...kind of ruins progression entirely.

maybe scrap the entire mechanic or make it so the animals jus crap out wool every food they eat and they just eat til it's gone...?

and respawn...

The trick is to just fence a couple as soon as you find your first meadow.

Just put a feeder inside the fence and visit it periodically similar to drill spots. Wool doesn't take all that long unless you need like 50+.

Having an option to just sheer cattle or to have a chance for them to drop it on death would be nice though.

Originally posted by Jeff:

The trick is to just fence a couple as soon as you find your first meadow.

Just put a feeder inside the fence and visit it periodically similar to drill spots. Wool doesn't take all that long unless you need like 50+.

Having an option to just sheer cattle or to have a chance for them to drop it on death would be nice though.

firstly the game doesn't explain how to get wool.
then when you give up and google it, you discover it requires cow creatures.
you go to the meadow, cow guys are all dead because either you killed them or enemies did.
make a new world, find meadow.
have to sit there for 10 minutes per wool in a world you don't plan to progress just to make progress in your real world.

it's bad implementation.

Solution
-make the cows respawn.
-make killing the cows drop some wool to indicate they are the source.
-make feeding the cows pop wool every 10 seconds while they eat endlessly (so long as there's food) at the trough.

so game over just i coz i harvested some meat, without the game telling me i'd majored?

Originally posted by sethndavid:

so game over just i coz i harvested some meat, without the game telling me i'd majored?

Game is not over. There are many Meadows in the world. Unless you made a personal mission to slay all cattle for a useless meat in your entire world.

In what way does this ruin progression?

It's kind of a trap. You see every type of mob respawning, so you expect that cows also will respawn. There is no indication you need to instantly wall in any animals you see because a random shroomy guy will murder them otherwise... Also you only really start needing wool for scarlet armor... The next meadow might be thousands of tiles away... Now you have to transport the animal to your base forever, because the wool production rate of far away animals is maybe 1 per hour or so...

Originally posted by Des:

It's kind of a trap. You see every type of mob respawning, so you expect that cows also will respawn. There is no indication you need to instantly wall in any animals you see because a random shroomy guy will murder them otherwise... Also you only really start needing wool for scarlet armor... The next meadow might be thousands of tiles away... Now you have to transport the animal to your base forever, because the wool production rate of far away animals is maybe 1 per hour or so...

There are good ways transporting. Have a 1x tunnel and use your pet to push the cattle. It will be a LOT faster. And you can safely arrive at your base with it.

Originally posted by Dash:

In what way does this ruin progression?

after a certain point you need wool for gear and bags, way after any animal in the game is probably dead. (playing blind)

--EDIT--
again, the issue is more that if you do screw up... creating a new world for meadows is not really viable because you'd be standing in 1 spot for multiple hours to make 1 set of armor in a world you don't want to progress.

Honestly infuriating that there is still no spawn mechanics for the meadows. It's one and done. I can understand mistakes when trying to balance something new, but there are not only other games with similar animals but this game already HAS spawns. Why is it turned off for them D:

damn, i got same problem. maybe just add Wool to trader?

Originally posted by Nazgul:

damn, i got same problem. maybe just add Wool to trader?

Would be a good solution for now, from a mod.
But in-game mechanic would make too many players to not bother with cattle.
So, hopefully, in the future, for in-game purpose they will fix them to respawn or any other mechanic for them to not be too limited in the world.