feature (#) A changed feature (*) A bug fix (/) Other

1.19.0 - 23th February 2026 First update of 2026.

Dog Walk Animation overhaul!

• Dogs now have not just a dedicated walk animation, but also a galloping animation.

• When the dog's speed goes above a threshold for a certain amount of time, the walk animation smoothly transitions into the galloping animation.

• The animation transition from between Standby, Walk, and Run is smoothed out to ensure minimal stuttering.

• Centrifugal Banking: When galloping and taking a sharp turn, the dog will naturally lean and bank with inertia. The more aggressively they turn, the deeper the lean!

  DogAnimations is now Data-Driven

• Implemented Dedicated animation format

• Created Blockbench plugin for exporting/importing.

• DTN now loads animation from resource.

• This allows modification of the animation via resourcepacks.

  DogModels is now Data-Driven!

• Implemented Dedicated model format

• Created Blockbench plugin for exporting/importing.

• DTN now also loads its model from resource.

• A dedicated mod is no longer required for addons that provide custom models.

• Any DTN addons with custom models can now be implemented with a resource pack. They will be automatically compatible with every Minecraft version as long as DTN (1.19.0+) supports it.

Doggy Talents Next - Changelog

Update List Key (+) A new feature (-) A removed feature (#) A changed feature (*) A bug fix (/) Other

1.19.0 - 23th February 2026 First update of 2026.

Dog Walk Animation overhaul!

• Dogs now have not just a dedicated walk animation, but also a galloping animation.

• When the dog's speed goes above a threshold for a certain amount of time, the walk animation smoothly transitions into the galloping animation.

• The animation transition from between Standby, Walk, and Run is smoothed out to ensure minimal stuttering.

• Centrifugal Banking: When galloping and taking a sharp turn, the dog will naturally lean and bank with inertia. The more aggressively they turn, the deeper the lean!

  DogAnimations is now Data-Driven

• Implemented Dedicated animation format

• Created Blockbench plugin for exporting/importing.

• DTN now loads animation from resource.

• This allows modification of the animation via resourcepacks.

  DogModels is now Data-Driven!

• Implemented Dedicated model format

• Created Blockbench plugin for exporting/importing.

• DTN now also loads its model from resource.

• A dedicated mod is no longer required for addons that provide custom models.

• Any DTN addons with custom models can now be implemented with a resource pack. They will be automatically compatible with every Minecraft version as long as DTN (1.19.0+) supports it.

Doggy Talents Next - Changelog

Update List Key (+) A new feature (-) A removed feature (#) A changed feature (*) A bug fix (/) Other

1.19.0 - 23th February 2026 First update of 2026.

Dog Walk Animation overhaul!

• Dogs now have not just a dedicated walk animation, but also a galloping animation.

• When the dog's speed goes above a threshold for a certain amount of time, the walk animation smoothly transitions into the galloping animation.

• The animation transition from between Standby, Walk, and Run is smoothed out to ensure minimal stuttering.

• Centrifugal Banking: When galloping and taking a sharp turn, the dog will naturally lean and bank with inertia. The more aggressively they turn, the deeper the lean!

  DogAnimations is now Data-Driven

• Implemented Dedicated animation format

• Created Blockbench plugin for exporting/importing.

• DTN now loads animation from resource.

• This allows modification of the animation via resourcepacks.

  DogModels is now Data-Driven!

• Implemented Dedicated model format

• Created Blockbench plugin for exporting/importing.

• DTN now also loads its model from resource.

• A dedicated mod is no longer required for addons that provide custom models.

• Any DTN addons with custom models can now be implemented with a resource pack. They will be automatically compatible with every Minecraft version as long as DTN (1.19.0+) supports it.

Doggy Talents Next - Changelog

Update List Key (+) A new feature (-) A removed feature (#) A changed feature (*) A bug fix (/) Other

1.18.61 - 14th Oct 2025

Anim debug nametag now only show when player is holding dog anim debug stick.

Allow blacklisting blocks for dog bridging.

• Properly fix dog still pushing owner by default. Dog should now actually don't push the owner by default, you can still push it though.
• Dog won't show nametag as "Dog" if it doesn't have a custom name even when ALWAYS_RENDER_DOG_NAME is true.
• Fixes dog name
• Fixes some issues regarding dog going away from danger logic
• Fix Dog Go Behind Action doesn't work if a torch is blocking the path.
• Fix Dog improperly dismounting entity without checking the entity size and either forefeit if not fit or adapt the entity's pose.
• Fix NPE when Dog places Dog Beds
• Fix non swimmer dog drowning while swimming as they don't float enough

1.18.62 - 16th Oct 2025

Config to restrict Mob Retriever to carrying only leashable mobs.

• (Forge 1.20 Only) fix deofuscated release build.

1.18.63 - 17th Oct 2025

• HOTFIX: Fix Glowing eye detaching.

1.18.64 - 3rd December 2025

Properly implement a datapack based Serverside DogSkin BlackList/WhiteList config system.

• To configure, first create a datapack for the target MC version (or use an existing one).
• Then create this file (in the exact directory relative to the datapack root directory): data/doggytalents/doggytalents/allowed_skin/allowed_skin.json
• In the file, specify the json in this format

{
  "strategy": "<*1>",
  "skins_hashes": [
    "<hash_1>",
    "<hash_2>",
    ...
    "<hash_n>"
  ]
}

*1: either allow_except (allow all skin except the specified skins) or disallow_except (disallow all skin except the specified skins).

hash_1, hash_2,...hash_n: The skins you want to blacklist/whitelist. The skin's texture's Hash Value is required to be the entry for this list, they can be obtained via the Show Info page of Style > Skins at the Dog GUI.

Ensure no duplications in Random Name List.

• Fix wierd dog inventory behaviour when user clicks on the dog inventory button located in their inventory while carrying a stack in their cursor, resulting in the stack temporarily vanishing clientside.

Doggy Talents Next - Changelog

Update List Key (+) A new feature (-) A removed feature (#) A changed feature (*) A bug fix (/) Other

1.18.61 - 14th Oct 2025

Anim debug nametag now only show when player is holding dog anim debug stick.

Allow blacklisting blocks for dog bridging.

• Properly fix dog still pushing owner by default. Dog should now actually don't push the owner by default, you can still push it though.
• Dog won't show nametag as "Dog" if it doesn't have a custom name even when ALWAYS_RENDER_DOG_NAME is true.
• Fixes dog name
• Fixes some issues regarding dog going away from danger logic
• Fix Dog Go Behind Action doesn't work if a torch is blocking the path.
• Fix Dog improperly dismounting entity without checking the entity size and either forefeit if not fit or adapt the entity's pose.
• Fix NPE when Dog places Dog Beds
• Fix non swimmer dog drowning while swimming as they don't float enough

1.18.62 - 16th Oct 2025

Config to restrict Mob Retriever to carrying only leashable mobs.

• (Forge 1.20 Only) fix deofuscated release build.

1.18.63 - 17th Oct 2025

• HOTFIX: Fix Glowing eye detaching.

1.18.64 - 3rd December 2025

Properly implement a datapack based Serverside DogSkin BlackList/WhiteList config system.

• To configure, first create a datapack for the target MC version (or use an existing one).
• Then create this file (in the exact directory relative to the datapack root directory): data/doggytalents/doggytalents/allowed_skin/allowed_skin.json
• In the file, specify the json in this format

{
  "strategy": "<*1>",
  "skins_hashes": [
    "<hash_1>",
    "<hash_2>",
    ...
    "<hash_n>"
  ]
}

*1: either allow_except (allow all skin except the specified skins) or disallow_except (disallow all skin except the specified skins).

hash_1, hash_2,...hash_n: The skins you want to blacklist/whitelist. The skin's texture's Hash Value is required to be the entry for this list, they can be obtained via the Show Info page of Style > Skins at the Dog GUI.

Ensure no duplications in Random Name List.

• Fix wierd dog inventory behaviour when user clicks on the dog inventory button located in their inventory while carrying a stack in their cursor, resulting in the stack temporarily vanishing clientside.

Doggy Talents Next - Changelog

Update List Key (+) A new feature (-) A removed feature (#) A changed feature (*) A bug fix (/) Other

1.18.61 - 14th Oct 2025

Anim debug nametag now only show when player is holding dog anim debug stick.

Allow blacklisting blocks for dog bridging.

• Properly fix dog still pushing owner by default. Dog should now actually don't push the owner by default, you can still push it though.
• Dog won't show nametag as "Dog" if it doesn't have a custom name even when ALWAYS_RENDER_DOG_NAME is true.
• Fixes dog name
• Fixes some issues regarding dog going away from danger logic
• Fix Dog Go Behind Action doesn't work if a torch is blocking the path.
• Fix Dog improperly dismounting entity without checking the entity size and either forefeit if not fit or adapt the entity's pose.
• Fix NPE when Dog places Dog Beds
• Fix non swimmer dog drowning while swimming as they don't float enough

1.18.62 - 16th Oct 2025

Config to restrict Mob Retriever to carrying only leashable mobs.

• (Forge 1.20 Only) fix deofuscated release build.

1.18.63 - 17th Oct 2025

• HOTFIX: Fix Glowing eye detaching.

1.18.64 - 3rd December 2025

Properly implement a datapack based Serverside DogSkin BlackList/WhiteList config system.

• To configure, first create a datapack for the target MC version (or use an existing one).
• Then create this file (in the exact directory relative to the datapack root directory): data/doggytalents/doggytalents/allowed_skin/allowed_skin.json
• In the file, specify the json in this format

{
  "strategy": "<*1>",
  "skins_hashes": [
    "<hash_1>",
    "<hash_2>",
    ...
    "<hash_n>"
  ]
}

*1: either allow_except (allow all skin except the specified skins) or disallow_except (disallow all skin except the specified skins).

hash_1, hash_2,...hash_n: The skins you want to blacklist/whitelist. The skin's texture's Hash Value is required to be the entry for this list, they can be obtained via the Show Info page of Style > Skins at the Dog GUI.

Ensure no duplications in Random Name List.

• Fix wierd dog inventory behaviour when user clicks on the dog inventory button located in their inventory while carrying a stack in their cursor, resulting in the stack temporarily vanishing clientside.