Animal movement while interacting

[Kadmint 528]

I have found cows and sheep constantly moving while milking, shearing and breeding them and I find it very annoying. So suggestion is that make animals stop moving when interacting with them. 

[Finnn 3,303]

or using a rope and keybinds +rope/bucket/scissors on belt

[Kadmint 528]

And when you have over 20 cows and sheep in pen, you want to rope each one of them at the time? I find it a bit inconvinient.

 

EDIT: Also, those are the two animals that I know that wander constantly. No other animals do that. So would be great to have equal movement activity amongst all animals.

Edited October 23, 2016 by Kadmint

[Finnn 3,303]

That's why you have keybinds:

bind q lead

bind e milk

bind r shear

rope 4 animals, do your thing, release them, move to next 4 with a halter rope

problem is that animals walk away from players.. and you lose track of which you've milked/sheared.. and have to 2-3-4x check most of them..

 

edit:

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+1 I guess...

but any mechanic have something annoying.. else it's boring to just rotate and click once the keybind.. gets really easy to just pack 6 animals in 2x2 pen and just rotate and shear, move to the next 2x2 pen and so on.. until you run out of pens or get tired to shear/milk

Edited October 23, 2016 by Finnn

[Kadmint 528]

Just now, Finnn said:

That's why you have keybinds:

bind q lead

bind e milk

bind r shear

rope 4 animals, do your thing, release them, move to next 4 with a halter rope

problem is that animals walk away from players.. and you lose track of which you've milked/sheared.. and have to 2-3-4x check most of them..

 

 

So the problem does exist whether you have the keybinds or not.  

[nicedreams 1,035]

Build a 2 tile pen with 2 gates to breed them in.  They won't move then when breeding.  I use 1 gate, but 2 will let you pass completely through the pen depending on how you design it.  Mine are against a wall so just 1 gate, but still a 1x2 tile pen.

 

[Kadmint 528]

12 minutes ago, nicedreams said:

Build a 2 tile pen with 2 gates to breed them in.  They won't move then when breeding.  I use 1 gate, but 2 will let you pass completely through the pen depending on how you design it.  Mine are against a wall so just 1 gate, but still a 1x2 tile pen.

 

 

I know this and have done it on my own deed, but as I live on a someone else's deed nowadays, I am not able to build such penned area. 

Edited October 23, 2016 by Kadmint

[Finnn 3,303]

2 minutes ago, nicedreams said:

Build a 2 tile pen with 2 gates to breed them in.  They won't move then when breeding.  I use 1 gate, but 2 will let you pass completely through the pen depending on how you design it.  Mine are against a wall so just 1 gate, but still a 1x2 tile pen.

 

That's what I've been using for horses 1x2 with 2 horses, no diseases ever... and rarely things get packed .. but ofc.. there's packed tiles from time to time as animals are ANIMALS

[MrGARY 12,421]

hitting so many keys over and over like you're this guy so you can milk or whatever no just having the animal stop moving is fine ok +1

 

[LorraineJ 1,099]

It's already so time-consuming. Having to lead and unlead just adds to the tedium.

[elroth 279]

+1 i tihnk its a small quality of life update.

 

 

[Klaa 4,872]

Technically while milking, one already has them... in the hand.

 

Kidding aside, aye very much for this as a very small and nice QoL improvement. The roaming feature was implemented as an immersive QoL to begin with, preventing overgrazing and death.

[Rathgar 959]

+1 to animals focusing on the player while they are interacting.  Otherwise, regular roam for reasons mentioned by Klaa.