No Yak Milk

[Techsmith314]

I've been looking around the discussions, and wiki, and google, and I can't find a good answer. I have 3 yaks, and they won't produce any milk.

I think it's because my ranchers won't milk them, but I have no idea how to fix this. My pasture is 6x6 with 2 females and 1 male. I changed my gnomes so that 6 were ranchers, and made my pasture the highest priority. Not only this, but one of the yaks broke free from the pasture and not a single rancher attempted to put it back. Does anyone know what is going on? Thanks.

[h00kup]

do you have hay? (im noob so dont yell at me too badly if im wrong :X)

[Techsmith314]

Oh yeah, I forgot to say that, I do have a ton of wheat straw sitting right beside the pasture too. Thanks for reminding me. Didn't help though, still no milk.

[I.T Drift]

yeah it works, mine was working, except now both my yaks are gone, either they died or ran off from the pasture, no idea what happened to them

[Mongo Loyd]

do your ranchers have other jobs they are doing? like cooking or leatherworking?

[Techsmith314]

Nope, no other jobs. They are moving stone to a stockpile, but if I suspend that, they just wander around.

[Tarot1970]

Does your rancher profession have Animal Husbandry ticked?
What is the priority for Pastures within the rancher profession?
If you build a new trough for the pasture, will they fill it with straw?

[Techsmith314]

The pastures have the highest priority, #1, and nothing else I have has that high of a priority. My rancher does have Animal Husbandry, and I am not using troughs, just a stockpile of wheat straw right beside the pasture that the yaks are happily eating from.

[Dead-Wolf]

Sometimes the game buggs... and you have to save it, exit the game, and reload it. I've had stuff like that happen everyonce in a while and that seems to fix it unless there is some other type of issue.. such as it being suspended.

Oh and make sure your pasture is not susspended... cause if it is... the ranchers wont do anything with it... also you really should make a trough so that they can put the straw into the feeders.

Also make sure that the pasture is actually 6x6 on grass... as if you try to make it on dirt it wont really be 6x6.

[Techsmith314]

Yeah I made sure it is a 6x6 on grass, all the squares are green and being used. The pasture is definitely not suspended. I would have made a trough, but it was still quite early in the game and I hadn't made enough workshops yet. I did try the save and reload, however it did not help. I still had one loose yak running around, and two more sitting in the top priority pasture not being milked with 6 ranchers doing nothing or carrying stone.

[Tarot1970]

Have you tried deleting the pasture and replacing it?

[Techsmith314]

Aye, I tried that too. That got all my yaks in one place for a short amount of time, but then one ran off again and still, no milking.

[John F. Kennedy]

you need something bigger than 6x6 dude, try 18x18 and see if that doesnt help

[Techsmith314]

Each yak only needs 6 squares, so three of them should only need 18 squares, as 6x6 is 36 squares I have twice as much room as I need. Unfortunately all my gnomes died of thirst, so I can't try making a bigger pasture, but I don't see how that would have worked. Next time they stop making milk I can try making a pasture much much bigger than what they should need, but I think my problem was that the ranchers wouldn't milk the yaks. Still no idea why though.

[rahnauld]

each yak needs 12 spaces of pasture, so if there's one clay spot or something else preventing one block of the 6x6 field from being a pasture, that pasture wouldn't be able to hold 3 yaks. That might explain the one running off.

[BaldyWookie]

you need an trough to keep the animals within the pasture. without it your animals are too busy looking for food and wandering off. a good pasture size is 15x15 with 1 male and the rest fermale (you have to set the ratio in the pasture options), this way they will mate quick enough and you get tons of milk, meat, hide and bones.