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Cows, chickens, pigs—oh my!
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To cook in Octopath Traveler 0, you need ingredients like Milk, Beef, and Eggs. While these items can be found around the world, they don’t come in abundance, so you’ll want to build up your own ranch to get a steady supply on your own.
But before you can have the most prosperous ranch in all of Orsterra, you’ll want to buy every animal available in Octopath Traveler 0. There are four animals in the game: chickens, cows, pigs, and sheep. You’ll get two chickens when you unlock the ranch in Wishvale, but you’ll need to buy the other three types of animals if you want to collect them all.
Where to find all ranch animals in Octopath Traveler 0
| Animal | Yields | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken | Egg, Chicken Meat | Received as part of the efforts to rebuild Wishvale. |
| Cow | Meat, Milk | Purchase from Disagreeable Merchant in Cragpsear Slums for 4,500/2,300 Leaves. |
| Pig | Pork | Purchase from Sailor Turned Merchant in Rippletide for 3,000/1,500 Leaves. |
| Sheep | Mutton, Milk | Purchase from Wise King’s Admirer in Shepherds Rock: Castle Square for 7,500/3,800 Leaves. |
How to add animals to your ranch in Octopath Traveler 0
Before you can expect to collect any eggs or pork, though, you’ll need to assign a resident to manage your ranch. To do so, enter the build menu and click on the ranch. Then choose “Housing” and scroll to the characters you’d like to assign to the structure. NPCs like the Hotheaded Rancher from Clearbrook or the Cow-Loving Farmer from Atlasdam increase progress on the ranch when assigned to it, so I recommend choosing them over others.
After you’ve assigned a resident to oversee your ranch, they’ll post up in front of a table to the right of the pasture, and a chicken icon will appear over their heads. Speak to them, and a menu will pop up. Select the “Raise” option, and you’ll see all six slots where you can add an animal. Until you upgrade your ranch, only the first two slots will be open. The first and second upgrades then unlock the second and third pairs of slots.
When you have animals assigned to the ranch, you can see how long it will take for that animal to produce items. The ranch system behaves much like the fields where you can grow seeds, and the yield progress increases with every battle, so check in every once in a while when you’re in between quests. If you place a Harvest Box somewhere in Wishvale, the items will automatically be stored there whenever they’re ready to collect.
Published: Dec 4, 2025 12:47 am