question about breeding

[Stujieee]

I bred a sheep all the way to 10-heart (affection-wise not maxed out yet, but can reach 10 heart). I bought 2 sheeps from Yodel farm and breed them, but the result is a 6-heart.
According to several guides in the internet, when you reached 10-heart threshold, any animal that you breed will result in 10-heart offspring regardless of the parent's heart threshold. Is that not the case? Or am I missing something here?

[FinalCataclsym]

Only with chickens as it is difficult if not impossible to determine who laid which egg.

[Neo King Arthur]

Originally posted by I Suck At This Game!!:

I bred a sheep all the way to 10-heart (affection-wise not maxed out yet, but can reach 10 heart). I bought 2 sheeps from Yodel farm and breed them, but the result is a 6-heart.
According to several guides in the internet, when you reached 10-heart threshold, any animal that you breed will result in 10-heart offspring regardless of the parent's heart threshold. Is that not the case? Or am I missing something here?

No, the max heart threshold applies to one animal type. So cow has its own progression, Sheep has it's own, alpaca has its own, rabbit has it's own, and chicken has its own.

So if you already reached the 10-heart threshold for the Cows, any other cow subtypes that you breed from the bought animal will get 10 max hearts. But only for cows.

You still have to breed the same way for Sheep, Alpaca, and Rabbit from 5-hearts and so on.

The game tracks which max hearts that your animal type has. So for Chickens, as long as you have a 6-heart chicken, any egg you hatch will have 7 hearts. and so on.

[Stujieee]

Originally posted by Neo:

Originally posted by I Suck At This Game!!:

I bred a sheep all the way to 10-heart (affection-wise not maxed out yet, but can reach 10 heart). I bought 2 sheeps from Yodel farm and breed them, but the result is a 6-heart.
According to several guides in the internet, when you reached 10-heart threshold, any animal that you breed will result in 10-heart offspring regardless of the parent's heart threshold. Is that not the case? Or am I missing something here?

No, the max heart threshold applies to one animal type. So cow has its own progression, Sheep has it's own, alpaca has its own, rabbit has it's own, and chicken has its own.

So if you already reached the 10-heart threshold for the Cows, any other cow subtypes that you breed from the bought animal will get 10 max hearts. But only for cows.

You still have to breed the same way for Sheep, Alpaca, and Rabbit from 5-hearts and so on.

The game tracks which max hearts that your animal type has. So for Chickens, as long as you have a 6-heart chicken, any egg you hatch will have 7 hearts. and so on.

as I mentioned before, I already got myself a 10-heart threshold for sheep (and sheep only). What i'm confused about is that the offspring of an entirely new store-bought sheep is 6-heart instead of 10-heart. According to you (and a lot of people), the game tracks the heart threshold even with new store-bought livestocks so how come that scenario happened?

Originally posted by FinalCataclsym:

Only with chickens as it is difficult if not impossible to determine who laid which egg.

Is it really true that it's for chicken only? so I have to breed barn livestocks from the 9-heart/10-heart threshold parents? I sold the 9-heart sheep off already :(

[Algester]

Originally posted by I Suck At This Game!!:

Originally posted by Neo:

No, the max heart threshold applies to one animal type. So cow has its own progression, Sheep has it's own, alpaca has its own, rabbit has it's own, and chicken has its own.

So if you already reached the 10-heart threshold for the Cows, any other cow subtypes that you breed from the bought animal will get 10 max hearts. But only for cows.

You still have to breed the same way for Sheep, Alpaca, and Rabbit from 5-hearts and so on.

The game tracks which max hearts that your animal type has. So for Chickens, as long as you have a 6-heart chicken, any egg you hatch will have 7 hearts. and so on.

as I mentioned before, I already got myself a 10-heart threshold for sheep (and sheep only). What i'm confused about is that the offspring of an entirely new store-bought sheep is 6-heart instead of 10-heart. According to you (and a lot of people), the game tracks the heart threshold even with new store-bought livestocks so how come that scenario happened?

Originally posted by FinalCataclsym:

Only with chickens as it is difficult if not impossible to determine who laid which egg.

Is it really true that it's for chicken only? so I have to breed barn livestocks from the 9-heart/10-heart threshold parents? I sold the 9-heart sheep off already :(

I think there is some confusion here

from digging the game you will need to use the breeding kit on 10 heart animals onwards just to have more 10 heart livestock

[Neo King Arthur]

Originally posted by Algester:

from digging the game you will need to use the breeding kit on 10 heart animals onwards just to have more 10 heart livestock

But wouldn't that make the process redundant if you're trying to breed 10-heart Coffee/Strawberry/Fruit Cows if you already have the normal cow at 10-hearts?

I mean, as long as you still have the 9 or 10-heart animal around (not selling them before you start breeding the newly store bought ones) It should've give birth to a 10-heart animal.

[Algester]

Originally posted by Neo:

Originally posted by Algester:

from digging the game you will need to use the breeding kit on 10 heart animals onwards just to have more 10 heart livestock

But wouldn't that make the process redundant if you're trying to breed 10-heart Coffee/Strawberry/Fruit Cows if you already have the normal cow at 10-hearts?

I mean, as long as you still have the 9 or 10-heart animal around (not selling them before you start breeding the newly store bought ones) It should've give birth to a 10-heart animal.

the Cows are each of their own sadly yes... its a "♥♥♥♥♥" move but no you need to breed each cow line to 10

[Riviera]

Not to mention, the cows take longer to grow up. Heck, I had a baby alpaca born AFTER my baby fruit cow and the baby alpaca was an adult long before the baby fruit cow.

This is really something that needs to be changed. I can understand they wanted breeding to mean something, but it's annoying and it's one of those, 'Let's make someone play longer!' moments like in the SoS and Trio of Town (locking recipes behind winning yearly festivals, for example, in Trio's case). These types of things need to stop in these games. Trio would've beaten out the spot for my favorite of the series (Animal Parade) if it didn't have recipes/outfits locked behind winning festivals that only happen once a YEAR.

You probably won't have 10 hearts for all the animals even by the time you reach year 5, I'm just approaching autumn in Year 2 and still don't have a single barn animal at 10 hearts yet. :/

And that was from buying a cow and Alpaca in spring of year 1 and getting the large barn asap (I got the large barn before any other upgrade too, done before Summer of year 1 started). Either give us more barn space to breed animals (4 spaces), make the pregnancy half the time of what is it (Even 14 days would be good), make the baby animals grow up faster (Same time as the bunnies), or once you have a normal cow at 10 hearts, it applies to ALL cows.

As it is right now, I can't win the cow festival in Year 2 of non-stop breeding since Spring of Year 1 (I like how the NPCs say you can shower your cow with love and they should win, and I'm like, 'nah, they need to be constantly bred to win!'), and the only reason I can win the Fluffy festival is because my of my bunnies, who are both at 8 out of 10 hearts near the end of Summer 2.

[Algester]

or I dunno use a trainer... where your cow is born the next day and its an adult the next day after that

[Riviera]

Originally posted by Algester:

or I dunno use a trainer... where your cow is born the next day and its an adult the next day after that

Sure, PC players have that option, but Switch players do not. I rather them take ideas from us and fix it themselves than have this crap pop up in future games.

[Neo King Arthur]

Originally posted by Algester:

or I dunno use a trainer... where your cow is born the next day and its an adult the next day after that

If you use that, you'll probably have an easier time by unlocking all the max hearts in one go after purchasing the animals without going through the hassle of breeding.

Originally posted by Riviera:

Sure, PC players have that option, but Switch players do not. I rather them take ideas from us and fix it themselves than have this crap pop up in future games.

That's why we're talking about this in the Steam forum, where everyone here is the PC players. Otherwise we we'll be talking about it in the Switch Forum.

[Algester]

Originally posted by Riviera:

Originally posted by Algester:

or I dunno use a trainer... where your cow is born the next day and its an adult the next day after that

Sure, PC players have that option, but Switch players do not. I rather them take ideas from us and fix it themselves than have this crap pop up in future games.

uhhhhhhh technically Switch has the same options... however I can not say the same for the addresses in question