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- Where To Find The Ranch
- How To Care For Animals
- All Animals And How To Get Them
- How To Breed Animals
- All Animal Treats And How To Get Them
- What To Do With Venerated Animals
- All Ranch Skill Rewards
Awakening in the colorful world of Palia means embracing new cultures and getting used to the surrounding environment. Meeting the people in the village will unlock new career paths, rewards, and activities you can participate in to gather resources.
The ranching update includes all new ways to spend your time, including caring for your favorite animals and collecting products from them. It takes a bit of patience and practice, but the rewards are well worth it. Here's everything you need to know to get started and build strong bonds with your farm animals, be them small Pekis or massive Ormuus!
Where To Find The Ranch
To unlock the ranch, Delilah will visit your home with news about her latest project. She'll give you access to the Barn Bell, which you can place on your property.
Interact with the bell to travel to the ranch, where you'll find barns and coops waiting for you. You can use the various stalls here to keep animals and collect products from them.
While technically part of your home, you cannot decorate the area. It's treated like a rental from Delilah.
How To Care For Animals
Animals require love and care to thrive, and the best way to do that is to check on them regularly. You can give them pets and snacks throughout the day to maintain their focus and attention meters, which will overall help them produce their corresponding goods faster.
To interact with animals, approach them and use the input to open their menu. You can use the hand icon to pet them or the bowl icon to give them food. Animals will eat crops like corn and tomatoes, along with different animal treats.
If you can't find your animal in the barn, don't worry! Check the various stalls for them since animals tend to wander.
All Animals And How To Get Them
Currently, there are four different animals you can have. Each of them requires a different amount of gold, and they have different personalities to start. As your ranching level increases, you'll unlock a wider variety of animals to raise and collect.
Animal
Product
Care
Cost
Peki
Eggs
Focus Limit: Low
Attention Needs: Moderate
1,000 Gold
Trufflet
Mushrooms
Focus Limit: Medium
Attention Needs: Moderate
1,500 Gold
Ormuu
Milk
Focus Limit: High
Attention Needs: High
2,500 Gold
Bumbles
Honey
Focus Limit: Low
Attention Needs: Low
1,200 Gold
How To Breed Animals
Animals can be bred at the nursery down the road from the main barn. You'll need two of the same animal to make a baby animal, and they can only be bred once before a cooldown starts. Breeding animals is the best way to get new variants for free–and you can pass down traits from parent to child.
Baby animals will remain at the nursery until they become adults since it's safer for them there. Make sure to check in on them to make sure they have enough attention and food, though they won't produce any products until they're older.
If you don't have two animals to breed, you can adopt new ones at the Ranch Store for a small rehoming fee!
All Animal Treats And How To Get Them
Animal treats can help with a variety of factors, like selectively breeding traits out of your Pekis or trying to get a specific Ormuu to become an adult. Below are all the different animal treats and how you can get them:
Animal Treat
Description
How To Get
Plain Cookie
Clears any active treat effects on the animal.
Ranching Store
200 Gold
Fast-Grow Cookie
Significantly increases the rate at which your animal ages.
Ranching Store
500 Gold
Fancy Breed Cookie
Allows up to three traits to be passed on while breeding.
Ranching Store
500 Gold
Bad Breed Cookie
Reduces the odds that an animal will pass down traits when breeding.
Ranching Store
200 Gold
Never Grow Cookie
Given to baby animals to prevent them from aging.
Ranching Store
1,250 Gold
Namewell Cookie
Allows you to rename an animal once.
Ranching Store
100 Gold
Oopsie Cookie
Removes a single trait randomly when given to an animal.
Ranching Store
1,000 Gold
Predictable Cookie
Prevents animals from gaining new traits randomly.
Ranching Store
800 Gold
Me-First Cookie
This animal's traits get priority when breeding.
Ranching Store
500 Gold
Feel Good Cookie
When fed to an animal, that animal gains a boost in happiness.
Treat Packs
PalSnax
Increases the rate of animal production one time.
Treat Packs
Roulette Cookie
Grants an animal a single random trait.
Ranching Store
20 Skill Medals
Trait Treat
Grants an animal a functional trait randomly.
Ranching Store
20 Skill Medals
Tasty Trait Treat
Adds a random functional trait based on how many cosmetic traits the animal has.
Ranching Store
100 Skill Medals
Worse Breed Biscuit
Significantly reduce the chances of this animal passing down any traits when bred.
Ranching Store
10 Skill Medals
Faster-Grow Cookie
Greatly increases the aging rate for the animal.
Ranching Store
10 Skill Medals
Better Breed Biscuit
Significantly increase the chances of this animal passing down any traits when bred.
Ranching Store
10 Skill Medals
Cookie of the Day
Grants an animal a single cosmetic trait at random.
Ranching Store
20 Skill Medals
Reroll Cookie
Randomizes the tier of each trait.
Ranching Store
50 Skill Medals
Divine Doughnut
When fed to a retired/venerated animal, they'll be reincarnated as a baby and maintain all of their traits.
Legendary Treat Pack
What To Do With Venerated Animals
When your animals age out of the viable range for producing goods, you can send them away to be rehomed. Doing so will say goodbye to the animal forever, but reward you with a bag of treats. These treats can be used to help raise new animals.
However, for extra special animals that you love, you can hold onto them. If you're lucky enough to get a Divine Doughnut from a Legendary Treat Pack, you can feed it to your favorite animal to reincarnate them as a baby and give them a second chance at life – without losing any traits!
No one is forcing you to get rid of venerated animals, but having too many animals in your care will slow down production for every animal in the barn.
All Ranch Skill Rewards
As your level grows while ranching, you'll unlock all sorts of new rewards and abilities you can utilize in farm life. From unlocking new animals to purchasing all new treats to feed them, each level of rewards will help make things easier.
Below are the ranching skill rewards so you can see what you have to look forward to:
Skill Level
Reward Unlocked
Level 1
Barn Bell
Level 2
Peki
Level 3
Namewell Cookie
Plain Cookie
Fast-Grow Cookie
Good Breed Biscuit
Bad Breed Biscuit
Level 4
Trufflet Animal
Level 5
Ranch Upgrade (+10 Animal Storage)
Level 6
Oopsie Cookie
Me-First Cookie
Predictable Cookie
Never-Grow Cookie
Level 7
Ormuu Animal
Level 8
Ranch Upgrade (+10 Animal Storage)
Level 9
Bumble Animal
Level 10
Cookie of the Day
Roulette Cookie
Tasty Trait Treat
Worse Breed Biscuit
Faster-Grow Cookie
Better Breed Biscuit
Reroll Cookie
