Cult of the Lamb’s Next Cozy DLC Lets You Do Something Stardew Valley Wouldn’t Dare

Cult of the Lamb’s Next Cozy DLC Lets You Do Something Stardew Valley Wouldn’t Dare

The next planned DLC for Cult of the Lamb will allow players to raise livestock just like in farming games like Stardew Valley, but it also permits the slaughter of livestock, something most of those titles wouldn’t dare to touch. Cult of the Lamb has become a massive hit partially because of its adorable imagery juxtaposed against a dark story of demonic resurrection, and its Woolhaven DLC should provide a similar mix of cute and macabre themes.

Cult of the Lamb‘s Woolhaven expansion was first announced in August as part of the Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 livestream event. The mostly animated trailer that accompanied that announcement only included about 15 seconds of actual gameplay, all introduced in blink-and-you’ll-miss-it bursts, and while much of it focused on combat, there was also a brief scene of The Lamb riding through camp on a yak-like creature.

Cult of the Lamb DLC Includes Slaughtering Livestock

Farming has been present in Cult of the Lamb since its early days, giving players an easy way to harvest resources like berries, pumpkins, and beetroot. Now, more details have emerged from publisher Devolver Digital’s Twitter profile, confirming that the shaggy bovine creatures from that past snippet are not only coming to the game alongside snails and crabs in early 2026, but players will be able to build ranch areas in their camps for raising, breeding, and shearing them. Additionally, while most farming games would leave it at that, Cult of the Lamb is pushing farm-based resource harvesting to the limit by letting players pull out an axe and slaughter them for meat and other items.

There are plenty of ways to gather meat in the roguelike game, but it is one of the trickier resources to collect without delving into the dungeons. One of the more reliable methods for obtaining meat without leaving camp is to sacrifice Cult of the Lamb‘s Followers, but the Follower Meat this method produces can have some adverse effects on the cult’s loyalty and faith. Therefore, while this new method seems pretty similar in nature, it probably won’t come with the same negative side effects.

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While their focus is on livestock and not Followers, the ranching mechanics seem to be tied to the ones introduced in the Sins of the Flesh update from early 2024. That update introduced the Mating Tent as a buildable object, allowing Followers to pair up and produce offspring, allowing the player to pick its traits. Breeding will similarly be one of the features available in Woolhaven, though whether the animals will be able to pick up traits similar to Followers is not yet known. And in classic Cult of the Lamb style, there’s still a wholesome element, as some Followers have been shown snuggling with the smaller animals as they sleep.


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Released

August 11, 2022

ESRB

Teen / Blood, Violence.

Developer(s)

Massive Monster


Source: GamesRadar+

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