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[KineseN]

No problem, I go with my chances.

[Nirur Torir]

Are there any rules for using animals to aid in farming (like, having an ox pull the plow?)

After a bit of thought, things animals can do:

Double a farmer's work output (50 fields maintained, or 10 plowed).
Double the output of foragers or wood gatherers (6 wood or food).
Turn a footsoldier into a cavalryman/cavalrywoman/cavalryxeno.

[Mephansteras]

Very cool. That'll make having work animals actually worthwhile!

[Nirur Torir]

Barely. They produce as much as a person for the same food, but cannot be taxed. Their ability to work is mostly just so cavalry isn't quite as expensive.

After thinking about it further, I'm nerfing their ability to do work, so cavalry or infantry is more of a choice.

They may:
Increase a farmer's work output (35 fields maintained, or 20 plowed).
Increase the output of foragers or wood gatherers (5 wood or food).

[Mephansteras]

Or you could split it between Work animals and Military animals.

Work animals should require a penned area or building to stay in and increase worker efficiency. Maybe 1 work animal per x number of people doing a job increases output by some %. Probably a level of diminishing returns, so that having a barn with a few work animals is very useful but beyond half your population they start to cost more food then they give.

Military animals allow for Calvary (which are much better then infantry) but require 1 food per turn. That means you need a larger working population to maintain a cavalry force.

[Cheddarius]

My map is wrong, it says I'm Inteuniso of the Vapioles.
4 people gather for food
2 farm 50 fields

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Day 20A: 1 Farm, 1 Gather Wood, 4 Gather Food

How big does the pen have to be? Will a 1-tile floor space hold one animal? Can animals share a pen if they each have a square?

[Azkanan]

There's only one Plains Land animal in Sector 6 that fits the bill to be used as a mount...

"Aactoot Pink Medium 2 2 0 Basic wild Mischeivious Furry"
(Name, Colour, Size, Legs, Arms, Tentacles, Intelligence, Adjectives)

[RedWarrior0]

Dibs on next spot, as Shadow Kingdoms seems to have died,

[LeoLeonardoIII]

This thing might not be the best choice to inspire fear in your enemies.

[Nirur Torir]

Nirur Torir Says:
Animals want 5 open spaces for a pen. Animals may share a pen, so long as they each have their own 5 spaces. They will not run away if somebody spends the night watching them, even if they have no pen. Anybody staying up all night will miss their morning shift of work, and military personnel set to guard animals will not watch buildings.
Trained animals will not be implemented, for simplicity's sake. I do not intend to make work animals worth more then a citizen.
Leo: That is, without a doubt, one of the more terrifying battlefield mounts I have seen this week.
Cheddarius: I thought for sure I had changed that already.

Day Twenty - Morning Results







Day Twenty - Morning Events

Cheddarius
A barrel has been discovered. The citizen who had been using it for a house has been evicted in the name of not wasting food.
10 turns remain before wooden barrel begins to decay.
2 farmers will finish growing 100 food in 10 turns.

KineseN
1 farmer will finish growing 50 food in 7 turns.
Mattis has failed to catch an animal.

LeoLeonardoIII
1 farmer will finish growing 50 food in 6 turns.

Mephansteras
1 farmer will finish growing 50 food in 4 turns.
A new migrant has arrived!

Nirur Torir
1 farmer will finish growing 50 food in 7 turns.

Webadict
5 turns until a caravan arrives.
2 wooden trinkets and a barrel created.
10 turns remain before wooden barrel begins to decay.

Goods stored:
Webadict
7x Wood Trinket

Spoiler: Nirur Torir's Turn (click to show/hide)

3 people hunt
1 person farms
1 person gathers wood
2 people build

[Mephansteras]

  Our numbers swell. Another female has joined us. She says her name is Isha Velo. I have her gathering plants for now, while we wait for the crops to finish growing.

Avos gathers Wood
Rodi is farming.
Tela works on the building
Yedeth gathers Wood.
Sketi gathers food.
Atu gathers food.
Isha gathers food.


= - Planned
= - Building
= - Built

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..=D==D==D==....|+B+|+B+|
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[LeoLeonardoIII]

Day 20B - 1 Farm, 5 Build.

(Just fill the empty building with "+" floor tiles, with one "B"ed anywhere you like)

[KineseN]

Spoiler: Turn 56 (click to show/hide)

Mattis has no luck anymore it seems as he failed to find anything even remotely useful as a mount. He will have to earn his right to live with us by doing some real work. Jack and Jane will have to hunt for more food while Trand, Faueger and Wanji gather more stones. This time Mattis will join them. I continue to tend the farm.

Matis farm. Jack and Jane hunt for food. Trand, Faueger, Wanji and Mattis gather stones.

[Cheddarius]

2 citizens farm
4 citizens gather wood