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Thankfully, once players get well-situated, they can get ahold of some cows and then keep getting more every year. Veterans of Farthest Frontier know that building an economy on the backs of cattle is one of the safest choices and they don’t need to be constantly managed, freeing up the player to do more important tasks.
Make A Barn
Players will need a barn to get the process started, a tier 2 building. This building smells bad, so players looking to create high-desirability areas will want to build it far away from the homes and residential areas. This building is where workers will keep the grains and waste that the cows yield. Make sure to have at least one worker and higher more as more cows are gained.
It’s wise to put this building next to farms that produce grains and the windmill. The windmill also uses grains so this saves workers from needing to run all over the city as they make grain deliveries. Because the two buildings compete for resources, make sure to either have a few grain-producing farms or no windmill at all.
Set A Grazing Area
The cows are actually not stored in the barn at all, but rather live in a grazing area, determined when the barn is built (it can be moved later). The grazing area can be a bit confusing as, unlike farms, it can share space with other buildings and structures.
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Set this area to overlap with a farm on an ideal crop rotation of clovers. The cows will eat some of the product as they are being fed grain by the workers but their waste will make the soil they graze on richer. This will increase the fertility of the land and make the cows healthier, giving them higher yields.
Buying The First Cows
Now that everything is set up, it’s time to start buying cows. Cows do not appear in the wild, so the first ones must be purchased with gold from a trader. Not every trader will have cows, so be vigilant and at least check in with every trader until buying at least two.
Unlike most products bought from the trader, a prompt will ask where the cows should be stored after they are acquired. If players have multiple barns, they’ll need to choose which one gets the cows. However, at this stage, players should really only have one barn stocked with gain (one of the best crops to grow) until a maximum population is reached.
Birthing Cows
Two cows in a field have a chance to produce cattle every year though it’s a very low chance. Gamers who want to speed up this process will need to buy about five cattle to average one more cow per year. After this, growing the population of cattle can begin in earnest.
After reaching ten heads of cattle, repeat the process of barn building. Instead of buying new cattle, simply transfer five cattle from the existing barn to the next and it will begin to grow. Cows that exceed the barn’s limit are automatically slaughtered for loads of food.
Farthest Frontier is available in Early Access on PC.
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