Suggestion: one male animal for breeding multiple females?
Tschipp opened this issue · 17 comments
From @Guinaro on March 19, 2017 20:49
Can a mechanic be implemented to have one male around several females with which he can breed.
I haven't tested yet if this is the case (still gathering all my mods for my modpack), but seems logical.
All extra males can be raised for food purposes I suppose. (Don't give milk, eggs, ...)
Extending that maybe male animals of the same species (cow, chicken, sheep, goat, ... ) could be aggresive towards one another? So you need to keep seperate pens for those or atleast for adults of breeding age.
Copied from original issue: capnkirok/animania#64
From @capnkirok on March 19, 2017 21:10
This is an interesting idea, but it would change our 'mating' mechanic a bit since they work in pairs. But it's more true to the real world, so worth consideration. Thanks for the input.
From @capnkirok on April 27, 2017 17:54
I can make this a config option. Have to mess with the mating mechanic, but not top priority at the moment. Will get there eventually.
From @19nrussell on April 28, 2017 3:8
I mostly only know about cows but a bull can breed multiple depending on his age and the time he is with him .
From @Jomik on June 7, 2017 13:43
I second this. I think you usually only keep one rooster for a bunch of hen as well. Bulls for cows. Stallions can also handle multiple mares.
From @capnkirok on June 8, 2017 21:2
Thanks for the input, guys.
From @aelfwyne on June 12, 2017 5:28
In real life livestock and barnyard animal raising, it is normal practice to have a single male, generally chosen for the best genetics.
The "mating mechanic" of this mod is actually unrealistic, not sure why it has to remain the way it is.
From @19nrussell on June 12, 2017 5:32
Animals still like to be paired but not All the time with the male they like to be with their calf and or another female normally only at male when in heat and when they calf they normally want to go where they are hidden and normally I really don't think male is with them
@aelfwyne While it is more realistic, it's not really a 'nice' aspect of animal breeding. So here we think it's a nicer game mechanic to let the breeding happen naturally, instead of having to manually inject sperm into cows.
From @Jomik on June 12, 2017 8:34
@Tschipp Well, that depends on how modern you want it to be, I guess.
I don't see that @aelfwyne wrote anything about inseminating the female animals. Simply that one male should be able to mate with multiple females, as that is more realistic in general. And also "nicer" in my opinion 👍
@Jomik you may be right, I may have misread it... it was just the first thing that came to mind when I read "chosen for the best genetics", which implies that the player does the breeding manually.
From @Jomik on June 12, 2017 10:37
@Tschipp Hmm, I guess you can see it that way. I just read it that you slaughtered all bulls that didn't have good genetics, and then left the one that had the best with your cows 😄
Either way. Could you make in an option? So that the male animals can be set to mate with multiple females? I guess you could make an option that is something like "Male fertility timer" or something in that sense? And have that variable, so that you can simply set it so that the male wants to mate like, every second 😆
- Unless you, at the moment, have it set so that they get paired up too?
@Jovik Well, I've already seen male cows mate with multiple females, so that might already be in.
From @capnkirok on July 23, 2017 22:44
We will change this in 1.3
From @Deshiba on September 24, 2017 22:11
Hey, we're on 1.3.3 atm. Is this still in the pipeline or did I miss it in the patch notes?
From @capnkirok on September 25, 2017 6:28
Didn't make it in. Last minute debate at Animania HQ. It will go in, through, probably as a config option. Thanks for the bump.