Ranching
Doloc Town Animals
Ranching is a 1.0 / late-EA pillar (Thrive & Ties), not a day-one system. The Animal tech tree opens after you build a Small Barn and report in to Kenenimuu. Steam store copy mentions raising animals; it does not print a species roster.
How ranching opens
Neoseeker’s tech tree: Animal has 18 nodes and stays locked until the Small Barn plus Kenenimuu’s livestock tutorial. Kenenimuu is described on Japanese pages as a young shaman of a northern grassland tribe in the Doloc mountains.
What reviews actually claim
GameGrin: animals ignore acid rain and heat and do not die — that is a reviewer’s observation, not a Steam tooltip. Keep food crops on platforms; ground plants still get eaten even with full troughs (1.0 video).
Fish farming vs ranching
Publisher 1.0 copy lists livestock and fish farming among EA pillars. Details of tanks versus barns belong on future pages if we get a second source. This page will not invent four starter animals.