How many games are like this, but have meat farming?

[Impos!]

As the name suggests, I'm trying to find out if anyone know of any Havest Moon/Stardew Valley like games that don't skimp out on the idea of farming for meat- so including things like pigs, ect.

Fish doesn't count.

It's just so weird that with how hugely a part of farming this is that it appear in virtiually no titles.

I think the only ones I can think of are the Shepherd's Crossing games. (If you check that out, check out the second one on the ds, first kinda sucks.)

Edit: The purpose of this post isn't to add meat to Stardew Valley, it's simply to see if anyone knows of similar games with this feature- because there seem to be so few, and it's interesting to see how many there actually are.

[Vroomi]

I don't mind that idea.

[GlassDeviant]

There is a mod to add meat farming to SdV.

[rincewind]

I guess that nobody want to kill cute fluffy animals.

[GlassDeviant]

Originally posted by rincewind:

I guess that nobody want to kill cute fluffy animals.

Originally posted by Zombielord Ativan:

There is a mod to add meat farming to SdV.

Or perhaps not.

[Impos!]

Originally posted by Zombielord Ativan:

There is a mod to add meat farming to SdV.

@Zombielord Ativan Huh, I didn't know Stardew Valley had mods, but that does make sense.

Do you know how good the mod is? I mean, it probably doesn't work well if the animals and how much you buy them for to begin with/how long breeding new ones takes/ how useful meat is don't add up.

And I forget, do animals in this game start to get old and die anyways?

[rincewind]

Originally posted by Zombielord Ativan:

Originally posted by rincewind:

I guess that nobody want to kill cute fluffy animals.

Originally posted by Zombielord Ativan:

There is a mod to add meat farming to SdV.

Or perhaps not.

I mean the developers.

Originally posted by Bee:

And I forget, do animals in this game start to get old and die anyways?

No, I don't think so.

[Vroomi]

Originally posted by Bee:

And I forget, do animals in this game start to get old and die anyways?

No, they don't.

[Impos!]

Originally posted by Vroomie:

Originally posted by Bee:

And I forget, do animals in this game start to get old and die anyways?

No, they don't.

@Vroomie

Hmm, so there's no actual reason to make meat out of something that's just getting into old age and would pass away anyways.

[I Kinda Fail]

Slime Rancher is the closest I can think of. Some of the slimes are carnivores, so you can raise different types of chickens and roosters. Eventually they become too old to make more chickens, so their only use is food.

I'm not opposed to butchery, but I doubt it'll ever get added to Stardew. That mod would be your best bet. Odds are, for proper butchery, they'd have to change the animal-based Farming skills, and add new recipes for the meat. Along with balancing the prices to be worth it. I mean, if you pay 8k for a pig, you'd have to get some pretty expensive bacon to be worth it - unless they drastically increased how often animals reproduce.

The closest thing in-game is ducks, I think. You can make a pretty good profit off of taking the Coopmaster perk to befriend and hatch ducks faster, and when they reach 5 hearts, sell them (just tell yourself you're selling them to a butcher) and a nice profit.

[Impos!]

@Kinda Fail

Oh it's not exactly about having butchery in Stardew specifically, I was just wondering if anyone else knew of any games that even has this sort of thing in it.

It's such a rarity, it makes me wonder.

[rincewind]

Originally posted by Bee:

@Kinda Fail

Oh it's not exactly about having butchery in Stardew specifically, I was just wondering if anyone else knew of any games that even has this sort of thing in it.

It's such a rarity, it makes me wonder.

Maybe it's because this kind of game usually tends to go for the cutesy angle.
Or maybe it's just following Harvest Moon.

[Violeta]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq5U49jDDmA

Runefactory 4 doesn't have butchering your animals
Story of seasons:trio of towns doesn't have butchering your animals
Harvestmoon doesn't have butchering your animals (Least not any I've played)

[Impos!]

@Carpel

Well I'm pretty sure all of those are made by the same people, so it makes sense.

So the only ones I can think of are still Shepherd's Crossing (Two games) and then sort of slime rancher.

[Digus]

Originally posted by Bee:

Originally posted by Zombielord Ativan:

There is a mod to add meat farming to SdV.

@Zombielord Ativan Huh, I didn't know Stardew Valley had mods, but that does make sense.

Do you know how good the mod is? I mean, it probably doesn't work well if the animals and how much you buy them for to begin with/how long breeding new ones takes/ how useful meat is don't add up.

And I forget, do animals in this game start to get old and die anyways?

I think the mod is pretty good.
But I'm the one who made it, so...

You can see for yourself:
https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/1538/
It adds butchering, recipes, insemination, feeding, new tv channel...
I tried to balance it as well as I could, but everything is customizable, so you can adjust it to your like.
I'm currently working on animal contest.

[Impos!]

@Digus I might try it out some time! Mod creation really is a beautifal thing, seems complicated too, thanks for making it!

Is there any way to breed animals the normal way? Just having two of either gender? That, might actually be in the base game and I'm just forgetting, I haven't played it in at least a year.

Oh and if you like the sort of realistic gritty feel of farming in a game like this, maybe check out Shepherd's Crossing 2? By that I mean, with an emulator, the old ds game is going at insane prices online now.