Now that pigs are not meta, whats the best animal product?

[Gorem]

As a new item now doubles the rate of animal produce (Cept for pigs) and also doubles the rate that fish ponds drop items, I've been wondering which is the best.

Sheep for example at max hearts and the right profession drop 2 wool every day, one is max quality the other gold, so that is 3-4 cloth every single day per sheep. that is 1974-2632 gold per sheep per day (Almost as good as golden eggs) as long as you swap to the art profession before you sell the wool.

So a full barn of sheep makes between 23,688-31,584 gold per day. And they also work in rainy days and Winter, and it is auto harvested. From one barn. You also can skip time and this will work. (Not including the small price of hay, especially if self gathered)

Get ready to hear those baa's! Next best could likely be Ostrich's for potentially 20 iridium Quality mayo (Not tested if one gold one iridium) every 7 days per Ostrich. Its much less in profit but you don't need to worry about swapping professions

[Snowy Sprout]

What was that new item again? I forgot what it is and where you get it.

[Mez Koo]

Does it matter? Do what you like or takes less work. I personally want to have a farm full of 100 hundred chickens although now that I think of it having 100 pigs with truffles is easier than going through 25 coops picking up 100 eggs.

[lordoftheapes79]

I always say I'm going to play differently this time, but then I just end up planting exclusively ancient fruit, so I can basically leave my farm unattended.

[arti_llery]

Originally posted by Mez Koo:

Does it matter? Do what you like or takes less work. I personally want to have a farm full of 100 hundred chickens although now that I think of it having 100 pigs with truffles is easier than going through 25 coops picking up 100 eggs.

The autograbber exists, that helps with both coop and barn.

[Venarik]

Originally posted by PaulKrawitz:

Iridium Quality Human Bug Meat. 😂

Rimworld forums are over there

[psychotron]

stonefish in a fish pond make stone, so

[Mez Koo]

Originally posted by arti_llery:

Originally posted by Mez Koo:

Does it matter? Do what you like or takes less work. I personally want to have a farm full of 100 hundred chickens although now that I think of it having 100 pigs with truffles is easier than going through 25 coops picking up 100 eggs.

The autograbber exists, that helps with both coop and barn.

Ooh right, I remembered the auto petter but forgot about that one, 400 chickens it is then

[Coffee Addict]

4 of each animal minus the pig, throw all the products in a mayo machine/cheese maker/loom and forget pigs exist

[Gorem]

Originally posted by Snowy Sprout:

What was that new item again? I forgot what it is and where you get it.

Called Golden Crackers, it works on all farm animals and Fish ponds by doubling the rate that they produce. What would really be interesting is the effect on fish ponds as well, if there is some use case for the expensive aged roe being doubled, as one pond could run what 7 jars at once?

[Gorem]

Originally posted by Niki Lauda:

4 of each animal minus the pig, throw all the products in a mayo machine/cheese maker/loom and forget pigs exist

The best is really the fact that all the rest of the animals work without needing to go outside the barn and forage. What made pigs so good was just how much they earnt you but with this new item it really doesn't feel all that worth it anymore for sure. No more randomly having to hop off your horse to pick one up that is in the way too bonus!

However, there is a new thing called truffle crabs, which can give more loot if they spawn under one of the truffles pigs spawn, which I am guessing combined with the burgalers ring could make it drop up to six? Truffles. No idea on the crab spawn rate though.

Also yeah as people said above to the other reply, the auto-petter and auto-grabber essentially make farming with animals a time-skippable event. Once you setup well enough you could skip a year and come out to 22.4million gold or more. Yes planting is a way to do it with wine but with these changes, animal produce is extremely profitable with no effort.

Though maybe that's making the game too easy? xD

[Merlin Pharmakeus]

It is like saying year 1 strawberries are not "meta" because of ancient fruits... Crackers need to be farmed intensively if you want to feed an army of sheeps with them, they can't be purchase as easily as a pig. So you will be outside a lot... Meanwhile pigs can generate a lot of money extremely fast since you don't really need to process iridium truffles, 20% loss for instant cash for new investment. Seems like people that plan build where they are trash 98% of the game to be above just the last few hours. But you are not even better since crops are better than animals for profits by a large margin. At that point the only thing that matters is what keep you ingame.

[Anzaman]

Originally posted by Gorem:

Also yeah as people said above to the other reply, the auto-petter and auto-grabber essentially make farming with animals a time-skippable event.

If only there was some easy method to acquire Auto-Petters. Been running thousands of Skull Cavern floors - seen zero of them. Meanwhile the Auto-Grabber, which according to Wiki, has same exact chance of being the reward, has appeared several times.

[Queen Droxxanna]

golden crackers???? I have not seen those yet, but I have found in the past that I get lots of truffles from my pigs, up to 3 truffles a day per pig! Could not keep up with the truffle oil making.
I also found raising ostriches profitable, hatch eggs and let them grow, as soon as they get to full hearts, sell them for over 20,000.. each. and they laid eggs in the meantime to replace themselves.

[Snowy Sprout]

Originally posted by Anzaman:

If only there was some easy method to acquire Auto-Petters. Been running thousands of Skull Cavern floors - seen zero of them. Meanwhile the Auto-Grabber, which according to Wiki, has same exact chance of being the reward, has appeared several times.

Go with the Joja route, and auto petters are easy to buy.
You might even find (like me) that the Joja route is more fun than the CC after all.

[maestro]

Originally posted by Gorem:

As a new item now doubles the rate of animal produce (Cept for pigs) and also doubles the rate that fish ponds drop items, I've been wondering which is the best.

Sheep for example at max hearts and the right profession drop 2 wool every day, one is max quality the other gold, so that is 3-4 cloth every single day per sheep. that is 1974-2632 gold per sheep per day (Almost as good as golden eggs) as long as you swap to the art profession before you sell the wool.

So a full barn of sheep makes between 23,688-31,584 gold per day. And they also work in rainy days and Winter, and it is auto harvested. From one barn. You also can skip time and this will work. (Not including the small price of hay, especially if self gathered)

Get ready to hear those baa's! Next best could likely be Ostrich's for potentially 20 iridium Quality mayo (Not tested if one gold one iridium) every 7 days per Ostrich. Its much less in profit but you don't need to worry about swapping professions

Pigs are still an excellent source of money, even with the Animal Crackers.

Excluding Ostriches, each animal (with Cracker) gives:

Cow: 690G (345G x 2)
Goat: 1200G (600G x2, every other day, or 600/day)
Sheep: 940G (470G x2, every 3rd day, or ~323/day assuming 1 cloth per wool)
Void Chicken: 550G (275G x2)

(all prices above assume no artisan perk, add 40% to each for that).

Now, Pigs...

Truffle: 1,250G (Iridium-Star, 100% guaranteed with the Foraging perk)
Truffle Oil: 1065G

Now this is assuming *ONE* truffle per day. A max-heart pig can oftentimes dig up 2, sometimes 3 truffles, AND with the Foraging Perk, picking up one Truffle might double it. You could, on a super lucky day, get up to six truffles out of one pig for a total of 7500.

Even with animal crackers, no animal comes anywhere close to touching that.

Pigs are still hands-down the winners. The only weakness is that they produce nothing during the winter.

EDIT: And if you wanna know how that weakness affects the pigs, you can simply slash the price by 1/4th as pigs do nothing for one out of four seasons, so 25% of the time.

So, that 1250-7500 becomes 938-5625 which is still well above the other animals.

"But what about rain?" you might ask.

Well, ok, we can generously assume that it will rain about 4 times per season, for a total of 12 days out of the 84 non-winter days which comes out to about 15% of all non-winter days will be rain. So, we can take another 15% off the above prices and come up with 797-4781 avg per day for the entire year for a pig.

So, worst-case scenario, is you get roughly 800G per day out of a pig. The next-best, with animal cracker, is 690G from a Cow, or 966 with Artisan Perk. Again, assuming worst-case scenario of the pig only digging up a single truffle, and the double gathering perk never proc'ing during the entire year, the odds of which would be astronomically low.

EDIT2:

Looking up Ostriches (I've never had one, which is why I initially didn't wanna comment on them), you get 1 egg per 7 days, so with Animal Cracker, you would get 2 eggs per 7 days.

Each egg is worth 1,200G, though that would be a waste as you could turn it into 10 Mayo, which would be 5,320G.

Divide that by 7 and you get 760/day. Double that and you get 1520/day.

Impressive, but remember that the 800G/day is worst-case scenario for the pig.

If we take the average, and slash a little off for good measure, the pigs are still about 2,500 per day, still well above the Animal Cracker Ostrich.