Faster / Easier way to sell animals?

[Bendystraw]

Hello, is there a faster way to sell animals other than chasing them/ petting them all the way to the merchant? I'm getting to the point where I have a lot of animals and bringing them individually to the merchant is getting extremely tedious / not fun. Perhaps add a cart that we can load them on to? or make them sellable through their sign posts?

[76561199382810030]

Hello, right now there is no other way to sell animals, but thanks a lot for letting us know. We will try to make it easier :)

[mskitty]

+1 for faster easier way to sell animals, also a easier way to get them to the farm in the first place besides petting them all the way home, and the back and forthing with the ducks/chickens because you can only carry them one by one is a little over the top as well.

[Charmd]

I would love to be able to pet them then tie a rope around them to lead them home so that way you don't keep losing them.

[ChickenCollector]

Originally posted by mskitty:

+1 for faster easier way to sell animals, also a easier way to get them to the farm in the first place besides petting them all the way home, and the back and forthing with the ducks/chickens because you can only carry them one by one is a little over the top as well.

You can use a whistle and a dog to herd animals in groups.

[Baddawggy]

Originally posted by ChickenCollector:

Originally posted by mskitty:

+1 for faster easier way to sell animals, also a easier way to get them to the farm in the first place besides petting them all the way home, and the back and forthing with the ducks/chickens because you can only carry them one by one is a little over the top as well.

You can use a whistle and a dog to herd animals in groups.

What is the method for this, exactly?

[mskitty]

Originally posted by ChickenCollector:

Originally posted by mskitty:

+1 for faster easier way to sell animals, also a easier way to get them to the farm in the first place besides petting them all the way home, and the back and forthing with the ducks/chickens because you can only carry them one by one is a little over the top as well.

You can use a whistle and a dog to herd animals in groups.

Sorry but the herding is just as frustrating. What the other people said about having a rope to lead them home. and selling them through the sign post would be so much better, the mechanic as it is now is way more labor intensive than it needs to be.

[Bendystraw]

agree - While the herding option is a unique mechanic, I can't use it. It takes too time to line up myself with the dog and the camera... I end up herding only 1 animal anyway at the end. maybe if the camera detached itself from me? or maybe if we took control of the dog completely like we do in the dreams?

I also like the idea of a rope to lead the animal(s).

Also, can there be a way for your mount to not run away from you the moment you hop off? maybe craft a saddle that makes it your official mount and it just stays put like a good boy? can use things like carrots or animal feed to feed it out in the wild if you have to stay out for a while or something.

[mskitty]

Originally posted by Bendystraw:

agree - While the herding option is a unique mechanic, I can't use it. It takes too time to line up myself with the dog and the camera... I end up herding only 1 animal anyway at the end. maybe if the camera detached itself from me? or maybe if we took control of the dog completely like we do in the dreams?

I also like the idea of a rope to lead the animal(s).

Also, can there be a way for your mount to not run away from you the moment you hop off? maybe craft a saddle that makes it your official mount and it just stays put like a good boy? can use things like carrots or animal feed to feed it out in the wild if you have to stay out for a while or something.

In another game that I played you could give the mount commands like stay or follow.

[Fluttershy]

I want to love this game. I do love this game. BUT late game managing animals gets so tedious - we need both of the quality of life points brought up here:
1. Ropes to lead multiple animals back to the farm at once.
-the dog herding is not viable, just doesn't work right.
-petting animals doesn't scale. you can only manage one animal at a time. and once you get super far out it's just not fun.
2. The mount system. Just give us a saddle and our mount follows whenever we dismount.

I think these are two simple changes that would make a huge positive impact on playability mid-late game.
EDIT: After the latest patch point 1 is solved. Thank you magic flute!!

[Twiz Amber]

I just use the flute to move animals. You can charm an chunk of animals within a circle, if you didnt get all the animals, you just move circle those animals you didnt get and charm them. After that, you can just move around and the animals will follow you anywhere, be it to another pen, to trader or wherever it might be. When you get to your destination with all the animals you wanted to move, you just uncharm them with the flute and they wont follow you anymore. The flute is all you need to get from the trader, if you want to move animals. Forget the dog and herding animals, that system is not good for me at least.