The Wiki for Tale 4 is in read-only mode and is available for archival and reference purposes only. Please visit the current Tale 11 Wiki in the meantime.

If you have any issues with this Wiki, please post in #wiki-editing on Discord or contact Brad in-game.

Sheep

From A Tale in the Desert
Revision as of 07:37, 30 January 2009 by Karriellyn (talk | contribs)
Jump to navigationJump to search
Male sheep.png
Bulk 1
Weight 300

Sheep are found in the wild. They can either be picked up or you can attempt to slaughter them (has a high chance of failing and the sheep escaping).

Sheep weigh in at 300 db each.

Use

You can slaughter a sheep to receive:

Sheep will produce dung when they are in a pen.

Breeding

To successfully breed sheep you must:

  • Have a Sheep Pen
  • Have onions in your pen
  • Have at least 1 male sheep and 1 female sheep in the pen
  • Do not have the males and females separated

Sheep will not breed if there are more than 10 in one Sheep Pen

Feeding

Domestic sheep eat onions at a rate of 3 per 3 teppy hours for males, 1 per 3 teppy hours for females (can someone confirm rates please?). Sheep in a Modern Sheep Farm (which doesn't exist yet in Tale 4) can have their diet supplemented with thistle – one deben of thistle automatically converts to 1,000 “thistle bits”, which are consumed at the same rate as onions. If a structure runs out of food, the sheep stop breeding and stop producing dung, and will eventually sicken and die. Death occurs after 3 teppy days without food.

Theories

  • Sheep are less likely to reproduce in pens where a slaughter has taken place
    • Recently had more reproducing in the slaughter pen than the non-slaughter pen
    • Probably not true. Sheep do not stud. If you kill a sheep, then you won't get any new sheep until the game reshuffles the pairs. It's not at all clear when this happens.
  • Traffic plays a role in reproduction rates (You wouldn't want to be watched either)
    • Probably not true. Mine breed frequently at 59% crowding in an actively used camp.
  • The optimal ratio for breeding is 3:3 males:females
  • Sheep like Barry Manilow White

Required By

Dung, Leather, Mutton, Oil

Produced By

Sheep Pen