Can cattle respawn? They should!

[Frayo]

Apparently monsters can wander into the meadows and kill the cattle there, making wool permanently inaccessible if you didnt take precautions

[Byron1c]

Originally posted by Frick:

+1 for them to respawn, breed, etc.
But how are you guys letting them die that much? Never had that problem so far.
Whenever I find a cattle in the wild, I will always have walls in my inventory. I wall them to protect them, mark Its location with a Flag, and move on. Later I open a way to that cattle, 1x way protected by walls, and safely proceed to bring it to my base where they are safe.

Unfortunately if you tunnel too close, or have a dark area (or something else I havent figured out), then mobs spawn or get into the meadow and wipe everything out while you are on the other side of the world. I had spiked slimes mostly through mine. Post above mentions maggots too. Oh, and one meadow had nothing alive in it at all, just meat floating, no paths in, no mobs inside to be found.
The other draw back is that this bug only becomes evident AFTER the player has lost them all.

[Frayo]

Originally posted by Frick:

+1 for them to respawn, breed, etc.
But how are you guys letting them die that much? Never had that problem so far.
Whenever I find a cattle in the wild, I will always have walls in my inventory. I wall them to protect them, mark Its location with a Flag, and move on. Later I open a way to that cattle, 1x way protected by walls, and safely proceed to bring it to my base where they are safe.

That's assuming the cattle is actually alive when you find a meadows, which for us it was not four out of five times in the dirt biome and entirely lifeless meadows in azeo's wilderness

[Atlas]

Originally posted by Frick:

+1 for them to respawn, breed, etc.
But how are you guys letting them die that much? Never had that problem so far.
Whenever I find a cattle in the wild, I will always have walls in my inventory. I wall them to protect them, mark Its location with a Flag, and move on. Later I open a way to that cattle, 1x way protected by walls, and safely proceed to bring it to my base where they are safe.

That is very clever of you, but not all of the intended audience of this game are going to have that easy of a time with it. My GF (a newbie gamer) was ecstatic about the cattle, only to have her and the cattle she had named slaughtered by maggots (they had spawned super close to the core for some reason, biome within 100-150 walls I'd say, right next to the meadow). She re-spawned, the cattle didn't. Does she "deserve" to be punished that hard from the game for not intuiting it's mechanics? It isn't particularly intuitive that you need to wall them off as soon as you find them. No other creature in the game is as fragile or finite. Sure, you learn after one meadow that gets massacred, but it still isn't fun.

[Khalunka]

I am not sure why you guys are so hurt by what I wrote. I already said in my reply: "+1 for them to respawn, breed". Which means, I agree they should add that mechanic.

[ArcticuKitsu]

Where are the devs when you need them. They need to chime in and acknowledge this. That's the one sin developers keep making.

Atlas, as for your girlfriend you both shouldn't be punished. But as a helping hand you need to help where able.

[Atlas]

Originally posted by Frick:

I am not sure why you guys are so hurt by what I wrote. I already said in my reply: "+1 for them to respawn, breed". Which means, I agree they should add that mechanic.

I don't know about anybody else, but I wasn't hurt by your comment. I was just trying to answer your question. I think it is easy for those of us who play games a lot to forget what it is like to be new.

[woldancer]

In the last round up, they did say something about extending how cattle work including breeding, tho i do wish they would say something here in the forums directly, i wonder if there going to add happyness to cattle and what it would do... hmmm silver and gold milk is a given, but what would the sheep/ram/goat fur and the rolly polly shells give at caped happiness

[Frayo]

Originally posted by woldancer:

In the last round up, they did say something about extending how cattle work including breeding, tho i do wish they would say something here in the forums directly, i wonder if there going to add happyness to cattle and what it would do... hmmm silver and gold milk is a given, but what would the sheep/ram/goat fur and the rolly polly shells give at caped happiness

There's some noticable space in the skills menu, I could see them adding ranching, animals or something along those lines as a skill which you level up by interacting with cattle and picking up their drops

[woldancer]

yup, i was thinking what kind of chicken they would add for eggs, and had a funny/horrible/awsome thought, instead of a bird, what if we got a cattle grub that gave eggs >.>/

[Byron1c]

Unfortunately, a number of people (myself included) will have encountered this issue, searched for answers, found that its completely lacking, and move on to the next game. So less people finish the game, and only those with the forethought and luck to have safe cattle, so less testing and less of those types of bugs get reported.
Off the top of my head, they could have completely averted this issue being a game stopper by having wool randomly drop from chests, or from dead animals, if not having farm animals respawn and all of the basic things that should be done for any living npc in a game.
I may try the game again one day, but I dare say it will be lost in the noise of plenty of other game releases. I keep saying I wouldnt support Early Access anymore, and it seems like Ill keep paying until I learn that lesson. This is just another example of why...

[Khalunka]

Originally posted by Byron1c:

Unfortunately, a number of people (myself included) will have encountered this issue, searched for answers, found that its completely lacking, and move on to the next game. So less people finish the game, and only those with the forethought and luck to have safe cattle, so less testing and less of those types of bugs get reported.
Off the top of my head, they could have completely averted this issue being a game stopper by having wool randomly drop from chests, or from dead animals, if not having farm animals respawn and all of the basic things that should be done for any living npc in a game.
I may try the game again one day, but I dare say it will be lost in the noise of plenty of other game releases. I keep saying I wouldnt support Early Access anymore, and it seems like Ill keep paying until I learn that lesson. This is just another example of why...

you are missing out a good game just because a temporarily flaw. You can connect your character in other worlds. You can either create a new world and make a farm real quick, farm it with your character and go back to your main world. In case that kills the immersion, you could visit other players world's.

[Doctor Nope]

yall are on pc, just install the chat command mod and spawn in cattle. The act of getting them in a world and back to a base is currently far to tedious.