I quite love the little beefalos. They’re incredibly derpy, but incredibly protective of their herd and children. I was ecstatic when were first hinted at being able to ride beefalos, but incredibly disappointed with the process. Even though I still like to tame beefalo, it’s a widely accepted fact that there are a whole lot more things you could be doing instead of taking care of a hairy cow for a whole season. This is a survival game after all, and the top priority of everybody is usually eating instead of having a cute little guy eat your twigs.
There are a couple problems with the system currently in place right now, the first one being the long amount of time it takes for a beefalo to become domesticated, and the other being the huge amounts of care required, slurping up every little pinch of time you have. Now, this system, while a bit frustrating, is no doubt, pretty accurate. I’m not completely familiar with making wild animals into friendly fuzz balls, but I’m pretty sure it would take some time and patience. So the problem is that beefalo domestication needs to be made a bit more reasonable without making it completely unbelievable.
I believe I have a bit of an idea that might be able to assist in this cause.
A troff.
Imagine a sort of ice flingomatic system where you “fuel” a troff with grass, and your beefalo comes around and eats from it, which slowly increases domestication points, but also gives it more pudgy points, as it wouldn’t stop eating until it was full, which would be pretty bad, because pudgy is the worst trait, despite its adorableness. This would decrease the time having to be spent constantly feeding the beefalo, allowing for preparation and survival to be a main priority, but would encourage other activities to keep the beefalo nice and strong for those who don’t want a fat hairy cow
Perhaps other ideas like this could also be used, like a backscratcher, or a slight buff to the salt lick. I’m not too sure on it.
Anyeay, what are your thoughts? Should beefalo domestication be tweaked, and become an actual strategy? Or should it stay as it is and become a novelty thing that you do when your base becomes supreme? Let me know of this, or if you have any ideas of your own below!
Edit: also maybe rework the fence placing system. Making a good looking fence is freakishly hard. Allowing or making corner pieces would be real good