Broccoli Clock Posted March 14, 2025 Report Posted March 14, 2025 (edited) Goats don't spawn near me, yet for some reason in my garden I found a baby goat. The only animals that spawn close to me are about 100 blocks North of my base and they are wolves. About 50 blocks South there is a gaggle of hens, and another 100 blocks South is a bear spawn. The hens do not spawn close enough for me to take advantage of the feeding trough, I had to make a basket trap to get the couple of hens I do have. As you can imagine, I was a little surprised to see a baby goat spawned into what I thought was an enclosed garden. Obviously, I stuck down a feeding trough for the little guy, and they seem like they are living their best life in my garden (I'll need to shift them to a pen, otherwise my flax and berries are possibly at risk). The question I have is, why would a goat (a species that doesn't spawn near me) suddenly appear in my garden. I'm not complaining, especially as it's a ewe so I guess I'll have either milk or wool (or perhaps both) at some point. After one goat has spawned, should I expect another? I've been at this base for nearly 2 full in game years and this is the first goat I've seen within 300 blocks of my base! Edited March 14, 2025 by Broccoli Clock
Maelstrom Posted March 14, 2025 Report Posted March 14, 2025 First, that's a bighorn sheep; not a goat. Animal spawns after initial world gen do happen but are few and far between.  Apparently you settled in a bighorn sheep spawn point. Gratz for the good fortune! 1
Broccoli Clock Posted March 14, 2025 Author Report Posted March 14, 2025 (edited) 5 hours ago, Maelstrom said: First, that's a bighorn sheep; not a goat. Animal spawns after initial world gen do happen but are few and far between.  Apparently you settled in a bighorn sheep spawn point. Gratz for the good fortune! You are right, it is a sheep. I've had so little contact with these creatures I presumed it was a goat. I just checked the wiki, they will give milk, but I didn't realise you don't get wool from them. What's more, it seems wool doesn't exist in the game (there is linen of course). For a survival game to have crafting of clothes, and animals that traditionally give you wool, and not to have wool as a commodity seems an odd choice. As for it spawning, this is from the wiki... I mean I get that I match those requirements, but you'd think if it was going to spawn anything in, it would have done so before now but then that 0.001 chance is certainly an eye opener. I guess it's possible for another sheep to spawn, let's see if they are like British buses. None for ages, then three come along at the same time. Those odds though.. Edited March 14, 2025 by Broccoli Clock
Maelstrom Posted March 14, 2025 Report Posted March 14, 2025 Bighorn Sheep don't have a lot of wool to sheer IRL. The goats would be a better source of wool in game.
Dark Thoughts Posted March 14, 2025 Report Posted March 14, 2025 TerraFirmaCraft had wool & weaving, and IIRC weaving is on the roadmap for VS too so it's quite possible that we'll get wool from animals in the future. That being said, our sheep today are heavily bred to have abnormally large coats and would likely go extinct in an event of where human civilization falls, as they need human care to survive - similar things can be said about our milk cows today. So I think the game should focus more on species that are resilient enough to survive on their own. Bighorn sheep don't have a lot of fur though, which isn't impossible to process but I'd wager we'd use something with fluffier coats. 2
Broccoli Clock Posted March 15, 2025 Author Report Posted March 15, 2025 Ok, ok.. this is now getting officially weird. After spending 2 years in a location where only bears and wolves spawn, and having to travel (100+ blocks) to find any other animals, I ended up having a lamb spawn in my fenced in garden. The chances of a sheep spawning are low, the chances of it spawning in my garden have to be lower. Fast forward 5 (in game) days and a baby pig has spawned next to my base! Again, just to confirm, if I wanted to find pigs I was having to travel some distance, yet here is one on my doorstep. I've put down a reed basket trap and filled it with fruit mash, I'm hoping it's one of the baby animals that can be captured in that manner, if not I have a plan to drive it into a pen. Â But, yeah, after no animals spawning next to my base, literally 2 different kinds have done so in a matter of an (in game) week. Weird.
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