tnk4phoenixxx Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Hello Everyone, is Herding Beefalos even possible in DST? i tried a lot but it never worked - first i build a den made of Stone walls- used a Beefalo horn to Lure them into the den- closed the entrance with a wall- now they are trapped and try to "walk home" continuously straight against the wall- when night comes they lay down and start walking again in the morning- even trough mating season they keep walking an no new little beefalos will spawn- when I open a part of the wall they start heading to it and try to escape looks like they just don´t want to live next to my home base Anybody got an idea to solve my problem ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanderer Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Hey, I saw a whole herd of Koalafants in a pen, so I guess it's possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BravePotato Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Try to chase one young beefalo to your base and fence it. After that young beefalo grown up and give birth to the another one beefalo, kill the mother. The child will stay where it birth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CammoAmmo Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Hey, I saw a whole herd of Koalafants in a pen, so I guess it's possible.Koalefants are entirely different from Beefalos in this aspect. Koalefants simply roam the map, but Beefalo are coded to roam a small area. That's why you can chase a Koalefant anywhere but if you chase a baby Beefalo away from the herd it will run away no matter what. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanderer Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Koalefants are entirely different from Beefalos in this aspect. Koalefants simply roam the map, but Beefalo are coded to roam a small area. That's why you can chase a Koalefant anywhere but if you chase a baby Beefalo away from the herd it will run away no matter what. If somebody managed to get 30 elephant things into a pen, then one baby beefalo being chased into a pen doesn't sound so difficult.Not to mention one could just use a horn, so the beefalo would follow you. Other then that, knock up a pen with shoddy materials. Free food and wool, providing they don't kill you before you kill them. o_0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CammoAmmo Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 If somebody managed to get 30 elephant things into a pen, then one baby beefalo being chased into a pen doesn't sound so difficult.Not to mention one could just use a horn, so the beefalo would follow you. Other then that, knock up a pen with shoddy materials. Free food and wool, providing they don't kill you before you kill them. o_0Yes, but it's not getting them in to the pen that's the problem, it's getting them to stay there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rezecib Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 I wonder if the bug they fixed with beefalo taking over the world made horns even buggier? They were really unreliable before, they could really use some changes (like making the beefalo change their home location to where they stop...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkXero Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 The horn works by making beefalo follow you regardless of the herd point attraction, if I recall correctly. So after they stop following you, pray the herd spawn point moved during the recalculation or a new one appeared. Maybe instead of having that, how about making the beefalo horn transform the position of the nearest herd point in a range of 1 screen, into the position of the horn? Then the entire herd would congregate on it. And give it 2x times the uses, or maybe not, as I consider 10 screens of movement enough. I wonder if the bug they fixed with beefalo taking over the world made horns even buggier? They were really unreliable before, they could really use some changes (like making the beefalo change their home location to where they stop...) Or that. But as other beefalo didn't follow, then the herd will be displaced and then an exode would begin to end where the followers ended. I would rather move entire herds, one by one. It would be more intuitive to see a herd moving at once, than to see 3 guys, and then 8 following after a while. It's not like the beefalo act like pigmen where you can pitch them against others on command, so the number of followers doesn't matter a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rezecib Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 @DarkXero, Yeah, if they changed it to grab the whole herd (and only one herd at a time, if there are multiple nearby), instead of just the beefalo in range, that would work too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdiz4shiz Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 my friends and i always build beefalo pens, its essential to our base. One person works on the pen while the other herds the beefs... the trick is to build the pen along the edge of the map and use it as a natural barrier. At the edges you just build a long line along the edge of the map and the beefs can get out because they are too large. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asparagus Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Try to chase one young beefalo to your base and fence it. After that young beefalo grown up and give birth to the another one beefalo, kill the mother. The child will stay where it birth. Exactly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BipedalBear Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Murphy's guide to herding beefalos:1.Pen baby beefalo2.beefalo grew up 3.Named it Kenny4.kenny in heat5.pigs murdered Kenny6.those bastards, they killed Kenny7.crying in fetal positionTrue story. <----- (can someone link the image plz) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clwnbaby Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Entirely possible. I do it all the time. There are 2 ways to go about it 1- most people like living in savanna anyway so just build your pen around an existing herd 2- Herd beefalo to pen. After they spawn babies and they grow up let the original herd go, the babies will stay. Its really not that difficult. Plus the at least for me the point of the herd is to eat them. So...................when it comes to the original herd you dont want you can just kill and eat them. The biggest problem I find is everyone constantly breaks my pen and frees my beefalo. The worst part about DST is the people......yeah Im talking about you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnk4phoenixxx Posted March 6, 2015 Author Share Posted March 6, 2015 Thank you for all the ideas I just tried to imprison the adult ones, I never tried to catch a baby beefalo with them so that was my mistake I gues :-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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