JerichoYesYes

holy smoke i just did the reply to you and could not figure out how to reply in the system, sorry about this

i should have specified this more when you place a shepherds staff on the ground it makes like a small radius around itself and the dog would run around the animals to scare them towards the staff if they leave the radius, it could walk a bit further from the staff, maybe older generations would try to stick around it themselves too . it should be better to code it like that, saying this as a programmer myself.

There could be a feature where we can raise a wolf pup since they can be captured and teach it to be a herding dog You could claim it with a shepherd's staff and when it is able to herd animals you could place the staff in a location. This would make a small radius around the staff, where the dog would herd sheep, goats or anmials like that to, and where it would attack any animal that would want to eat them. This feels like it's not a huge problem to code and could fit this sort of calm shepherd playstyle. Also there is a shepherd outfit and dogs are a desired addicion by a lot of players.