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
Click the ranch fence to build:
Food Trough
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 Cattle Dung (appears below the bull). The Cattle Dung can be dried on a Flax Hammock to make Dried Cattle Dung. After putting the Cattle Dung in your Inventory, click Self -> Skills -> Search Cattle 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 Cattle 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 (appears in Skills list under 'C' for Cow Milking Technique), 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 cattle.
Calves
- Chance of being born after 10 feeding cycles.
- 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).
- Higher levels of Milking Tech increases 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