Taming and breeding feeding questions

[Nausica]

Do I need to feed animals 1 piece of food at a time or can I throw a whole stack of like 50 raspberries into a pen of boars and they only eat 1 piece at a time to tame and/or breed? Or will they eat the entire stack of food in one go thereby wasting the stack of food?

[Peak Imouto]

Wondering this as well.

[Ultum]

From YouTube videos I’ve seen, people are saying you can throw the whole stack and they’ll eat one at a time.

Of course, that being said, I’d still keep an eye on it, to be sure.

[FadeXF]

I think they don't like raspberries - and after tamed they only consume carrots. I threw 10 in at a time however I was reading you only need to throw 2 in total every day.

I think if you throw a stack in: they will eat it all in 1 go and it doesn't mean you no longer have to feed them for 5 days.

What I think is you only need to feed 2 "breeders" and then the rest you don't have to worry about feeding.

(This is mostly theory and research I've done - and experienced in game myself.)

What I do know is after a very short period of time: giving up your carrot stock isn't worth the returns of investment because it's basically that you'll get meat just moving place to place (that I've found anyway) and because 1 carrot soup = 3 carrots - and then you need 1 carrot for 3 carrot seeds - trying to justify those 2 extra carrots was tough.

[Len's]

i throw 50 mushroom in middle of the pen , pig eat one at a time

[Lexor]

Put a full stack in there. The animals will eat one by one. Nothing will be wasted. Nothing will despawn (inside a workbenches raduis).

[FadeXF]

If you throw a stack of 50 carrots in - will only 2 of them eat or will ALL of your pen eat?

[Lexor]

Originally posted by FadeXF:

If you throw a stack of 50 carrots in - will only 2 of them eat or will ALL of your pen eat?

I don't understand. All animals will eat from that stack. If there are many animals and not much space for them around the food, they may get stucked there (blocking each other). You will have to relocate the food then.

[FadeXF]

Originally posted by Lexor:

Originally posted by FadeXF:

If you throw a stack of 50 carrots in - will only 2 of them eat or will ALL of your pen eat?

I don't understand. All animals will eat from that stack. If there are many animals and not much space for them around the food, they may get stucked there (blocking each other). You will have to relocate the food then.

Seems like a waste of carrots to me.

I think ideally you only use 2 carrots to feed just your 2 breeding boars.

[Polaris]

You can throw a whole stack, and they will eat one at a time :) and as long as the food is in range of a workbench, it won't despawn, heads up though, they will breed like rabbits xD

When you want to limit their growth, cull them a bit, and/or feed them less. If you let them starve though, you'll start losing them, so you may as well have just called the herd

I kept no star boar, and honestly it wasn't worth the work, however, 1 and 2 star boars can breed more starred boars, I've finally got a few one star boars in my own, so we'll see if it ends up being more worthwhile ;D

[Lexor]

Originally posted by FadeXF:

Originally posted by Lexor:

I don't understand. All animals will eat from that stack. If there are many animals and not much space for them around the food, they may get stucked there (blocking each other). You will have to relocate the food then.

Seems like a waste of carrots to me.

I think ideally you only use 2 carrots to feed just your 2 breeding boars.

Yeah, would be more effective but is not necessary in my opinion. carrots are easily grown in large amounts so there is no reason to min-max them.

[FadeXF]

Originally posted by Lexor:

Originally posted by FadeXF:

Seems like a waste of carrots to me.

I think ideally you only use 2 carrots to feed just your 2 breeding boars.

Yeah, would be more effective but is not necessary in my opinion. carrots are easily grown in large amounts so there is no reason to min-max them.

I manage a farming lot of 25 carrot seed plants - and then I think around 50-75 carrots - and it seems like a ton of effort for returns already... and always seems I don't have enough food lol

While you do need 2 meat (at my stage) for sausage and radish stew... it still makes more sense (at this stage anyways) for me to not bother with boars since the carrots are harder to come by.

solo player woes - maybe a farming/taming balance issue though too.

[Lexor]

Originally posted by 76561197973059678:

Originally posted by Lexor:

Yeah, would be more effective but is not necessary in my opinion. carrots are easily grown in large amounts so there is no reason to min-max them.

I manage a farming lot of 25 carrot seed plants - and then I think around 50-75 carrots - and it seems like a ton of effort for returns already... and always seems I don't have enough food lol

While you do need 2 meat (at my stage) for sausage and radish stew... it still makes more sense (at this stage anyways) for me to not bother with boars since the carrots are harder to come by.

solo player woes - maybe a farming/taming balance issue though too.

I go for deer hunt. 10 - 15 minutes and I have a full stack of meat. Normal boars will never be as effective. Don't no how 2 star boars will fit in the calculation.

[FadeXF]

Originally posted by Lexor:

Originally posted by 76561197973059678:

I manage a farming lot of 25 carrot seed plants - and then I think around 50-75 carrots - and it seems like a ton of effort for returns already... and always seems I don't have enough food lol

While you do need 2 meat (at my stage) for sausage and radish stew... it still makes more sense (at this stage anyways) for me to not bother with boars since the carrots are harder to come by.

solo player woes - maybe a farming/taming balance issue though too.

I go for deer hunt. 10 - 15 minutes and I have a full stack of meat. Normal boars will never be as effective. Don't no how 2 star boars will fit in the calculation.

From what I read: you only need to feed 2 to keep them breeding. I dunno - I'm with you: I found it pretty much useless to try to maintain and I just hunt because like you said: you can get a stack of 20 meat in like 10-15 mins max and then that in return can mean like 40-50 "food items" (sausage, stew)

[Polaris]

The main reason I'm now taming the one star boars again, is to feed my 1 star wolf army :D (it's an absolute pain to tame starred wolves, requires you to basically be in the same spot for 4 real hours, and I really don't want to lose them to starvation)

[Lexor]

Originally posted by Polaris:

I really don't want to lose them to starvation)

You won't. They never starve. No animal does ever. The hungry state means, no breeding, no further taming. Nothing else.
Your taming state will stay forever also, as far as I know. So you can leave a 50% tamed wolve alone for days and it will stay at 50%.