Grazing Area

Grazing Area

Adds a new area that lets you graze livestock freely without enclosing them in fences.

Key Features

• Livestock can roam freely within the grazing area.

• Colonists assigned to Handling work will bring back animals that have strayed too far from the grazing area.

• Some animals can be trained as Shepherds.

• Trained shepherd animals herd stray livestock back into the grazing area, and protect livestock being hunted by predators.

• Animals already inside a pen are excluded from the grazing area system.

• When livestock are hunted by wild predators, shepherd-trained animals will automatically guard them.

• Safe to add to an existing save.

Mod Options

• To avoid unnecessarily frequent jobs, you can set shepherd work to be assigned only when an animal strays beyond a certain distance from the area.

• To reduce cases where animals wander right back out after being returned, you can set them to be brought a certain depth into the area.

• You can adjust the priority of shepherd work.

• You can restrict shepherd work to humans only or animals only.

• You can freely customize the list of animals that can be trained as Shepherds.

How to remove this mod from an existing save

• With the mod still enabled, scroll to the bottom of the mod options and run Remove mod data from this save.

• Afterwards, disable the mod, quit the game, and continue playing from the newly saved file.

For Mod Authors

Enabling Shepherd Training for Modded Animals by Default

If you want animals added by your mod to be trainable as Shepherds by default, add the following patch to your mod.

Replace YourAnimalDefName with the actual defName of your animal.

<Operation Class="PatchOperationSequence">
  <operations>
    <li Class="PatchOperationSequence" MayRequireAnyOf="gguake.grazingarea,gguake.grazingarea_steam">
      <operations>
        <li Class="PatchOperationAddModExtension">
          <xpath>Defs/ThingDef[defName="YourAnimalDefName"]</xpath>
          <value>
            <li Class="GrazingArea.ShepherdExtension" />
          </value>
        </li>
      </operations>
    </li>
  </operations>
</Operation>