OMG do not try to catch animals with all your animal "Under care"!!!!

[Iscah]

2800 thrown away to automate HALF of a process. You still need to click on each animal in the menu.

Yes, but you only need to click each animal once to collect 20 items, instead of clicking them 10-20 times to collect the same amount manually, doubled if you're feeding them as well. Plus the clicks required to get yourself logged in and/or located on the island each day.

[Semirhage]

Automating the crops is worth the cowrie cost for one reason, and it's not the time saved watering or gathering: the mammets auto gather exactly when the crops are ready, so you don't have to get on at the exact same time each day to prevent your crop growth from drifting.

Animal leavings being available and uncollected for six hours doesn't move their generation time ahead six hours, so automating the pasture is less worth it.

[Lieri]

Have you considered going to Florida to catch one? there are plenty.

[SweetestLily]

I set an alarm this morning to get out of bed early just to make yet another futile attempt to catch the alligator. Only it wasn't futile this time, I actually caught it!

Then I went to release the one I planned to release and got this pop up message.
""Animal cannot be released because it is either under care, or has leavings available to retrieve.""

So now I am back to waiting days for yet another chance to catch the gator that fits with my real life schedule. I am pissed at SE at the moment. Give us the option to release under care and forfeit the leavings, are you KIDING me???? Stupid!

Thank you for this warning, you saved me some grief.

[Mesarthim]

I discovered this the hard way a few days ago. I caught it first try, then had to release it.

Next try it cost me like 10-13 items because the WoL's aim is potato or this alligator is the most accidental evasive species to exist in the universe.

[SturmChurro]

I stopped feeding my animals like two weeks ago, so luckily this isn't something I'd have to worry about.

[Packetdancer]

As for what happened, that's all on the OP. A space should've been left open if there was something you're after.

If you'd previously caught something and picked an animal to release from the capture interface, I can easily see someone planning to not release an animal until they caught the rare one to replace it. That works just fine when not using the caregiver, and I don't think it says anywhere that putting an animal under care prevents it from being released when a new one is captured.

And given the high likelihood that you don't catch the rare, why give up several more days of leavings? If the animal gets away, it could be days before another weather window is open at the right time, plus the next window that does open might be while you're at work or at 3am, or whatever. Leaving the animal in place until you have the guaranteed replacement is a reasonable choice to make, especially because -- based on a player's experience prior to unlocking the caregivers -- there's no reason not to.

I don't use the caregivers, but I suspect I might've assumed the same thing as OP: it had always worked before to pick which animal to release at time of capture, so why would you necessarily assume it wouldn't do so any longer? I mean, it's not the end of the world, but it's not a terrible "hey, heads-up, this does not work the way you might expect" to share with other players.

[Aluja89]

It's not bugged anymore. They fixed it in .21


As for what happened, that's all on the OP. A space should've been left open if there was something you're after.

Uh no, you can do it without any mammets assigned so it's on SE. Nowhere does it say you're limited once they're assigned.

[Deveryn]

Uh no, you can do it without any mammets assigned so it's on SE. Nowhere does it say you're limited once they're assigned.

I disagree. It would be a common sense move to make room for something, even more so to not have something in care to overwrite. It says right in the caretaking help section how you go about ending the service, but I guess more needs to be spelled out.

[Kuroka]

Is it bugged though? literally every time i checked it was there...