What is the Herding Robot?
On 27 FEB,2024, the Herding Robot tool was updated and now has more functions.
The Herding Robot can be used to store animals in their animal sheds, mainly harvestable animals, some but not all of the very old decorative animals.
The Herding Robot also enables buying multiples of some harvestable animals and sends them directly to the relevant animals shed on whichever of your farms you are on that has room for them instead of buying and placing them one by one on the farm and then storing them.
You can not buy multiples and place them on the farm.
Remember animals that are not in animals sheds can be a huge drain on computer resources and make farms slow to load or even impossible for some computers when far too many animals are on a farm.
- When you own the Herding Robot make sure that you place it into your Item storage, so that it can be used on any of your own farms.
- You can not use this tool on another farmers farms. They must own it themselves and use it themselves.
- You can buy multiple on harvestable animals in the store like sheep, llamas, white rabbits, ostriches and peacocks and automatically send them to the animal shed on the farm you are on as long as you have room for them in the animal shed.
- As long as you can afford it, you could fill a shed with the maximum amount of animals it will hold with one purchase per animal type.
- You can also buy and send the amount of animals needed to fill the animal shed if it's got some in but not at maximum yet.
- These new options mean you can easily fill a harvestable animal shed with coin animals very fast. Without it you are buying them one at a time and the counter on the save icon climbs for each purchase making you wait for them to load before you could store them. The more animals you place on a farm, the longer the wait.
- This tool will not buy multiples of ANY decorative animals in bulk.
- This tool will not buy Farm Cash Animals in bulk. Farm Cash Animals must still be bought one at a time and placed on a totally CLEAR SPOT on your farm.
IMPORTANT
Do not buy and place FARM CASH animals without showing EVERYTHING possible on your farms so you can see if there is any clear spot to place them. If you place them where another item is, no matter if it's crop trees, flowers, facilities, buildings, decorations or when there are numerous amounts of those on the farm, your Farm Cash animals can go missing before you get a chance to store them!
Some of the coin animals are quite expensive to buy in bulk for those starting out and not a lot of coins. You may want to consider this before filling any new animal shed form empty to maximum with every kind of coin bought animal it can hold to harvest.
Harvestable sheep for example are only 800 coins each, where as the harvestable ostriches are 50,000 each!
To use the Herding Robot to store working animals that are already placed on your farms, you must have the relevant animal shed on the farm AND have room in the shed on that farm to store them.
Open your yellow toolbox and click on the Herding Robot.
![](https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/tools/HERDING ROBOT TOOLBOX.png)
Then click on the animal you want to store.
![](https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/tools/HERDING ROBOT CLICK ON SHEEP.png)
You will then see how many you will be storing which will be whatever capacity is left in the animals shed for that animal
![](https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/tools/HERDING ROBOT MOVE 25 SHEEP.png)
If there is room for the animals they will be stored in the shed and you will see the message to confirm how many of which animal were sent to the animal shed.
![](https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/tools/HERDING ROBOT 25 SHEEP MOVED.png)
To buy multiples of coin bought harvestable animals from the store and send then directly to animals sheds on the farm you are on, you must have room in the relevant animals shed on that farm to store them.
Open the Store and click on the Animals section.
Scroll down or search for the animal you wish to buy like sheep, llama, white rabbit, ostrich, peacock.
Mouseover the animals and Multiple will appear.
In these examples we are buying sheep:
![](https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/tools/MULTI SHEEP.png)
CLICK on Multiple and you will see your buying options. If the shed already has some in it but is not full the maximum you will see the maximum you can buy is the remaining capacity of that animal shed for that animal.
When a specific animal in an animal shed is at maximum for capacity (250 regular sheds, 500 super sheds) when you click on Multiple it will show you information like these:
![](https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/tools/MULTI SHEEP REG SHED MAXED.png)
![](https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/tools/MULTI SHEEP SUPER SHED MAXED.png)
These are the options shown when there are no sheep in the animal shed:
![](https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/tools/MULTI SHEEP REG SHED.png)
![](https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/tools/MULTI SHEEP SUPER SHED.png)
Scroll down and click on the amount of animals you want to purchase, then you will be shown a popup with information.
These examples are for filling a shed to maximum for regular shed or super shed.
Take note of the type of animal, the amount you are buying and the COST incase you made a mistake or can't afford them. This is your only opportunity to cancel the purchase!!
If the information is correct. Click on the green check mark to buy and store the animal in your animal shed. The coins will be deducted and you can check the animal shed to make sure it is full or the amount you bought was added.
To cancel the purchase, click on the red X instead.
![](https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/tools/BUY 250 500 SHEEP AND COST.png)
You will then see this type of message when the purchase is successful: