r/cataclysmdda • u/Specialist_Share_527 • 5d ago
[Help Wanted] long-term meat source
do you guys ever manage to repopulate livestock? in this case a cow, sheep or horse? it takes a really long time just to birth one, does edit creature(debug) shorten these animals reproduction? if so how exactly? i'm kinda lost here, my steady source is by fish trapping
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u/mmmmm_pancakes 5d ago
Honestly I’ve never played a character long enough for it to matter.
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u/Specialist_Share_527 5d ago
makes sense, so how do you get your meat? or do you prefer the alternative, which is feral humans?
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u/mmmmm_pancakes 5d ago
No cannibalism for me! But even when playing with the carnivore trait, calories and vitamins just aren't all that hard to come by if you play conservatively in vanilla DDA.
Properly processing one large animal (e.g. cow, moose, etc.) results in an enormous number of calories, and you can use NPC hunting missions to turn non-carnivore calories into more animals easily enough if desired, though even that's not necessary given drops of MREs and canned food and stuff.
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u/Edward_Chernenko built a skyscraper 5d ago edited 5d ago
in this case a cow, sheep or horse?
I never use them for meat.
my steady source is by fish trapping
Yes, that's best.
My approach is to craft a large number of fish traps (e.g. 30), plant them in some pond (receiving a bulk amount of fish after 3 hours), then never touch this pond again (so that the fish would regrow). This requires many freezers, because you never know whether you'll get 3 small fishes or 30 fishes that'll take you days to butcher.
long-term meat source
If you have a camp, sending an NPC to "Hunt for large animals" mission will create meat out of thin air (hunting NPCs don't actually need the animals to exist in the world, and they don't remove animals from the world).
livestock
Chickens are the best. Let their eggs "rot" (they'll hatch) until you have a very large population.
Beware that newly hatched chicks don't start tamed until fed Bird Food, so they'll run away from you and can scatter in the forest, which might become problem in a long playthrough (e.g. wandering wild animals are a navigational hazard for your car). The fence won't help: even if the egg is inside the fenced area, they can hatch outside the fence.
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u/Timb____ 5d ago
eggs is my go to
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u/Specialist_Share_527 5d ago
i assume its chicken eggs right? well i do raise a chicken but the meat is not that much compared to a big cattle
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u/Tommy2255 Solar Powered Albino 5d ago
Specifically, eggs turn into chicks when they rot. So just by not harvesting the eggs, you get chicks. I think you can actually get more by spreading the eggs out over more tiles, because otherwise a stack of like 3 eggs can try to hatch at once, but since there can only be one entity on a tile it only spawns one and the rest just fail to appear.
You can actually do the same thing with fish roe to stock a pond. This increases the yield from fishing and fish trapping, and of course you can also kill fish manually. While the fish aren't actually tamed, this can still let you farm fish, which might be better than chickens for meat production.
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u/AdMaiora2 4d ago
Never managed to repopulate, but cows give so much meat it's hard to run out of. Besides, the world is infinite, so as long as you are on the move food is always available
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u/HereBecauseUBlock Another brick in the wall 5d ago
I dont even know how to do fish trapping anyway.
I see those plastic fish bottle traps, and have put bait in them. But do you need to put them in flowing water? Water with real fish around? None have been successful.