Advanced Animal Pen

[LadyGoo]

IMHO, if anything, we need special fences for the animals. 5-20 animals per 1 fence + 1 special stand where you can browse the characteristics and select/buy the one you like. You need ropes in your inventory and won't be able to buy more if you do not have enough ropes. All of them will automatically be bound to the buyer.

- you do not have to endlessly click on each animal to check the quality since the pen's board will show the list of the animals inside with their qualities and etc.;
- you can take out of the pen the animals that you want to butcher more easily. It is a great pain to butcher them if you do it once a week since they tend to cluster around the exit gates or attempt to wander outside of the fence;
- you can have separate fences for different animal specifications, meaty vs milky cows, milky vs wooly vs meaty sheep, high stamina vs high metabolism or whatever horses and etc.

Let's say I have 20 cows and 1 bull in the pen. In 2 weeks they will be 20 more calfs to check + check the old cows and kill the unneeded ones, that is total of 40 animals. This might take 1+ hour of my time unnecessarily, especially with them tending to cluster and blocking the movement. Most people tend to check even more frequently. So the actual time you would spend on the animal care/selection is several hours, taking 5-8% of your online time (if you're playing for 4 hours a day). I won't bother with selecting specific qualities (wool, meat, milk) and focus on the general average quality. If I would do so, I would spend even more hours on it.

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could work kinda like landscaping in which any animal in a special zone( inside special fence ) could be toggled and examined from special stand.

[Headchef]

Yeah +1 unnecessary tedium currently for trying to raise qualities.

Like the selecting and such for yourself but don't care so much for the trading.
Automated trading is bad in my eyes.

[viznew]

iv abandoned many animals due to my own lazyness (go on a trip and come back to far to many to handle)

i get current system cause you have your animal caretakers and ranchers (prob cause my recent obsession with dwarf fortress)

but some sorta corral would be awsome, thou i do feel its shouldnt be a right of the bat build something you have to work towards (not super hard just not immediately easy to build)

[ricky]

I think there should be a barn building where you can store 10-20 animals and have the above mentioned 'pen permissions' available. you could still enter the building to milk/shear your animals, but you could see all animal properties from a menu accessed inside/outside the building

[Ants]

I think there should be a barn building where you can store 10-20 animals and have the above mentioned 'pen permissions' available. you could still enter the building to milk/shear your animals, but you could see all animal properties from a menu accessed inside/outside the building

I agree. I had the barn idea, too. Right now my village is storing a lot of animals in a house and it's kind of crowded lol.

[Headchef]

Hahaha storing in houses sucks, why not cave atleast

[jorb]

Has since been made easier in that you can keep multiple animal uis open at the same time.

[LadyGoo]

Has since been made easier in that you can keep multiple animal uis open at the same time.

I would personally find it easier if I would have a toggle and see the stats of the animals displayed above their heads (tick what qualities I would like to be displayed) + remember animals if you log out and log in next time. That way you could instantly see the differences between the animals, instead of checking every single of them each time.

[Potjeh]

Or we could have an animal quality system that doesn't require spamming dozens of baby animals to get a good stat roll.