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When you’re feeling keen on raising livestock inStory of Seasons: A Wonderful Life, Fodder is a key component that you won’t get too far without. Serving as the food for your Barn-based livestock, Fodder is the hay your animals eat that keep them nourished (and producing their usual array of products).
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Every kind of animal requires a different amount of food each day, and you’ll do well to keep everyone’s troughs full. Starved animals are unhappy, and unhappy animals give subpar products. Avoid this fate by keeping a good amount of Fodder in Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life.
Where To Find Fodder
When you first begin playing Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life, Takakura introduces you toyour first cow, afemale Normal Cowwho lives in yourBarn.
After you name it and are introduced to the concept of milking your Cows, you’re able to begintaking care of your livestockas normal - and that includesfeeding them.
Every animal you get will need a feeding troughin the Barn, witheach animal requiring a different numberof feedingsper day based on theirspecies:
If left inside,livestock consume their whole feeding trough in one day, so be sure to check the Barn frequently to see whose trough needs a top-up.
Regardless, this is whereFoddercomes in, a hay-like substance that you caneither buy or grow at hometo feed to your animals.
Grow Fodder In The Pasture With Fertilizer
Your first option for getting Fodder in Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life is togrow itat home byspreading Fertilizer in the pasturebehind the Barn.
You canget Fertilizer from Vesta, ormake it yourselfwith theFertilizer Maker upgrade.
Once you have Fertilizer, head out into the pasture andspread Fertilizer in the pasture just like seeds, and watch as it grows intograss for your animals to eatwhile they’re outside grazing.
That said, you can alsocut down the planted grasswith yourScytheif you would ratherharvest the grass into Fodder.
When you do this, the Fodder automatically gets loaded into a chute in the barn, which is located on theright side of the barn, by the door to the pasture.
Once you’ve cut down some grass,interact with the chute in the Barn to take out your Fodder, which you’re able to then place in the feeding troughs as normal.
Buy Fodder From The Ledger
If you’re mostly focused on other aspects of your farm, it may be easiest to simplybuy your Fodderfrom the city, courtesy ofordering it from the Ledger.
It costs20gper pieceto buy Fodder in theLedger. Choose"Can Order"and select your Fodder. Like all goods purchased in this way, you’ll receive itin the Deposit Box the following day.
You can thenstore it in the chutein the barn if you’d like,keep it in the storage shedoutside, or have some on you in your inventory for whenever the livestock need feeding.
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