So the picture is of my pasture, as you can see there isn't much grass, each day its being eaten away by my greedy animals. One day the grass will run out and they will have to eat my silo hay, and once that runs out they will starve. This worry has prevented me from purchasing animals for the closed barn (it's completely empty right now), I have tried putting grass starters underneath lightining rods but I don't think its enough.
So what can I do to prevent a famine?
by Downtown_Ikea
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Go to Marnie, select hay, hold down the buy button for 60 seconds
Craft wooden fence posts. Put a single post on a tile where the grass is. The animals cannot reach it but grass will spread out from underneath the post. Looks like your lightning rods are already doing this.
You can set up a few more grass spawn points across the area by putting down grass starters (can buy from Pierreās) and then using the fence post method.
You have almost 500000. Just go buy 100 grass starters from Pierre and spread them out over the area. They will multiply.
Plant a hell of a lot more grass starters.
Buy/make some grass starters. Day before rain/change of season, close the doors and plant them sparsely. Keep door closed for a few days for the grass to spread. Repeat as needed.
Make some grass starter, or buy it from Pierre. If you have a rain totem, it wouldnāt hurt to use it. Iām not sure but it seems like rain helps. And rest assured. The worst case scenario is grump animals that stop producing. But eventually the grass will be back.
If you want to freerange this many animals, you need a much larger pen.
Personally, I recommend just buying a shitload of hay.
Buy the grass starter recipe from Pierre. Worth it.
Buy hay from Marnie as needed. Desert trader sells hay for omni geodes on Monday. Spread grass everywhere. Can even do it off the farm.
I just never cut my grass or install any whimsy(roads fences decorations etc) and the animals roam free and never go hungry š¤·āāļø
I just keep going to Pierre or Joja if u still have it and spam grass till 500 and then plant it also go to marnie ans spam enough hay to fill silo. You can make grass starter too Id get as much fiber as you can during green rain and around and make grass starter.
I have often had grass starters in another part of my farm and every few days I thin it out to fill silos and let it grow back. Do this for 3 seasons and youāll be overflowing for winter!
I honestly just chopped down my entire fence and let them free roam my farm. There’s tons of grass they can go to if they want, it’s a little annoying to have to work around them but they seem happy. I also do huge fields of wheat for hay lol
If you really don’t want to buy hay or grass starters, you’re going to have to grow fibre (I like using garden pots because they don’t need water anyway) to make your own starts to plant wheat for the chance to get some hay out of it.
Buy/make grass starter. Buy hay from Marnie. Plant some of the grass underneath your fencing. You need to plant the grass first than put the fence over it.
you can craft grass starter from fiber i think? or buy grass starter from pierre
A bunch of 1×1 fences with grass inside. Will just perma-grow.
Have your animals barned up for a day or have a part of the pen fenced off to grow grass, buy or make a bunch of grass starter- bam
Break up all your fencing, and replace them with grass starters underneath. Place a bunch of grass starters all over your fenced in area too. I use my lightning rods as fencing and you can too if you donāt wanna waste resources rebuilding all of your fencing. You can also place some grass starters outside of your fenced in area, and over the next few seasons just shave the grass down every once in a while to stock up on hay for winter.
Youāve got too many animals for that size pen if you want them free range, they will eat the grass faster than it can respawn with what youāve got here.
If you can expand it a bit more on the bottom left where thereās open area, and youāre going to want more lighting rods with grass spread out to give more spawn points for the grass Iād place at least 8-10 more because you want the grass spawn to at least equal or be more than the animals you want
If I remember correctly itās a 25% chance for each adjacent tile to a fully grown grass to get grass
Make an extra silo and cut grass anywhere and every where.
Break up the fences and put the grass down first and then the fence back again. Theyāll keep regrowing back and wonāt have to replant constantly
Any comments from the pros about the blue grass?
Plant more grass. Also put grass under the fence, that way grass can spawn from the fence and the animals can eat fence grass.
I let my coop animals free roam and eat all the grass they can touch, and keep my barn ones enclosed. You have to keep some starters on you so you don’t run out
Deffo more space for them. Doesnt help for now but place a bunch of starter end of winter and first day of spring it will expand around where all you’ve planted it. I keep my farm covered in grass until I need to space and then just cut as needed. I have a silos with 4 full coops/barns and I have never once bought from Marnie and they only eat hay in winter.
Buy or craft grass planters.
Close the barn and coop doors to keep the animals in for a few days.
Plant the grass, let grass fill the area.
Place fence posts or whatever you prefer in a grid on top of grass to lock in grass the animals can’t eat, so it keeps growing from those spots overnight. You can probably place 40 fence posts in that area that make sense. Spread them like quality sprinklers.
Open the barn and coop doors. See how it goes.
The enclosure looks a bit small, might be enough, should be enough with blue grass once you unlock that.
go shopping at marnie’s
All animals are profitable even if you’re buying the hay to feed them.
Unless you want to leave massive sections of your farm empty just for growing grass (away from your animals even), you just need to suck it up and buy hay. Natural grass growth isn’t going to keep up once you have multiple full buildings of animalsĀ
Buy or craft more grass.
You see your lighting rods with grass under?
They spread one tile of grass per day, that your animals it.
So place on “thing” with grass under per animal and you will have feed. Like your entire fence of course should have grass under, as the lighting rods without grass. And maybe some more things. Spread out the pieces so you have better chance on increased growth on raindays when they don’t go out.
Let the animals range all over the farm. As long as they can get back in at night they’ll be fine.
Have you tried putting grass starters down then placing fence posts on top?
Why will they starve? It’s spring, you have three seasons to fill your silos before winter.
Grass spawns the most on the first day of spring. So on the last day of winter of every year go to Pierres and buy a bunch of grass starters. I just spread it around in all the areas my animals have access to so come morning every single spot is filled up. This lasts usually till Summer, then they eat silo hay.
Having fresh grass only increases the time it takes for your animals to be at max hearts. If they already are at Max hearts then just let them out without grass. Its fine. If you have a new animal that it’s important you raise their hearts fast, give them their own tiny pen with some grass starters everyday.
I have all the fence with grass underneath, a bunch of spots like you have isn’t nearly enough
More lightning rods, grass starters and KFC.
Ideally you want one rod sitting on grass for every 2 animals. One for every 3 can work, but sometimes the grass just doesnāt grow.
buy hay, buy fiber seeds, buy grass starter recipe, buy grass starter, plant the fiber, harvest the fiber, turn fiber into grass starter, stock up on hay
Get some grass starter and some lightning rods. Plant the grass in the same pattern as a fruit tree and put a lightning rod on each. (Make sure you donāt block entrances) Also remove the fence and put grass starters there. Then put the fence back. Thatāll allow the grass to grow back faster. Every tile of grass has a chance of spawning new grass next to it. So having more tiles the animals canāt eat means more new grass will spawn
spread the starters, keep your animals inside for a few days so they can grow and then let them out again. Marnie sells hay for cheap
I dedicate large swaths of my farm to just grow grass. Then in the last week of each season I will empty my silo and then scythe all the grass. If it fills my silo but I have more to scythe then I’ll empty my silo again. I store any hay that doesn’t fit in my silo in a chest beside it.
Also when I start a new save I don’t clear the grass from the farm at the begining. That way as soon I can afford a silo, I can start scything the grass to get a jump start on hay.
I can get away with just having one silo and never have any famine scares
if you want to put grass under all your surrounding fencing, and maybe even under your lightning rods up top, that could help keep a good supply
If u have the island unlocked you can get Haymaker on your sword and then anytime you see fiber in the mines u will get free hay. Also during green rain day with Haymaker I get around 300 hay
But grass starters. Craft a rain totem. Wait til evening when the animals are inside. Plant grass starters around in the area and then use rain totem so it has a day to grow a bit.
Also probably growing grass around your farm so you can harvest for your silos would be good.
Buy 480 hay, then become good friends with Marnie and she will send 30 hay occasionally