slaughter house/abittoir

[Jerry_Riggings]

We need something to control the number of critters in our Ranch. Like I need someting to gather up eggs (excluding the ones I'm trying to breed in that area) for cooking. I need a place that tells my dupes to kill the oldest critter above 8th in number at the ranch. Especially for my Fish. I have a ton of Paku and Gulp fish. They're all over the place.

[Friends with Benedicts]

I've seen ppl on here doing automated slaughter houses.

[online_silkmoth]

Just wrangle the oldest one. Put it in the slauter house. Then murder them without the other critters knowing. knowing that one of them is next.

[Catbear]

People, like myself, have already posted designs around various places for this. 'gather up eggs' = autosweeper. kill the oldest critter above 8th in number = point & click.

[Jerry_Riggings]

Yea. That's the point. It's all point and click.
I've got other things in my bases that I'd like to put my attention to. The farms just pull plants when ripe but don't pull seeds. Aside from sleet wheat we don't have seeds that get put into food. I'd like to have something made specifically (maybe add a feature to the grooming station) to keep a ranch specialized. I don't need stone hatches in my smooth hatch pen. I don't need them breeding out of hand. I'd like the gulp fish (Of which my pen has had up to 26) to be killed off to a certain number without having to micro manage that spot.

The ranches just seem to require a lot more attention than farms.

[Greep]

You can make automated slaughterhouses without point and click.

https://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/90765-lazy-hatch-automation-example/?tab=comments#comment-1034894

The only issue is refilling your room does have to be done by hand. There are some exploits involving half-wild hatches that enter a stable via open doors, but that'll probbaly get patched out soon. Of course, they will probably add creature automation in next update anyways, so meh.

If you really, like, you can use weight sensors and throttle smart storage for eggs or something to aumated that too. But that would be too much hassle.

[Greep]

The way you automate pacu fish is you just wrangle a bunch and drop them in a pond and pick up the meat with sweepers, while leavign the eggs unreachable. Each wild creature will drop an egg before it dies and meat when it does, so just take the free meat Wrangling tame animals turns them wild and then they're wild forever. Great if you don't mind your FPS tanking from all the wild pacu.