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Randomly making notes on Rimworld maths because I find it interesting. Wildlife carries no risk of being outside, even -11c temperature cold doesn't affect them, I thought that was annoying.

Meanwhile the second you tame them and put them in pens you have to get a secondary barn building at a minimum to keep them all alive and stockpiling tons of hay is very necessary. I think I worked out how to automate it all properly but it is extremely annoying, you need a lot of hay to keep them fed probably triple what you think is necessary to maintain the nutrition.

Yeah I wouldn't do any kind of animal system or hunger mechanic this way, I think it's a bit of a balance problem more than anything.

>What the dev should have done is allowed for a bit more of a sophisticated farming setup in the hostile environments
what do you have in mind?


I wouldn't exactly call temperate/boreal forest a "hostile environment". Ranching is very viable there despite the harsh winters.
On Earth, basically no one was doing sedentary animal husbandry in the tundra though. I think you could probably pull it off with raider kibble and hydro.
Desert might be very tough because you're choked for fertile soil.

But what do I know, I play modded. I can put skylights in an enclosed space around a thermal vent and have a heated greenhouse basically.
And I have sprinklers for the desert.