So ive been doing a little farming lately and decided id start keeping an animal to produce dung, however there’s an issue, like most I want to use a single pen to reduce my server footprint however dung production for compost is wildly unviable.
So I wanted to process 1000 plant fiber into dung, I realized each dung pass would take 20 minutes, so to process all 1000 plant fiber with a single pet it would take 333 hours or nearly 2 real life weeks.
this is absolute crap and I don’t have enough of it.
Now I could increase this drastically by splitting it into two pens dividing the 10 pets and farming it over 33 hrs instead however this occupies wildly more space on the server due to the huge pens, I really don’t think it should produce this slowly, if it were 2 minutes instead of 20 it would be fully viable cost the same resource and reduce server footprint as I would only need one small animal pen to support my farming endeavors instead of 2 large crap factories.
really hoping this change can be made as I don’t want to have to build two pens of elephants(though in the short term at least due to the math I most likely will XD) .
Good to see more people taking up the agrarian arts. There’s a few things that can help speed up farming.
Here’s what I usually do to help speed up the process:
For compost, putrid meat and bonemeal recipe is easier to queue up in bulk. When I need a lot of compost in a short amount of time, I lean on that one more. Use the dung production as an afk bolstering method, such as running overnight.
Taking the grubs from heaps and feeding them into fish traps allows you to loop putrid meat, by putting the fish into the heap to rot.
A full pen is obviously more effective than single animals. As @darthphysicist said, elephants are choice. The more running the exponentially quicker it goes. Honestly, I’ve never needed more than one or two pens tops when playing solo.
Not particularly helpful to dung production but for compost, a Light of Krllyand will speed up how fast you produce compost.
ah yes I have habitually used the bone meal and putrid meat method very often (essence of rot is particularly useful too for that production method) but it struck me as dung being out of balance especially given the factors of the pen size, and sealing, server footprint etc, more than there being a potentially better production alternative.
The size is definitely an issue. I find myself wanting to use small pens, but in practice a large pen is way more efficient for farming on a larger scale. Try to do both types at once, using the putrid/bonemeal as your core active production and lean on dung more for the afk passive
In all seriousness, dung does take an incredible amount of time to produce. I get it that its a passive way to make compost mats that doesn’t require farming, but the time is just way way too long.
Your solution is horses, not animals. They produce twice as fast dunks than all the others and maybe even faster. I know it because I had an animal pen and a stable. I was receiving more than double amount of dunk from the horse than the rhino. Still I didn’t use gazelles or deers in the pen but rhino. So before you change to horse stables use a gazelle, maybe it’s faster.
wiki wise they seem to produce the same as elephants so its just small pen vs stables there, suppose its easier to collect horses than baby elephants though, not that its wildly different in difficulty, I still am feeling it could do with an adjustment perhaps maybe a recipe of a special food to speed it up, plant fiber and berries or something.
There are 3 elephant spawns close together so its pretty quick to fill up with elephants. I think you can transfer a horse once grown to an animal pen but thats not going to speed things up since you need stables and a pen for that for the same cook time (could be a mod that allows me to out them in the pen after, not sure).
I will give it a try and let you know or the other way around if you do it faster. I have changed totally my playstyle, I don’t do great bases anymore stacking items because I hate the rendering issues I have on my console. So every time I log in, currently in the mount of dead, I farm some boose plants and the fiber is going for gruel, compost and dunk. The bugs are creating some fishes, special and normal, so I will have my cheap buffs of the day. I use my compost to aloe seeds and potent compost to grey seeds. I don’t stack anymore. Dunk can give you straight away potent compost without blood, I have to remember the recipe and tell you later.
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That’s the recipe, 2 compost 20 dunk and 2 raw ash.
one thing ive considered for putrid meat production is decaying grub kabobs, as they are merely sticks and grubs grubs are self contained production of compost heaps and I get a lot of left over sticks piling up from bearers packs and wood farms I figure it might be better than the fish as I personally dont live near my fish station and have to go out of my way to do fish buffs and hate babysitting the nets (and when I do do it I just tend to fluid press dump for oil).
I do the @Ragnaguard way. I put the meat I don’t need in the compost and I leave things work by them self. There is not such a use for feral flesh anymore. Aloe soups have no significance in the game, I fix the pork feast now. So all the feral flesh ends up in the compost heap just like that. The compost heap will do the job alone . In terms of recycle what you do is good, I like it and tbh never done it, thanks for sharing .
Feral flesh is for set feasts for me, one of the best foods in the game, I more have zero use for Haunch, pork is the best single food heal, and steaks I will use for my vitality temios’s (and the occasional white tiger, love me some white tigers)
Is it recovering health, food and humidity like the pork feast? Haven’t try it for months now, maybe more, I will try it tonight you triggered my interest.
not humidity, but I think its about a 7 point food heal, which makes it the highest for a single ingredient food, its great to keep even when you have better foods, save the good stuff for emergencies, just casually always be eating pork rinds.
. In terms of recycle what you do is good, I like it and tbh never done it, thanks for sharing 
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