Cattle should not be one-time only spawn

[maestro]

So, I started playing Core Keeper again after being away from the game for a significant amount of time, before Cattle were added. I didn't really pay them much mind when I started the game, UNTIL I got to Azeos' Wilderness and...

Lo and behold, you need 12 wool for the Crimson Armor set, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's used again in other stuff (like the loom).

10 minutes for one single wool is absurd, that would take two hours to get the armor set alone, but the problem is... I've been doing a lot of drilling through the dirt biome and I have only found two meadows... one near spawn that had, thankfully, one cattle, and the other large biome had none... I assume it's because monsters killed any cattle there after I found it way early in the game before I knew I needed cattle.

So, I go and look it up on the wiki, and... cute. They don't respawn. At all.

Why is this a thing? There needs to be a way to get them to spawn, or at least make them respawn, maybe like only 1 per meadow. I know you can breed them, but you kinda need 2 of them to start with, and I've yet to find another meadow despite drilling tunnels through a good portion of the dirt biome.

[SuperCool]

Irrelevant. You can just start a new word, grab some cattle, and head back to your base.

[Faerador]

I'm confused. I thought they added the ability to breed the tamed animals...? I thought it was added in the 0.7.0.0-2cab update. The problem is that you need two well-fed animals to make a new one.

So, the real issue is that you haven't found enough animals to begin breeding. That is a problem inherent in the game, as the enemies WILL attack the farm animals. Which is why the wiki actually warns about this phenomenon and suggests that you close off a meadow from enemies for when you want to deal with breeding later.

All is not lost. Apparently animals will spawn out in Azeos' Wilderness. it's just that you're going to have to leash them a looooong way to your base unless you set up teleporters and just farm where you find the animals.

[maestro]

Originally posted by Faerador:

I'm confused. I thought they added the ability to breed the tamed animals...? I thought it was added in the 0.7.0.0-2cab update. The problem is that you need two well-fed animals to make a new one.

I already mentioned breeding them in my post... did you actually read it?

Which is why the wiki actually warns about this phenomenon and suggests that you close off a meadow from enemies for when you want to deal with breeding later.

And how is a new player supposed to know this ahead of time?

All is not lost. Apparently animals will spawn out in Azeos' Wilderness. it's just that you're going to have to leash them a looooong way to your base unless you set up teleporters and just farm where you find the animals.

Considering how long it takes to break blocks out there, it's going to take a long time to find a meadow and the enemies out there could probably oneshot the cattle.

Irrelevant. You can just start a new word, grab some cattle, and head back to your base.

Shouldn't have to go to such measures just to get around this stupid annoying problem that shouldn't exist in the first place.

[MonkehMaster]

i agree, all animals should respawn, i also dont understand why it is that the "cow" and "goat" are the only animals, that the enemies kill and the rest of the "cattle" are wandering around enemies and arent touched.

as for meadows, supposedly there are more than 2 in the world (the first initial 2 you find from the beginning).

that being said and as mentioned by another, the easiest solution is to just go to another world, take a hammer or drill, plow through like a mad man and find a meadow, the first 2 meadows "seem" to be always located near the core, but not always the same spot and sometimes they spawn almost next to the core, afterwards... just delete the world you made to find said cattle.

just grab 2 of each from the meadow with the carrying item, so you can stuff them into your backpack, then return to your world and feed n breed them, and if you really want, you can repopulate your worlds meadows with the babies, or farm the babies for what the adult are producing, or slaughter them for the meat.

one thing i have noticed when not feeding them at all, is the strolly pollies in general dont even need to be fed, they find enough from the ground to keep producing (spawned critters), though it doesnt produce half as good with a full belly.

with the above mentioned on feeding, they also wont die if not fed, they just stop producing or having babies.

you can also go through and collect more and store them in a chest for later, if you want to farm more later, or have them set aside in case your current ones somehow meet their ends.... heck i have accidentally killed a few of mine hitting the wrong button, usually the weapon button lol (im using a controller atm).

also to mention, the last animal... the one that eats kelp really isnt worth even finding, let alone keeping to farm its produce, you cant grow kelp and the produce is "ok" at best, the main thing is not being able to grow kelp, meaning you have to fish and gather said kelp to feed the animal.... its bad enough having to collect bugs (or setup nonsense... that barely spawns said critters) to feed the strolly pollies, i aint bothering with kelp lol.

[MonkehMaster]

Originally posted by Faerador:

I'm confused. I thought they added the ability to breed the tamed animals...? I thought it was added in the 0.7.0.0-2cab update. The problem is that you need two well-fed animals to make a new one.

So, the real issue is that you haven't found enough animals to begin breeding. That is a problem inherent in the game, as the enemies WILL attack the farm animals. Which is why the wiki actually warns about this phenomenon and suggests that you close off a meadow from enemies for when you want to deal with breeding later.

All is not lost. Apparently animals will spawn out in Azeos' Wilderness. it's just that you're going to have to leash them a looooong way to your base unless you set up teleporters and just farm where you find the animals.

havent read anywhere saying animals spawn in azeos and havent seen a single one so far when wandering around azeos, where did you read or hear about this?

also to mention, there is a cattle transport item, allowing you to carry them in your backpack, they can sit in said item for ever, allowing you to store them for later use, or for safe keeping.

you can also lure them with the food they eat.

leash and teleporter arent the only ways.

[Demethrite]

Not sure about respawning but they definitely do spawn in Azeos I've encountered a number of meadows there and I'd favor the transport boxes over the leash because them caveling farmers/snipers are little s***.

I also didn't know from the start that monsters would attack sheeps, I just fenced them so they couldn't wander too far from the feeder (and also so I didn't have to run all over the place to collect their produces)