Talk:Player-owned farm

Guidance Grwoth Time
The Anamials Growth time is fixed or what? Details should be added.
 * Agreed. 09:41, September 4, 2018 (UTC)

I am not sure who discovered cow breeding cycle but twice I have had bred baby rabbits (5) minutes apart. As far as I can tell, breeding/growth will not tick while you are not at PoF. When you log back in/return to Ardy lode, all missed ticks will tick at once.

Shock21172 (talk) 18:27, September 4, 2018 (UTC)

It looks like different growth stages have different growth times. My Zygomites took 18h from baby to adolescent; they have been adolescent for over 24h now. I logged out and back in to make sure there was no backlog of growth ticks. 84.131.56.254 16:31, September 6, 2018 (UTC)

Traits
What are we doing about duplicate traits under different names? Is that realistic or are there already fake traits?

Shock21172 (talk) 09:03, September 4, 2018 (UTC)
 * Odd. Perhaps confused editors or someone that added it to the wrong places? 09:41, September 4, 2018 (UTC)

Help identify diseases
We should add a table(?) with disease symptoms and what disease it is, to help identify diseases.
 * That's a good idea. :) I can make a table, if you can fill it in? 09:41, September 4, 2018 (UTC)

Selling (animal selection)
I had a visitor requesting chickens instead of rabbits while I had both in pens. I do not think that the buyer will default to the lowest tier animal. Can anyone else confirm this? Or did I misunderstand the Selling section? Toddathon (talk) 15:04, September 4, 2018 (UTC)

''Can a mod remove this one? Didn't realize I didn't need to add the header.'' Toddathon (talk) 15:06, September 4, 2018 (UTC)
 * You don't need to be admin to remove it, you can remove the duplicated header yourself. =D 18:51, September 4, 2018 (UTC)

Breeding cycle
I am not sure who discovered cow breeding cycle but twice I have had bred baby rabbits (5) minutes apart. As far as I can tell, breeding/growth will not tick while you are not at PoF. When you log back in/return to Ardy lode, all missed ticks will tick at once.

Shock21172 (talk) 18:21, September 4, 2018 (UTC)

Rellekkan Cream x2 in breeding pen just spawned a Piscatorian Cottontail. Any updates on shiny drop rate/combos?

Shock21172 (talk) 20:45, September 5, 2018 (UTC)

Incorrect information on wiki
Incorrect information...

I've never edited a Wiki and don't intend on doing so now.. I'm aware that some people would just change back my edit anyway.. So I'm adding this under Talk, and leaving this for you all to adjust as you see fit.

It is INACCURATE where we say that babies won't age in the breeding pen. They DO seem to age MUCH slower, but I can verify that they will indeed raise up to adulthood in the breeding pen.

Best wishes to you all. Keep up the great work, each and every one of you.

--Sven
 * Thanks for letting us know, and I can also confirm that animals do age in the breeding pen. I'll fix it. :) 19:23, September 5, 2018 (UTC)


 * Does this also apply to babies born while logged out (or possibly away from the farm)? I had two rabbits born while logged out for 10 hours and both were babies when I logged back in. Assuming even an unreasonable birth rate, at least one of the bunnies would have had 5 hours in the pen, indicating a growth rate at least 20 times slower than normal. Instead I think that if the animal is born while logged out (or possibly away from the farm), it will be a bunny when you log back in (or return to the farm). My only caveat to this is I may be wrong and the growth rate is that slow, but the aging of my baby bunnies in the breeding pen while I was there did seem faster.
 * Toddathon (talk) 20:53, September 6, 2018 (UTC)


 * While away, nothing happens on your farm. The game keeps track of the time you're away, and then everything (growing/breeding/feeding/etc) happens the moment you come back to the farm. So your animals that were newly born are actually born the moment you step back onto the farm, meaning they haven't had any growth time at all. Hinoyama (talk) 23:21, September 10, 2018 (UTC)Hinoyama


 * Everything in your farm happens while you're logged out. But babies born while you're offline only start their growth when you are prompted with the message in your chat. (Even if you're online, they only start counting from the moment you enter your farm and get the message). 23:26, September 10, 2018 (UTC)

Beehives do not always produce a honeycomb every hour, but I do believe they are in sync with each other. All seven of mine have been completely filled (27 of each) with woad leaves and snape grass since the first day of release. I've also added around 100 marigolds, a few rosemary, and kept woads maxed since then. If I got one every hour, I should have over 500 combined honeycombs banked, minus the ones I've used - I have 210. I get around 15 honeycombs from each hive per day. My last two hours (23-1) haven't produced any honeycombs. Maybe reset affects it or maybe adding flowers affects it. (Forced007 (talk) 01:27, September 8, 2018 (UTC))

Acquiring animals with locked pens
I have a hunch that you will not be able to acquire animals via killing if you don't have at least one of the required pen sizes. At least I can assume since you can't buy them from the Farmers' Market without the required pen. Cause I've been killing and filling my inventory with bones for burning at the altar and still haven't gotten a cow calf. You think this is true? ---TacticalMaster (talk) 00:29, September 6, 2018 (UTC)

nope just rng

Shock21172 (talk) 03:35, September 6, 2018 (UTC)

I don't think you can get cows, sheep, nor chickens from killing. Cows are purchased from Granny P.  x ANGELUS NEX  05:00, September 6, 2018 (UTC)
 * That's correct. 08:55, September 7, 2018 (UTC)

Only thing needed to receive farm animals as a drop is having done the tutorial afaik. 08:23, September 6, 2018 (UTC)

Ach. I see. Thanks for the tips I guess. ---TacticalMaster (talk) 10:43, September 6, 2018 (UTC)

Stats
Do stats other than health and happiness actually DO anything? Given that there's honey for weight, speed and attractiveness... 16:45, September 6, 2018 (UTC)

Breeding Combos
I think there shall be a Animal Breeding combination table to alloud better guidance.—

Disease symptoms appear to have set combinations
I had a diseased elder brown female rabbit with the flu. I checked for symptoms 21 times in succession and was given only 5 distinct combinations of traits: If my conclusion is correct, I think this could be represented in the table by splitting the symptoms columns into several rows for each disease, to list each individual possible combination. I only have three animals though and have only gathered data once, on one animal, with one disease so I don't want to edit the page until we gather more data (different animals, different diseases, et c.). I collected the data on a google sheet found here

--Connormcan (talk) 21:42, September 6, 2018 (UTC)

I just had two more diseased rabbits, one with bone rattle and one with wooting cough, and applied the same methodology. The results are recorded in other sheets of the same Google Document linked above. Starting with the wooting cough, I also recorded the neutral feedback from checking the animal's symptoms (e.g. 'legs seem fine'), and found that they were also part of the same consistent combinations.

This reinforces to me that there is a set number (seemingly 5) of combinations of symptoms for each disease. I don't know how to best express this on the wiki. One way might be, as I suggest above, to split each disease row on the existing table into 5 rows of symptoms to show the combinations. Or if that seems clunky, we could leave the table organised as is, update the symptoms, and have a separate wiki page for animal diseases with the distinct combinations for each. Thoughts? --Connormcan (talk) 23:23, September 10, 2018 (UTC)

Food Information
Can someone add which foods fall under each category for feeding? For example which raw meats can be used for feeding dragons etc. I think it tells you all the possibilities when you try to add to the trough. Could be useful for determining cheapest food under each type. Thank you!

2600:1700:B01:6660:390F:E876:1542:2DCD 04:55, September 8, 2018 (UTC)maxthenerd


 * When you open the trough it does show you everything you can add, I personally don't find it necessary that we add the cheapest options. 13:52, September 8, 2018 (UTC)


 * See respective mush page for price information. Igornist (talk) 17:19, September 8, 2018 (UTC)

Species' Traits
It seems to me that there are several species specific traits (such as cow scents), and even if they don't they contribute to helping breed new species. I think we should consider breaking up the traits section into 'universal' (all animal) traits and species specific.

Hinoyama (talk) 17:17, September 8, 2018 (UTC)Hinoyama

Time Mechanics
Mod Raven has discussed how the feeding/breeding cycles work here. Basically cycle timers are for the pen, and are active as long as an animal is inside. No animal = no timer. Add an animal and the cycle starts. Adding an animal to the end of an active cycle will gain the benefits even if it hasn't been there the whole time. Might want to add to the article somewhere. For those diligent enough this could also be a way to manipulate cycles/breeding.

Hinoyama (talk) 17:25, September 8, 2018 (UTC)Hinoyama

Killing Chinchompas
Can baby Chinchompas be found by killing Chinchompas rather than box-trap hunting them? 80.139.111.74 19:07, September 8, 2018 (UTC)

Animals and Winter
So I had my chinchompas and rabbit at maximum stats, I was trying to breed a winterwold sheep so I set the season to Winter... Came back after some hours to find out my chinchompas and rabbit were sick and had less health. They had the right food so I suppose winter affected them. Can someone else confirm this? 19:15, September 8, 2018 (UTC)


 * Generally speaking, beware of reading too much into data of sample size 1 80.139.111.74 19:17, September 8, 2018 (UTC)


 * Just wondering, therefore asking if any1 else is had this happen. Sample size was actually 4. 21:40, September 8, 2018 (UTC)

Really? Bigotry on a Wiki?
Was this really necessary???? "This has a much lower overall chance of offspring than a male and female, since it is disgusting and not God's design"

99.192.101.210 19:35, September 10, 2018 (UTC)


 * Man has issues... 2 people have changed that 3 times now... 19:38, September 10, 2018 (UTC)
 * I've protected the page for now, someone seems persistant on projecting their views on the wiki. 19:48, September 10, 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much. 99.192.101.210 19:59, September 10, 2018 (UTC)