Free roaming animals

[bastetkeen]

Can you have animals that have no building just free roaming around the village? I just love the idea of animals roaming the village.

[Wizard of Woz]

Well even when they have a building they still roam around.

[bastetkeen]

But will they stay or die if they don't have building or worker or food?

[Jaunitta 🌸]

No.
We cant assign a worker without a building. If you destroy the building wiih a worker assigned the animals will remain unassigned to anything so basically free but you dont own them either and they will die of hunger. The worker will go sit on a bench in the community fireplace if you have built it.
The only free range that I know of is just no fences with a building worker assigned to fill the food trough.
Or you could do it yourself and no worker.

And how do I know this lol one time when I first started playing I get stuck often in the cow shed sheep buildingt etc so I removed a wall to get out and then rebuilt it, well all my cows were unassigned from that building as soon as I modified that wall. I had reassign them again. That was tricky to work out lol.
I now know I can use Esc with unstuck instead.
The same principal applies to our villagers and the house we assign them to, modifying a window or wall not correctly done will unassign them from that house .

cheers

[bastetkeen]

Jaunitta, gotta watch those cows. I hear they kidnap us and hold us to ransom.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Originally posted by bastetkeen:

Jaunitta, gotta watch those cows. I hear they kidnap us and hold us to ransom.

they do udder things

[bastetkeen]

[Morri]

Originally posted by bastetkeen:

But will they stay or die if they don't have building or worker or food?

They will disappear when the season changes if they are unassigned to a building. So you could theoretically assign them back to their building right before the season changes and then un-assign them again in the new season.
But I don't really see the point, because as long as you don't fence them in, they will roam around your village anyway, even if you have them assigned to a building.

[bastetkeen]

It is really only reaching the building limit that I am concerned about.

[Wizard of Woz]

Originally posted by bastetkeen:

It is really only reaching the building limit that I am concerned about.

There is an option to double the build limit in settings. I believe there is also a mod that removes the building limit.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

You can sell them once they reach a good valuable age. make money on all your animals :)
open the management tab, click the animals or cow icon then the game will show a list of what animals you have, then on the bottom theres a "sell" when u select an animal.

[rhwilson1953]

With pigs you need a stall and breeder to gather a steady supply of manure. Chickens and geese needs a coop and breeder to gather eggs. Sure, you can gather eggs and manure yourself but not near as much as a breeder can and you still need a coop / stall.

The same with the other animals, your breeder can gather more than you. The only thing you can gather from the other animals is manure which the breeders can't.

[Wizard of Woz]

Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:

You can sell them once they reach a good valuable age. make money on all your animals :)
open the management tab, click the animals or cow icon then the game will show a list of what animals you have, then on the bottom theres a "sell" when u select an animal.

Originally posted by rhwilson1953:

With pigs you need a stall and breeder to gather a steady supply of manure. Chickens and geese needs a coop and breeder to gather eggs. Sure, you can gather eggs and manure yourself but not near as much as a breeder can and you still need a coop / stall.

The same with the other animals, your breeder can gather more than you. The only thing you can gather from the other animals is manure which the breeders can't.

What do either of these post have to do with what we are talking about?

[rhwilson1953]

Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:

You can sell them once they reach a good valuable age. make money on all your animals :)
open the management tab, click the animals or cow icon then the game will show a list of what animals you have, then on the bottom theres a "sell" when u select an animal.

Originally posted by rhwilson1953:

With pigs you need a stall and breeder to gather a steady supply of manure. Chickens and geese needs a coop and breeder to gather eggs. Sure, you can gather eggs and manure yourself but not near as much as a breeder can and you still need a coop / stall.

The same with the other animals, your breeder can gather more than you. The only thing you can gather from the other animals is manure which the breeders can't.

What do either of these post have to do with what we are talking about?

Just pointing out the fact that free roaming animals may look cool but they will not produce any product. On top of that you cannot buy animals for your village without a place to assign them to.

[7C]

Any animal that isn't assigned a building will leave you at the end of the season. But like others pointed out, at the start of the day they wake up and start wandering a ways from their "home".

[bastetkeen]

Thank you everyone. I currently have all the animals for production in their sheds, so I will forget about free-roaming. I don't have them fenced in, but they don't wander far into the village because the farm animals are on the outskirts of town.