Buying and releasing herd animals

Buy goats and cows while a livestock caravan is at camp. Choose the sex before buying, and leave room in the herd for the new animal. Each visit can sell you up to two goats and one cow. The animal arrives at camp, so check its pen and Milking station assignment after buying it.

Release animal removes a living animal from colony ownership without payment. A pregnant animal cannot be released. The animal leaves without producing a carcass.

A herd animal that dies can leave a carcass for the butcher’s table, just as hunted game does. Fire and magma destroy the body, and older colonies without carcasses keep their earlier rules. Haul and butcher a surviving carcass before it rots.