What are fences used for?

[Jevmen]

They look cool for decoration, but considering you have to repair them, what is the adventage of using fences?
the only usefull thing i can think is to find your animals faster to pet them so they are not all spreaded over the farm, but if you miss 1 pet one day is not a big deal, and considering you can use the automatic animal collector your animals running arround are not really a problem

[lizardmang]

If an animal strays too far during the day, it sometimes won't be able to pathfind back to the barn/coop to sleep. If an animal stays outside for the night, it can be eaten by a wild animal while the player sleeps.

Fences also stop debris (weeds, rocks, branches) from spreading beyond them.

[Hina]

Most people use fences to section off their farms for barn and coop animals to have a pasture and stuff.

[Jevmen]

Originally posted by silentprotagonistsays:

If an animal strays too far during the day, it sometimes won't be able to pathfind back to the barn/coop to sleep. If an animal stays outside for the night, it can be eaten by a wild animal while the player sleeps.

Fences also stop debris (weeds, rocks, branches) from spreading beyond them.

the 1st thing never happened to me, and i dont see weeds problematic, my animals eat that after all

[Vimpster]

I never build fences. But if I were to it would just be for decoration.

[lizardmang]

Originally posted by Jevmen:

the 1st thing never happened to me, and i dont see weeds problematic, my animals eat that after all

It can happen, especially if the grass around the barn/coop is all eaten, forcing the animals to wander further to eat. This is why fences can be useful in keeping them close.

The stuff that animals eat is grass. Weeds are the ones you can't walk over, which can destroy objects and crops when they spread.

It's also worth noting that each tier of fences (wood - stone - iron - hardwood) lasts significantly longer than the one before it, so it can be worth investing in the best ones you can afford to craft.

It's also perfectly feasible to never use fences. There are just minor risks involved as I mentioned.

[Maya-Neko]

The only real use is to prevent animals, persons and your pet from passing through these tiles. You might also use them to split up your farm in multiplayer. There's nothing they do beyond that other than just being decorative.

[dubesor]

Fences contain animals, they can contain slimes, they help organize a farm and they are effective from stopping weeds/debris from spreading uncontrolled, damaging or destroying other things (fences are immune to debris dmg).

[Stardustfire]

the perfect fences are tea bushes.
normal fences are resistant again debris, but not immun

[MonkehMaster]

Originally posted by Jevmen:

They look cool for decoration, but considering you have to repair them, what is the adventage of using fences?
the only usefull thing i can think is to find your animals faster to pet them so they are not all spreaded over the farm, but if you miss 1 pet one day is not a big deal, and considering you can use the automatic animal collector your animals running arround are not really a problem

there is no "automactic animal collector"...

that being said, fences not only contain animals, but decorate your farm well and can section of certain areas of your farm.

if your worried about durability then build hardwood fences, they last the longest (tho realistically stone or better yet, iron fences should be the longer lasting ones, but according to the game they dont, which makes no sense, but whatever..), also there is an end game item you can buy to stop them from decaying permanently.

[lizardmang]

Originally posted by MonkehMaster:

there is no "automactic animal collector"...

that being said, fences not only contain animals, but decorate your farm well and can section of certain areas of your farm.

if your worried about durability then build hardwood fences, they last the longest (tho realistically stone or better yet, iron fences should be the longer lasting ones, but according to the game they dont, which makes no sense, but whatever..), also there is an end game item you can buy to stop them from decaying permanently.

I believe OP was referring to the auto-grabber, as in one doesn't need to chase each animal down to milk/sheer them.

And it actually does make some sense that hardwood is the strongest as iron can rust, and some types of stone can weather fairly quickly compared to a strong, properly treated wood.

[MonkehMaster]

Originally posted by silentprotagonistsays:

Originally posted by MonkehMaster:

there is no "automactic animal collector"...

that being said, fences not only contain animals, but decorate your farm well and can section of certain areas of your farm.

if your worried about durability then build hardwood fences, they last the longest (tho realistically stone or better yet, iron fences should be the longer lasting ones, but according to the game they dont, which makes no sense, but whatever..), also there is an end game item you can buy to stop them from decaying permanently.

I believe OP was referring to the auto-grabber, as in one doesn't need to chase each animal down to milk/sheer them.

And it actually does make some sense that hardwood is the strongest as iron can rust, and some types of stone can weather fairly quickly compared to a strong, properly treated wood.

not at all, stone and iron are going to outlast any wood type fencing, wood not only soaks up water, it rots, can be eaten by all types of bugs, among many other things that degrade wood, anything happening to stone or iron would take decades or more.

[lizardmang]

Originally posted by MonkehMaster:

not at all, stone and iron are going to outlast any wood type fencing, wood not only soaks up water, it rots, can be eaten by all types of bugs, among many other things that degrade wood, anything happening to stone or iron would take decades or more.

I did say some types of stone. I work with wood myself, and there are reasons people build most fences out of wood irl, but I'm not gonna argue about it.

[lizardmang]

Originally posted by ApexGladiator95:

Originally posted by silentprotagonistsays:

If an animal stays outside for the night, it can be eaten by a wild animal while the player sleeps.

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Full details from the wiki:

"If an animal has been trapped outside with the barn or coop doors closed, there is a chance they will be attacked by a wild animal during the night.

After the player goes to sleep, any events that will happen during the night (such as Bundle events) are calculated as normal. If no events are due to occur, there will be a 50% chance that the game will attempt to start a wild animal attack event. If this event proceeds, the game will go through all buildings to find a barn or coop that has their doors closed and has animals left outside.

For each building, the game takes a random number between 0 and 1 and compares it to 1/(the number of total farm buildings). If the random number is larger, the building is ignored. In other words, the more buildings the player has, the less likely that one will be attacked. For example, if the player has two farm buildings, each building has a 50% chance of being attacked, three buildings would give 33%, four would give 25% chance of being attacked, etc.

Once a building has been chosen, the event takes the first animal stuck outside from that building to be the target of the attack. The animal will be removed from the game and in the morning, all other animals will have a mood message saying "<animal name> looks stressed and paranoid today. It seems like something bad happened last night." Besides this message, the other animals are unaffected."

[Cal Thang]

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[Omegatherion]

Originally posted by Dean McCoy:

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Selling hardwood is more profitable then selling the fences. Just saying.