Food farming

[Sopping Drolo]

How do I stop the Pals eating the produce?

So if I'm farming eggs and milk and they're being delivered to the food box, they just get eaten?

[Shazza]

Pals will eat whatever's on the left-most side first, but they'll also eat from the second slot (or beyond) if the nutrition they'd get from the first slot is too high (ie. you have Jam Bread but they don't need that much, they'll eat Berries from the second slot).

[Dynamic]

far as i can tell they only eat the food item in the first slot of the box, when empty, they switch to the next slot. If you have enough food in first slot to not run out, the rest will be fine(except for decay timer).

[adobo]

they eat the food in the first slot on the left. put the pal food they're meant to eat there and they won't touch everything else.

[Yinato]

The food placed in the box are eaten from left to right, so you have 2 options.

1. Get a bunch of another type of food and stick that in the far left slot so that milk and eggs get put in the subsequent slots (but they will still expire in ~10 mins).
2. Put a bunch of a single food type in the far left slot of the feed box, and fill the rest of the slots with a single cotton candy or honey since they don't expire. Then get a fridge and assign an ice pal to it. This will make the pals transport the milk and eggs to the fridge

[Tachyon]

The building at my base has a ground floor big enough for a Ranch, 4 Straw Beds, a Feeding station (which always has a couple of hundred cooked berries in it, which are easy to make) and the Pal jacuzzi thing, as well as all my workbenches. I have two upper floors I haven't used yet. I put my Ranch Pets in there, separated from the rest outside by an entrance a bit like an "airlock" arrangement, to stop Pals wandering in or out.

It works great, the Ranch Pals stay happy, and Ranch produce just lies there until I collect it. It also means nobody passing by can steal the produce of your Ranch. I cannot fathom why the game lets people do this, but nobody in here seems to make anything of it. Go figure.

[magenight]

Fill slot 1 with 9999 berries and they never get to whats after it.

[oranghitam]

this is something I learned from one of youtuber..
you need to put food that won't get expired into the food basket, which is cotton candy (you will need honey for cakes, so you need something else)..
it is consumable, but just to increase SAN value, so the pals won't eat it that much unless really necessary, like if there's nothing else to eat...
so, put one food on the first slot, then put cotton candy in the other 4 slots(or is it 5 slots?)...
that way, the other foods would be delivered to another chest available, but I haven't encountered any of my pals that deliver food or ingredients into the fridge...

but this method doesn't really work all the time, specially if you play on a server or if you put pals with high demand of food in your base but the farm just couldn't keep up with the demands...
this trick worked fairly well at the start in my base on a server, but since I played with a friend in my guild, he kept replacing the workers into ones with high demand of food, so this method actually broke once...
I haven't tried it on my solo world, but it should work nicely...

I hope this could help..

[Sopping Drolo]

Cheers all, I inexplicably had berries in the second slot. Makes sense now... =]

Shame they can't be directed to carry to the coolbox

[Yinato]

Originally posted by Sopping Drolo:

Cheers all, I inexplicably had berries in the second slot. Makes sense now... =]

Shame they can't be directed to carry to the coolbox

Keep the fridge near the food box. Hopefully there'll be a QoL update in the future that lets you do things like specifying chests.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3154345196

This is why I keep the food box, fridge, and ranch close to each other.

[FAIR]

they eat from left to right so put your least wanted food first like 5k berries, it will work as a blocker.