Taming Animals is incredibly useful within Necesse, especially for making higher-quality and a greater variety of food for your settlers, and for the buffs that said food can provide. Alongside other various materials such as wool, or leather.
A fair amount of information is being utilized from the Necesse Wiki, however I tried to showcase more of the process, and refine some of the details.
Setting Up A Location To Raise Animals
All animals only need a fenced area, and a feeding trough is highly recommended. But you could technically just manually feed them instead, which we will get to later.
The area should be large enough to avoid “overcrowding” animals. Overcrowding is when there are 10 animals within 8 tiles around an animal within the same pen.
Lastly, chickens need an egg nest in order to actually reproduce from eggs.
Where To Find Animals
These are the animals that can spawn naturally, and where they spawn naturally. Two animals will be in each row, as they are part of the same animal group, but different by gender.
- Cow and Bull. Forest, Plains, and Swamp.
- Sheep and Ram. Forest, Plains, Snow, and Swamp.
Animals that must be bought from animal keepers that visit, or from villages.
- Chicken and Rooster
- Pig and Boar
And lastly, Tameable, but not breedable animals.
- Wild Ostrich. Desert Biome
- Penguin. Snow Biome
Whenever you find an animal that spawned naturally, all you need to do is attach a rope to them and bring them to a fenced location.
Animals that are bought from an npc, or village, will have a rope attached to you and the animal, as if you had normally used a rope on the animal.
However, they will still need to be tamed from 0 to 100%, so its probably best to only buy animals if you have to (such as chickens and pigs) or if finding animals is otherwise really difficult.
Process Of Taming And Breeding Animals
In order to tame an animal, you just have to feed them. Either by feeding trough, or manually by right clicking with wheat.
Once they reach 100% tamed, they will automatically breed as long as both female and male animals exist within a pen, and they are not overcrowded (10 animals within 8 tiles of 1)
Something to note, the 10 animals within 8 tiles does not apply to other pens near by with animals, meaning it is efficient to have multiple small animal pens side by side, and knowing exactly how many can be in each pen accurately.
Its awkward to know exactly how many can be in a pen, as while the above rule is in place, if animals are split away from each other, more than expected could be spawned in anyway over time.
Settler Automation
This requires an animal keeper to be able to automate husbandry. Once you have an animal keeper, you can go into the settler menu, and assign husbandry zone by dragging over an area. This area will automatically have things such as cows being milked, or sheep being sheared.
From there, you can change the slaughtering rate of the zone, specifically what percentage of male or female to keep, and the maximum amount of animals in the pen.
Extra Notes
- Animals do not naturally spawn or respawn, be cautious as to how many you kill early on so you don’t need to go super far.
- Animals do not seem to try and leave a pen even when they are “0%” tamed, even if a fence gate is left open. However, if they are pushed out, they will move freely outside. Often taking a while before they actually go hungry, and lose taming progress (approximately 30 minutes)
- Taming is based off of real world time, not in game time.
- However, it seems like growth time for animals is based off of in game time instead.