Cantr II Discussion Forum

Has the rate at which animals eat, increased recently? I have a few (or seen them) that are forever out of food. The hay in a trough doesn't rot, right? I have tried watching before as to how much they eat..but have yet to get the same answer twice.

Mine is starving and there is hay in the trough.

But I like being able to pet him.

notsure i'm meant to be a farmer

I do know some need hay and others need vegetable feed... a bushpig eats vegetable feed and cow eats hay.. they won't eat the other..

According to Greek's original post, all animals can eat hay. However, there have been some irregularities lately. Maybe this is another bug?
I know that if an animal is able to eat vegetable feed, they prefer to eat that first if both hay and feed are available in the trough/other suitable food storage (platters, plates, grass baskets/duffel etc).
It would be nice to know for certain which animal eats what.

I don't think all animals eat hay. Pigs don't eat hay, right?

You might also check if anyone has a taming project in progress. I've seen it happen where an animal that wasn't fully tamed created a message that it couldn't find food when there was none available. For example, 2 tamed animals were showing up on the objects screen. When they tried to eat and couldn't find any food, 3 animals created events that they were hungry. There was a taming project started with no progress on it.

That may have been fixed, though. I did report it but have no situations where I can test if a partially tamed animal actually eats the food. If so, it could explain why food is suddenly running out faster.

Just adding to the multitudes of different answers you've been given.

I had hay for a pig and he wouldn't eat it, so now we just use vegetable