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v0.31:Pasture
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Pastures are a feature that was released with version 0.31.19 and are Template:Ls that the player creates to hold animals, especially grazing animals. Herbivorous animals now require Template:L to graze upon, and larger creatures require a greater amount of grass to feed themselves. Once a pasture is designated (i->n) and animals are selected to graze (i->N) an idle dwarf will lead the animals to pasture.
Grazing animals use the [GRAZER:<value>] token to signify how much grass they need to eat. This is an inverse number - the value in grazer signifies how much hunger is reduced when eating a unit of grass. A creature with ten times the grazer value needs one tenth the amount of grass (and hence, pasture land) as a creature with a small grazer value. If you started your fortress in an undead biome you may need to assign more space for a pasture as much of the grass is dead. Animals will not eat dead grass and will only eat the still living patches.
Animals which graze are typically good livestock candidates, and the larger the creature, the more meat they produce, but the more grass they need to consume.
Each Template:L unit adds one point to hunger. An animal takes an average of one turn per ten time units, and takes one time unit to eat grass. If there were an unlimited amount of grass on a tile, even animals with [GRAZER:1] would be able to feed themselves, however there is at most 4 bunches of grass. Therefore, a creature of standard speed and agility with [GRAZER:3] would not be able to survive, and creatures with [GRAZER:4] require a constant source of grass (in other words infinite sized pastures) to survive. In practice, anything with [GRAZER:20] or less is completely incapable of feeding itself. Because of this, the larger creatures like dralthas are virtually impossible to keep fed, and elephants are incapable of feeding themselves fast enough to stave off starvation.
Animals do not need to graze to assign them to pastures. You can also assign pastures inside and use them to put animals that do not need to eat in certain areas. If there is fungus or moss on your indoor floors the animals will consume that in place of grass.
List of grazing animals
| Animal | Grazer Amount | Creature Size | Milkable | Shearable | Suggested Pasture Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template:L | 12 | 5,000,000 | Cannot Self Feed (Graze Value <= 20) | ||
| Template:L | 20 | 3,000,000 | Cannot Self Feed (Graze Value <= 20) | ||
| Template:L | 23 | 4,257,750 | 29 x 29 | ||
| Template:L | 24 | 2,500,000 | Cannot Self Feed (Graze Value <= 20) | ||
| Template:L | 38 | 2,554,650 | 28 x 28 | ||
| Template:L | 60 | 1,000,000 | Yes | 18 x 18 | |
| Template:L | 60 | 1,000,000 | 18 x 18 | ||
| Template:L | 85 | 700,000 | Yes | 16 x 16 | |
| Template:L | 92 (see below) | 1,160,900 | N/A | ||
| Template:L | 100 | 600,000 | Yes | 14 x 14 | |
| Template:L | 100 | 600,000 | 14 x 14 | ||
| Template:L | 114 | 525,000 | 14 x 14 | ||
| Template:L | 120 | 500,000 | Yes | 13 x 13 | |
| Template:L (both) | 120 | 500,000 | Yes | 13 x 13 | |
| Template:L | 133 | 523,350 | 13 x 13 | ||
| Template:L | 150 | 400,000 | 12 x 12 | ||
| Template:L | 190 | 315,000 | 11 x 11 | ||
| Template:L | 200 | 300,000 | Yes | 10 x 10 | |
| Template:L | 200 | 300,000 | 10 x 10 | ||
| Template:L | 210 | 285,000 | 10 x 10 | ||
| Template:L | 333 | 180,000 | Yes | Yes | 8 x 8 |
| Template:L | 428 | 140,000 | 7 x 7 | ||
| Template:L | 461 | 130,000 | Yes | 7 x 7 | |
| Template:L | 462 (see below) | 130,000 | N/A | ||
| Template:L | 600 | 100,000 | 6 x 6 | ||
| Template:L | 600 | 100,000 | 6 x 6 | ||
| Template:L | 857 | 70,000 | Yes | Yes | 5 x 5 |
| Template:L | 1,000 | 60,000 | Yes | 5 x 5 | |
| Template:L | 1,200 | 50,000 | Yes | Yes | 4 x 4 |
| Template:L | 1,200 | 50,000 | Yes | 4 x 4 | |
| Template:L | 1,200 | 50,000 | 4 x 4 | ||
| Template:L | 1,333 | 45,000 | 4 x 4 | ||
| Template:L | 3,000 | 20,000 | 3 x 3 | ||
| Template:L | 6,000 | 10,000 | 2 x 2 | ||
| Template:L | 20,000 | 3,000 | 1 x 1 | ||
| Template:L | 75,000 | 800 | 1 x 1 | ||
| Template:L | 120,000 | 500 | 1 x 1 |
Notes:
- Panda only eat bamboo. They will starve without it.
Overcrowding
It is possible to overcrowd a pasture. Animals may become enraged and start fights. This is similar to a dwarf throwing a Template:L and can be solved by enlarging your pasture or keeping fewer animals in it.
Another possibility is to split a large pasture which holds many animals into several smaller pastures, with the pasture size reflecting the amount of grazing the animal needs to survive. Animals will only fight each other if their pasture is sharing the same tiles as the creature they are fighting with[Verify].
Other Applications
Pasture can serve as more advanced replacement for Template:L which allows you to "tie" multiple animals to same spot and even allows you to place pets and animals assigned to dwarves.
This can be abused to safely get rid of immigrant pets or cat infestation (pasture them outside fortress to serve as early warning system and meatshield or pasture them inside room that then gets accidentally filled with Template:L)