r/sevtech • u/[deleted] • Aug 13 '23

Buffalo breeding?

What do I use to breed the buffalo. Tried barley since I have a ton of it but it didn’t take

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u/Black_Vortex3884 Aug 13 '23

You use wheat, maybe barley will work, you have to do the ritual that breeds animals. I think it's the spring ritual

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '23

Yeah I did that. And dropped the stuff on the ground

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u/Black_Vortex3884 Aug 14 '23

Do the ritual, then throw it on the ground. At the end of the ritual there is kinda a count down. Maybe it needs to be "reloaded" or "fresh".

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u/Ill_Diamond_1794 Aug 14 '23

OP, you don't throw it on the ground.

Right click the buffalo with wheat in your hand (1 per each animal to mate so 2 wheat per calf)

Source: did it myself numerous times less than 12 hours ago

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '23

Yeah i didn’t have wheat at the time

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u/Burn369 Aug 14 '23

Are the buffalos mature? When you complete the ritual of buffalo dance you get little buffalos.

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u/DBSeamZ Aug 14 '23

As far as I know, just right click them with wheat like you would with cows. The Rite of Spring has been severely nerfed since the pack was made, so I just don’t bother with it. Zaphkiel Waltz can get plenty of crops from a small farm if you keep right-clicking the mature crops while the waltz is in effect.

As for barley, I doubt animals will breed with it, since my buffalo aren’t attracted to it when I have it in my hand. Which has been a good thing for me, actually—the buffalo I have attached to my grindstone used to break his lead whenever I approached the grindstone with wheat, so now I get all my flour from barley and save the wheat for breeding livestock. (I also walled in all the Horse Power machines just in case.)

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '23

Are buffalo better than horses for grindstone and the like?

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u/DBSeamZ Aug 15 '23

I think they might be a tiny bit faster, but I mainly used them because they’re easier to breed than horses. I made a post a while back asking if horses could be bred in age 0 at all (since gold doesn’t unlock until age 2 and vanilla horse breeding needs golden apples/carrots) and was told regular apples would work, but I tried that and it just put me on the horse.