Livestock Farming

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🐄 Livestock Farming

Cows, pigs and chickens on real pastures: cattle, pig and poultry farms with their own fence, where the animals graze, raise their young and are looked after by farmers, and the grass saves you animal feed.

Three farms in three levels each, from a stable for 30 cows to a free-stall barn for 90 cows and up to 1800 hens, giving milk, cheese, beef, pork, eggs and liquid manure for your fields.

🏡 The farms

• 🐄 Cattle farm I-III: 30 × 30 tiles, 30 / 60 / 90 cows: milk, cattle carcasses and liquid manure. A whitewashed stone stable, a big barn with a tower silo, a modern free-stall barn
• 🐖 Pig farm I-III: 24 × 24 tiles, 60 / 120 / 180 pigs: pig carcasses and liquid manure. A stone pigsty, a long brick piggery, a modern piggery
• 🐔 Poultry farm I-III: 22 × 22 tiles, 600 / 1200 / 1800 hens: eggs, chicken carcasses and liquid manure. A hen house on stilts, mobile hen houses, a free-range barn
• 🌱 Grazing saves feed: the pasture replaces 50 % of the animal feed for cows, 25 % for pigs and 30 % for hens; the farm window shows the lower feed and how much the grass saves (Pasture panel)
• 🔌 All ports at the back, outside the fence: feed and water in, carcasses, milk or eggs and liquid manure out, so no belt or pipe crosses the pasture
• ⬆️ Upgrade in place; animals can be moved between farms of the same kind
• 🏰 Vierkanter farmstead: a decorative Austrian four-sided farmstead (22 × 22 tiles) as the home of your farmers

🐮 Life on the pasture

• 🎬 Every animal is animated, with jointed legs, neck, ears and tail: cows graze, lie down front legs first and drink at the trough; pigs root with their snouts and flop onto their side; hens peck, scratch, flap their wings and sit down
• 🐣 Their young: while a farm breeds, calves walk at their mother's side, piglets suckle when the sow lies down and chicks follow the hens
• 🧑‍🌾 Farmers fork hay, carry buckets to the trough, scatter grain for the hens and pat the animals
• 🚪 In and out: the animals come and go through the barn door
• 🔊 Their voices: a cow moos, a pig grunts, a hen clucks or a chick peeps when the camera is close
• ⛰️ On your terrain: the animals walk on the ground and lean with the slope

🧀 Food and more

• 🥩 Meat: cattle and pig carcasses become meat and meat trimmings (for the vanilla sausages) in the food processor
• 🧀 Milk and cheese: new protein foods for your settlements (12 milk + 1 salt → 4 cheese)
• 💩 Liquid manure as organic fertilizer through pipe port M, for your farms or the fields of Field Farming
• 🛒 Cows and pigs from the villages on the world map, delivered to your farms like the vanilla chickens

How to start

1. Research Livestock farming (after Chicken farm and Irrigated farms) for the farms I, the farmstead, milk, cheese and the carcasses.
2. Place a cattle, pig or poultry farm from the Food toolbar and connect animal feed (U-shape belt) and water (pipe) at the back.
3. Buy your first cows or pigs from a village on the world map (the poultry farm takes the vanilla chickens).
4. Take the carcasses and the milk or eggs off the belts, and pipe the liquid manure to your farms or fields.
5. Livestock farming II (after Sausage production) and Livestock farming III (after Greenhouse) unlock levels II and III.

Good to know

• 🌍 Speaks all 21 languages of the game: it follows your game's language (translated with care; corrections are welcome on the forum).
• Can be added to existing saves, but not removed once you have built its buildings or products.
• Settings in Options → Mods → Livestock Farming: show the animals, animal voices on or off and their volume, the amount of liquid manure.
• Made for Captain of Industry 0.8.7.

All models and icons are original, and the animal voices are made by the mod itself. No game files included. Contains Harmony (MIT).