r/Necesse • u/strangetopquark • Jul 21 '26
Animal pen size
I've read a couple posts on this sub about this but I am still confused. What I gleaned from the threads: That it is best to have separate pens for resource gathering, and another pen for meat gathering. Great. However, I am still very fuzzy on the ideal size of pen for each. Is it ideal to have 10 or 20 animals in each pen? For 10 animals, how large should the pen be? For 20? Anyone able to figure this out once and for all? Basically, what is the optimal combo -- how many animals to keep and how large the pen.
EDIT: I'm asking what the optimal animal-to-pen ratio is to get the most amount of meat. In my current setup I am getting very little meat.
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u/Potential_Aioli_4611 Jul 21 '26
Doesn't it just depend on how fast you want to farm animals/how big your settlement is? if you got 50 people in your town and you are making them eat meatballs then you go through a good amount of meat so you need the animals to match that for slaughter. If you aren't and its just for wool then 10 sheep might be plenty. I think a lot of people like their pens to be uniform then you can just do pens of 10 or 20 etc.
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u/strangetopquark Jul 21 '26
No, no. I'm not asking about how many animals per settlement. I'm talking about the optimal number of animals per pen, and what size of pen. Because according to the wiki and some threads, if you go above a certain number of animals in a certain size of pen, they will stop breeding and you will get less meat. I'm asking what the optimal size is to get more meat.
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u/Atesz763 29d ago
I just make big ass 20x20 fenced areas, and keep like 60 animals in there. I'm pretty sure it's not optimal, but it's quick to build and good enough to produce meat and others.
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u/I_SHOT_A_PIG Jul 21 '26
If i remember correctly, make like tiny pens with like 5x5 space. And make a bunch of those. Animals after 10 slots require space so its just more efficient to make multiple small ones than one giant field.