Go on Holiday

[theTrav]

Ok, so I'm heading to a tropical island for two weeks pretty soon.
I doubt I'll get much in the way of internet there and probably won't be feeling much like playing haven and hearth anyway during that time.

I have a small number of sheep and cows (ram, ewe, lamb, two cows and a bull). They're all around second generation.

If I leave them to starve, do I lose my progress in terms of quality? Will their children be hideous mutants?

If I prepare a TON of traughs, how many seeds/straws will I need to dump in them to keep them alive for 14 days without me being there?

[martinuzz]

Kill off your bull. Then they should survive, with a trough or 10.
If you leave them for two weeks, while they can still get pregnant, they'll eat tons more.

Enjoy that tropical island

EDIT: (You could just separate your bull from your cows as well, if you don't want to lose it)
And to answer your question: AFAIK, starvation hits do not affect offspring stats.

[Riou1231]

Make it 14! A whole trough for a day! Also, if one of the cows are pregnant, then you're gonna need a lot more troughs! Maybe like... 30?

[loftar]

Unless I'm doing the calculations all wrong, a (non-pregnant) cow or bull eats, on average, 4.8 units of fodder each real-life day, and a sheep eats half that (a pregnant female eats ten times as much). Your three adult cows and two adult sheep would, then, survive quite well on one full trough (containing 200 units of fodder) for 10 real-life days.

It takes some extra fodder for lactating females to produce milk also, though -- 1/10 unit of fodder per liter produced, and the lamb will be wanting 2.4 liters of milk each real-life day.

I make no guarantees for not having messed up the calculations, though. :)


You are mad, by the way. You finally get to enjoy a nice, cool winter down there, and you choose to travel to stifling heat? To each his own taste, I guess. :)

[jorb]

... but... why would you want to go anywhere else when you have H&H?

srsly, though, the animals need a pause button.

[martinuzz]

So.. 4.8 units of food per day for cows, 2.4 for sheep.
48 for pregnant cows, 24 for pregnant sheep.
lamb (and I suppose calf too) 0.24 units of food per day.

For you holiday, worst case scenario would be, assuming you separate your bull and ram from their female counterparts:

-both your cows, and your ewe are pregnant, and just started pregnancy when you departed. I'm not sure about pregnancy times, but I think it's 10 RL days (please correct me if I'm wrong). Same for growing up of animals. 10 days?
- your lamb will mature in a day and become a ram, ready to impregnate it's mom as soon as she gives birth.

Assuming it's 10 days for both pregnancy and maturing, the females would eat (including extra food for milk production) 1*(0.24) + 10*(48+48+24) + 4*(4.8+4.8+24+0.24+0.24+0.24) = 1337.52 units of food for 14 days
Your males, including the one that matures in one day would eat: 14*(4.8+2.4) + 13*(2.4) = 132 units of food

So, in the worst case scenario, you would need 1469.52 units of food for the 14 days. That's 7.3476 troughs.