Island Sanctuary: Animal Feeding Question

[george357]

i always feed my animals premium feed for best returns.

[Espon]

I fed an alligator leafy greens and it was happy about it.

I'm starting to question the realism of this world...

I'm more curious as to why it hasn't eaten my other animals, yet.

[Vahlnir]

I'm more curious as to why it hasn't eaten my other animals, yet.

My paissa is staring into my gator's soul, paralyzing it with fear. That is how I see it.

[Jojoya]

I haven't done a precise test of this but I think mood drops every 12 hours. If I feed them 14-15 hours before reset, their mood has dropped a level if I go to collect leavings at reset. If I feel them less than 12 hours before reset, their mood remains at max for reset. I don't use anything other than premium feed once a day (except for the day I caught them, I try to feed them twice if possiible).

I'm sure someone out there has done a detailed test on mood versus feeding time that would have more accurate answers to share.

[Deveryn]

I haven't done a precise test of this but I think mood drops every 12 hours. If I feed them 14-15 hours before reset, their mood has dropped a level if I go to collect leavings at reset. If I feel them less than 12 hours before reset, their mood remains at max for reset. I don't use anything other than premium feed once a day (except for the day I caught them, I try to feed them twice if possiible).

I'm sure someone out there has done a detailed test on mood versus feeding time that would have more accurate answers to share.

I've found the same to be true. I'll feed them once a day within 12 hours of reset. At reset, they're happy as can be, though I'll occasionally get only one leaving. ~12 hours later their mood drops and they're hungry. The cycle continues.

[Toutatis]

I tend to them only once per 24 hours about 8 hours before reset so their mood is is always maxed for leavings. Essentially, when I log on I feed them with premium food and collect leavings right after. There is no need to feed them twice a day to keep their mood up. The garden lets you produce more than enough veggies so it is not harder to feed them with the best food.

[Oizen]

I feed them every other day with the tier 2 food and still get 2 items more often than not.

Thinking about feeding them less

[dspguy]

Let's keep it simple.

Feed each animal 1 premium greenfeed per day. I do it at around 8-10pm EST. By the time I pick up leavings (which are supposedly snapshotted around 4am EST), they are still gleeful but maybe only 2/3 full. Just 1 per day. Nothing else. By the time I feed them at 8pm, they tend to be chipper still and the premium tops them off to gleeful.

Let's talk cropland by which we feed these 20 animals (which is a little less simple).

1 feed per day for 20 animals, equates to 40 feed per two days. A crop cycle is 2 days. To make the math divide in evenly, let's talk every 6 days. 6 days = 3 crop cycles. 6 days = 120 feed going to the animals. 120 feed is 40 synths. 40 synths requires 160 yield from your crop land. Every plot yields 5 crops per 2 days. To get 160 yield over 6 days, you need to allocate 10 2/3rd plots just to feeding your animals. Make it 11 to keep it simple.

If you give up 11 crop plots to feed your animals 1 premium greenfeed daily, it leaves you with 9 plots for the workshop. Spread out those 9 plots however you want. 1 of each type of remaining seed for the other 9 spots. Or whatever you want. I honestly find that the the cropland items aren't highly valued in the workshop. It is more common that the animal leavings and granary items have the most value, even factoring in popularity and demand.