Originally posted by retsam1:

Originally posted by Masked:

Maybe I am doing something wrong here, but I have a boar pen. There are a dozen pigs in there. I find it irritating that I have to throw down carrots for them to eat and when I come back to check up on them, it just goes into my inventory.

Just throwing a stack of 50 carrots on the ground like its discarded seems silly.

Is there a better way to do things?

I highly suggest looking on youtube at various breeding pen designs as there are a couple where it is less of an issue or none at all depending on which design you choose. It wont alleviate the picking back up but the designs mean that your proximity to where you toss the food is such that the chance to accidentally pick it back up would be very rare.

But really its a very minor QoL issue currently. It takes all of a few seconds to redrop the food and be on your way.

True its just a small quality of life thing, but also maybe a days work for devs to implement it.

It's not just MY issue though, when I have people playing on my server - they aren't avid gamers and they don't realise they have auto picked up the food while looking at my little farm. Haha it's so annoying when I go "carrots back please", its just an annoyance and a reminder I shouldn't really have to do.

As stated before, I do have a pen and a little box for food but people still pick it up. I tried all sorts of ideas but the issue is at the games design level.

My OP was basically asking if there was one in the game or not or if i was doing something wrong.