How does the sheep population work?

[tank16365]

I have a sheep farm, and a huge pasture area, there's been 2 people working there, I have the trait where your sheep slowly add more, and they've been working for 2 years, but no sheep? I can't buy any or trade any from anywhere, either.

[Dr. Sarkasmus]

there are 2 trading posts, one for general materials and one only for livestock --> animals. There you buy your sheeps, make sure to add staff at the trading post and also make sure to have enough open stable slots.

Sheeps are working, i would start with 5 sheeps, with that amount "breeding" seems to go a bit faster. The more you start with the earlier you will see your sheep population growing.

I "THINK" it works like the wildd animal system. The more you keep as a threshhold, the faster the repopulate. Thats why you will never want to kill them down to a too low number.

[Capuzzi09]

I guess you first need a small amount of sheep so they can start breeding?
Afaik you need to buy them from a stock vendor (animal vendor). Set up the building, define a certain amount of sheep to be imported and wait until your trader brings them in. If you have a few, they should start breeding (if you have the sheep reproduction perk active for your village).

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Do you have any upgrades one being the sheep reproduce.
Where you've reached a new Settlement Level, you'll likely already have seen the game's Development Upgrade tech tree, accessible by clicking on the name of your town at the top of the screen. Here you can spend Development Points to unlock key passive benefits for your entire settlement.

Mine are now reproducing took a year to start.
I started with 1 just so you know.

[FinalPhaseKiller]

Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:

Do you have any upgrades one being the sheep reproduce.
Where you've reached a new Settlement Level, you'll likely already have seen the game's Development Upgrade tech tree, accessible by clicking on the name of your town at the top of the screen. Here you can spend Development Points to unlock key passive benefits for your entire settlement.

Mine are now reproducing took a year to start.
I started with 1 just so you know.

lolol i had a feeling the sheep were Parthenogenesis but i got a few just incase.

[Sgt.Ray]

I noticed Lambs will not turn into sheep unless you have the sheep perk. They also do not reproduce without said perk either. So unless you have the perk dont bother buying lambs hoping they will age and you got full on adult sheep.

[NOD Flamer]

hm.... seems like your game might be bugged or you just got 2 male sheep lol.

i also started with 2 and now i have 100sheep within 3 years.

[tank16365]

I think my Trading Station might be bugged, the livestock tab is just blank

[DragonFlykm]

Mine are breeding. Got 9 sheep and 15 lambs. They take a while to grow up and breed. Might be faster with more sheep.

[tank16365]

So i found my issue, I had a regular trading post, I needed a livestock trading post. Odd that the Trading post has a livestock tab though if I needed the whole other building.