Animal domestication
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Introduction
A domesticated animal is a wild animal that has been tamed. As such, it can be used to produce resources such as milk or wool. It is possible to carry a domesticated animal that has been "objectified" and bring it indoors, to another location, or keep it in your inventory.
To domesticate an animal, start by viewing the animals available at the location. From the location page, click the animal icon, and then click Domestication. Activating the radio button next to a pack of animals will high-light any possible action you may perform. In this case Taming. Clicking this will start a project to tame that animal.
When an animal has been domesticated, it will appear on the Objects page, and you can pick it up, put it in a vehicle or building and so on. For the latter you need to build a trough and keep hay or feed in it. You can also use some feeding device, like wooden plate, platter or a sack with the food stored in it.
Preparations
It is wise to be prepared when trying to domesticate an animal. The taming project will require either hay, vegetable feed, or meat feed, depending on the particular food needs of the animal being tamed. Domesticated animals must be fed in a suitable container, like a trough, or they will surely abandon you very soon. Additional tools may be required to prepare hay or feed, such as a dung-fork or mixing bowl.
Taming
The taming project will take at least one day up to a few days. The difference in time is loosely based upon the animal size, smaller animals take less time to tame.
The chance of successfully taming an animal varies from animal type to animal type. On the wiki the chance is denominated as easy, medium, hard or very hard.
Feeding
Domesticated animals are fed once a day. To prepare hay or feed, the proper machine must be used.
Once prepared, animal foods must be stored in containers for animals to eat from. Domesticated animals can currently eat out of the burlap sack, canvas duffel, ceramic plate, earthenware bowl, porcelain plate, grass basket, iron trough, reed basket, saddlebag, silver platter, stone trough, wooden plate, and wooden trough.
Packs
When a domesticated animal is joined with a pack, it will take up one of the resource gathering slots of the location. It is not exactly one animal per slot, so you can normally join a few animals to a pack before a second slot is occupied. When there are at least two animals in a pack, there is a chance they will produce offspring. To move or butcher an animal, you first need to separate it from the pack to make it a separate object again.
A common strategy for animal breeding is to keep two animals to a pack and, when they produce offspring, the third animal is separated and slaughtered. This is to keep the amount of feed you need to produce to a minimum.
Adoption
Releasing
Loyalty
Interaction
Shearing
To shear a domesticated animal, you need bone or steel blade sheers.
Milking
To milk a domesticated animal, you need an iron or wooden bucket.
Collecting
Raw eggs can be collected from domesticated birds.
Butchering
To butcher a domesticated animal, you need a stone or steel cleaver. To start a butchering project, go to your inventory and select the butchering option on your cleaver.
Other
You can pet your domesticated animal, point at it like any other object or animal. You may also add and remove it from a pack.
