How inefficient is watering the cow?

QuirkySmirkyIan · 2020-04-06 13:56:23

It saves time but it uses up water. What should I be doing?

sigmen4020 · 2020-04-06 14:14:36

Technically speaking it's kinda inefficient on a water standpoint, but what you use of water saves you time. The maximum amount you can milk a cow for on bowl of corn is three times. 1 corn is worth 0,25 bowl of water, since 1 bowl of water gives you 4 corn total. If you milk the cow using 1 corn + 2 water, the water cost for 3 buckets of milk will be 2,25 bowls of water. That's not terrible but it's a bit cheaper to do it with corn exclusively. If you milk a cow 3 seperate times using corn you gain 3 buckets of milk for 0,75 bowls of water.

So you save 2,25-0,75=1,50 bowls of water if you do it the slow way. Of course by doing this you also add extra soil and iron cost to the equation, since you are now using almost an entire corn plant to get the same amount of milk you can obtain with 1 corn.

I'm honestly not sure what you should do to be most efficient. Maybe someone else who can take all extra costs into account has a better idea, but I think if you remove the time aspect, then using 3 corn for 3 buckets of milk is probably better.

Edit: having three cows to save time might be the better solution tbh and milking each of them once might be the most cost efficient method.

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testo · 2020-04-06 14:22:52

Do whatever makes you happy, each way is way better than a berry or carrot so it doesn´t matter if you are not at top efficiency, as long as the milk is eaten.

Coconut Fruit · 2020-04-06 14:51:19

Milk is the most water efficient food even if you use water instead of corn, but the water efficiency of milk drastically decreases if you use water. I see no point using water if there are a few cows.

QuirkySmirkyIan · 2020-04-06 15:08:43

Thanks for the advice. Although I didn't screenshot it I saw 2 pens in the same town full of cows. Probably 20+ cows damn that is a lot of piss.

pein · 2020-04-06 15:10:59

Yeah, it takes 0.25 water for each corn, so it's better than giving water, but it's way faster.
You can also make mistakes by giving water but not taking the milk, or leaving milk too long and getting cream and skim milk, rather just take out a bowl of milk right away.

Did this in Voltairre town, someone griefed the rails, which is sad cause it needs 2 people to do it

I don't like moving cows and no point to let the calfs run around, die and clutter. I guess it's a possibility to have 4 cows this way and feed all of them with a bit of delay, and milk all of them with a bit of delay.

Gogo · 2020-04-06 15:14:07

What? I didn't even knew about second way, it's inefficient, whole milk thing is about saving water by using only 1 bowl for 4 buckets.

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