Most Effective Method Of Herding Beefalo

[Cynical Cynicist]

Personally I use excess wool for fires (you're not gonna be constantly making new clothes, especially with tons of silk and sewing kits you can make out of them).
 
Also, I've finally managed to make a Beefalo pen.

 

You guys figure this will work OK?

[TeoSS69]

Personally I use excess wool for fires (you're not gonna be constantly making new clothes, especially with tons of silk and sewing kits you can make out of them).

 

Also, I've finally managed to make a Beefalo pen.

You guys figure this will work OK?

I'd make the entrance (upper right i assume) a corridor.

[Cynical Cynicist]

I'd make the entrance (upper right i assume) a corridor.

By that do you mean make it longer? None of the Beefalo seem to be able to escape from it as of now.

[TeoSS69]

By that do you mean make it longer? None of the Beefalo seem to be able to escape from it as of now.

Yep, either form the outside or the inside. Just to make it beefalo-brain proof.

[Anelyn]

That's what I don't understand. Why not just use wood as fuel?

 

I always hack down a tree, remove the stump with a shovel (for 1 extra wood) and plant a pinecone where it stood. Around my base camp I usually have an area of trees, all planted with quite a bit of space in between (to reduce the chance of Treeguards) from which I can get wood quickly and easilly.

 

Frankly, on the very rare occasions I do get a treeguard, it's actually more fun than anything else and if I don't fell like fighting it just then, I can just plant a couple of pinecones until he looses aggro.

 

In fact, the system is so efficient at limiting Treeguard spawning that my main problem is a lack of Living Logs.

 

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It just feels a little too limiting to one's playing style to be dependent large amounts of manure and thus on beefaloes. In my case, because all I need from beefalos is a bit of manure for farms and the occasional horn and wool, I'm much less limited in where I put my campsite and don't need to find the beefalos until later in the game (and have even had long running worlds where there were no beefalos at all).

 

Chopping wood and digging stumps as well as replanting large number of trees is time consuming. I only chop trees when I need logs / planks to craft stuff pretty much (yes I do have a chest filled with logs and a stack in each of my backpacks ). Manure is in such abundance and since am not a vegetarian to have to replant / fertilize every day, I have plenty to use for fire (same with wool).

 

Here are some screens of my base

[the truthseeker]

That's what I don't understand. Why not just use wood as fuel?

 

I always hack down a tree, remove the stump with a shovel (for 1 extra wood) and plant a pinecone where it stood. Around my base camp I usually have an area of trees, all planted with quite a bit of space in between (to reduce the chance of Treeguards) from which I can get wood quickly and easilly.

 

Frankly, on the very rare occasions I do get a treeguard, it's actually more fun than anything else and if I don't fell like fighting it just then, I can just plant a couple of pinecones until he looses aggro.

 

In fact, the system is so efficient at limiting Treeguard spawning that my main problem is a lack of Living Logs.

 

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It just feels a little too limiting to one's playing style to be dependent large amounts of manure and thus on beefaloes. In my case, because all I need from beefalos is a bit of manure for farms and the occasional horn and wool, I'm much less limited in where I put my campsite and don't need to find the beefalos until later in the game (and have even had long running worlds where there were no beefalos at all).

 

 

Chopping wood and digging stumps as well as replanting large number of trees is time consuming. I only chop trees when I need logs / planks to craft stuff pretty much (yes I do have a chest filled with logs and a stack in each of my backpacks ). Manure is in such abundance and since am not a vegetarian to have to replant / fertilize every day, I have plenty to use for fire (same with wool).

This last reply summed it up for me.

 

(Assuming the Beefalo are close of course [curse you last world's game!]) It's a lot faster to just run in a and collect manure occasionally. Any excess poop not used for farms/transplanted bushes and grass can be used as fuel; the same goes for when I shave the Beefalo for their wool for winter gear/(groovy purple) shag carpeting flooring (baby! )

 

I also sometimes burn an area of a Forest (hopefully controlled) instead of waiting for planted trees to grow in a day to collect a max 40 stack of charcoal (instead of max 20 stack of logs) and if not (currently) using them for Crock Pots/Drying Racks, use the excess for fuel, and go back for more when I run low.

 

If I am running to a safe area with a basecamp in the woods (because a Potato Thing farm was set up on a nice border,) and a Red Hound pursues me in the woods (then attacks pigs and dies) before getting there, I may have no choice as to this "development" (again, curse you last game! )