An easier way to transport and lift animals!

[LadyCricket]

Tell me, who else has been here: you're in the animal pen trying to get to the entrance/exit/cistern of milk/a particular animal and the stupid animals are suddenly channeling Oblivion NPCs and blocking you every step of the way? Do you ever wish there was a way to make animals liftable... besides killing them? Are you trying to transport an animal somewhere far away, but are forced to resort to complex hearthfire shenanigans because knarrs can hold 10 living hearthlings and 0 living animals?

I've certainly been there, and that's why I'm suggesting hogtying as a game mechanic in H&H.

HOW IT WORKS: You take a rope from your inventory and right-click it on the animal. It gives you the option to tether or hogtie.
WHAT IT DOES: The animal is now immobilized on its back with its legs in the air. It will stay like this until you right-click the hogtied animal and choose to untie it.
WHAT THAT'S GOOD FOR: Much like a dead animal, a hogtied animal can be treated like any liftable object! You can pick them up and and put them them down wherever you want, and they can now be transported via cart, wagon, rowboat, and knarr! If you can do it with a crate, you can do it with a hogtied animal!
WHAT ARE THE DRAWBACKS: Animals can't eat, drink milk, give milk, give birth, mate, etc. while hogtied. Basically, if a crate can't do it, a hogtied animal can't do it. So yeah, don't leave them all tied up in their pen or they'll all starve to death. :3

What do you think? I think this makes it way easier to transport animals over water now that you don't have to use a raft.

[pawnchito]

i like it. Should make it require different amounts of strength on each animal type. Like ponies and cows are heavy as shit so you need much str.

[Archiplex]

To add, I actually wish there was a designated 'pen' structure that would keep animals in the same position rather than these absurd, cluttered pens.

Or remove hitboxes from tamed animals if you're from the village its branded to.

[pawnchito]

Any way to make animal herding less of a pita would be awesome. It's like the animals know exactly when the doors open and they bee line for it. Super frustrating and a challenge to find an easy solution when door hitboxes are finicky and we cant sit with barrels lifted.

[Lyrroth]

sounds like enhanced slavery with extra steps. it could be nice to have some form of transport but think about poor animal and peta