Animal feeders don't work.

[Aldourien]

What is the point of having automatic feeders, or feeders at all, if you still have to manually equip Animal Food and feed by hand anyway?

[🌸 Princess Nanora 🌸]

Did you place the feeder in your barn?

[ssmurf]

the following sounds stupid, i know, but this is what i found out:
you place an auto feeder+ a feeder for every animal if outside or place the feeder in your barn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocOb9igb6lI

a little outdated, but a good start

[Ilucie]

They work perfectly. You need the automatic feeder and one "manual" feeder per animal.

[Aldourien]

I have placed one Automatic feeder, with an abundance of Animal Feeds, along with seven regular feeders in the Barn. The cows won't eat from any of them.

[Drox]

Originally posted by Aldourien:

I have placed one Automatic feeder, with an abundance of Animal Feeds, along with seven regular feeders in the Barn. The cows won't eat from any of them.

There is a visual queue on the sides of the barn where hay will fill up if food is in them. They don't eat them right away if you had none, sleep for the day and see if they ate the next day.

[AndyFox]

Originally posted by Aldourien:

I have placed one Automatic feeder, with an abundance of Animal Feeds, along with seven regular feeders in the Barn. The cows won't eat from any of them.

I was struggling with it a few days ago to. Both the auto-feeder and the feeders have to be in the same screen as the animals, in my case for example my animals stay outside and my feeders were inside the barn so they couldn't reach it, once i put everything outside it worked perfectly.

[Aldourien]

It could have something to do with how I purchased all necessary items the same day I got the animals, but after two days passed they finally began eating from the feeders.
I had the whole setup correct from the start, but only the cows wouldn't eat during that time while the chickens would.

Thanks for the suggestions.

[Aerogems]

Originally posted by Ilucie:

They work perfectly. You need the automatic feeder and one "manual" feeder per animal.

All I needed was a single auto-feeder per barn. Then you put the animal food in the auto-feeder and it fills the like 8 slots split between right and left. Freaked me out the first time because it seemed like every animal was eating 9-10 feed/day instead of 1, but it was just the auto-feeder populating all the feed slots in the barn.

[Ilucie]

Originally posted by Aerogems:

Originally posted by Ilucie:

They work perfectly. You need the automatic feeder and one "manual" feeder per animal.

All I needed was a single auto-feeder per barn. Then you put the animal food in the auto-feeder and it fills the like 8 slots split between right and left. Freaked me out the first time because it seemed like every animal was eating 9-10 feed/day instead of 1, but it was just the auto-feeder populating all the feed slots in the barn.

I dont use barns, I have the animals outside because barns are useless :D. The auto feeder must be on the same map as the manual ones.

[Gilver Redgrave]

Originally posted by Ilucie:

I dont use barns, I have the animals outside because barns are useless :D.

They literally increase your capacity for more animals....yeah....very "useless".

[avil]

With barn you also get 12 "free" feeders inside, and each animal needs its own feeder. Barn pays for itself rightaway.

Also yeah, autofeeder confused me too. Because the name is wrong. It's autofiller, not autofeeder.