On the other hand, I hear you can potentially trap your animals outside leaving them vulnerable to wolves if you close them before they've gone in. Here's a little robot for your farm I always wondered how the auto-grabber works and decided it has to be a little robot who does the milking and shearing.
If there's a downside to it, I've not noticed it. This mod is not opted-in to receive Donation Points. I've seen other threads that claim that leaving the doors open will not result in a wild animal attack, like this one: Note that an empty Auto-Grabber cannot be opened. Items can be viewed or removed by right-clicking on the Auto-Grabber.
The coop products, on the other hand, don't require. The Auto-Grabber acts like a chest, holding up to 36 harvested items (or stacks of harvested items). The grabber is designed to save you the effort of having to use the milking and shearing tools, which consume energy (I think, been a while since I've had animals), so the grabber saves you the trouble of needing to bring those tools and saves you a bit of energy. However, from this, it sounds like this check is only done to see if any animals have been left outside and have their housing door closed behind them. Each morning, the Auto-Grabber will automatically harvest all products in the Barn or Coop where it is placed. It doesn't matter when the door is closed, so long as it is closed. Regarding the wild animal attacks, from the wiki section on this subject, it seems like the "wild animal attack" check is only performed overnight. Thus, if you put your animals inside prior to 6PM, your animals will begin losing happiness then, because you are still awake. If this event proceeds, the game will go through all buildings to find a barn or coop that has their doors closed and has animals left outside.Īnimals will not lose happiness until they are outside past 7PM, but they will start losing happiness if have already put them inside before then (starting at 6PM). If no events are due to occur, there will be a 50% chance that the game will attempt to start a wild animal attack event. If an animal has been trapped outside with the barn or coop doors closed, there is a chance they will be attacked by a wild animal during the night.Īfter the player goes to sleep, any events that will happen during the night (such as Bundle events) are calculated as normal. Type the name of an item into the search box to instantly search for a. The cheat codes in this list are for the latest version of Stardew Valley on all platforms including PC/Mac (Steam), PS4, XBOX One and the Nintendo Switch. You are misunderstanding how and when animals are attacked Find below an updated list of 702 item numbers for use in Stardew Valley cheats. Player staying awake past 6PM, animal inside Barn or Coop (-4 to -8 every 10 minutes the Player stays awake, until a minimum of 150 is reached.) Animals will go inside when they want with the doors open.įrom the wiki, They will get unhappy if they are outside after 7PMĪnimal outside past 7PM (-4 to -8 every 10 minutes does not stack with any other "every 10 minutes" effect) I have went in-game years without closing barn doors.
You don't need to close the barn doors at night.