#ColonistLife
Personally, I love it when a map-wide catastrophic weather event collapses the ecosystem and indirectly turns my barn into an animal sanctuary
I've done bits of it. Do not start with tribal and nature primacy unless you plan on dealing with bad moods from cutting trees . Or you're using a mod that includes tents.
I learned the hard way that tribals don't start with stonecutting
If you use that pasture for your animals to graze in, you need to not plant haygrass in it. Haygrass gives less than 1/10th the nutrition per day that normal grass provides. Dandelions are a distant second giving 50% the nutrition per day as normal grass.
The best way is to set the pen marker to cut trees, and then make a growing zone for dandelions in the pen, and set it to not cut. That way, the pen marker will order trees to be cut, and then they will plant dandelions in the empty spots, but leave the grass alone.
Yes, you are right. I edited my post up above after looking at the list of plants. Some plants are much more nutritious than dandelions, and some are a lot less nutritious.
If you want to compare the plants to see which is best, enable Dev-mode, then click the debug actions button at the top of the screen, and then the output tab at the top. Then click "Plants", and sort by nutrition per day.
There is also a button in the bottom right to export the data to CSV, so you can put it into a spreadsheet.
Here is what it looks like in my game, but I am using a lot of extra modded plants in this playthrough. https://imgur.com/a/cCqKfl7
Damn, didn’t know you could “set” things with the pen marker! I get so annoyed when trees and shit grow in the pasture, so thanks for this tip! It’s the first thing I’m trying when I get back online!
It will be a mixture of grass and dandelions in the pen. Grass is better, but you can not plant grass without mods.
When some of the grass dies, it might spawn a tree in its place, or nothing at all. If this happens, your people will plant a dandelion there, since it is the next best thing to grass that the player can sow.
I like compact bases and most of the animals i use are attack animals (i need MEAT), so nah, i prefer to harvest Human meat and Kill elephants using Camps with the transport shuttle if i ever need meat desperately or Leather.
Which is almost never since cultists love to attack me and i love Anomaly for the sheer amount of stuff you can achieve with Twisted meat and Dread leather.
You can buy for veggies if a cold snap happened or you really need food, or buy meat.
This one has always been funny to me, because helixien gas is something that another vanilla expanded mod added before being moved to a separate mod. So this would be more accurately titled "Vanilla Vanilla Helixian Gas Expanded Expanded".
Events expanded is probably one of my favorites of theirs. It's also extremely annoying. Long night for example kills off all plant life growing in the sun. So wild life also goes with it which is what happened in OPs picture.
That's also not counting global warming/ Ice age where your biome even changes.
You can pick and choose which events can happen. I think there is also a slider for frequency, but some events are literally bonkers so I turned them off. Had "psychic rain" the other day which causes any living being to age faster if they get caught outside and it can last up to a year. No thanks.
I just had a 2 year ice age from Vanilla Events Expanded. It started like this, they quickly turned into me executing everything that entered my barn and predators died as soon as I noticed them.
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u/FrogWhoLivesInALog 2d ago
the only animal in my barn that is actually mine is the horse, but all are welcome nonetheless