Milking Pets?

[GodOfGophers]

Is it possible to milk your own pets?

[Nytar]

Never tried, but I don't think we can. Would be nice if we could :)

[Gath]

Nopes, you get the option if you lag after calling out a pet that normally has milk, but if you try to use it you get the message that this creature is dry on milk.

[Motherslip]

[b:5173fc8078][color=yellow:5173fc8078]This whole milking procedure is still a mystery to me--I tried to milk an Ikopi--she kept moving away from me. Then I shot her and tried (as was suggested here) to retrieve her milk--but the milking option was no longer available. How the heck do you milk the sucker?[/color:5173fc8078][/b:5173fc8078]

[Nytar]

Before you kill a pet, you get an option in the round menu.
If you kill it, you no longer get that option (you only get hides, bones and such). But as Yvesof stated, you can still harvest using \"/harvest milk\" command.

Now I just kill and get milk afterwards. Alot faster that way.

[vvedge]

I think you get less milk with the/harvest milk command than the radial milk... have to test it more...

what you can also do if you're BE is to sample DNA while milking
if the creature is killed by the sampling process, you still get the milk if you wait for the milking process to end

[GodOfGophers]

You absolutely DO get less milk if you kill the creature first. I would say somewhere around 1/2 to 1/3 of the normal amount.

What I do is milk it, then kill it, then milk it again.

It's too bad you can't milk your pets. I would be nice to get a bunch of fambaas and milk the suckers a couple times a day and 30cpu off of it.

[Kyrei Draven]

You mentioned that when you tried to milk it that it moved away, then you went ahead and shot it then tried

when it moves away you have to follow closely, and i mean be right up behind or under it....fun watching myself milk a faamba and wondering how i am walking when i need a ladder to even reach -lol-

[Motherslip]

[b:8379c3182a][color=yellow:8379c3182a]Guys I have started having 100% no-kill success with ikopi. I can milk the entire herd in almost no time. I put on my taming clothes and mask my scent!

The more I have done it, the better my success rate has grown. Now if I walk quietly among a herd, I can gentlle the cows down after a time or two, milk them all, pet them when I'm done, and go on my way, laden with milk.

I must say, all the others are harder, but ikopi are a snap!

I STILL think the devs should let us become dairy farmers. It would be at least ONE thing a CH could do for a LIVING.[/color:8379c3182a][/b:8379c3182a]

[Kyrei Draven]

Rock on!! :lol:

i am the local milk maid for my city -lol-

i learned the tricks fast when i was grinding BE cause i wanted to make higher XP so had to have milk to grind that 8)


anyway, good job...it takes patience and time and some just dont have that or desire , others enjoy it! i also enjoy the serenity of fishing...many dont do that as well so i have all the galaxy's oceans to myself -lol-

anywany, god job and keep on milkin!!