I placed out an Automatic Feeder and a Livestock Unit.
The feeder works fine and the critters come running at feeding time. However, the Livestock Unit is not gathering any products. When I look at my critters it states Recently Milked but there is nothing in the Unit…am I missing something?
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I haven’t got that far yet, but do you need to attach some kind of storage device and pipes and stuff?
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No. The pipes do not work with them. I did finally gather some milk but it does not seem to be very reliable. I wonder how close the critters need to be…
There is no way to fence them in.
I powered my units with a single solar panel and no battery since the animals leave to sleep in some burrow somewhere,
That way, they shut down for the night and turn back on in the daylight when the animals show up again.
Also, I am supposed to be able to Add More to the the feeder but it does not work. I have to take it out and then replace it all to refill it.
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To get the milking machine to work the best, I stayed and watch the resources gather out of the animals. For a herd I could get around 30 of an item in a couple of minutes,. Walking away and coming back or not actively watching I may get 1 item if any.
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Hmmm…well that sort of defeats the purpose doesn’t it?
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Mostly, but not completely: it saves you from directly following them around and holding your square button for each one while waiting for them to renew.
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When are you opening the petting zoo? I need to hug both of them like ten minutes ago.
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I guess they’ll be tweaking that a bit if enough reports are submitted. They kind of have to guestimate the yield of a farm that doesn’t actually exist most of the time, so it’s not surprising that there would be some major discrepancy…
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Oh Wow! What a trip down memory lane that was! 
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The auto feeders and harvesters are much better now. If you can find a planet with animals that are always active and can produce eggs/milk you can farm a couple hundred every ten minutes. I have two set up on my new home planet and made 170 fresh milk within around 22 minutes. I sat next to them and watched the feeders in my exocraft while doing other stuff though so it could diminish still if you leave the area.
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Welcome to the forum @Venus .
We don’t usually post in Archived threads, but thanks for the info. If you would like to pass on more info on this topic, feel free to start a new thread under the Worlds topic.
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