vidgin wrote:Do the home animals (sheeps, cattles) need the hitching post at all? Or do only wild animals (mouflins, Aurochs) need it to prevent disappearing?
It does help to keep them in one place or at least organized.
Domesticated animals will not despawn period, only die (of starvation, slaughtered).
W7 there was an abandoned island area with hundreds if not thousands of sheep constantly breeding, but somehow not starving to death. I'm not sure if anyone has any screenshots or not. (jordancoles just dropped a ton of stuff from w7 in the "Legacy Haven" thread in the Announcements.)
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