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Game Mechanic: Animal Husbandry
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Animal Husbandry
Begin the agricultural revolution!
Sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, and hares can be turned into productive livestock. When you come across them, enclose them in a fenced-in area, chase them to your desired location, or catch them with a basket trap or crate trap if possible. They are also attracted to troughs filled with food. Use a small trough for chickens, hares, and other small animals, and a large trough for pigs, sheep, goats, and other large animals.
Rearing livestock
Feeding animals will make them produce offspring and prevent them from losing weight during winter. Most animals require only a breeding pair to be given enough food and time to reproduce, but poultry (chickens) also require a henbox in which they can lay and incubate their eggs. If there are not enough henboxes the hens will instead lay their eggs on the ground, which will not hatch, but can still be eaten.
Domestication
Animals bred this way will, over several generations, lose their fear and aggressiveness towards the player. Once they have reached the 3rd generation you can also kill them instantly with a cleaver.
Dairy farming
When ewes and nannies have recently given birth they can be milked. The more domesticated they are the more likely they will be to produce milk for you. Milk goes bad quickly so make sure to drink it or use it to produce cheese or it will go to waste!
Beekeeping
In order to obtain wax and honey, you will need to build skeps into which wild bees like to swarm. Be sure to place some flowers around. You can move a populated skep inside a free backpack slot byrightmouse clicking it. Carry it to the desired location and use Ctrl +Scroll wheel to select that backpack slot, to place the skep back down again. Your bees will visit nearby flowers and slowly produce honey, a richly populated skep can also in turn swarm to start a new bee colony in a nearby empty skep. When your skep colony is mature, break it to remove the honeycomb, note that this is quite likely to anger the bees. Angry bees can become diverted if there happens to be anything nearby which could be mistaken for you. Squeeze the honeycomb over an open container or in the fruitpress to extract the honey, leaving wax. Honey can be stored and moved around with any liquid container.
Begin the agricultural revolution!
Sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, and hares can be turned into productive livestock. When you come across them, enclose them in a fenced-in area, chase them to your desired location, or catch them with a basket trap or crate trap if possible. They are also attracted to troughs filled with food. Use a small trough for chickens, hares, and other small animals, and a large trough for pigs, sheep, goats, and other large animals.
Rearing livestock
Feeding animals will make them produce offspring and prevent them from losing weight during winter. Most animals require only a breeding pair to be given enough food and time to reproduce, but poultry (chickens) also require a henbox in which they can lay and incubate their eggs. If there are not enough henboxes the hens will instead lay their eggs on the ground, which will not hatch, but can still be eaten.
Domestication
Animals bred this way will, over several generations, lose their fear and aggressiveness towards the player. Once they have reached the 3rd generation you can also kill them instantly with a cleaver.
Dairy farming
When ewes and nannies have recently given birth they can be milked. The more domesticated they are the more likely they will be to produce milk for you. Milk goes bad quickly so make sure to drink it or use it to produce cheese or it will go to waste!
Beekeeping
In order to obtain wax and honey, you will need to build skeps into which wild bees like to swarm. Be sure to place some flowers around. You can move a populated skep inside a free backpack slot by