Medieval Dynasty

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intorpere Oct 17, 2022 @ 12:19pm
Auto Feeding Livestock
The villagers only feed my chickens, until their trough is full. Only then do they start feeding my pigs, so the pigs are constantly running out of feed. My donkeys never get fed at all, because the pig trough never gets anywhere near full.

So I go to feed the pigs or donkeys manually, but can't, because villagers used up all the resources giving everything to the overfed chickens.

To fix this, I had to stop my barn workers from making feed at all. I just do it all manually. It makes no sense that I should have to do this. Why not distribute the food evenly? Auto feed whichever animal's trough is closest to empty.
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TheMole Oct 17, 2022 @ 12:25pm 
if you fill all three troughs and then keep the feed being made, it will be distributed evenly
Morri Oct 17, 2022 @ 12:26pm 
They don't prioritize one animal over another. It's the villager at work at the animal building that will automatically add food to the trough of that building alone.
If your pigs or donkeys don't get fed at all, it means you do not have a worker assigned to the building i guess?
intorpere Oct 17, 2022 @ 12:30pm 
I have workers assigned to all three, and they're all similarly skilled and happy, so they should be similarly productive.

Only my chickens get fed, until their trough is 100% and the donkeys have literally NEVER been fed, unless I do it manually. It all goes to the chickens, but I'm only guessing as to why. Other players aren't having this issue?
Morri Oct 17, 2022 @ 12:36pm 
That is a bit strange. The only thing I can think of is that you don't produce enough food for all of them, and your chicken worker is just the fastest so uses it all up every time?
What happens if you make the animal feed yourself in a larger quantity so there's a surplus of it - enough for all animals - and then put it in the resource storage?
intorpere Oct 17, 2022 @ 12:41pm 
What do you mean by "enough?" Even if I only have 3 animal feed, I can put 1 in each trough. That's enough to feed all three, for a little while. It seems that I usually produce enough feed to get the chickens near 100% with 10-20% leftover for pigs and donkeys. So, that should be about 40% full, for all three, if it were divided evenly. Is that not enough?
Morri Oct 17, 2022 @ 12:43pm 
I don't think it works like that. I think the first worker who grabs the feed will instantly try to fill the entire trough up completely. Which is why the rest is not getting anything.
So y, I think once you make enough one-time to fill all of the troughs completely, your problem will be solved. Cause from then on your production will be able to keep up.
TheMole Oct 17, 2022 @ 2:11pm 
make 150 animal feed, place that in resource storage in one hit, and all will be filled at once. As Morri says whoever grabs the feed first tries to get the trough to 100%, which is 50 feed, once all three are full they'll replace it as it's used
Capuzzi09 Oct 17, 2022 @ 2:17pm 
Originally posted by intorpere:
What do you mean by "enough?" Even if I only have 3 animal feed, I can put 1 in each trough. That's enough to feed all three, for a little while. It seems that I usually produce enough feed to get the chickens near 100% with 10-20% leftover for pigs and donkeys. So, that should be about 40% full, for all three, if it were divided evenly. Is that not enough?

Actually, it's quite simple.
All troughs are filled up to 100% by your animal breeders. Once they are filled up, the animal breeders always add what has been consumed during the day.
They do this for ALL animals, but there is a specific order as to which type of animal is fed first and which last.
In general, you just have to make sure that each animal building, after it has been built, is filled up to 100%. You do not have to do this yourself, it is enough to have a sufficient amount of food in your stock.
Please note that each individual stable (depending on the type) can hold up to 50 units of animal feed until it is 100% full. Only goose house and chicken house have less than that (about 30 if I remember correctly).
Assuming you have a sheep pen, a pig pen, a cow pen, a horse pen and a chicken pen, you would need 230 units of animal feed for the initial filling. After that, you only need as much as the animals consume per day. Simple as that.


TLDR: you have not enough food for initial filling.
intorpere Oct 17, 2022 @ 3:13pm 
Ok, so the solution is to fill all my animal shelters to 100% - no offense, but that solution is the problem. I know that. I don't want to produce that much. I'll stick with feeding them manually, I guess.
Capuzzi09 Oct 17, 2022 @ 5:31pm 
Once you filled up every stable to 100% you don't need to produce more than what the animals actually consume.
I honestly don't see an issue with producing 50 animal foot extra just one single time when you built a new stable. How many of them did you plan to build so that this becomes a problem?
malefiiicent Oct 17, 2022 @ 8:08pm 
Originally posted by intorpere:
Ok, so the solution is to fill all my animal shelters to 100% - no offense, but that solution is the problem. I know that. I don't want to produce that much. I'll stick with feeding them manually, I guess.
Just curious, why don't you want your feeding troughs to be 100% full? Would that not be the easiest solution and fix to your "problem"?
intorpere Oct 18, 2022 @ 6:04am 
Originally posted by malefiiicent:
Just curious, why don't you want your feeding troughs to be 100% full? Would that not be the easiest solution and fix to your "problem"?

It's just more than I've been able to produce so far. Oats and flax need to be planted in the same season, and I seem to need huge quantities of both. I guess I'll get there eventually, but it seems strange to me that I have to fill all the troughs to 100% just to have enough.

With my barn workers producing feed, they periodically add one to storage. If the chickens are at 97% they always get that 1 feed to top off, even as other livestock troughs keep getting lower and lower. It's not a reasonable system.
Enjoy The Journey Oct 18, 2022 @ 6:49am 
The most experienced and proficient youtube video gamers consistently advise that getting your farm not be confused with animal husbandry, up and running first. With adequately sized, dedicated fields for each crop, you can be self-sufficient with surplus yields to sell/trade.

If your gaming preference is to have animal husbandry as your primary focus, consider purchasing needed grains from a Vendor and tending to the animals yourself. (iirc) if you choose this strategy, you don't have to hire NPCs for animal husbandry because you can make it a full-time part of your daily choirs to feed and gather the animal's resources.

p.s. I like the mechanics of the game for livestock, just as it stands, except for them getting stuck in the doorway.
Capuzzi09 Oct 18, 2022 @ 8:26am 
Originally posted by Harvester 🔥:
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...you don't have to hire NPCs for animal husbandry because you can make it a full-time part of your daily choirs to feed and gather the animal's resources.
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I strongly recommend not to do this.
You will never be able to get anywhere near the amount of animal products compared to automatic production (by the NPCs) if you collect them yourself. An NPC working in a stable will always gain way more resources from the stables than you ever could with your own labour.
So please - don't do that, and also don't spread that around as a possible alternative, to NPC-based farming. Unless you don't want livestock farming to become a profitable part of your village economy.
Enjoy The Journey Oct 18, 2022 @ 10:02am 
Originally posted by Capuzzi09:
Originally posted by Harvester 🔥:
[...]
...you don't have to hire NPCs for animal husbandry because you can make it a full-time part of your daily choirs to feed and gather the animal's resources.
[...]

I strongly recommend not to do this.
You will never be able to get anywhere near the amount of animal products compared to automatic production (by the NPCs) if you collect them yourself. An NPC working in a stable will always gain way more resources from the stables than you ever could with your own labour.
So please - don't do that, and also don't spread that around as a possible alternative, to NPC-based farming. Unless you don't want livestock farming to become a profitable part of your village economy.

My suggestion is intended for the difficulty the OP is experiencing at the moment. It's an alternative idea. We all learn best from our own experiences. You can have direction of the thread from here. :D
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Date Posted: Oct 17, 2022 @ 12:19pm
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