For those interested, I've made the following, which is updated to 1.6 and supports Odyssey and Vanilla Animals Expanded, and Regrowth Prehistoric Animals (though that hasn't been updated to 1.6).
More Milkable and Shearable Animals

Balance seems pretty good. Thanks for the mod.

Since this mod has been reported working in 1.6 I added it to the No Version Warning-mod
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2599504692

The mod still works in 1.6! The only thing that needs updating is the version number, which I'll do whenever I can.

I miss making sheep cheese :( With wool and milk they were basically the most valuable animal I could have and saved my mutton multiple times.

Most important mod ever, needs 1.6 (muffalo used to always be milkable)

@theauditor you can milk anything with nipples, Greg

why male is milkable too?

Updated mod to Rimworld Version 1.5.
@Fishkeeper01
I tested and did not experience this issue.
@SpaceWeasel
I tested and did not experience this bug, but that is very funny hahaha.

1.5

please update to 1.5

Heads up, this mod breaks the Information button (the 'i' on the pawn infobox).

Seems to work with 1.5 even though it's not updated yet

great mod but hope it's 1.5 compatible

Thank you for great mod!
Can you make or recommend mod for making camels and yaks shearable?

This Mod make this more seneseable

@SpaceWeasel
That's not milk.

Support for Megafauna or Vanilla Expanded Animals?

Why does the male animals produce milk too?

I feel like camels should go on the list, camel milk being a traditional staple of desert nomads.

I have the same question as Sigourney. Milking gazelles is a bit much IMO. If we could select for ourselves in the settings, that would be amazing - but I understand if that's not possible.

Hey, is it possible to exclude some animals? I want my bisons to produce milk but not my horses.

@Mylothris
Added new image with milk spreadsheet. I also want to thank Tynan for providing in-game developer tools that generate very useful spreadsheets for things like animals.

How much milk do the animals produce?

@guegui
thrumbo eggs bigger than your torso
make the mother of all omelettes

Is there a version of this but for eggs (more species laying unfertilized eggs would be good to me

Rimworld Version 1.4 Update [drive.google.com]
Updated for 1.4, I also rewrote the code for versions 1.1 to 1.4 to use the new and improved PatchOperationConditionals instead of sequences. So the mod supports Rimworld versions 1.0 to 1.4+

@Archimedes
Unusual bug, I couldn't reproduce it. Goats are vanilla animals, this mod doesn't effect them and I would guess Vanilla Expanded Animals doesn't effect them either. Depending on how many mods you're running, my only uneducated guess is other mods having unusual interactions with each other.

In question*

Cannot milk me goats in 1.4. Am running the vanilla expanded animals, but the animals in quests are mere goats. Tried running it in the bottom load order. Any guesses why it won't work?

The milk fullness is at 100%, cannot right click it to milk via handler.

I already did. Must be a mod conflict then, my bad!

@[KGAB]Deathsservant
Just tested it and it works with 1.4 + Biotech and all other dlcs. Try placing this mod at the bottom of your load order, another mod might be overwriting it.

@BOBACONLIVES!
I can confirm it does not work with 1.4 anymore. Tynan seems to have put his hands on our udders. Uuuh.

@Bad Pipe
Do yer tamed female animals still have a milk progress % when ya click on 'em? This mod's code is very simple and should work forever unless Tynan decided to put his hands on your animal's udders and change how the milk code is read or written.

is 1.4 safe with this?

Milkable chicken pls?

@Thundercraft ...As for discrete milk items for different species (or more broadly types of species - like cattle/poultry - while I think it's out of the scope of this mod as it stands, it'd make for a decent update/fork, especially if it also got a basic config menu to tweak. I'd put my money where my mouth is if I could mod this game or had the time to learn how to.

IMHO, the rule of thumb when it comes to mods and balance is if the advantages new features/whatever give the player are proportionate to the cost/effort/disadvantages. An example of this is adding nuclear power to the game and having to face the risk of meltdowns/other random events or disposing of nuclear waste. That said, balance is partly a matter of personal preference, like players who want a more challenging game at any cost.

Didn't mean to write an essay here but there you go...

Good example of a minor mod that enhances gameplay. Thanks for this.

@Thundercraft bit late for a reply but whatever - I can't say for sure how well balanced milk-able thrumbos would be as I don't bother with them, but unless their horns/hides in combination with efficient farming methods are already overly profitable (as with drugs/organs), having them provide milk wouldn't be too bad. Guess it'd encourage ambitious ranchers to bother breeding them instead of mowing them down for horns/hides. [1/2]

@Elkstone Bo is the creators name - hence "Bo's Milkable Animals". Thank you for the amazing mod!

"Milkable animals" would be a better name for this

Thank you for this mod! While I respect the creator's attempt at "balance", I find it ridiculous how few real-world animals can be milked (and sheared) in Rimworld, especially with so many great herding/farming options in Ideology.

BTW: I'm wondering how other players feel about making Thrumbo milkable or, perhaps, shearable for wool. Should that be considered cheesy (i.e., cheaty or out of place)? Well, they're the hardest animal in the game to tame. Also, they consume enormous amounts of food and are all around difficult and expensive to keep around. So would it really be "unbalanced" to have the Thrumbo give back to your colony in some small way? It's not like a colony could afford to have a large heard of them, anyway, even ignoring how rare they are.

What Spoopy Lamp said.
There needs to me more incentive to milk more than one kind of animal. Otherwise, what's the point? Also, I'd think that different types of milk would have a different cost/value when bought/sold as well as a different nutrition value. In real life, the milk from different animals not only tastes different, but the calorific value and fat content can differ considerably.

could you add possibly different types of milk for these animals. It would be nice if in the mod there was a representation of the differences between a fawn's milk and that of an ibex or alpaca. It would also give a player more reason to tame varieties of different animals instead of just one species.

any way to disable certain animals? mainly just want muffalo and ewe milk back

dog milk XD

No dogs?

how have I never seen this on trending? thanks for this!

MILK?


I am adding this right MEOW!

will this work with multiplayer?