by BlueTrillium1 » Mar 09, 2017 8:34 am
There is supposedly a bell eventually but I do not intend to get it. I'm gonna stick to pets.
What you want to do when buying a pet for herding is just make sure it has the Herding/Recovery skill. Any pet can have it - if you want to have a chihuahua or a little kitty doing your herding, go for it!
All you need to do is go to the animal shop (I went to Westown - the shop is on the right-hand end of the semicircle of shops in the lower area) and go to 'Buy Animals'. The available pets are there (they are down listed below the livestock). Check the one that you want and it will show what its skill will be. If it does not say "Herding/Recovery" press B to go back a screen, then enter "Buy Animals" again and check the pet you want again. The skill will change randomly, so just go in and out until the pet you want has the skill you want.
Once you have bought the pet it will automatically go to the pet house (if you have more than one empty pet house I think it asks you which one to send it to) and will automatically start taking animals out on sunny days (and sending them back in in the evenings).
You will want to buy pet food ("Buy Items" at the same animal vendor where you bought the pet) and put it in the pet bowl that is in front of the pet house. The bowl holds up to 7 days worth so if you want, you can put a whole week's worth in at once and not worry about it the rest of the week.
The pet will only herd the number of animals equal to its skill level (so at first will only herd one animal). But this will gradually increase on its own the longer you own the pet. No input from you required!
And that's it! Pet hearts raise super super slow, but hearts do not affect the pet skill. If you really want, you can literally completely ignore the herding pet other than filling its food dish and it will still do its job and gain skill levels.
There is supposedly a bell eventually but I do not intend to get it. I'm gonna stick to pets.
What you want to do when buying a pet for herding is just make sure it has the Herding/Recovery skill. Any pet can have it - if you want to have a chihuahua or a little kitty doing your herding, go for it!
All you need to do is go to the animal shop (I went to Westown - the shop is on the right-hand end of the semicircle of shops in the lower area) and go to 'Buy Animals'. The available pets are there (they are down listed below the livestock). Check the one that you want and it will show what its skill will be. If it does not say "Herding/Recovery" press B to go back a screen, then enter "Buy Animals" again and check the pet you want again. The skill will change randomly, so just go in and out until the pet you want has the skill you want.
Once you have bought the pet it will automatically go to the pet house (if you have more than one empty pet house I think it asks you which one to send it to) and will automatically start taking animals out on sunny days (and sending them back in in the evenings).
You will want to buy pet food ("Buy Items" at the same animal vendor where you bought the pet) and put it in the pet bowl that is in front of the pet house. The bowl holds up to 7 days worth so if you want, you can put a whole week's worth in at once and not worry about it the rest of the week.
The pet will only herd the number of animals equal to its skill level (so at first will only herd one animal). But this will gradually increase on its own the longer you own the pet. No input from you required!
And that's it! Pet hearts raise super super slow, but hearts do not affect the pet skill. If you really want, you can literally completely ignore the herding pet other than filling its food dish and it will still do its job and gain skill levels.