Animals

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Animals serve as a source of money and resources on your farm. They can typically be obtained only after a building is constructed on the farm that is suitable to house them (a coop for chickens, for example) and with the exception of the horse and the pet, must either be purchased from Marnie's Ranch or hatched from an Incubator.

Buildings

Buildings can be purchased from the Carpenter's Shop, and will be completed within a few days. The only way to have a building moved to a different location is to demolish it. To demolish a building that houses animals inside, they must first be relocated. This ensures that animals aren't lost in the process. Having any of these buildings demolished will not give you the resources back.

Care

Friendship

Animals that live in barns and coops have a friendship rating that can be seen by right-clicking the animal after petting. The rating is out of 5 hearts and is shown in half-heart increments, and determines how likely that animal is to produce higher-quality products if that animal is capable of producing them in the first place. Friendship can be raised by daily petting (right-clicking the animal) and feeding.

Mood

Like friendship, an animal's current mood can be checked by right-clicking after petting the animal.

Food

Animals do not die if not fed, but will become upset and cease production of animal products until feeding resumes.

Animals that live in barns and coops can eat either fresh grass (if allowed outside) or hay (if kept inside, or unable to find grass). These animals will have their mood changed to "very happy today!" upon eating fresh grass. Slimes only need to have their troughs filled with water from the watering can, and horses and pets do not need to eat.

Grass & Hay

Opening the gates of a coop or barn will allow animals to come outside (when the weather is not rainy, snowy, or stormy) and eat grass. The animals will return to their buildings in the evening to sleep. Closing the gates again in the evening is recommended in the case of goats, as their mood becomes "sad" if the gates are left open overnight.

If they remain inside or do not find grass to eat, they will instead eat hay.

Once a silo has been constructed on the farm, using a scythe on grass will place hay inside the silo. Hay can then be gathered from hoppers inside barns and coops and placed in the feeding bins nearby. Building a silo before building animal buildings can make care much easier, though hay can be purchased from Marnie's Ranch even if the silo has not been built.

In the winter, snow covers the grass completely, making grazing impossible. As such, it may be advisable to use the scythe to cut some or all of the grass into hay before the end of the fall season to ensure enough reserve hay to feed your animals through the winter.


Coops

Image Name Description Animals Cost Size
Coop.png
Coop Houses 4 coop dwelling animals. Chickens

Gold.png 4,000g Wood.png Wood (300) Stone.png Stone (100)

3x6
Big Coop.png
Big Coop Coop Upgrade

House 8 coop-dwelling animals. Comes with an incubator. Unlocks ducks.

Ducks

Gold.png 10,000g Wood.png Wood (400) Stone.png Stone (150)

3x6
Deluxe Coop.png
Deluxe Coop Big Coop Upgrade

House 12 coop-dwelling animals. Comes with an auto-feed system. Unlocks rabbits.

Rabbits

Gold.png 20,000g Wood.png Wood (500) Stone.png Stone (200)

3x6

Chickens

To obtain a Void Chicken; in a random event after you sleep a witch will fly over one of your coops, leaving you with a void egg in the morning. Putting that egg into an incubator will result in hatching a void chicken.

Image Name Cost Produces 5 Heart Selling Price
White Chicken.png Chicken

Gold.png 800g

Egg.png Egg - 25g
32px Large Egg - 50g

Gold.png 1,040g

Brown Chicken.png Chicken

Gold.png 800g

Brown Egg.png Brown Egg - 25g
Large Brown Egg.png Large Brown Egg - 50g

Gold.png 1,040g

Void Chicken.png Void Chicken n/a Void Egg.png Void Egg - 50g

Gold.png 1,040g

Chickens have a chance to produce eggs every morning. Happier chickens may produce larger, more valuable eggs.

Ducks

Image Name Cost Requirements Produces 5 Heart Selling Price
Duck.png Duck

Gold.png 4,000g

Big Coop Duck Egg.pngDuck Egg - 50g
Duck Feather.png Duck Feather - 110g

Gold.png 5,200g

Rabbit

Image Name Cost Requirements Produces 5 Heart Selling Price
Rabbit.png Rabbit

Gold.png 8,000g

Deluxe Coop Wool.png Wool - 270g
32px Rabbit's foot - 450g

Gold.png 10,400g

Rabbit's Foot will be produced automatically just like wool after a while. There is no need to shear them.

Dinosaur

To obtain a Dinosaur; a Dinosaur Egg must be found while artifact hunting. Putting that egg into an incubator will result in hatching a dinosaur.

Image Name Cost Requirements Produces 5 Heart Selling Price
Dinosaur.png Dinosaur n/a Big Coop Dinosaur Egg.png Dinosaur Egg - 350g

Barns

Image Name Description Animals Cost Size
Barn.png
Barn Houses 4 barn-dwelling animals. Cows

Gold.png 6,000g Wood.png Wood (350) Stone.png Stone (150)

4x7
Big Barn.png
Big Barn Barn Upgrade

Houses 8 barn-dwelling animals. Allows animals to give birth. Unlocks goats.

Goats

Gold.png 12,000g Wood.png Wood (450) Stone.png Stone (200)

4x7
Deluxe Barn.png
Deluxe Barn Big Barn Upgrade

House 12 barn-dwelling animals. Comes with an auto-feed system. Unlocks Sheep and Pigs.

Sheep

Pigs

Gold.png 25,000g Wood.png Wood (550) Stone.png Stone (300)

4x7

Cows

Image Name Cost Produces 5 Heart Selling Price
White Cow.png Cow

Gold.png 1,500g

Milk.png Milk - 85g
Large Milk.png Large Milk - 110g

Gold.png 1,950g

Brown Cow.png Cow

Gold.png 1,500g

Milk.png Milk - 85g
Large Milk.png Large Milk - 110g

Gold.png 1,950g

When interacted with, cows will stick their tongue out at you.

Goats

Image Name Cost Requirements Produces 5 Heart Selling Price
Goat.png Goat

Gold.png 4,000g

Big Barn Goat Milk.png Goat Milk - 150g
Large Goat Milk.png Large Goat Milk - 250g

Gold.png 5,200g

Goats produce milk every other day. They may get sad if you leave the gates to the barn open overnight.

Sheep

Image Name Cost Requirements Produces 5 Heart Selling Price
Sheep.png Sheep

Gold.png 8,000g

Deluxe Barn Wool.pngWool - 270g

Gold.png 10,400g

Pigs

Image Name Cost Requirements Produces 5 Heart Selling Price
Pig.png Pig

Gold.png 16,000g

Deluxe Barn
Truffle.png Truffle - 500g
Truffle.png
Silver Quality Icon.png
Truffle - 650g
Truffle.png
Gold Quality Icon.png
Truffle - 750g

Gold.png 20,528g

Pigs will automatically find truffles after being let outdoors. Truffles can be used in the Oil Maker.

Stable

Image Name Description Animals Cost Size
Horse Stable.png
Stable Allows you to keep and ride a horse. Horse included. Horse

Gold.png 10,000g Hardwood.png Hardwood (100) Iron Bar.png Iron Bar (5)

4x2

Horse

The horse can be ridden to make traveling faster. If you leave it somewhere it will find the way home by itself.

Slimes

Image Name Description Animals Cost Size
Slime Hutch.png
Slime Hutch Raise up to 20 slimes. Fill water troughs and slimes will create slime balls. Slimes

Gold.png 10,000g Stone.png Stone (500) Refined Quartz.png Refined Quartz (10) Iridium Bar.png Iridium Bar (1)

Allows you to raise and breed Slimes.

  • Produces Slime when provided with water for food.
  • Requires both male and female Slimes to breed. (with/without antenna)
  • Slimes produce different offspring depending on color.
  • Slime eggs can be made with the Slime Egg-Press or are dropped rarely from Slimes.

Pets

What pet you get is decided by what you choose as your favorite in character creation. You get it at the beginning of day 12.(Since the last patch [Feb 28 2016] you might get your pet earlier than day 12.)

You will be able to choose any name you want for your pet the moment you adopt them.

You can click on your pet once a day to pet them and they will show you their love File:Pet-love.png.

There's a bowl on some tiles on the top left side of your house, you can fill it with water for them. The bowl is purely cosmetic.

File:Pet-bowl-empty.png File:Pet-bowl.png

Cat

Cat.gif

Dog

Dog.gif