Best animal to farm?

[Bengonto]

Tried raising turkeys and they suck.

[trashoras]

Of course horses - they can be sold for profit or help to get your caravan a good speed.

I mostly play cold biomes, so I prefer animals that can live without special needs when it comes to temperature. The yak is my favourite animal.

[The Blind One]

Horses are superb if all you need is meat, plainleather and a pack animal. It's really up there in terms of nutrition efficiency.

Cows are your best bet if you want to keep pawn numbers down while ensuring having massive amounts of animal produce in the forms of milk, meat and plainleather. Chickens are better but not as CPU friendly though with the eggbox they are by far the least labor intensive animal for what you get.

Finally Alpacas are amazing animals to keep for their camelhide and alpaca wool which is honestly top tier stuff and far surpasses sheep in every metric.

Sheep are imho just plain bad. They produce the same amount of wool as alpacas but it's worth 33% less and is of inferior quality while their meat and leather is also nothing to be happy with.

So my advice is.

Horses, cows (or chickens) and alpacas are the best animals to farm normally speaking. Anything else is very niche to less efficient.

Megasloths have the better leather and wool than alpacas but are too slow to reproduce and require much more pawn labor upkeep to stay tame as they are not pen animals.

Pigs are an honorable mention as they can feed on dead raider bodies so you can get some nutrition bonus with them by converting raider meat into non-cannibal meat if you setup the proper feeding system.

Yaks and dromedaries are also pretty good animals if you're dealing with extreme weather as alternatives to cows and horses.

[XelNigma]

I only ever bother with horses.
A pack animal that makes travel MUCH faster and they breed like crazy, enough to have plenty of meat and extras to sell.

[The Blind One]

Originalmente postado por XelNigma:

I only ever bother with horses.
A pack animal that makes travel MUCH faster and they breed like crazy, enough to have plenty of meat and extras to sell.

Yep horses are top tier, definitely an S class animal in the game meta currently.

[Ducks on Fire]

Anything but pigs. They always overthrow your colonists only to become the very evil they usurped....

I like muffalos. I don't know if they are the most efficient, but I never really cared about stuff like that. They can carry stuff and give you fur to either sell outright or make stuff to sell/wear. I usually play in boreal biomes though so they are quite easy to get and may be a bit more of a hassle in other biomes. Elephants are fun to have in hotter biomes though. They don't produce anything, but the fact that you can zone them rather than having to set up a pen is quite convenient.
I like to keep a few horses or donkeys too since they speed up caravan speeds as well.

Really I'd say look around for the most easily tamed pack animal on your map and try and get some of those.

[SievertChaser]

Elephants are good for logistics.

Muffalos are versatile. Both pack animals, and good fur, and milk.

[The Blind One]

Originalmente postado por dennis.danilov:

Muffalos are versatile. Both pack animals, and good fur, and milk.

Muffalos don't have milk in vanilla. That's most definitely a mod.

[TripZ0ne]

Originalmente postado por Bengonto:

Originalmente postado por Mil:

dont
u need more than ur pop to substain ur demend of meat
why feed them ur food to eat them less than u grow urself?

I mean they eat grass typically

Unless winter comes and/or you get a cold snap that kills all your grass. In most cases though you are correct, it depends on what difficulty rating you have it set to in your game settings and also what biome (terrain) you are settled on at the time.

[TripZ0ne]

Originalmente postado por TripZ0ne:

Originalmente postado por Bengonto:

I mean they eat grass typically

Unless winter comes and/or you get a cold snap that kills all your grass. In most cases though you are correct, it depends on what difficulty rating you have it set to in your game settings, what biome (terrain) you are settled on at the time, the individual needs of your colonists, and last but not least of course the versatility of your tile-maps between what type of plants or animals are available to tame/hunt/harvest.

[Veylox]

You're probably better off planting twice the amount and making veggie meals, for performance reasons

[Ghevd]

Guys, if you want to raise things from the dead, such as this post, then I highly recommend Rimworld of Magic mod.

Also alpacas are one of the best if not the best. Meat wool and caravaning.

[Overlord Mickey]

Horses are surprisingly awesome to ranch. They give birth and grow to maturity so fast, worth a ton of meat, and you get to ride them which is a huge help caravanning!

[sbmarauderman03]

IBTL...(maybe?)

[brian_va]

Originalmente postado por sbmarauderman03:

IBTL...(maybe?)

this will generate a significant amount of confusion, so Valve will have Steve, or perhaps Mike(?) come and lock it to avoid further confusion, as it was quite old before the most recent posts.

[Wrinkle Raisin]

Originalmente postado por Anny:

dont
u need more than ur pop to substain ur demend of meat
why feed them ur food to eat them less than u grow urself?

Because adding meat to an emo's diet might get them through the day without going all emo.