New Farm Animals

Mellon

Mellon

Sodbuster
I have a few animals I think will fit in the farm:
  • Goose - They lay larger eggs than chickens and ducks, once every three days. Maybe they drop Goose Feather which can be used to craft quill, an item that can be used to write (wait for it) letters!
  • Peacock - They wonder around the farm by walking and flying, while showing off their colorful tails. fences and walls can't stop them. They drop peacock feather every week or so, an item which can be used in tailoring and sells for a good price. They also lay 4 eggs (1 per day) every year during early spring. Maybe there will be a white veriety.
  • Alpaca - Can be sheared for wool like sheeps. When sheared, they drop "alpaca wool" which sells for a highr price than the regular wool. They regrow their wool every fourth day.

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imnvs

imnvs

Local Legend
I could get behind the goose suggestion. Instead of laying 1/day like chickens, or 1/2 days like a duck, could lay 1/3 days like a duck, and have a chance for the goose feather. The goose feather should be worth more than the duck feather, though I would suggest that if writing letters was implemented, either should be able to be crafted into a quill.

I have an issue with the peacock, though. 1 to 3 eggs per year? Ducks do 48 eggs per year. Your geese would do 32 eggs per year. How about 1 every 4 days, following the progression from chicken > duck > geese? Maybe, unlike the duck, they're more likely to drop feathers than eggs, making the eggs rare so difficult to breed a whole coop's worth of them instead?

And then the alpaca, while I love those guys (much friendlier than llamas, those spitting jerks), what would set it apart from sheep? If they're only producing wool, which sheeps can already do... there should be some way to differentiate them, like how duck eggs are worth more but they only lay every other day. If alpaca wool was just "wool" like sheep and rabbits drop... what's the point? Maybe they drop "alpaca wool" which is worth more, but they do so slower by a day than sheep do?
 
Mellon

Mellon

Sodbuster
imnvs said:
I could get behind the goose suggestion. Instead of laying 1/day like chickens, or 1/2 days like a duck, could lay 1/3 days like a duck, and have a chance for the goose feather. The goose feather should be worth more than the duck feather, though I would suggest that if writing letters was implemented, either should be able to be crafted into a quill.

I have an issue with the peacock, though. 1 to 3 eggs per year? Ducks do 48 eggs per year. Your geese would do 32 eggs per year. How about 1 every 4 days, following the progression from chicken > duck > geese? Maybe, unlike the duck, they're more likely to drop feathers than eggs, making the eggs rare so difficult to breed a whole coop's worth of them instead?

And then the alpaca, while I love those guys (much friendlier than llamas, those spitting jerks), what would set it apart from sheep? If they're only producing wool, which sheeps can already do... there should be some way to differentiate them, like how duck eggs are worth more but they only lay every other day. If alpaca wool was just "wool" like sheep and rabbits drop... what's the point? Maybe they drop "alpaca wool" which is worth more, but they do so slower by a day than sheep do?
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I completely agree with everything you said about the goose and the alpaca, but not about the peacock eggs idea.
I am trying to stay realistic. Domestic chickens, ducks and geese on average lay every 1-3 days on normal conditions, but peacocks are different. Peacock weren't domesticated for laying eggs, but for aesthetics. Peacocks lay about 6-10 egg every year during early spring.
Some quick math: 10(number of eggs per year)/360(rounding down the number of days in a year)=1/36~3-4/120(about the number of days in a stardew year). I hope it was clear.
 
__Fishy__

__Fishy__

Planter
I love the idea of geese and peacocks! I feel like alpacas don't really fit in though.

I think if there was flatlands farm where grass doesn't grow then that could be a fun new challenge and could be a way for the alpaca to fit in though since they have a similar role to sheep. If there wasn't any grass then the sheep couldn't grow wool and thus makes having alpacas useful
 
imnvs

imnvs

Local Legend
Perhaps alpacas can also have their production increased by friendship like sheep, and maybe have their production increased by the Shepherd profession like sheep too? (So every 3 days with enough friendship, like when sheep get to every 2 days. Then every 2 days with Shepherd, like sheep can get to daily.)
 
PoppyForPenny

PoppyForPenny

Farmer
I think it would be very fun if there could be new animals, and new crops, that become available throughout the game. Maybe after completing the community center, years 3+, certain quests, or other accomplishments. Like, after you get 25 iridium duck eggs, goose become unlocked. Or, after you sell a thousand parsnips, you can get carrot seeds. Maybe Sandy could sell an animal after you max hearts with her, or similar.
 
1FlyCat

1FlyCat

Planter
I'm all for the farm animals suggested so far.

I have one more to add to the list - roosters! :bchicken:

What farm is complete without roosters proudly strutting around the yard? Most days start with the familial rooster crowing. :sun:

Okay, there isn't any great benefit to adding them, since chickens already produce eggs without roosters.

Maybe the chance for a rooster feather drop periodically?
 
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Freizeitfarmer

Freizeitfarmer

Farmer
1FlyCat said:
I'm all for the farm animals suggested so far.

I have one more to add to the list - roosters! :bchicken:

What farm is complete without roosters proudly strutting around the yard? Most days start with the familial rooster crowing. :sun:

Okay, there isn't any great benefit to adding them, since chickens already produce eggs without roosters.

Maybe the chance for a rooster feather drop periodically?
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A rooster is already there - just hiding. But you hear every morning its sound. :laugh:
 

Krij

Newcomer
Love the idea of adding geese, alpacas and peacocks. And I don't think there can be any argument of an animal not fitting - there's dinosaurs. Therefore anything can go. So on that note, I'd like to add penguins to this list. Once a week egg drop with a rare fish drop?
 
Corvus

Corvus

Sodbuster
Mellon said:
I am trying to stay realistic. Domestic chickens, ducks and geese on average lay every 1-3 days on normal conditions, but peacocks are different. Peacock weren't domesticated for laying eggs, but for aesthetics. Peacocks lay about 6-10 egg every year during early spring.
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How about peacocks laying an egg every three days but only in Spring? That would be nine eggs a year yet when they do appear it's much more frequently.

It would be the animal product equivalent of a seasonal crop which would make peacocks unique.
 
Freizeitfarmer

Freizeitfarmer

Farmer
Mellon said:
Peacocks lay about 6-10 egg every year during early spring.
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This could be as well the case in SDV: only in spring you get 2 eggs a week, maybe 3 eggs a week after full hearts. A similar logic already exists with tea-leaves, which are only to be picked in the last week of each month (in the greenhouse).
 
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