Animals, the barn and the animal that walks with you

Catching an animal

Small animals can be picked up: stand next to one and press space. Cows, sheep, chickens, dogs and cats are the ones people usually keep. A caught animal goes to your barn.

The barn

A barn holds three animals. You build one from a barn kit on firm open ground, out where animals can move, or in your own field. It cannot go inside a house.

One barn is enough for a household: married couples share one between them, so if your husband or wife already has a barn, use theirs. Engaged is not married; while you are only engaged you each have your own.

At the barn you can feed and water your animals, walk them out to the grass, treat one that has fallen ill, and take one out to keep you company.

Feeding, grazing and illness

An animal that has been out on the grass that day gives better. An ill animal is treated with a bottle of animal medicine, or for nothing at all by somebody with the doctor's trade standing beside you. A doctor can treat their own animals too.

The animal that walks with you

Take one out of the barn and it follows you: you hear it beside you, it makes its own noises, and it comes along in a car. Only one at a time, and it goes back in the barn when you are done.

What they give

Cows give milk, sheep give wool, chickens give eggs. Loyalty grows when you look after them and falls when you do not; a loyal animal gives more.