Animals domestication - finally there!

[viktor]

oh, a question, I looked but missed it it the answer is there. do animals go feral, or revert to wild if say, you neglect feeding them? or some other means?

[SekoETC]

Yes, they revert to wild if they go without food long enough. The exception is that if there are no wild animals of the same type in the location, they die instead of reverting to wild.

[Bmot]

Little question...

If someone has a pet-animal (so loyal to him/her) and then goes away, without the animal, you can still see that it's loyal to that person.
Will that notice stay visible with the animal, or will it stay 'loyal'?

And, what will happen anyway with a loyal animal when the 'owner' dies?

So, how about this?

[Chroma Key]

I can answer the first part. The notice is still visible with the owner's name when the owner goes away.
As for the latter, I don't want to find out for myself!

[viktor]

Yes, they revert to wild if they go without food long enough. The exception is that if there are no wild animals of the same type in the location, they die instead of reverting to wild.

seriously? so you can't establish a wild population of an animal in a new location even if the terrain is right if there are none to begin with? too bad, I had high hopes lol

[Doug R.]

I guess that eliminates the possibility of repopulating islands with animals that are extinct, but I think it would be really hard to extinct a species now anyway.

[Majix]

And, what will happen anyway with a loyal animal when the 'owner' dies?

It stays loyal to the dead person.

[Chroma Key]

I am just wondering if there is any way to check if an animal has "grown enough" for butchering. My char is waiting to butcher a rather large animal and it is tiring to separate the animal from a pack, go into your inventory, click on the cleaver, choose the right animal, check its meat level, go to the objects page and join it into a pack again... and repeating this process to monitor its progress.

[Swingerzetta]

I think, once a domesticated animal is separated from the pack, you can see whether they are 'Fattened' or not in the Objects page.

[Chroma Key]

'Fattened' isn't an indication of an animal's meat level at all. I can't really recall what Greek told me regarding a previous enquiry that I had, but I think it was something like the word 'fattened' just being a general description.
This animal has been fattened for ages... and its meat level is still only at average. The previous 'fattened' animal my other char butchered gave 0 mutton & 0 animal parts.

[Swingerzetta]

Hm. Strange. I thought those descriptions had a purpose. I'm sorry (Also, a butchered animal giving nothing at all sounds like a glitch, to me)

[SekoETC]

It sounds like a bug if a fattened animal can give 0 of everything.

[Chroma Key]

Greek, I hope you don't mind me quoting you here, please delete it if it's not appropriate:

Greek wrote:

"Getting zero raws is correct and it can happen in certain circumstances.
It's mentioned in viewtopic.php?p=496405#p496405 (Slaughtering/butchering part):

Quote:
Project gives multiple types of raws. Amount of obtained raws depends on how fed animal is and increases gradually like other raws in animal pool (like milk etc.)
So increase of amount of animal's meat is based on hunger, but it's not the same. Word "fattened" is used because of lack of more accurate words to say it's well fed.
Word "fattened" doesn't guarantee you'll get much meat. Meat works like, for example, milk. Its increase is based on hunger level, but it gradually grows only when animal is in a pack. It simulates process of growing up and becoming bigger.
It's possible to see how much meat animal has (relative to maximum possible) on page where you select target of butchering (it's visible on image in preview).
Yes, it's strange that animal which didn't have time to grow up yields 0 grams, but it's a compromise in favor of simplicity (this way there's no difference how meat and other animal raws are handled).
If I see correctly, this animal wasn't living in a pack, so it didn't have time to grow up."

I argued that minimal meant 'very little' and not 'none' but there was nothing further.

@Swingerzetta: No need to say sorry, I appreciate your help.

[Uma]

I'm loving animals but it is SO HARD to keep large numbers of them fed. If there are bulk, harvest machines that pick potatoes for you, I'd think there would be a place for hay-makers, grass harvesters, things like that. It's very hard to maintain a 'large herd' ranch.

Just feedback!

[viktor]

I wonder if there's any chance in convincing to allow reseeding populations in places that do not have an animal but are of the correct terrain type? as we can see in the wiki? to allow them to go ferel in those locations rather than just die because there are none of their kind there, even though the environment would otherwise be perfect for them?