Hay Bales

[Fierce_Deity]

This stared out as a big idea to rework fodder and feeding animals, but screw that.
I want to suggest Hay Bales. A build-able food source made from 250 straw. Should have a range it can be eaten from like the trough. Actual food units it should be worth should be 500 units. So one straw would turn into 2 units of food basically. This would open up the option to use barley as a food source for our animals, which would make a lot more sense then oh I don't know, fucking beets? Seriously beets?
We would be able to lift or roll hay bales to get them around. I don't care if they are round or square. Obviously the hay bales should have a quality based on the imputed straw.
Thoughts?

[LadyV]

Hay stacks maybe but you are way out of time on bailing wire and machines that neatly do that bales.

[jorb]

If anything might be simpler to just buff hay food values.

[Granger]

If anything might be simpler to just buff hay food values.

Could be something, since feeding animals sucks.

But today all hay will be turned into hats...

[Drakemoore]

Tbh, it would make more sense for you to be able to make haybales from Grassland tiles every so often in the game. It's how it works in real life anyways, we have farms that harvest Coastal Hay from Bermuda grass that they plant and they harvest it 1-2 times per year and make square bales and round bales. The higher quality hay is fed to horses, while the hay that's not in such good condition is fed to cattle because they can stomach it despite it being a bit 'off'

[CorwinOfAmber]

Could we have the trough take priority over baled hay when the animals eat? keeps from having partial bits and bobs, and that way someone planning to be on vacation or out for awhile could just buy bales or stock them in advance before leaving without the worry of dead animals and a giant patch of dirt eaten from the yard around the bodies. lol

[linkfanpc]

And/or make it that straw stockpiles are hay bales.