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[Sting_Auer]

I've been feeling cocky lately, and want to challenge myself to do something incredibly dwarfy involving animal farming.


So, what animal is the hardest to breed and farm? I don't want to do any modding, so tell me what animal is the hardest to breed and farm, but is still possible without modding.

[sorro]

Go for elephants!

[Cheveux]

Dragons or Rocs I guess. Dragons take about 800 years to grow to their adult size, for Rocs it's 20 years.

[Excedion]

Elephants, Dralthas or giraffes if youre talking about pasture animals

Sea serpents and sea monsters and such would also be pretty hard to farm. Maybe even try farming whale sharks. Now that would be impressive

[Nidokoenig]

Elephants and rhinos are literally impossible to farm once tamed. Dralthas are technically possible, but there is almost no margin for error. Water buffalo are about the hardest to farm, but I find I can just put each one in a big pasture, they'll be fine. If you're not averse to modding, tanks from My Little Fortress(they can be added separately, though) are a little harder than yaks in terms of food needs, but breed at an alarming rate, five to ten young per litter(They're reptiles, but their grazing needs make live young more sensible), so you need to be fairly organised to keep up with setting up pastures and digging out soil layers to grow fungus, or even just butchering the hatchlings.

[simonthedwarf]

Can't he just mod so elephants are able to graze correctly?

[Sphalerite]

Elk Birds are challenging because they're both grazers and egg-layers.  You have to keep the mothers on their nest boxes in order for the eggs to hatch, but they won't eat while sitting on their eggs, so it's a challenge to successfully hatch eggs and not starve the mothers.  It's possible, but the timing is tricky.

Of course, they're [PET_EXOTIC], so you can't breed them at all without at least using the no exotics mod.

[Reverie]

Walruses, or merfolk. There were even threads dedicated to the catching and breeding of these creatures.

[zehive]

I've been feeling cocky lately, and want to challenge myself to do something incredibly dwarfy involving animal farming.

well, i don't know if you ever tried planting a dragon, but I imagine they don't like to be put into soil.

[Reverie]

I've been feeling cocky lately, and want to challenge myself to do something incredibly dwarfy involving animal farming.

well, i don't know if you ever tried planting a dragon, but I imagine they don't like to be put into soil.

And I suppose chicken farms grow their chickens out of the ground?

[Zeranamu]

I've been feeling cocky lately, and want to challenge myself to do something incredibly dwarfy involving animal farming.

well, i don't know if you ever tried planting a dragon, but I imagine they don't like to be put into soil.

And I suppose chicken farms grow their chickens out of the ground?

Isn't that what KFC does?

[Reverie]

I've been feeling cocky lately, and want to challenge myself to do something incredibly dwarfy involving animal farming.

well, i don't know if you ever tried planting a dragon, but I imagine they don't like to be put into soil.

And I suppose chicken farms grow their chickens out of the ground?

Isn't that what KFC does?

I think you might be confusing the term 'cloning' with 'cultivating'.

[Sting_Auer]

OKay, list of things to attempt farming:


Sasquatches (I have these on my map rarely)

badger people (is this possible?)

badgers (I know this can happen)

and giant moose (mooses? meese? w/e)

Can these things be bred without modding? I don't have an ocean, so I can't get things like sea serpents and whatnot.

[Sphalerite]

Without any modding at all (including the no exotics hack), the following creatures can be bred:

Alpaca, black bears, grizzly bears, chickens, ducks, goose, gunieafowl, peafowl, turkeys, one humped camels, two humped camels, capybara, cats, cavies, cows, dogs, donkeys, elephants, goats, mountain goats, horses, llamas, pandas, pigs, platypus, rabbit, reindeer, sheep, tigermen, water buffalo, and yaks.

Of these elephants are impossible to keep alive when tame, and yaks and water buffalo are difficult.  Pandas are also difficult, since they only eat bamboo.  Tigermen only eat meat, and also need fresh water to drink.

[Sting_Auer]

I read on the wiki that wild animals will breed, but only if they have the tags that make them tameable, allowing you to farm wild animals as long as you have the capability to tame them.

According to the wiki, the same goes with exotic animals.


In theory, I could trap some exotic animals in a pit that thye can't escape from, and they will reproduce on their own. Am I correct?