Board Thread:Feedback/@comment-27699761-20160203130630/@comment-26172435-20160203133836

Eh, both deer and cows spawn in the Shire.

FYI: Mevans now uses two sets of 'ambient animals' to replace the vanilla set with 'Cows, Pigs, Sheep and Chickens'. The sets used in the mod now are 'Domesticated: Cows, Deer, Pigs, Sheep and Chickens' and 'Non-Domesticated: Deer, Boar, Sheep and Chickens'. He uses these sets to govern animal spawns in most biomes. There are exceptions of course, like Far Harad. There are additional Deer populations in a number of colder / forested biomes, see the list here.

Note that all animal spawns can be made biome and biome-variant dependent (to a certain extent), but it's pretty laborious to implement, with risk of mistakes, and the added value may be limited, considering the other work still waiting to be done.

Limiting deer to forest biome( variant)s will also limit the avialability of meat and leather. Deer-like animals populate many plains on Earth anyway.