Make domestic animals require area to roam

[ricky]

inspired by this image:

(thanks fostik)

I feel animals should have at least 5x5 tiles or 8x8 tiles of room to roam or else they will become hostile and start breaking shit and attacking people/other animals. perhaps if your animals bump into one another too often in a big pen they'll become aggressive. (alternatively quality tanks and milk stops generating)

Dwarf fortress has a similar mechanic where if you jam too many animals in too tight a space they'll get grouchy and start attacking each other.

I think this would be cool partly because muh realism and partly because people keep complaining about how animals are currently unmanagable

[DDDsDD999]

I'd be ok with this if they added actual management mechanics. Setting a pasture zone where you can see all the animals in the area, their stats, and mark them for butchering/moving/etc would be amazing.

[MrPunchers]

Herding dogs when

[Thaydi]

I'd be ok with this if they added actual management mechanics. Setting a pasture zone where you can see all the animals in the area, their stats, and mark them for butchering/moving/etc would be amazing.

Holy, this is a great idea.

To both OP and this, +1 million.

[Thedrah]

+1 if you can find your animals KO'd if too many in one pasture. so i don't lose my only bull by accident in a harem ofc

and allow for food troughs to be accessible through this

[Potjeh]

But this is how cattle pens look IRL

[Granger]

But this is how cattle pens look IRL

Cattle not that much (as they need to get to them to milk them), but chicken and similar: yes, sadly.

[Potjeh]

Do they even milk meat cattle? I thought they only bother with dairy breeds because others give a lot less milk.

[Headchef]

Do they even milk meat cattle? I thought they only bother with dairy breeds because others give a lot less milk.

I guess they could but I think most companies don't as it's too much hassle for little profit aside of the actual occuputation of the business..

[DDDsDD999]

Also, holy fuck how is there not a put all into troughs yet. I know you can wheelbarrow stock-piles into them, but come on.