How does sheep farm works?

[✪ Matt]

I bought 2 sheeps, built a sheep farm and a pasture. Placed families to work but they never bring sheeps to the pastures and never work on it. What am i missing?

[Agent707]

Sorry, I've had too much wine. Sheep just brings too much... well... stuff... to the table, which I digress from.

Someone help this poor man, and pour me another glass.

[Snakester95]

Are your sheep at the Livestock Trading Post still? If they are, your Sheep Farm workers will still collect Wool. As long as you're not in the Winter. Sheep shearing is forbidden during the Winter.

If you're trying to use the sheep breeding Development Point, I haven't had any luck with that. Several years in with 8 sheep and they never bred. Regardless of if they were at the Livestock Trading Post or a Pasture for me.

[martinolund]

I bought two sheep and it's working just fine. They are producing wool and they also seem to multiply after a while, since I now have 2 lambs running around. One sheep is always running around on the pasture and the other one seems to follow the herder where ever they go. it's cute.

[✪ Matt]

Originally posted by Snakester95:

Are your sheep at the Livestock Trading Post still? If they are, your Sheep Farm workers will still collect Wool. As long as you're not in the Winter. Sheep shearing is forbidden during the Winter.

If you're trying to use the sheep breeding Development Point, I haven't had any luck with that. Several years in with 8 sheep and they never bred. Regardless of if they were at the Livestock Trading Post or a Pasture for me.

They are in the livestock trading post but i want them to go to the pasture / sheep farm i built. Isnt that possible?

[Snakester95]

Originally posted by ✪ Matt:

Originally posted by Snakester95:

Are your sheep at the Livestock Trading Post still? If they are, your Sheep Farm workers will still collect Wool. As long as you're not in the Winter. Sheep shearing is forbidden during the Winter.

If you're trying to use the sheep breeding Development Point, I haven't had any luck with that. Several years in with 8 sheep and they never bred. Regardless of if they were at the Livestock Trading Post or a Pasture for me.

They are in the livestock trading post but i want them to go to the pasture / sheep farm i built. Isnt that possible?

I didn't notice a way to move them around on the pre-release version so I can't say for sure. It doesn't make a difference mechanically, but I completely understand wanting them to be there haha.

[CMNJB14]

I have the exact same problems that you're describing, and many people also have posted about it. Hopefully this issue will be resolved in the first patch / update. I'm also hoping we'll have control over moving ANY animals we "own", from building to building (pastures, etc).

Example: would be nice to select an Oxen, or a Horse, and move to them to a different Stable - can't even select them right now.

[Deinsensai]

I found out that, when you have a pasture built and/or a Sheepfarm, the bought sheeps will transfer directly into the pasture if no pasture available they stay at the Animaltrader, i think the system is the same for all animals, they just put the new animals to the next free place, its kinda weird we can´t control anything, move sheeps or oxen, but hey we don´t even got a Production Limit yet, so yeah just wait.

ONE big thing is confusing me, how the hell i am supposed to get the Sheeps from the pasture to the farmfields when the field is fallow??? Anyone found out?`

Oh and i got the Sheep Breeder Point, i bought 10 Sheeps, now i have 70+, they breed in a pasture very fast, but another thing is - we can´t even get some meat out of them right, so there is no auto butchering? Don´t know what happen if they breed beyond the limit, so they just ran away i guess, and this Game is currently designed to sell the sheeps excess on the Animal trading post i think.

So many Questions, and yet no Answers, what´s left - only confusion, and more confusion about everything xD (Fields are generally the number one mystery, or completely broken, idk)

[Jackel]

Originally posted by Deinsensai AT:

I found out that, when you have a pasture built and/or a Sheepfarm, the bought sheeps will transfer directly into the pasture if no pasture available they stay at the Animaltrader, i think the system is the same for all animals, they just put the new animals to the next free place, its kinda weird we can´t control anything, move sheeps or oxen, but hey we don´t even got a Production Limit yet, so yeah just wait.

ONE big thing is confusing me, how the hell i am supposed to get the Sheeps from the pasture to the farmfields when the field is fallow??? Anyone found out?`

Oh and i got the Sheep Breeder Point, i bought 10 Sheeps, now i have 70+, they breed in a pasture very fast, but another thing is - we can´t even get some meat out of them right, so there is no auto butchering? Don´t know what happen if they breed beyond the limit, so they just ran away i guess, and this Game is currently designed to sell the sheeps excess on the Animal trading post i think.

So many Questions, and yet no Answers, what´s left - only confusion, and more confusion about everything xD (Fields are generally the number one mystery, or completely broken, idk)

I have a somewhat similar setup, although I knew going into my game that I would go the Pasture fence upgrade + Sheep breeding. That said I bought 10 via the Livestock trader and I now have hundreds. My plan was get up to 300 (I have 3 farms supporting a 100 pasture size) and then rotate the fields

Wheat > Fallow > Fallow
Fallow > Wheat > Fallow
Fallow > Fallow > Wheat

Going this route I assumed based on the description that the 'rapid regeneration' aspect of the fertility upgrade would bring increased yields by the time each field was due its turn. Sadly I now have sheep breeding like rabbits (I'm auto-trading any Lambs over 20) and a set of fields that might increase 1-2% it seems in yield each rotation despite 100 sheep grazing while set to fallow.

That said in my game sheep/lambs are in wicked high demand (green up arrow) and has essentially broken the economy as I can now export the lambs for 10+ regional wealth and just import any of my shortcomings.

[Jean Cousteau]

Originally posted by Agent707:

Sorry, I've had too much wine. Sheep just brings too much... well... stuff... to the table, which I digress from.

Someone help this poor man, and pour me another glass.

Bro what

[DarkLordNoPants]

For anyone wondering how this actually works, I have something that might help. When I first started trying to get wool, I imported 3 sheep from the livestock trader. They immediately went to the sheep farm I had built. The sheep farm was staffed by families. After a while I noticed no wool was being collected.

I had no idea that you could build a pasture. So I built a pasture, expecting the sheep to eventually move there. They did not.

Instead I had to demolish the sheep farm, wait until the rubble was collected by my oxen, and then the sheep immediately went into the pasture.

Upon rebuilding the sheep farm, they workers immediately started to collect wool from the sheep. Problem solved.

That's the thing with this game. The mechanics are not quite clear right now. You'd expect that since the sheep farm allows for 5 livestock, that you wouldn't need anything else. As soon as I saw space for livestock, I thought I didn't need anything else. Not true.

Build your pasture first. Import the sheep. Then build sheep farm.

[BodyByDave]

Helpful info, but right now I think a lot of this stuff is just bugs etc that will get smoothed out as the game keeps getting worked on

[✪ Matt]

Originally posted by BodyByDave:

Helpful info, but right now I think a lot of this stuff is just bugs etc that will get smoothed out as the game keeps getting worked on

Yeah i think it too..
I did get my sheeps into the pasture but only after i demolished the livestock trading post and then reloaded the game :s

[DarkLordNoPants]

Originally posted by BodyByDave:

Helpful info, but right now I think a lot of this stuff is just bugs etc that will get smoothed out as the game keeps getting worked on

Yeah. I've gone through about 8-10 hours of gameplay right now without actually doing anything outside of my own section of the map. I'm on my 3rd new game attempt.

There's a lot to learn, especially if you're not familiar with the genre, and like you said, a lot of bugs that you need to learn how to either avoid or plan ahead for.

[Jules]

Typical Sheep

[Trombonistanian]

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