Do the animals inbreed?

[[GRVTS]Fat Bastard]

Because I'm worried about my yaks. Also need to know if I can feel safe butchering some without compromising the herd.

Yaks are an important part of my culture. They're my source of milk, my cheese and I shear them. I live in the middle of nowhere ontop of a volcano, and my hunter has been trying to kill one kangaroo buck for months.

[knacks]

Afaik there is no inbreeding (except tarn added it and it's lurking somewhere in the code)

Yes, you can kill/butcher some of them. Theoretically you can keep the herd at 1 male + x females and butcher any other male (and female above x) that reaches adulthood.
You also could butcher calfs, but an adult animal yields more Ressources than a young one.

Only exception: no killing of yaks that became a pet to someone. ;)

If the Herd gets too big, you can geld all males except one (young or old one)
(Beware that yaks and any other animal doesnt like being gelded and might start to fight the Gelder)

[The Former]

Originally posted by knacks:

Afaik there is no inbreeding (except tarn added it and it's lurking somewhere in the code)

Yes, you can kill/butcher some of them. Theoretically you can keep the herd at 1 male + x females and butcher any other male (and female above x) that reaches adulthood.

Can you though? if there's no inbreeding they won't keep reproducing once the first pair gets too old, right?

[McFuzz]

There is inbreed, I think he meant, there's no repurcussions? But yeah you can breed the puppies with the parents.

Edit: As far as I know, lol.

[[GRVTS]Fat Bastard]

Originally posted by Frank McFuzz:

There is inbreed, I think he meant, there's no repurcussions? But yeah you can breed the puppies with the parents.

Edit: As far as I know, lol.

Yeah my question was whether they'd become inbred monsters. I should've phrased it better, but I don't think people misunderstood me really. Just taking the piss at my wording lol.

[Bralbaard]

There are no negative effects of inbreeding.

Animals will not care about family relations at all and will happily breed. You only need a male and female to start a complete herd. Some caveats apply. Egg layers need nest boxes, and animals, like dwarfs can have sexual orientations that will make them unwilling to breed with the opposite sex, so if you are unlucky your yaks will be incompatible.

For dwarves/intelligent creatures it works slighlty different. There will be no inbreeding between close relationships (brothers/sisters etc), but I think they are already fine with it if they are uncles/aunts/cousins or whatever the historical standards have been in European royal families.

[The Former]

Originally posted by GRVTSFat Bastard:

Originally posted by Frank McFuzz:

There is inbreed, I think he meant, there's no repurcussions? But yeah you can breed the puppies with the parents.

Edit: As far as I know, lol.

Yeah my question was whether they'd become inbred monsters. I should've phrased it better, but I don't think people misunderstood me really. Just taking the piss at my wording lol.

Reason I asked is if I remember correctly, vanilla RImworld doesn't allow, say, a cow and a bull from the same sire to breed. Or it didn't at one time. So whether or not that's possible would be a viable question in the genre.

[knacks]

Ah, no.
If male and female are the same species and heterosexual they will mate for as long as they live.

Also no the offspring wont turn into deformed mutants.


If the basic requirements are met, its rather straightforward.