Do you need to rush animals?

[BanDHMO]

Will they all die off in their enclosures if you take a few months to start your herd, Or will the game later spawn healthy animals you can use?

[Chromeo]

It seems that a few can spawn in random events but the vast majority will die yes.

[wheostan]

7 months into my current world here, some of the farms nearby me have lost their animals, but the majority seem to still have some still, the large places that house Lots of animals all died off quickly caus they all ran out of food and starved, but the normal farms, yeah i expect to still be finding living farm animals past 1+yr out (started this world on feb 7th ingame i believe )

[Lomak]

If you are years into a game but have not visited an area yet, i believe its animals will be "spawned" upon you getting close enough, regardless of how long you've been playing. I cannot confirm this but I am like 90% certain.

[stecph]

Originally posted by Lomak:

If you are years into a game but have not visited an area yet, i believe its animals will be "spawned" upon you getting close enough, regardless of how long you've been playing. I cannot confirm this but I am like 90% certain.

Does not seem to be the case,why do you say that?
If you play 12 months after,as soon as you apptoach a farm,the animals spawn and immediately drop dead.

[Jambie Lionheart]

Am kinda interested to know how much farming space is needed to support one animal of each kind.

[Higgs]

Originally posted by stecph:

Originally posted by Lomak:

If you are years into a game but have not visited an area yet, i believe its animals will be "spawned" upon you getting close enough, regardless of how long you've been playing. I cannot confirm this but I am like 90% certain.

Does not seem to be the case,why do you say that?
If you play 12 months after,as soon as you apptoach a farm,the animals spawn and immediately drop dead.

Just to be clear, you don't actually walk to a farm and visibly see them spawn and then die?
I just wanted to check this, and they were spawned in dead state, I didn't see them die or anything.

[Valchrist]

I am also 7 months in, it's mid winter, and farm animals are still plentiful, including in places that I discovered immediately.

If you want the farmer experience, start in Echo Ridge and go straight right along the one main road and you can't miss a giant egg farm with 18 chicken farms on it, each with it's own spawn chance. There's like 100 chickens there in my save. It's moderately occupied by zeds.

South from that point along the east side of the river, there are dozes of larger farms in a short distance with larger livestock and very few zombies.

You should know before heading in, if you're planning to use the leather, you will need tailoring skill. You'll also need to find a "fleshing tool". I've cleared and searched all of Ekron as well as Echo Creek, found a barbell and dumbbell (rare items), two katanas... but not a fleshing tool.

Maybe you can forge one... once you find that specific recipe, and forage an insane amount of clay to make a kiln to make a crucible, then craft an anvil mould, then smelt some metal, pour it in to the mould to make an anvil, smelt more metal, then blacksmith it in to a fleshing tool, whenever you're skilled enough to actually make that tool, so you can START tanning your leather....

In reality, you can just use any knife to flesh a hide. It should just be done at a penalty.
The new crafting is a bit over-complicated, although could be compelling in a roleplay multiplayer setting.

[Kot]

You can catch rabbits, and probably also chickens with trapping. That means you can raise what you catch. But we did have a bunch of cows spawn in one of the new towns near the new starting location. Not on a farm, just running around.

[Valchrist]

Oh! Read about the chickenpocalypse bug or whatever.
THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.

Trying to raise livestock is asking for a game-breaking bug right now.
I suffered from it myself, except with pigs. My first base where I put all my loot from all of Ekron is infested with over 1000 pigs and growing rapidly every moment I spend in that cell.

This causes EXTREME game-breaking lag.

I literally just started the husbandry. Collected a rooster and a hen, a male and female rabbit, and two baby pigs. BABY PIGS.
I went for a jog down the road and came back to ~200 ADULT pigs. Maybe 12 hours game time. And it seems to spawn a new pig every tick. Very soon it was 1000 pigs and growing.

There are videos of this "chickenpocalypse" bug in effect.

I wouldn't try it in a serious run, and so yes, while it's VIABLE to wait, it's not safe at the moment, and not worth the risk unless you're doing it far from where you live.


https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3407345516

[BanDHMO]

Originally posted by Valchrist:

If you want the farmer experience, start in Echo Ridge and go straight right along the one main road and you can't miss a giant egg farm with 18 chicken farms on it, each with it's own spawn chance. There's like 100 chickens there in my save. It's moderately occupied by zeds.

Funny, that's exactly where I am, just by chance. The mansion is cool and has a fireplace.

But why do you recommend living there for farming? The enclosures are tiny = no grazing space. It hasn't happened yet, but I fully expect those 100 chickens to starve to death by the time the power turns off.

[stecph]

Originally posted by MadDan:

Originally posted by stecph:

Does not seem to be the case,why do you say that?
If you play 12 months after,as soon as you apptoach a farm,the animals spawn and immediately drop dead.

Just to be clear, you don't actually walk to a farm and visibly see them spawn and then die?
I just wanted to check this, and they were spawned in dead state, I didn't see them die or anything.

Well that is what i saw. Animals popping into existence and immediately dropped on the ground. I looked for answers and it turned out that the cause was the 12 months after. So yeah...

[Pherdnut]

Originally posted by Valchrist:

Oh! Read about the chickenpocalypse bug or whatever.
THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.

Trying to raise livestock is asking for a game-breaking bug right now.
I suffered from it myself, except with pigs. My first base where I put all my loot from all of Ekron is infested with over 1000 pigs and growing rapidly every moment I spend in that cell.

This causes EXTREME game-breaking lag.

I literally just started the husbandry. Collected a rooster and a hen, a male and female rabbit, and two baby pigs. BABY PIGS.
I went for a jog down the road and came back to ~200 ADULT pigs. Maybe 12 hours game time. And it seems to spawn a new pig every tick. Very soon it was 1000 pigs and growing.

There are videos of this "chickenpocalypse" bug in effect.

I wouldn't try it in a serious run, and so yes, while it's VIABLE to wait, it's not safe at the moment, and not worth the risk unless you're doing it far from where you live.


https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3407345516

I think I got chickenpocalypse by grabbing a chicken from a hutch directly. The OG chicken was still there but I had a new one in inventory. Probably created a dupe ID or something and made the game go haywire. I reloaded a backup save and tried just grabbing them during the day when they're out. No problems so far.

[Pherdnut]

Originally posted by BanDHMO:

Will they all die off in their enclosures if you take a few months to start your herd, Or will the game later spawn healthy animals you can use?

They seem to be in stasis in the animal carriers. Weeks go by and they don't get thirsty.

[Bomjus]

from my experience, if you haven't visited an area the animals "don't exist" yet.

if you want to be safe though, if you see some cows in an enclosure, but you don't want to bother with them at that moment, i would go into the enclosure, grab 2-3 of their troughs from the barn that's probably near them, and place them outside. from my experience animals have more water issues than food. at least pre-winter. idk what happens in winter.

this does have its own issue though in that i don't think rain fills troughs/rain collectors if you are too far away lol.

[Terraner]

In my Game, i start 3 month later and i wonder why all female chicken, pigs and cows are dead, the males are not. I found a bug to realive the pigs and cows, build a hook hang on, dont butcher them, log out the game and restart, then the hooked animal is realive.