Animal Cages

[ciroth]

Didn't show up when i searched for it

Name: Animal Cage
Cost: 10 blocks wood, 6 wooden planks, 1 hard metal
Type: Liftable Object
Restrictions:Pigs (Baby and Adult), Sheep (Baby and Adult), Cow (Baby only). As more animals become avaiable for taming only "Small" Sized animals can be caged up.
Purpose: Allows players to place animals into an liftable object to be tossed into a wagon, boat or etc for transporation purposes. This will allow players to breed, sell, trade animals with other villages. Cages can be fit with a chicken coop "feed" where the player must place food into it and the animal will consume it. Baby animals cannot be kept in cages for long periods of time due to them needing milk, even with feed in the cage, as they will die.

Just thought i did through this out, it is kind of a pain if you ever tried to trade or breed animals long distance or bring your herd with you on long distances to a new village. Ever tried roping animals while wagoning?.... nightmare lol

[aso11]

Thank you for reading the stickies and making two seperate clear, understandable posts. And Yes, animals need a way to be mass transported, now if only there was some way to do this with adult cows... Maybe multi-cow wagons.

[Pwnlord]

Since this is the only thing on the subject I could find, I want to bring it up again for consideration.

It would be incredibly useful; right now my village is in trading with another halfway across the map, and the animals we could really use aren't tameable by their representative. At the very least, a Stock Wagon would be nice.

[ninja_yodeler]

Yeah, you should be able to build an object that you can attach to a cow, Like one of the old stly bull drawn plows so it goes o---o
then you can attach two ropes to it, and then them ropes to other cows, rinse and repeat.

You can lead a legion of cows at the same time, also be able to use it in a way you can pull your wagon, yet also be dragging along as many cows as you need. (this goes for all animals.)

[AnnaC]

I generally agree with ninja's idea, except you don't really need ropes to each animal you want to lead. With sheep and cattle, they are herd animals and will naturally follow the alpha animal. Equipping some symbolic item (like a bell) to an animal and controlling that animal would induce other animals in a certain radius around it to follow if they can.

Although another thing would be improving rafts to actually be worthwhile. Holding 2-3 animals instead of just one would be nice. Also something I've been disappointed with in W4 and W5 was the lack of any naturally occuring river fords. The game really doesn't want anyone to conventionally travel long distances.