Ranch Station

Livestock automation: feeds, breeds, milks, shears, culls to a cap, and collects everything including the XP.

StatValue
Range9x9, two blocks up and down
Cycleone action every 3 seconds, 50 E each
Slots3 feed, 1 bucket, 9 outputs

Recipe

Any Planks
Any Planks
Any Planks
Copper Ingot
Wheat
Copper Ingot
Any Planks
Any Cable (Power Farm or Tech Reborn)
Any Planks
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Ranch Station

Interactions

Each cycle it does the first of these it can:

  1. Cull (with a herd cap set): removes one adult of any species over the cap. Drops are collected and the animal's 1 to 3 XP is banked. Babies and breeding animals are never culled.
  2. Milk: needs an empty bucket loaded and a cow in range; 30-second cooldown.
  3. Shear: one ready sheep, only when a free output slot exists, so wool never litters the ground.
  4. Breed: feeds two animals of one species from the feed slots (whatever they actually eat).

It vacuums dropped items and experience orbs in its area every cycle. The -/+ buttons set the per-species herd cap (-- is off, max 64); breeding pauses for species at the cap. Click the green bar to collect banked XP.

Tips

Milk buckets do not stack. Dairy setups want eject enabled with a chest underneath. Keep wheat, seeds, and carrots in the feed slots to cover cows, sheep, chickens, and pigs.