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Any benefit going all in with animal kinship?

I've just started and just apply all my learning towards animal kinship, not sure if this is wise or not but I am really into the animal breeding, butchering ... hoping it leads to animal taming  one day - any advice?

Posted 15 months ago by Chosen Predator Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • You can gather A LOT of resources at the high levels. Include remote husbandry, and you can gather meat and milk in your home while you are away.

    Yes, we all want pets. Fingers crossed.
    Posted 15 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I didnt realize how spoiled i was with my animal skills. Yes, you can benefit a lot from them imo. I was getting MBs left and right from chickens and my piggies & butterflies kept me in a comfortable lifestyle
    Posted 15 months ago by r0gu3 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • There's no butchering involved, either.  You purchase a butterfly milker and a meat collector (or several) and then put the max amount of critters that can be happy in your home.  Then you collect the milk and meat and sell it--it's steady money!  Eventually your little butterflies will die off and have to be replaced...pigs too but that takes much longer.
    Posted 15 months ago by Nanookie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Animal kinship basically means you will never ever go hungry. It increases the amount of food you get from every animal you nibble/squeeze/milk.

    Animal Husbandry lets you make animal eggs yourself, and request that chickens hatch them for you (animal breeding). Herdkeeping allows you to capture wild piggies and put them wherever you want (animal taming). Remote Herdkeeping lets you harvest your butterflies and piggies (in your house) when you aren't there, with the use of special machines.

    If you like interacting with the animals, then you're on the right path!
    Remember though, if you have piggies in your house, you have to feed them when they get "nibbled out" since that means they are hungry.
    Posted 15 months ago by Biohazard Subscriber! | Permalink
  • As someone who prefers the AK and cooking skills, I commend your choice. I know there are different mindsets about this but for me, those higher-level AK skills were what helped me earn more currants to buy things that I wanted like cubimals and a big house. I think it's a good idea to go all-in on a skill until mastery. After twenty skills, your learning time increases per-skill, so getting those higher-ups now is a good idea. There are pros and cons to every "path" of skills on Glitch, but the cool thing is that there is no right or wrong way to go about it.

    As for advice, just remember that as you get to Remote Herdkeeping, you can only have a certain number of feeders, milkers, and collectors within your home. You can technically keep as many as you want, but any more than seven or eight will make the animals confused and your efficiency will decrease. As you go forward in your AK skills, find a balance between everything you do - how much energy does it take to harvest resources to make eggs? What foods can you harvest quickly that make better feed? Do you want to donate or sell your random drops? Don't forget that feeding a pig three times will make it plop a bag of seeds. Is that a good source of income?

    My advice to you is to remember all the things you can do with the wonderful animals in Glitch. You've got butterflies, pigs, chickens, and fireflies too (even though technically your skills in AK don't go towards those, but selling full jars of fireflies can be a good source of income during street-building projects so don't forget about them!). Just hold on to all your skills and apply them. Be creative with naming sprees - they're a lot of fun! Send people random eggs of kindness in the mail. Catch pigs and donate them to shrines. The point is, make these skills your own and find ways to enjoy it.

    -end rambling-
    Posted 15 months ago by LitaPie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I started with AK.  I took it as far as I could as soon as I started, and made my donations to Humbaba exclusively.

    I consider it a wise move.  It's its own form of energy management and is a great investment.
    Posted 15 months ago by Papa Vodou Subscriber! | Permalink
  • AK is great, but it's better in the early economy (depending upon the amount of influx of new players).  RHK is a nice easy source of income, but also causes milk and meat prices to stabilize around cost price.  That said, if you enjoy chasing the animals then that's a good rate of return with AK 7, and at AK 5 you get to RENAME animals which is actually my favorite thing to do!!
    Posted 15 months ago by FlirtyvonSexenhaven Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Do you think they will go as far as letting us breed different breeds of animals to make some kind of super rare animal and expand on the ecosystem or is that to indepth? I know there is one MMO that does this but i think it would actually be better for glitch.
    Posted 15 months ago by Chosen Predator Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, I do hope so. The game's interesting enough as is, but If they could add more stuff, it'll be great!

    And oh, my gameplay is focused mainly on the animal kinship skillset. It may be challenging at the start, having to manage nibbling/milking/squeezing with the energy of a low-level glitch, but once you get to the higher AK skills, you'll definitely feel the rewards. 
    Posted 15 months ago by roderick ordonez Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Animal Kinship is a great skill branch *and* a great choice to start with. By contrast, Cooking is a terrific branch of the skill tree but often a terrible place to start.

    Going all in with AK means you're going to get Remote Herdkeeping, which is awesome. it's a great way to play casually, since once you're set up it requires very little effort and time commitment to sustain, especially if you keep lot of extra feeders and collectors so that you don't have to refill and empty them every single day, on the hour.

    Once you have AK and RH, you will have a lot of "free" meat each day. Many of the best foods, like Abbaid Ribs and Awesome Stew, have a meat component.

    A suggestion .. after you have AK and RH all set up, don't immediately jump into cooking. Work on Gardening next, and learn Cooking last. That way by the time you learn a recipe you will always be able to gather or grow copious amounts of its ingredients. There is also a skill learning speed advantage to going in this order.

    People ask how to get ahead in the game, how to make lots of currants, and often hear "Mining" as a response. Mining is awesome and superior to AK from a skill speed boost and housing acquisition perspective, but AK is much less "grindy" than mining. Grinding is bad, which means AK is good.
    Posted 15 months ago by striatic Subscriber! | Permalink