True of False: "If a Beefalo is in heat outside of Spring, taking the Beefalo to the Caves will make it docile again"

[Uncrushed]

I found this written two places in the Wiki Beefalo article.  I may have even seen it happen once, but I was pretty confused at the time.

How would I even structure a test for this?  Even if I fast-forward through fall and early winter waiting for it to go into heat, then bring it to the caves, that only proves the statement true or false at one phase of the training.  What if it's more or less trained?  I haven't had a beefalo go into heat when it's mostly trained.  Also, is this different in DS, vs. DST?

Anyway, I thought I'd throw this out to the community.  Enough people here are probably familiar with this one weird trick for stopping heat in a beefalo-in-training.

[goatt]

true

[lenship2]

taking it to caves will reset it's heat status

however, in spring, beefalo are in heat no matter what you do. so it won't work in spring

[Brago-sama]

Yeah this is true for me. Ive had a beefalo go into heat during winter and bringing it into caves solved its heat problem.

Never worked for me during spring, although apparently ive heard of some people able to un-heat a spring beefalo. Not reproducable from what ive seen/tried tho so its just here-say as far as im concerned

[Uncrushed]

I've taken a beefalo to the caves and abandoned it there and it produced an entire herd.  I've done this at least twice.  Once I think while I was training one and I left it at a salt lick.  Can they reproduce if they aren't in heat?

[firoborn]

1 minute ago, Uncrushed said:

I've taken a beefalo to the caves and abandoned it there and it produced an entire herd.  I've done this at least twice.  Once I think while I was training one and I left it at a salt lick.  Can they reproduce if they aren't in heat?

I think they reproduce off screen like voltgoats but only as long as they are in heat

[Uncrushed]

46 minutes ago, firoborn said:

I think they reproduce off screen like voltgoats but only as long as they are in heat

This seems like a contradiction.  The consensus is that yes, taking a beefalo-in-training to the caves ends heat, except in Spring.  Yet, they can reproduce in the caves.  I've made them do it in 2 games - it's really handy to have big meat in the caves!

Huh.  I wonder if the transition from caves to surface or vice-versa ends heat, but if they are in one place the whole time, they can still go into heat there and reproduce?

How do you make a beefalo go into heat using the console?

[Cheggf]

38 minutes ago, Uncrushed said:

I wonder if the transition from caves to surface or vice-versa ends heat, but if they are in one place the whole time, they can still go into heat there and reproduce?

Yes. The loading screen between shards resets their heat status. They can become in heat in the caves or on the surface, but if they are currently in heat from the random heat they experience outside of spring going through a transitional loading screen will reset it. The disconnecting & reconnecting loading screen does not work.

The loading screen also kills their herd allegiances, allowing you to either quickly create multiple herds on the same shard, or spread them throughout different shards and make cave beefalo.