Livestock and husbandry.

Keeping animals

Once an animal is tame, it can give you something now and then. Each animal has its own food, its own product and its own timing. What it produces is left where it stands (eggs, truffles), dropped beside you (milk and wool are given straight to you when you milk or shear), and comes out better the fonder it is of you.

Every kept animal has a bond with you, from 0 to 100, shown as hearts in five steps. Bond grows when you feed the animal by hand, when you stroke it, when you milk or shear it, and when it eats from a trough near you. A kept animal also gets hungry for the trough again over time.

What each animal gives

Animal	Food from your hand	Gives	How often	Grows up in
Meadow Cow	Grain, Corn, Cabbage, Carrot, Pumpkin, Sunflower Head, Apple, Melon	Milk, 1 to 2 (one more when fond)	Every 5 minutes, sooner when fond. Milked with a free hand	8 minutes
Woolly Sheep	Grain, Carrot, Cabbage, Flax, Mint, Apple, Corn	Wool, 2 to 3 by shearing with a blade	Every 6 minutes, sooner when fond	6 min 40 s
Crag Goat	Grain, Flax, Carrot, Potato, Plant Fibre	Wool, 2 to 3 by shearing with a blade	Every 5 minutes, sooner when fond	8 minutes
Mud Pig	Potato, Carrot, Pumpkin, Apple, Melon, Cabbage, Corn, Mushroom, Grain	Digs up Mushrooms and now and then a Truffle (1, or 2 when very fond)	Every 10 minutes. Only if it is fond enough	7 minutes
Dune Hen	Grain, Rice, Corn, or any seeds	Egg, 1 each time	Every 2 minutes 30 seconds, sooner when fond	5 minutes
Burrowkit	Carrot, Tomato, Potato	Wool, 1 tuft	Every 6 minutes	6 minutes
Meadow Horse	Carrot, Grain, Pumpkin	Nothing, but it can be saddled and ridden	n/a	10 minutes

Quality of what they give

Goods from a kept animal come out plain, Silver or Golden. The better the animal's mood, the higher the chance of a better result. Mood comes from its bond, and it is raised a little if the animal has eaten recently. Three things are worth knowing:

• A hen that is very fond of you (bond of at least 70) has a small chance, about one in twenty, of laying a Golden Egg instead of a plain one.
• A cow or sheep that is fond of you gives Silver or Golden milk and wool more often. A happy sheep gives Silver and Golden fleece.
• A kept animal gives sooner the fonder it is. Up to 40 per cent sooner at full bond.

Silver and Golden goods are worth more to the farm stand and to villagers. See farm recipes and prices.

Milking and shearing

• Milking: a fully grown cow is milked by right clicking it with empty hands. A cow that was milked lately will tell you how long until it can be milked again.
• Shearing: a sheep or goat is sheared with a blade, and only by the person who keeps it. The coat grows back after a while.
• Young animals cannot be milked or sheared until they have grown up.

The feed trough

A Feed Trough is made at a Workbench from 8 Wood. Kept animals nearby eat from it and grow fond of you, so a trough beside a pen is the best way to keep your livestock happy.

The pen

A Pen Kit (16 Wood and 8 Plant Fibre) sets down a fenced pen with a gate and a trough on level ground. Pens keep your animals close to home, and you can always find them there.

Bees

Bees are not animals that roam. They live in a Beehive, made at a Workbench from 12 Wood and 4 Plant Fibre. The hive gives honey and beeswax from the flowers and crops around it. A hive near Sunflowers makes better honey.

Good practice

• Feed each animal the food it likes by hand whenever you pass, to keep its bond up.
• Put a Feed Trough inside the pen and fill it with the food its animals like.
• Keep the herd below the limit of 48 animals in your care, or no more young will come.
• Give animals time to grow. A young one gives nothing until it is grown up.

To win an animal over in the first place, see taming and pets. For the animals themselves, see land animals.

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