Impossible to milk musk oxes because they are stressed

[InternetDragon]

Using Rustbound Magic (mod), I have raised the generation of all of my musk oxes to gen 3, but they keep running away, and thus, they are too stressed to be milked. Is this a mod issue or am i just dumb?

Pic attached is my setup

[Nathan Flaminio]

You can try petting them (right click with an empty hand) to calm them, or just hold down right click with a bucket to get milk (they should stop moving). 

They'll still run away until Gen 10, I believe. 

[EnbyKaiju]

1 hour ago, InternetDragon said:

but they keep running away, and thus, they are too stressed to be milked

From experience musk oxen are one of the most difficult kinds of goat (yes they are classified as goats in the code) to milk. My recommendation (if this is still v1.21) is to put each lactating ox in a very small pen and just hold down right-click until you get the milk out. Unlike sheep all kinds of goats refresh the agitated cycle very quickly, so you should be able to just pen them in a small space, hold right-click, and you'll eventually get a bucket of milk. Just remember to let go when it happens or you'll drink the bucket, haha.

If that doesn't work after a few minutes of trying I'd suggest waiting for a future generation (2-3 should be enough) and give it another go. If that still isn't working it's likely the mod.

[Demoncyborg]

 

13 hours ago, EnbyKaiju said:

so you should be able to just pen them in a small space, hold right-click, and you'll eventually get a bucket of milk. Just remember to let go when it happens or you'll drink the bucket, haha

this, this will lead you to milk success! if you use a stack of buckets, they'll push out of the stack so you don't accidentally drink it (until you get to the end of the stack, at least.)