Ranch

Ranch

Learn the Ranching Technology from the University of Worship.

Make a Lasso.
Self -> Skills -> Assembly -> Make a Lasso

• 6 Rope
  
• Use a Lasso to attach a bovine to the Ranch.
  

Make a Stockwhip.

• Self -> Skills -> Assembly -> Make a Stockwhip.
  
• 1 Crudely Carved Handle. Self -> Skills -> Carving 2 (1 Wood)
  
• 10 Rawhide Strips. Self -> Skills -> Carving 1 (5 leather total)
  
• Use a stockwhip to make a bovine move and herd it to your Ranch.
  

To build a ranch requires having in Inventory
Self -> Projects -> Farming... -> Ranch

• 50 Boards
  
• 200 Wood
  
• 30 Rope
  
• Ranch now shows the number of cattle in a Ranch.
  

Click the ranch fence to build:
Food Trough

• 100 Boards
  
• 100 Straw
  
• 20 Nails
  

Water Trough (Holds max of 500 water)

• 100 Boards
  
• 100 Water in Jugs (jugs are consumed)
  
• 10 Tar
  

Bull and Cow and Calves and Milk

Wild Bull:

• Can be tipped to gain the Achievement, "Tipped a Bull".
  
• Can be fed a pepper and might give a Cow Dung (appears under its stomach. The Cow Dung can be dried on a Flax Hammock to make Dried Cow Dung. After putting the Cow Dung in your Inventory, click Self -> Skills -> Search Cow Dung for Pepper Seeds. Perception might be needed to find the pepper seeds. Grilled carrots and certain cheeses give Perception.
  

Wild Cow:

• Can be Milked if you have empty Jugs in your Inventory. The Milking Technique is randomly given under Skills under the 'C' for Cow alphabetically, NOT under the 'M's.
  
• If no milk is given then the cow had not given birth recently and the udders are dry.
  

Bull in a Ranch:

• Eats peppers from a Food Trough at the rate of ? peppers per hour per bull. Does not give Cow Dung.
  
• Drinks water from a Water Trough at the rate of ? water per hour per bull.
  
• You can use the option Remove from Ranch to revert to wild status if you have a Lasso in Inventory.
  
• Use Remove from Ranch option then Whip option to move to another Ranch.
  

Cow in a Ranch:

• Eats peppers from a Food Trough at the rate of 1 peppers per hour per cow.
  
• Drinks water from a Water Trough at the rate of 1,5 water per hour per cow.
  
• Cows give birth. After doing so, they can be milked in a consistent time interval of ??.
  
• After being milked for a certain period, they dry up as in real life. "The udders have no milk."
  
• Having Milking Technique under Skills in the 'C' for Cow, increases milk yield.
  
• Milking Technique can be learned from a cow in a Ranch or in the wild.
  
• You can use the option Remove from Ranch to revert to wild status if you have a Lasso in Inventory.
  
• Use Remove from Ranch option then Whip option to move to another Ranch.
  

Calves

• Chance of being born after 10 feeding cycles.
  
• Use Remove from Ranch option then Whip option to move to another Ranch. The option to move a Calf is no longer available.
  
• Female calves can also give birth and be milked (may be a bug or oversight). Stands to reason that male calves can also breed like adults.
  

Milk

• Milk sours after a range of 2 hours to 10 Egyptian days (please change range if you had less or more time elapse).
  
• Improved Milking Tech increased the amount of milk per milking and reduces the rate of milk souring.
  
• Milk given to another avatar seems to sour at different rates once separated like that.
  

Milking Technique

• Have empty jugs in your Inventory and click the Milk option on a wild cow (is also a cow you Remove from Ranch).
  
• Milking Technique shows up in your Skills tab alphabetically as if it is 'Cow'.
  
• Bad luck modifier added - the longer you go without gaining this technique, the better your chances are of learning it.
  
• Milking Technique is available to at least level 7.

Cheesemaking Skill

• Bought at School of Worship for 10 Jugs of Milk + 10 Salt
• Build a Butter Churn Self -> Projects -> Cooking... -> Butter Churn is built outside.

'DEV confirmed info'

Added by Dtox, from Malard on Discord:

basic mechanics are thus

every "period" cattle consume food and water

every "period" i do a pregnancy routine

that pregnancy checks if they are starving (if they do, it aborts, this was WHY ranches would die randomly until i just fixed it)

if they are not, if there is a bull in the ranch then it calculates how many females are suitable for making babies calfs and recently pregnant are ineligable

then between 0 and max available females give birth

those who gave birth then are marked to give milk for "period"

and the calf starts its timer to grow up

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