Farming Simulator (FS25) Pre-Release News for Animals. Cows, Pigs, Water Buffalos, Goats, Horses, etc. This page focuses on the new animals or any changes how animals work in the new FS25 engine.
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Water Buffalos -source Giants website blog.
"Water Buffaloes adapt to harsher environments: Hot and humid? No problem. That's why they feel at home in South East Asia. fields of grass will be cut by grazing livestock. Not just the water buffaloes. Water buffalo milk is especially rich in fat, protein, and minerals, making it ideal for producing dairy products. Water buffalos are mainly used to produce milk. breeding and selling for a profit. By the age of 18 months, water buffalos are matured. That's when they start producing milk. And offspring. They also start reproducing, and tiny baby buffaloes will soon appear in your pastures. you buy water buffalos as calfs or adults. The game features a system developed to ensure animals interact correctly by keeping them within a defined space where they're aware of each other's positions." -source Giants website blog.
Water Buffalo Milk Pallets
Water Buffalo Calfs
Water Buffalo 3D Model Zbrush
Water Buffalo Texture In Substance Painter
Pigs have "piglets" baby animals as well. -source djgoham youtube video "FS25 Gamescom Trailer (Official) - Farming Simulator 25".
Goats. There has only been a teaser alike short video clip of a baby goat.
Cows have calfs, ie baby cows as well.
Preview: Goats! -source Giants website blog.
Looks like FS25 goats will use the same barn/pasture as FS22 uses for Sheeps, can be seen in this youtube: Goats in 25 Seconds FS25 video.
You want to get goats right and the most complex thing are their legs and rectangular pupils.
Then our artists and programmers build other parts of an anatomically correct goat in different stages from newborn to adult, so you can enjoy one of the most anticipated farm animals!
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Goat milk it's so unique in taste and profitable in production!
New production chains allow you to process their milk and go for fine goat cheese!
Bonus Interview Manuel Leithner, producer, gameplay and lead gameplay programmer.
What inspired the decision to add goats to the game?
Goats have been a popular request from our players, especially in certain regions where they play an important role in animal husbandry. They also work well with our production chains and new products that players can craft, making them more interesting for everyone.
What unique behavior will goats exhibit compared to other livestock?
You will notice many new animations from our Character & Animation team, who have done a great job bringing the animals to life. As goats are particularly lively and looking at our improved animation system, we thought Farming Simulator 25 would be incomplete without them. Especially the kids are jumping around like you would expect young goats to behave which is quite nice to watch.
How did you research real goat behavior to design their in-game actions?
One of the benefits of having a lot of people working on Farming Simulator who already had a lot of experience with real-life farming is that it is easier to bring those elements into the game. There's already an underlying sense of what's authentic, and that includes animals like goats when we digitize them.
But to really bring their virtual counterparts to life, we also look at a lot of videos of goats in various environments and discussed their behavior together. In the end, artists, animators, and programmers had to be in sync.
What challenges did you face when creating goats in general?
Goats are active, excited and playful creatures when you follow them around. So, the challenging part here was of course to make their movements look realistic and animate them properly. I think, our team did a good job here and goats add to the liveliness of the farms.
Why do you think goats are impressive farm animals?
Goats in particular like to let you know that they have distinct personalities. As I said before, they are playful. Because they are also incredibly curious and intelligent, always exploring their surroundings, they can be quite challenging livestock to keep. But they make up for it in providing valuable resources like milk, and they’re known for their hardiness in different environments.
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2024-10-26 DjGoHam reported about some german language magazine which got release in germany (well doh) which lists dynamic pastures, meaning Expandable Animal Pastures in FS25. -source DjGoHam youtube video "BREAKING NEWS - Dynamic Pastures CONFIRMED for Farming Simulator 25!!!".
What is Expandable Animal Pasture? It is animal barn/shed, like lets say cattle/cow barn where your animals live, eat and breed. This placeable building has an navigation mesh (navmesh) area for the animals to walk around, don't worry about the tech lingo, its geek developer talk, just think of it "where the cows walk!" area
See FS22 Expandable Pastures mod by Chissel. This is basically now in-game feature of FS25. Pretty cool actually, I am truly looking forward for a large cattle/cow operation now on FS25 if you truly can "paint" your own "where cows walk areas"
DjGoHam is reporting from the german magazine that players can draw fences in landscaping build mode (FS22 guide page) and animals are using the area inside the drawn/placed fences.
Of course we have to be very cautious with expectations about this FS25 in-game feature, all we have seen is almost random "hush hush" german language PAPER MAGAZINE (who reads those in 2024, huh) mentioning this feature. I'm going to be very calm and collected while waiting for further information, hopefully there will be some youtube preview videos / live streams of FS25 before the release which would confirm and show how this feature works. But having said that, I am still very happy, cautious, but happy to hear this expandable pasture news