can you sell meat?

[DrFrost86[ITA]]

I'm not a vegan cultist.so i want to know (i dont have the game yet) can i sell the animals for their meta/ bring the animals to a slaughter?

[NBOX21]

The closest you'll get to that is the ability to catch and use fish in cooking recipes, sell caught fish or any fish recipes or, new to 1.6, smoke them. I guess you can also cook and/or sell chicken eggs, or turn them into mayonnaise. Bug monsters that you slay in the mines sometimes drop bug meat which can either be sold, crafted into bug steak for food or turned into fish bait. Rock crabs sometimes drop crabs once slain which can then be cooked. Other animals cannot be directly slaughtered or cooked like they can in other games.

Also, while you never see this happen in-game, I'd like to imagine that animals get slaughtered for their meat once you sell them. You're usually much better off keeping them around, however, especially the pigs as their truffles are worth quite a lot.

Hope this answers your question!

[Sédrio]

In the base game, no. Interesting enough, there used to be a way to butcher farm animals in the early stages of the game, but that got taken out because CA thought it didn't fit the tone of the game. So, technically speaking, selling your animals, as NBOX has pointed out, can count as you sending them to a slaughterhouse. But if you do want to be in the meat business regardless, I'm sure there's a mod that enables that.

[Queen Droxxanna]

the ANIMAL HUSBANDRY mod lets you butcher your animals if you are into that sort of thing

[romy]

Yes you can sell animals, available are : fish, chicken, duck, rabbit, cow, goat, pig, ostrich and some secret animal. But in vanilla you can only cook fish and not other animal meat. So yes you can sell animal for their meat but you can't eat meat (except fish).

If you are specifically looking to eat meat you can use mods (this game has A LOT of mods for anything you may wanna add to the game).

[Calico Witch]

No, you can't. You can only collect their products (milk, wool, whatever). If you really want to be able to sell meat check out the game Travellers Rest. In it you run an Inn with a farm/barn/coop/ etc on the side to provide stuff to cook & brew. The game is still in early access but it's definitely playable for quite a while as is. I have over 400 hours in and I loves it.

Oh, and you 'kill' the animals by swatting them with a broom! The same way you get rid of rowdy customers in the bar (although that does NOT kill those folks - it just sends them on their way.). LOL

[no1schmo]

Strangely no. What's funny is that I just assumed this was a world where meat wasn't eaten, except on one of the festivals, a character makes a remark about how strange it is that survival burgers are being served near cows, implying those are made of meat. So I guess Concerned Ape didn't want to upset vegetarians, but is fine with annoying vegans (I mean the militant ones, obviously, not normal people).

[Mharr]

Stardew is pescatarian, although also you can eat octopus which are probably sapient.

Oh and there's something really weird going on with rabbits.

[red255]

Stardew valley is not vegan because fish and eggs and milk are on the menu. but yeah not 'meat'

[Ryika]

Originally posted by no1schmo:

Strangely no. What's funny is that I just assumed this was a world where meat wasn't eaten, except on one of the festivals, a character makes a remark about how strange it is that survival burgers are being served near cows, implying those are made of meat. So I guess Concerned Ape didn't want to upset vegetarians, but is fine with annoying vegans (I mean the militant ones, obviously, not normal people).

People don't like to be reminded of where their meat comes from, and butchering your animals would seriously mess with the mostly lighthearted tone of the game. It's probably not much deeper than that.

[no1schmo]

Originally posted by Ryika:

Originally posted by no1schmo:

Strangely no. What's funny is that I just assumed this was a world where meat wasn't eaten, except on one of the festivals, a character makes a remark about how strange it is that survival burgers are being served near cows, implying those are made of meat. So I guess Concerned Ape didn't want to upset vegetarians, but is fine with annoying vegans (I mean the militant ones, obviously, not normal people).

People don't like to be reminded of where their meat comes from, and butchering your animals would seriously mess with the mostly lighthearted tone of the game. It's probably not much deeper than that.

It'd be easy to sell animals off to a slaughter house and get a delivery of meat the next day.

[Queen Droxxanna]

like I said before, the animal husbandry mod lets you butcher or sell animals for meat, and you can get some cooking recipes for meat as well. But I think the original concept of the game was to be veggan and to raise and care for animals , getting products from them without harming them. While I have used the husbandry mod to help with breeding, I have never really found the need to slaughter my animals. The mod also allows you to sell the animals and get back "meat" without killing them.

[Ryika]

Originally posted by no1schmo:

It'd be easy to sell animals off to a slaughter house and get a delivery of meat the next day.

You'd still be turning the animals that you've petted just yesterday into sausages which I assume would feel unsettling to a lot of people. Just ignoring the topic all-together and instead having Animals as permanent lifestock is pretty much the same decision that most farming games make, including Harvest Moon which inspired it.

[no1schmo]

Originally posted by Ryika:

Originally posted by no1schmo:

It'd be easy to sell animals off to a slaughter house and get a delivery of meat the next day.

You'd still be turning the animals that you've petted just yesterday into sausages which I assume would feel unsettling to a lot of people. Just ignoring the topic all-together and instead having Animals as permanent lifestock is pretty much the same decision that most farming games make, including Harvest Moon which inspired it.

Right, which was my initial point--I just figured it was a world without meat. If he removed the one line about burgers being made of meat, it'd seem like a world of vegetarians, which I am fine with, although I personally would be miserable there.

[Sédrio]

Originally posted by no1schmo:

Right, which was my initial point--I just figured it was a world without meat. If he removed the one line about burgers being made of meat, it'd seem like a world of vegetarians, which I am fine with, although I personally would be miserable there.

Stardew is absolutely not a pescatarian valley or world without meat lol. There's a big fat ham on the table during the egg hunt festival, Luau has a big fat turkey AND a big fat ham, and the Winterstar festival has FOUR big fat turkey and two big fat jell-os. The people of Stardew are eating great. Hell, even Alex talks about giving Dusty a steak. You just don't butcher farm animals yourself or cook with red meat and poultry, that's the only thing.

[Mharr]

I just realised that given your farmer's supernatural ability to resurrect fish on touch every smoker is a horrifying torture box so there's that.