The Ranch Simulator update scheduled for July arrived on time (this 29th)! Faithful to the roadmap, it brings goats, cattle trucks, and all gameplay around beekeeping.
Regarding goats, males and females are differentiated. They can reproduce and give birth to kids. Females can also produce milk so you can make cheese out of it. But not only, since, like cows and pigs, slaughtering and then selling the meat is not taboo here.
For beekeeping, the developers have done things quite well. You need to find a swarm in the wild, then use a smoker to put it to sleep and safely approach and move the bees into a hive.
The latter are built using frames. To exploit them, you have to buy some equipment such as a honey extractor, and containers (barrel). You will get a honey that you can sell directly.
Speaking of savings, Toxic Dog has added the possibility of taking out a loan from the bank, which will be very useful when you are short of money and will save you long manipulations to cheat. To take out a loan, go to the bank next to the car dealership. But be careful, because the bank will obviously charge you interest. The larger the loan, the lower the interest rate. For the repayment of your loans, you have two options: you can make automatic payments day after day or go to the bank to repay it in full.
Also planned and added in this update, fuel and animal trailers. The cattle trailers will be very practical for moving large livestock.
Patch notes, the recap
News:
- Goats, goat cheese and ferment for goat's milk (goat's milk cannot be mixed with cow's milk)
- Bees
- Bee smoker (used to calm bees so they can be handled)
- Hive frame (used to capture bees from wild hives in the trees)
- Wooden beehive and honey extractor, available in the construction book
- Barrel (used to store honey from the extractor)
- Bank loans
- Fuel transport trailer
- animal transport trailer
- Day counter (can be viewed from the in-game menu)
- Added goats and bees to glossary
Fixes/changes:
- Animals will no longer pass through the large wooden gate
- Money held limit is now 10
- Horse collisions have been adjusted
- The latest version of the EOS SDK has been installed. This may cause a window to appear offering to connect your Epic and Steam accounts. This is optional and can be skipped unless you want to play with users playing on other platforms.
Next step…
In the September update, it is already planned the production and harvest of wheat, gardening, a greenhouse, and more! we tease the developers. Apparently, the latter would have read and listened to the feedback from the community. We look forward to learning more. Fortunately, the wait shouldn't be too long.