Tag Fattened livestock as a different unit type from unfattened. This allows the “Find all units of unit type” to select only the fattened livestock to gather them together and alleviate the pathing nightmares of livestock economies. And/Or set a rally point from livestock buildings which fattened livestock automatically move to.
Villagers gathering from livestock should continue gathering after going idle and/or when a new fattened animal is in range… regardless of the animal type. (Should not have to manually command separate groups for cows/sheep)
You shouldn’t have to continually tell workers to go back to work. The inefficiency of them standing around idle when there aren’t any animals to work on should be enough.
Personally I wouldn’t want to have an automatic waypoint for fattened animals, as I build mills around the pen. Plus I think it could interfere with the waypoint of freshly trained livestock in pen.
Other than that I agree with enabling the “find all units of unit type” for fat animals, and treating cows/sheep/waterbuffalo/yak/goat/etc as the same type.
Could just give the building 2 waypoints. Like how the TC has civilian and military waypoints. 1 is for fattened animals and the other is for newly spawned.
This topic should have been called ‘Quality of Life-stock’.
Sorry.
I think it’s fine for Livestock to require more management over other food sources as is the case already, though maybe it could be a tiny bit more rewarding than general farming.
I also think (taking Euros for the example here) that Cows should be available by default with a great difference to sheep in term initial cost, fattening and reward. The Ranching card could then become something more interesting such as the Livestock Pen abstractly ‘milking’ nearby cows and generating Coin or something.
I was thinking about this and I’d add one caveat about the suggestion to group all fattened livestock together. If you’re playing Hausa or Ethiopia, you don’t necessarily want to immediately harvest a cow. You might sell it at the market for wood/gold. Can India harvest non-sacred cow livestock? I’ve never actually tried it.
on tad there was a bug where an indian vill could harvest infinite food from allied livestock without killing it, but im not sure what was required to set up the bug or if it was patched now for de