How do I know what a creature eats?

[Pilgor]

Is it from what mouth they have or is it from whatever their body is made of?

Back when this game would spawn you on a beach, I didn't feel it was necessary to own a creature. But now things have changed where I need a creature to help me. And I'm scared about that, because I'm not sure how to care for it. I don't know what all foods my chicken can eat or won't eat, I don't know how to safely level my chicken up. Can running on a treadmill and play fetch with my chicken help it level up and get stronger? I think I know what the meters on my chicken mean, the red is life? And the yellow is hunger & happiness?

Are there behaviors or actions I should know of? Like if a wild creature hurts me, will my chicken run up and try to save me? If I take my chicken with me for supplies hunting, will my chicken wonder off or get in trouble? And what does "set passive" mean? I show it when I was playing once. I didn't tell my chicken to be passive because I didn't understand what it meant.

Basically I don't know how I can safely care for my chicken. So I'm asking for some caring tips for my creature friend. Please be kind, I'm still learning all the changes in the game still. I just need any help others can offer.

[SJD]

The mouth tells you wether it's a ominvore, herbivore or carnivore. I find a good strong pack of carnivores/omivores are easier to feed as they tend to just attack other creatures and eat them. However getting a garden of squash and melons going takes just a few minutes and you have your own supply of food for yourself and the rest of your creatures. But you can feed herbivores and omnivores anything really, reed, squash, melons, grass, fig trees and I'm sure there is other things.

You are correct the red is the health bar, yellow is hunger, and happiness is indicated by the emoji to the left of the hunger bar.

Your pets will usually defend you yes but they also have a mind of their own and know when to stay away or run from something larger. If you keep them set to follow they will follow you however if you use them to break a tree that follow action is removed and you need to reset it to follow before wandering off. Passive just means passive your pet won't assist you in cutting trees if you start cutting first and other task, I'm not sure if it will continue to follow you in this mode or just wander around passively in the vicinity you set the passive mode in.

[Pilgor]

Originally posted by SJD:

The mouth tells you wether it's a ominvore, herbivore or carnivore. I find a good strong pack of carnivores/omivores are easier to feed as they tend to just attack other creatures and eat them. However getting a garden of squash and melons going takes just a few minutes and you have your own supply of food for yourself and the rest of your creatures. But you can feed herbivores and omnivores anything really, reed, squash, melons, grass, fig trees and I'm sure there is other things.

You are correct the red is the health bar, yellow is hunger, and happiness is indicated by the emoji to the left of the hunger bar.

Your pets will usually defend you yes but they also have a mind of their own and know when to stay away or run from something larger. If you keep them set to follow they will follow you however if you use them to break a tree that follow action is removed and you need to reset it to follow before wandering off. Passive just means passive your pet won't assist you in cutting trees if you start cutting first and other task, I'm not sure if it will continue to follow you in this mode or just wander around passively in the vicinity you set the passive mode in.

Thanks for all the info :D I never kept a creature before because the poachers were very common back then :C I didn't wanna watch as they killed my creature :C I think it'd be easy to keep my chicken. I don't wanna cause trouble and have wild creature attack me for it. Thanks for letting me know it's one command at a time & common behaviors & telling me what the passive command meant. :)