how to you make animals produce the items you want

[Austintrollinski]

i need help to make animals produce an item i want them to dose someone know to do that and can to tell me how

[mattyboof]

What sort of item? food, horn etc

You could make it Milkable (see the cow or muffalo for a template)

Then make a custom "milk" which is the item you want?

Or add a bodypart to it which you get on butchering (see thrumbo for a template) You will need to make the ThingDef also unless it is a vanilla item you are wanting.

[Austintrollinski]

i want the animal to produce gold and am still new to modding

[CannibarRechter]

Open up Races_Animal_Arid. Look at the ThingDef for Muffalo. Under the comps section, you'll see:

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      <li Class="CompProperties_Shearable">
        <woolDef>WoolMuffalo</woolDef>
        <shearIntervalDays>25</shearIntervalDays>
        <woolAmount>100</woolAmount>
      </li>


Copy this to your animal. And then change it as follows:

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      <li Class="CompProperties_Shearable">
        <woolDef>Gold</woolDef>
        <shearIntervalDays>25</shearIntervalDays>
        <woolAmount>100</woolAmount>
      </li>


The trick is understanding that this comp doesn't actually require a "WoolDef". It can produce just about any Thing. This is exactly how I made my Thrumbo mod allow periodic harvesting of horns (I assume this still works; haven't tested lately).

p.s., the "zen" of modding is to looking for examples, and just try it. That's how I learned this was possible in the first place. Modding is a great deal of trial and error.

[Albion]

If you want to make something more complex than just using the sheering component (which then also means that the thrumbo horn is sheered off) look at the Chemicals extraction & Neutroamine crafting mod by ShadowTani. He even has the source code published so you can inspect it directly.

Alternativly you can check out the wool production component in the c# assemly of the core game and reverse engineer it to create your own production code.

All in all you'll need to do the following things:

• write c# code to create your own production component
• patch the def of the animal you want to use the production on or create your own animal
• add a workgiver def to have your pawn actually milk/sheer/whatever you want from your animals

... or just use the solution given by CannibarRechter