Coop
| Coop | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Building |
The Coop is the cheapest way to put animals on the farm, and for most farmers it is the first livestock building to go up. Chickens live there from the start, and the two upgrades bring in ducks, rabbits and the incubator that hatches the stranger birds: Void Chickens, Golden Chickens and even a Dinosaur. Nothing in the coop asks for much. A chicken costs little, eats one portion a day and lays an egg every single morning, which is why the coop is usually the steadiest small income on an early farm. The Meadowlands Farm map hands one over for free, with chickens already inside, which is a real head start.
Construction
Robin draws up the plans at the Carpenter's Shop. The first coop costs 4,000g with 300 Wood and 100 Stone, and she needs three days to finish it. She is off the clock for those three days, so anything else wanted from her has to be arranged beforehand.
Both upgrades take two days each and leave the coop working throughout, so the birds keep laying while the roof comes off. Robin can be found inside during the work.
Taking a coop all the way to Deluxe costs 34,000g with 1,200 Wood and 450 Stone across the three stages. Buying every plank and rock from Robin rather than gathering it pushes that to around 55,000g in a first year, and the same shopping list becomes punishing once her prices climb, so a line of tapped trees or a quarry habit saves a serious amount here.
Use
The small coop sleeps four birds, the Big Coop eight and the Deluxe Coop twelve, and the building stays the same size on the outside through all of it. Chickens come first and cost 800g at Marnie's Ranch. Ducks are unlocked by the Big Coop and cost 1,200g, and rabbits need the Deluxe Coop and cost 8,000g. As with barns, unlocking an animal unlocks it for every coop on the farm, so a rabbit can be moved into a plain coop once a Deluxe one exists somewhere.
A Hay Hopper inside connects to the silos, and the feeding bench takes hay by hand until the top tier automates it. Birds let outdoors will eat grass instead, which counts as the day's meal and leaves them in the best possible mood. Mood and friendship both feed into the quality of what they lay, so petting the flock every morning is not sentiment, it is money.
The produce ladder is short but reliable. A chicken lays daily, a duck every other day and a rabbit drops wool every fourth day along with the occasional Rabbit's Foot. Eggs go into a Mayonnaise Machine, duck feathers and Rabbit's Foot are both wanted by villagers as gifts, and wool goes through a Loom into Cloth. Because the chicken is the only tenant that pays out every single day, a coop filled entirely with chickens earns more steadily than a mixed one, even though the rarer birds sell for more per item.
Clutter is tolerated here too. Chests, machines and furniture can share the floor, and the birds walk around it happily. Piling too much inside does cause trouble, though, because eggs need open floor to appear on, and a coop stuffed wall to wall can stop the morning's produce from spawning at all.
Upgrades
The Big Coop costs 10,000g with 400 Wood and 150 Stone. Alongside the extra slots and ducks, it installs an Incubator. Dropping an egg in turns it into a bird: an ordinary, large or Duck Egg takes a little over six days, and a Dinosaur Egg takes twice that. The Incubator is also the only way to get a Void Chicken from a Void Egg or a Golden Chicken from a Golden Egg, since neither is sold at the ranch.
The Deluxe Coop costs 20,000g with 500 Wood and 200 Stone. It raises capacity to twelve, unlocks rabbits and adds the autofeed system, which lays hay along the bench overnight out of the silos. Birds that go outside still eat grass first and the hay goes untouched, so the silo only drains on days the flock stays in.
Notes
Keeping a coop door open past dusk leaves birds stranded outside, and a stranded bird is grumpy the next day and at risk of being carried off overnight. Closing up only after the last one has waddled in avoids both.
Shane's friendship has a quiet effect on the flock. Once he is a close enough friend, newly bought chickens have a chance of turning up blue instead of white or brown. It changes nothing about the eggs, but it is the only cosmetic variation a chicken has.
All Buildings
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Barn | 
|
- |
| Cabin | 
|
100g |
| Coop | 
|
- |
| Farmhouse | 
|
- |
| Fish Pond | 
|
5,000g |
| Gold Clock | 
|
10,000,000g |
| Greenhouse | 
|
35,000g |
| Junimo Hut | 
|
20,000g |
| Mill | 
|
2,500g |
| Pet Bowl | 
|
5,000g |
| Shed | 
|
- |
| Silo | 
|
100g |
| Slime Hutch | 
|
10,000g |
| Stable | 
|
10,000g |
| Well | 
|
1,000g |
| Witch's Hut | 
|
- |