Animals Dying too quickly

[DevilTwins]

As the title says. Even with the new update. They die way too quickly that a crop plot can grow. I have 5 Crop plots growing. I had 2 animals. A chicken and a llama. My sister, had just collected a Goat, when i came back to see that there was only 1 crop plot nearly grown. The second the llama had no food source, it died.

How are you supposed to Do everything around the raft, Collect materials on shore and at the same time tend to your animals with the threat of them dying in a span of a minute or so without having food, because you were off, getting the things you need.

5 Crop plots, need to be tended to Constantly, to keep your animals well fed. Leaving them unattended results in death.

This system needs to be looked at. Animals shouldn't be dying so quickly.

Crop plots Deplete way too quickly.

Lack of soil around an island to create more crop plots, when there's Technically Soil all around you. (With it being right under your feet)

Instead of being Several minutes of not feeding for them to die. Maybe up it to 1 in game day. That gives people time to actually play the game instead of someone constantly racing back and forth to feed the livestock.

[nannyogg]

We had one llama, and five crop plots, it ate TWO and then died, even though there were spare ones that were watered and growing! How are you supposed to keep animals alive when they don't even eat what is available? There is such elation when you catch your first one or two, and despair when they die despite all your best efforts.

[Jynn]

The animals seem to be a bit dumb and only eat the food when they wander over it, so if your pen has a lot of space but only a few grass plots, it might starve before it wanders over there

At least, that is how it seems. I build fences around what grass I have and keep them in that tiny area, expanding it as I get new grass plots to put down

[mitchsb]

I have one goat and 3 plots....I just water the empty ones. Seems to work for me.

[cat branchman]

I like to put the plots at ground level. With some purifiers nearby, keeping them watered is easy enough. Having more plots also helps, of course.

[DevilTwins]

Originally posted by mitchsb:

I have one goat and 3 plots....I just water the empty ones. Seems to work for me.

Originally posted by cat branchman:

I like to put the plots at ground level. With some purifiers nearby, keeping them watered is easy enough. Having more plots also helps, of course.

Doesn't seem to work. I've got 6 Plots now, That goat and chicken i had yesterday, Both Dead.
I also have a water purifier outside of the paddock for easy watering of the plots.

All plots were full of food. Both Goat and Chicken died. Why? Because just like jynn said, the animals are dumb rn.
They're either getting stuck on walls, won't move from them and die. My paddocks were small so they were literally really close to the plots.

You 2 have gotten lucky and haven't witnessed them getting stuck yet.

I lost, 2 chickens, 1 goat and 1 llama, to this bug. I'm not wasting time getting more, until these bugs are fixed.

[Darth Drogo]

Originally posted by Jynn:

The animals seem to be a bit dumb and only eat the food when they wander over it, so if your pen has a lot of space but only a few grass plots, it might starve before it wanders over there

At least, that is how it seems. I build fences around what grass I have and keep them in that tiny area, expanding it as I get new grass plots to put down

Yes, that seems to be the case. I have to carry them to the plot to feed them so yeah. They're too dumb.

[nannyogg]

thanks Jynn, you solved it for us!!! - now we have fences exactly round the grass plots and the Llamas are happy and eating, we just need to keep everything watered. We now realise its no good having deck as well as grass plots inside your fence, the Llamas reckon they can't eat deck so they just snuff it. Grass all the way :-)

[Kroutin]

12 crop plots, 2 animals, most of the plots still had grass, Llama still died after 2 days. Every Llama I catch dies within 2 days. Goat lived.... whatever...

[Jynn]

Originally posted by Kroutin:

12 crop plots, 2 animals, most of the plots still had grass, Llama still died after 2 days. Every Llama I catch dies within 2 days. Goat lived.... whatever...

weird, i've had 2 llamas, 2 goats, and 1 chicken in designated pens for at least 120 in-game days if not more. They haven't keeled over and died randomly, and as long as i keep up with the watering or it rains they're doing alright

This is my set up: 15 plots for the chicken, 35 for the two goats, and 37 for the two llamas

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1659377028

[Xas]

Just sharing
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1658357980

[Cutie Bum]

I put a fence around some crops. You have to constantly water the crops so they have food to eat. Either you have to run back to your raft often enough to water the crops while you're on an island or use sprinklers (remember to check the battery of the sprinklers). Make sure that the whole floor inside the fences is covered with crops, you can also place crops on the outside of the fence, they can reach there too. I'm not sure if this is necessary but I pick up my animals and drop them to make the game register that I am interacting with the animals & I (and game) knows that the animals are there. My animals have been living for 40 days now. I only have an issue of them disappearing, which only happened once. I highly recommend putting the animals on the second level because interference with the waves may cause inability to interact with the animals.

[ScoRud]

More than 1 year on and this major problem still hasn't been resolved... sigh

[Tevirik]

Now you have sprinklers to automatically water your fields. I have 18 fenced plots watered by 2 sprinklers, 3 animals and everything runs smoothly. This is my third game. This time, I took a long time to gather resources and not rush to the big islands. Doing so, I have enough resources to build sprinklers, batteries, large fields, etc.

[Troxie]

Placing a sprinkler on top of one of my crops has helped keep my clucker and goat alive. I only have 2 plots one with the sprinkler on and its been working for over 2 weeks (raft time). I always randomly check my battery on it and when its on red I swap for a new one and the low battery ones are used up with the navigator. Hope this helps! I'm keeping to the 1 plot per animal at the moment, if I get another clucker I'll add in another plot but if I was to get another goat I would have one spare as they feed roughly every 8 mins were as it takes roughly 5 mins for the crops to grow. Having an extra plot would allow if their feeding cycles clash or the clucker eats slightly before they do. Hope this helps! Happy Raftting! Troxity04 x