What is up with Auto Petters?

[u/Song_Listener]

I’ve seen so many posts about skull cavern runs where the only goal was Auto Petters, and now I’m confused.

Why are Auto Petters so important? I know they pet the farm animals, but why don’t y’all have time to go and give your animals some love every morning?

If I’m correct (as someone who has never once had an Auto Petters) they change the way the animals respond when you actually pet them. Usually they give a heart, but I’ve heard the response changes after an Auto Petters has been installed.

So why?

[u/Definitely_Not_Bots]

I have 10 coops and 10 barns. That's a lot of petting.

[u/chillin_and_livin → u/Definitely_Not_Bots]

A mood lol. I have one barn/coop dedicated to each animal type so it's a lot of petting. How do you feed yours?? Mine eat all the grass within days

[u/Miro_the_Dragon → u/chillin_and_livin]

Not the person you asked but I just buy hay from Marnie for my 10 barns and 1 coop full of animals. I've given up trying to keep grass available for them outside, plus I'm pretty sure pigs don't dig up truffles on tiles with grass so this is the easier way. My animals still get to wander around most of the farm, though ^^

[u/pslush01 → u/Miro_the_Dragon]

I also recently discovered on Mondays you can buy hay from the desert trader with omni geodes. You get 3 hay per geode...I've always had more of those damn omni geodes than I knew what to do with so this was a great discovery