Is Gift crafting a thing? Also wild horses...?

[Sazie]

Can you make gifts instead of buying them? I'm not very far in the game yet, and I see that you can buy gifts but I'd rather make things then buy it.

I'm also curious about horses. Is there wild horses that I can tame? Instead of having to buy them? And is it possible to breed horses and sell them to villagers like some npcs do?

[Kwalyz]

We can not tame animals. We can only purchase them from vendors initially to stock our animal buildings. You can purchase immature animals for less money and let them grow up. Once you have an adult pair then upon the season change there is a chance that they will produce offspring. You do need to have an open space in the animal building before the season change for the potential offspring. I believe the animals need to have food in their trough/feeding tray to trigger the chance of offspring.
We can sell any of our animals at any time. The adults sell for more than the babies. Animals do have an estimated life span eg about 6.25 years for a hen/rooster; once they reach their estimated life span there is a chance they will die.

[Sazie]

Thank you Kwalyz for letting me know. The only thing I'm having trouble with is gifts at the moment, are they something I can craft? And is that an option in sewing gifts?

[ArmyVetWife]

At the moment gifts can either be brought from a special vendor (they show up randomly at towns with a tavern) or if you're lucky you can sometimes find gift items laying around either at random camp sites or at broken down carts.

[Sarke]

I'm pretty sure you cannot craft them. You can only purchase gifts from the traveling merchant, he goes between different villages but is usually found in Gostovia. You can also find them as lot in bandit camps for example, or if you have the skill, I think there's also a small chance of finding one when digging.

By far the easiest way is to buy them.

[Sazie]

Ah alright, Thank you!

[Boxcarwilly]

How do you sell animals?

[Kwalyz]

To sell an animal:
On the management menu there is a page that lists all your animals. This page will show you how old each animal is as well.
When you select an animal you will have along the bottom of the screen a key command to use to sell it …in brackets it will say how much you will get Eg Sell(600).

[Boxcarwilly]

thank you

[richardmgoldsmith]

unless they have changed it, the reproduction is not influenced by the feed availability or an assigned NPC.
2 or more adults with at least 1 of each sex, and available slots for offspring is all you need.
Weirdly I had a hen and a cockerel, but the hen disappeared (I assumed it died despite being about 4 years old or less). So I went and bought a new hen chick and blow me if there wasn't 2 chicks after season end. Still no Hen. I have a ghost hen laying fertile eggs!

[rhwilson1953]

I think it would be cool if we can befriend and train a wisent. There are a few things you could do with them. Ride them like a horse or start a rodeo to travel to other villages and charge a fee to make extra money. If the developers decide to give us carts we could use the wisent to pull them.

Bears would be another great animal to train. Find a wounded bear, treat it back to health. He would make a great traveling companion protecting you from bandits.