Animals growing up and such

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I have a few questions suggestions regarding animals.
First off, will animals just unrealistically grow from baby to adult in a few hours, or will it take awhile for them to mature, and they’ll go into multiple stages before becoming an adult? The latter seems like a better option to me, seeing as Stonehearth wants to be more realistic. Animals could even have a certain amount of development stages before becoming an adult. Poyo’s, for example, would only have 3, while sheep could have 4. And that brings me to my next question. Will animals have separate genders? For example, male sheep could have horns, while female sheep could be… fluffier? Male Poyo’s would obviously have an incredibly different plumage, like in real life. This would also add some incentive to killing animals, seeing as, if you don’t have any males, you could decide to get rid of a female to make room for one.

Tell me what you guys think, and I’ll see ya later!

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as with most things in game development, there’s a balance between realistic simulations of real life and the “fun factor”…

personally, i don’t want to wait hours for my baby sheep to “grow up”… I think if the maturation process is easily noticeable, as in, clearly identifying one animal as a baby, and then X minutes later there’s a magical “poof” into adulthood, that would suffice… imho of course… :smile:

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