how to feed animals?

[Forsparda]

I built the animal feeder but im not sure what to fill it with can i just fill it with anything or do i have to put something specific in it?

[Jarlim]

i put high quality food from a drone drop off into it, seemed fine, ill assume anything you can eat, they can

[Pesky]

They will at anything you can eat. I feed mine vegetables, because that's what I think animals eat, but the game doesn't care.

[EastyDog]

I have to experiment more, but I filled it with mushroom, eggplant, wheat, cocoa, high quality food and beans. Seems that the only thing that was used up was the wheat. It is possible that I didn't wait long enough.

[Spinder]

Have 3 pens and 3 feeders eggplants beans and squash. And they only eat the beans here.

[kamspokx]

Originally posted by Spinder:

Have 3 pens and 3 feeders eggplants beans and squash. And they only eat the beans here.

I made 6 feeders with the 4 regular foods plus Cocoa and Wheat. I inserted 5 of each food type into the feeders without setting a demand. The only thing to disappear was the wheat. After that was gone, the beans disappeared. Eventually all that was unused was the cocoa.
I guess the mammals don't have a sweet tooth.
I never tried the Space food or HQ Food...

[Nefai]

Originally posted by kamspokx:

Originally posted by Spinder:

Have 3 pens and 3 feeders eggplants beans and squash. And they only eat the beans here.

I made 6 feeders with the 4 regular foods plus Cocoa and Wheat. I inserted 5 of each food type into the feeders without setting a demand. The only thing to disappear was the wheat. After that was gone, the beans disappeared. Eventually all that was unused was the cocoa.
I guess the mammals don't have a sweet tooth.
I never tried the Space food or HQ Food...

I only ever used Cocoa for everything, so they may not like it, but they'll eat it to prevent starvation, I guess :)

[LyaranTirel]

I tried every fruit, high food and chocolate. Basically everything that's eatable works, but they have a preference of feeder position and food. So somethings will desapper before others.

[jjjdragons]

What happens if you don't feed the animals?

[kamspokx]

Originally posted by jjjdragons:

What happens if you don't feed the animals?

PETA and ASPCA come knocking at your door.
Other than that, some people have mentioned that they don't provide Genetic Traits when pet if they're too hungry. I've had them provide Traits at 32% hungry, so I don't know about that.

[Prometheus0000]

Is getting traits from them useful though? You need to get them to even make them, right? So what's the point? Does it make duplicates of what you used to make them so you can make more? I guess that would be useful if you weren't making bargain basement versions just for the numbers.

[DarkEternal]

I give them honey and diabetes.

[AmberAnvil]

Three farms with beans, wheat and cocoa. Seven critters and they eat it all. Drones keep the feeder full.

[rcfox]

Originally posted by Prometheus0000:

Is getting traits from them useful though? You need to get them to even make them, right? So what's the point? Does it make duplicates of what you used to make them so you can make more? I guess that would be useful if you weren't making bargain basement versions just for the numbers.

I found a Bioluminescence 9 trait in a wreck and I've managed to harvest several more from the animal I put it in.

[LongRun]

I got a bioluminescence 10 from one I had a 6 put into

Originally posted by Prometheus0000:

Is getting traits from them useful though? You need to get them to even make them, right? So what's the point? Does it make duplicates of what you used to make them so you can make more? I guess that would be useful if you weren't making bargain basement versions just for the numbers.

[wyldfae28]

Originally posted by Prometheus0000:

Is getting traits from them useful though? You need to get them to even make them, right? So what's the point? Does it make duplicates of what you used to make them so you can make more? I guess that would be useful if you weren't making bargain basement versions just for the numbers.

I put HQ food on demand in all my feeders. My auto crafters make plenty of it so no issue there. Petting animals is the best way to get genetic traits. I usually experiment until I find the variations that I like and then build colonies in different biomes. If you pet your animals frequently, you will get the variants, species, patterns, etc. that you like best as well as random others. They do need to be fed to provide traits. I personally only use Biolume level 1 as the higher numbers make things so neon I can't look at them. Lol.