Slaughtering domesticated animals.

[Saxon]

Is there a tool that lets us "slaughter" the animal rather than engage in combat with them? It seems a bit silly to run into my stable and kill the animals with a longsword like I have been doing. The butchering knife seemed the most logical option, but it only allows me to chop up the corpse.

[ograstamon]

Surely you must know the answer. No. There is not a tool that would allow you to one-hit kill a creature after taming it.

[Saxon]

If I knew the answer I wouldn't have asked the question. But thanks anyway.

It's rather immersion breaking to engage in mortal combat with my livestock, but if that's just how it is I can certainly live with it.

[Skurcey]

you can sacrify animals but i ve never did it

[Ozgamer]

When and if i get that far lol, i will wait till they keel over, lol

[Swigz]

I don't mind the combat, it's an easy way to work on combat at low levels, and at higher levels, it's very quick.

[Saxon]

That's a great solution, Ozgamer! I'll start doing that as well. Thanks for the idea.

[Tux]

the OP wants to do the same operation but with a different tool so that he will not get any combat skill points out of the deal?

[Saxon]

No, Tux. If I want combat points I know how to get those. Maybe you think it is perfectly normal for butchers to fight their own livestock with swords and spears, but I don't. It's a matter of immersion for me. And fortunately Oz gave me a solution which won't have me battling cows anymore.

[Ozgamer]

Welcome dude, i fish for food, and as a GM i do a fly around now and again and find a dead hen or something and throw that in the pan. Im not that far advanced yet, and i wont use the wand to create food, i rarely use it, mostly to flatten land or produce nails for building.

[ograstamon]

Originally posted by Jurjen:

If I knew the answer I wouldn't have asked the question. But thanks anyway.

It's rather immersion breaking to engage in mortal combat with my livestock, but if that's just how it is I can certainly live with it.

I wasn't literally saying that you already knew the answer. I was rhetorically stating that the answer should be obvious if you gave it enough thought. You can pine for total immersion all you want but this is a game and it would be an extremely imbalanced one if anyone with a high enough taming skill could pretty much insta-kill mobs. How immersive would that be?

[Saxon]

Originally posted by ograstamon:

Originally posted by Jurjen:

If I knew the answer I wouldn't have asked the question. But thanks anyway.

It's rather immersion breaking to engage in mortal combat with my livestock, but if that's just how it is I can certainly live with it.

I wasn't literally saying that you already knew the answer. I was rhetorically stating that the answer should be obvious if you gave it enough thought. You can pine for total immersion all you want but this is a game and it would be an extremely imbalanced one if anyone with a high enough taming skill could pretty much insta-kill mobs. How immersive would that be?

Believe it or not, not everyone knows everything you do. I did not ask for total immersion. If I wanted that I'd turn off my computer and go work at a farm. All I did was ask a simple question about a video game. Is that OK with you?

There are many things in Wurm that make no sense. Games in general tend to suffer from that, and this is a particularly complex one. Today I learned that to raise chickens I need to throw the eggs on the ground and leave them exposed to the elements for a while resulting in a magical birth without a mother involved. If I'm not allowed to ask questions here I'd like to know which psychedelic drugs you recommend to "give it enough thought" and come up with such solutions on my own.

Fortunately there is a very detailed wiki and a (generally) helpful community where people like Ozgamer are happy to assist noobs like me. Maybe you should leave threads like this to them in the future?

[LokitheWeaver]

@OP - Agree on some of your points, but . . . people who have been playing this game for a long time often have insight on "why" game mechanics work the way they do.

I live (in real life) in an off-grid cabin. When I am not teaching at the University, I hang out on my land . . . where I have a small flock of sheep. And, just this week-end, playing WURM, I was wondering something much the same. Butchering livestock for food, pelts / hides is a reasonable part of farming / survival.

I am told that "old school" shepherds could get a sheep / lamb to lie down, calmly, while they slit its throat. But, today, the young man who "helps" me butcher them, uses a gun : )

Then we slit the throat. Then we butcher.

No guns in WURM. Old age is likely to claim you (the player in real life) before an animal dies in WURM. Fishing is good, but some resources only come from animals. I felt real bad the first time my "tame" dog got annoyed and attacked me. I had no idea why, but the character did not let that stop him from killing my pet. And I (the real life person) felt a lot less bad when I finally got that tool I needed to upgrade any item that needed "polishing" . . .

So, bottom line. No guns in WURM and as Ograstramon pointed out (something I had not considered, since I am still a realitive newbie to WURM, myself), insta kill of a moob you have tamed could be very unballanced. The sheep in a pen you have cared for, shorn, fed and groomed makes sense. The hellhound that is chewing your privates off? To be able to toss him a piece of rotting fish, with a high taming skill, then end his miserable existance might make a high taming skill more important (in PvE) than any / all weapon combat skills.

Perhaps an option would be to level up your longbow (fired at a great range, on a tame sheep, for example) to kill an animal in a pen. Then when it is dead, butcher it : )