I would like to thanks everyone for their advice, now I know what I should do.

I know I'm a bit late here, but I made a new character for a new world to start in not long ago, and the very first thing I did was construct a boar pen, because I found a 2 star boar at the very start area, as soon as I landed almost. (well it was sort of close to the start anyway) near a boar runestone.

Anyway, I built a pen as soon as I saw the 2 star & capitalised on it. Made it sturdy as possible (stake walls, sunken half way down using beams as guides, with roundpole fencing on the inner layer of the fence) with a single door with a small roof cap over it to protect it from weather. I also built it around some raspberry bushes so they are always near food at the pen.

Early game need for leather scraps is fairly important and has many uses I find, as finding & hunting boar can be both time consuming & could be better spent doing other important things.

Once I have a boar pen sorted out with a few bits of food chucked inside it, I kite the boars I want into the pen, with hammer equipped so I can isolate them with round pole fences, (inside the pen) so they don't escape while I round up the second one.

The second I capture 2 of them, I wait for them to calm down, and wait for the taming to begin, stick around, and wait for the ''animal is tamed'' chime to kick in. Once that is done, I make sure they have enough food in the pen or if they have too much, I build a chest in the pen to store their food.

Once the first small pig is born, I wait for only 2 stars (or 1 star if that is what I catch) to be born, and wait til they grow. then I kill off the no star boars with pvp mode on, and feed the star boars, until they breed again, so I get a pure bloodline of star boars. Once the pen is at capacity usually 5 or 6 boars or so, I will try to relocate them after that. and then have seperate breeding pens in different parts of the map, so I have something to fall back on if I lose a breeding pair of boar, there is always another pair somewhere else.

Also, I have been recently building and incorporating boar pens & vegetable patches in with my newer player builds, including a friends server they just started, so I helped them tame their first 1 star boar. I try to keep the boar pen close to whatever house I am building so that while I build, the boars have a chance to breed while I am doing something else around the house (farming, repairs, crafting, cooking etc)

Originally posted by Dirty ♥♥♥♥:

u wanna see pigs breed? what a nasty perv u are, u dirty dirty pedo terrorist

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u wanna see pigs breed? what a nasty perv u are, u dirty dirty pedo terrorist

I solve the problem by having a crop field near the pigs. I cull wolves, and then cull pigs and feed the wolves boar meat. Then I harvest the crops and feed the pigs. While the pigs mate and give birth I plant the next batch of boar food and cook if I need to. Then I get my rested bonus maxed out again and change foods to head out for exploring.

Pigs like to be watched..

Instead of breeding them on the ground, maybe you should consider AFK breeding towers. There is a lot of how-to videos on YT. Just search for vertical or tower breeders. It is difficult to make them and even to feed animals... but once you succeed, you will have a ton of meat in a few hours. I usually drop foods for each boar/wolf and make sure they are eating. Then i make myself a coffee and scroll on facebook or watch some videos on YT for 30-60 minutes. When i come back, there are gazillions of piglets and my FPS is around 10 :)
The whole time i have my headset on so i can hear if something is going on in the game. If i hear raid i quickly jump in, clear it and then go back to scrolling facebook :)
Vertical breeders are safe from raids. Well, mostly safe. Flying rats and drakes can do a lot of dmg if you don't react in time.
Here is my concept of AFK boar breeding tower. I usually have boar and wolf towers nearby so they can both breed at the same time. And it is always far away from main base due to FPS issues.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2725959451

Originally posted by Veseljko:

When i come back, there are gazillions of piglets and my FPS is around 10 :)

Ouch, right in the feels that I know.

Originally posted by Veseljko:

The whole time i have my headset on so i can hear if something is going on in the game. If i hear raid i quickly jump in, clear it and then go back to scrolling facebook :)
Vertical breeders are safe from raids. Well, mostly safe. Flying rats and drakes can do a lot of dmg if you don't react in time.

I typically make my breeders away from my base. There's two main reasons for this. One, the FPS. Two, you only need one "base structure" (workbench is my go to) to keep the food from despawning. This way, you can avoid raids altogether while AFKing.

[Well, as long as your breeders are not in Mountains or Plains; then you'd have to worry about "You are being Hunted..."]
[EDIT] Actually, I guess that wouldn't work now, with bat raids being added in. AFAIK, they can spawn in any location, except (maybe) empty biomes.

Before I did start putting them away from my base, I often kept a "vault" where I completely enclosed a pair of wolves and a pair of boars, just so that I could recover from any bat or drake raid. (Very sad when the only thing left to remember your 2-star Wolves by is some skewers...)

Originally posted by vinyblaster:

Originally posted by Limdood:

Because activity only happens in active and adjacent chunks. stuff outside of that is effectively in stasis, or in the case of entities outside of explored zones, doesn't even exist yet.

Stay near the pigs.



Seriously though, there's limitations to what the game can do. If it was expected to simulate every entity and all their actions across the entire world at all times....we wouldn't be able to get a computer to run the game.

Yes and no. Crops still grow while you're gone. Granted that boar breeding is not as easy to simulate as (current timestamp - seeding timestamp) but there are ways to try to "fake it".

Crop just take the last part of a breed system : the little pig/wolf growing , these can grow too when you are away from them but breeding needs to be in a 64m near of you because works as a "spawn" system and for that you need to be near , thats different from crop that you just make the spawn of the planted verdure right there ....
I adds that wolves and pigs can keep eating their food when you are far of them but not breeds .... , so feed the animals when you are near too because makes a waste

Originally posted by Serencam:

Why don't pigs breed when I'm not nearby? do you have a solution to this

There are 2 events you need to be present for. The mating, and the birth. You don't need to be in the area to run down the actual pregnancy timer though.

Basically, you want your pig farm to at least be somewhere you will somewhat frequently pass through. If your pigs are well fed, and you portal into the area, after 30 seconds or so you'll start to hear them squealing. It may continue for a minute or so. That's all you need for them to be pregnant, now you can leave and do whatever. Some time later, when you come back by and load into the area again, another 30s and the squeals start and piglets begin popping out like fireworks.

So, you don't need to hang around, but you do need to come by for a brief moment to trigger those two stages.

Other breeding tips...

- They DO eat while you're gone, so don't over feed them if you don't plan on coming by to trigger the next event in a reasonable time.
- They don't need to eat to survive. They only need to be fed to trigger the two events, mating and birthing.
- They won't breed if there are 5 or more in a small area.
- They sometimes tend to clump up together even in a large pen, causing them to stop breeding. Breeding is more efficient with many small pens slightly spaced apart to prevent that clumping. When you butcher them, just leave 2 in each pen.
- Carrots are a good source of pig food. If you have a carrot farm near your pig pens, every time you go to harvest/plant your carrots, the pigs will mate/birth.
- Pig meat is a good source of food for wolves. Breeding wolves in the area gives a full farm production chain, farming carrots to feed the pigs to feed the wolves.
- Wolves can be bred the same way as pigs, or given a larger area. You can just tell 2 or 3 wolves to "stay" in a particular spot, and drop food there. The cubs will wander off, freeing up space for them to breed again. Beware that doing this without any fences at all can result in an island completely overrun with wolves.

For the most favourable boar breeding conditions, set up the boar pen in reasonably close proximity to a common bed/rest. Feed your boars an hour or two before retiring before evening descends. The sounds of piggies being born should invade the audio feed while sleeping, and the piggies will be visible when checking on your boar pen in the morning.

My boar/wolf pen is quite large, so I have created a smaller fenced in area leading up to the entrance to my building. I push 6-10 boar into the smaller pen which is about 20 metres from my Dragon Bed. Every 4 or 5 days I have to open the gate to this smaller breeding pen to release the boars beginning to overpopulate this smaller enclosure.

Originally posted by Serencam:

Why don't pigs breed when I'm not nearby?

Because activity only happens in active and adjacent chunks. stuff outside of that is effectively in stasis, or in the case of entities outside of explored zones, doesn't even exist yet.

do you have a solution to this

Stay near the pigs.



Seriously though, there's limitations to what the game can do. If it was expected to simulate every entity and all their actions across the entire world at all times....we wouldn't be able to get a computer to run the game.

Originally posted by Limdood:

Originally posted by Serencam:

Why don't pigs breed when I'm not nearby?

Because activity only happens in active and adjacent chunks. stuff outside of that is effectively in stasis, or in the case of entities outside of explored zones, doesn't even exist yet.

do you have a solution to this

Stay near the pigs.



Seriously though, there's limitations to what the game can do. If it was expected to simulate every entity and all their actions across the entire world at all times....we wouldn't be able to get a computer to run the game.

Yes and no. Crops still grow while you're gone. Granted that boar breeding is not as easy to simulate as (current timestamp - seeding timestamp) but there are ways to try to "fake it".

What kind of imitation

Originally posted by Limdood:

Originally posted by Serencam:

Why don't pigs breed when I'm not nearby?

Because activity only happens in active and adjacent chunks. stuff outside of that is effectively in stasis, or in the case of entities outside of explored zones, doesn't even exist yet.

do you have a solution to this

Stay near the pigs.



Seriously though, there's limitations to what the game can do. If it was expected to simulate every entity and all their actions across the entire world at all times....we wouldn't be able to get a computer to run the game.

maybe you're right, but I'm playing alone and should I wait at the beginning of the 2-star pig farm that I made by chance at one end of the map, or the wolf that I'm trying to tame on the mountain side?

sounds like you'll need to decide which to do first

You can make a boar factory. Still need to be close, but it will create more than you need.