What do I need a donkey or a horse for?

[Banisha]

Granted, it looks fun to ride an animal, but does that make me go faster? I run a wolf out.
It is not necessary to act as a pack animal, because I have enabled unlimited weight carrying and I am not sure whether my mount can handle that much weight.
What shall I do?

[Tux]

In my opinion its mostly for weight.
so given your settings...

[TheRealMuehle]

The Horse is faster than you.
Don't know about the Donkey.
Also, i's always better to ride an empty horse/donkey and keep the stuff in your inventory.
No matter, if you have unlimited weight or not.
I used my Horse for traveling and my Donkeys as Mining-Companions.
Played with weight-limit.

[Morri]

The donkey is definitely faster than your character and has more stamina to run longer. The horse is even faster.

[Lailantie]

You can put skill points on your mount's stamina and speed. My horse with full speed and stamina goes across the whole map in almost no time. Wild animals don't even notice I was there.

[galadon3]

Yepp both are faster, I think even without the extra-skills but with them deffo.
That said I think it would be nice if they had another use too, after all there would be no real reason to keep donkey around when you have horses and thats a damn shame.

[Banisha]

Thanks Tux, TheRealMuehle, Morri, Lailantie and galadon for your answers.
I appreciate it a lot.

[TheRealMuehle]

Originally posted by galadon3:

Yepp both are faster, I think even without the extra-skills but with them deffo.
That said I think it would be nice if they had another use too, after all there would be no real reason to keep donkey around when you have horses and thats a damn shame.

Mining!
The donkey is smaller and a bit slower than the horse. So better to control in the narrow environment of a cave.
It has a higher carrying capacity,
and at least it always felt to me like the Donkey has a much higher tolerance for overloading
until it can't move at all.
Iirc, I carryed 350kg out of my mine. Of course it's slow then, but imo fast enough for this task.

[Banisha]

@ galadon3
I agree with you about the donkeys.
In the game you regularly hear the people around you comment about how stupid it looks to sit on such an animal. For many years now, donkeys have been called stupid and associated with stupid farmers. Horses, on the other hand, have always been associated with nobility and are therefore seen as noble animals.
In my opinion, no one who has achieved any status in this game wants to be seen on the back of a donkey.

[Dom79]

With unlimited weight u have no need for a donkey, its the sort of noobstyle peoples play and there use only horses, because there are much quicker with lower carry weight (What u dont interest). Using unlimited weight is more or less a complete gamebreaking element, same as instant crafting. Its much like playing a game with unlimited HP and ask for what a Armour is, because u never die . There is literally no element in game which is in any way balanced for instant crafting or unlimited weight. Thats why u not should use it.

And in my opinion it was even more stupid to let peoples change settings in active games, it destroyed all forms of possible contest, the game would have, much like the old contests in Guild .

[galadon3]

Originally posted by Dom79:

With unlimited weight u have no need for a donkey, its the sort of noobstyle peoples play and there use only horses, because there are much quicker with lower carry weight (What u dont interest). Using unlimited weight is more or less a complete gamebreaking element, same as instant crafting. Its much like playing a game with unlimited HP and ask for what a Armour is, because u never die . There is literally no element in game which is in any way balanced for instant crafting or unlimited weight. Thats why u not should use it.

And in my opinion it was even more stupid to let peoples change settings in active games, it destroyed all forms of possible contest, the game would have, much like the old contests in Guild .

Contest... yea sure buddy....
If you think other people shouldn't be able to play a game they purchased and play either solo or with friends not as a kind of MMO, but instead should conform to whatever kind of dickmeasuring contest in a computergame you want to put in place of a life, I recommend going out more.

[galadon3]

Originally posted by Banisha:

@ galadon3
I agree with you about the donkeys.
In the game you regularly hear the people around you comment about how stupid it looks to sit on such an animal. For many years now, donkeys have been called stupid and associated with stupid farmers. Horses, on the other hand, have always been associated with nobility and are therefore seen as noble animals.
In my opinion, no one who has achieved any status in this game wants to be seen on the back of a donkey.

I like donkeys, way more intelligent then horses, and it would be nice to have a use for them, like being able to put them in some workplaces and increase their productivity, like the mine or the woodshed, where heavy stuff needs transportation.

[Banisha]

@Dom79
For me it is a godsend to be able to adjust the game somewhat to my liking. This way I can slowly get to know the game without having to fear every sound and face death every moment.
When I'm a bit more experienced I can go back to how the game was intended.

[Dom79]

@ galadon3 :Yes its nothing for noobs , its something for advanced players with passion and perfectionism and its done for a lot of games over time. And to be honest i work whole day, when i come home, i dont wanna go out again, but i like some cool contest and no it has nothing to do with some dickmeasuring , instead it is much about thinking, strategys ,funny ideas , communication and discussion. And nobody sayed that u need to do this, u could play the game and ignore anything else around it and nobody would care. Its the problem that u not even have an option anymore to do this, why such an option would not make any problem for anyone else.

[Ichangedmyname]

Originally posted by Dom79:

With unlimited weight u have no need for a donkey, its the sort of noobstyle peoples play and there use only horses, because there are much quicker with lower carry weight (What u dont interest). Using unlimited weight is more or less a complete gamebreaking element, same as instant crafting. Its much like playing a game with unlimited HP and ask for what a Armour is, because u never die . There is literally no element in game which is in any way balanced for instant crafting or unlimited weight. Thats why u not should use it.

And in my opinion it was even more stupid to let peoples change settings in active games, it destroyed all forms of possible contest, the game would have, much like the old contests in Guild .

I agree that unlimited weight would make the game to easy and get boring quickly but Im glad we can change some settings, I finally increased tech gain after having 25 villagers and tons of them crafting along with myself and not even unlocking market stalls yet.

[Dom79]

@ Banisha: Thats a very common argument, but it doesnt work for a alot of people because, its hard, very very hard to go back to something else. Because u see how much time and difference there is, when u build 3 Houses at the start without unlimitied weight. Than doing the same with weight limit and u will be shocked how much more time it needs and what u all need to do, when u not just quickly buy a Plums Wine and and Iron Axe and cut away 100Logs in 2-3 mins, pick up all Logs at once and than quickly run to a mine make a bunch hits and have 300 Stones.