Animal Happiness

[Lyrroth]

Too small pens make it hard to manage the animals that is punishment enough. Fuck the cows I play to make myself happy not to make them happy.

that and as well as too small pens and stuff is a result of somebody getting fucked inreal good enough that the game punishing them for having no time to play in this way is simply unfair.
even so i want vagana cannonback so if pen has no empty slot babies get shot into sky or cave ceiling

[wonder-ass]

Idk, I get what everyone else is saying but I kinda agree with boshaw tbh, I hate seeing those tiny pens jam-packed with livestock and even worse the ones Nik built in my underground levels last world where the animal was trapped between a gate and a hf and couldn't even move, then he didn't bother to feed them and they all died ...

I know they aren't real, lol, but even so ... there should be some consequences for cruelty to animals even in a game I think.

players are cruel to other living players what makes you think they will care for none living animals

[Amanda44]

Idk, I get what everyone else is saying but I kinda agree with boshaw tbh, I hate seeing those tiny pens jam-packed with livestock and even worse the ones Nik built in my underground levels last world where the animal was trapped between a gate and a hf and couldn't even move, then he didn't bother to feed them and they all died ...

I know they aren't real, lol, but even so ... there should be some consequences for cruelty to animals even in a game I think.

players are cruel to other living players what makes you think they will care for none living animals

- you have a point, but maybe they would if there were consequences that affected their production/progress.

Anyway, looks like boshaw and I are on our own with this line of thought, so the sardine syndrome prevails.

[borka]

And Rabbits and Chicken need at last one hour a day outside their hutches to be happy ... i like the idea a lot

[TurtleHermit]

I can already see myself forget about letting them out and those will starve outside. Nice idea but not very casual friendly.
Beside possibility of those to despawn.

[Amanda44]

adds nothing to the game but a way to grief the player base if you want a game to be tedious and griefing you then go play salem it has temps that freeze you so u cant play anymore it has disease that griefs ya adding nothing to the game madness animals that takes hours a day to take care of if you want all that tedium you know where to go!

By all means be against the idea but I think this is pretty much over-reacting to it tbh.
I'm not suggesting (and from my interpretation, neither was boshaw) that we add disease and madness or that we need to spend hours a day taking care of them ... simply that the animals may not breed as efficiently and the quality of their produce may fall when stuffed into minute pens surrounded by their herds carcasses.

And Rabbits and Chicken need at last one hour a day outside their hutches to be happy ... i like the idea a lot

... talking of which, I would love to be able to build runs around rabbit and chicken hutches so that they could go in and out as they please, obviously then they would still eat from the hutch regardless and if they were in this enclosure they would be immune from despawning. It would just be nice to see them.

[shubla]

I think that its a good idea.
Happiness would increase over time, decrease when they see somebody of their mates killed, or dead in the vicinity.
It could also decrease if the animal is blocked by an object when its moving.
It could also decrease if they don't have food.
It could also decrease if you don't shear/milk them often enough.
Also, horses would become sad if you dont ride them often enough.

[MadNomad]

bad idea

I have a better one!

leave tamed animals as they are.

[wonder-ass]

... talking of which, I would love to be able to build runs around rabbit and chicken hutches so that they could go in and out as they please, obviously then they would still eat from the hutch regardless and if they were in this enclosure they would be immune from despawning. It would just be nice to see them.

not a bad idea tbh would be cool to see them walking around with their chicks.