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Farming can be casual, fun, and relaxing. It can also sometimes be a little hectic, especially if you find yourself with more animals than you anticipated. Doing just the basics of care to feed, pet, and harvest products can eat through a large chunk of time each and every day.
If you’re looking to save yourself some of those precious daily minutes, automation is the answer. There is a lot of automation available inCoral Island. you may implement as much, or as little, of it as you want. Automatically feeding animals is a great place to begin your automation.
How To Unlock The Auto-Feeder
You’ll need to invest in Coral Island quite a bitbefore you’ll have access to automation. You’ll need toreachtown rank D.
You start the game withtown rank F, and it will take some effort to reach town rank D.Working on healing coral sitesanddonating to the museumare some of the easiest ways to improve your town rank.
Once you reach town rank D,you’ll unlock quite a few automation options. You’ll have access to anauto-petter, auto-feeder, and auto-collector.
Where To Find The Auto-Feeder
When you’ve reached town rank D, you’ll receive the notice that you haveunlocked access to the auto-feeder. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean you have one yet, or that you even have access to the recipe.
You’ll need tovisit the lab, and interact with the counterjust inside the entrance. Choose the option todevelop equipmentto see what’s available.
The auto feeder is on the more expensive side of things. You’ll needquite a few items to purchase the recipe. When you unlock the recipe,you will also get one auto-feeder.
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This will be for theinitial purchase from the lab. After this purchase, you’ll be able to craft as many as you wantfrom your crafting menu.
Thesolar panelthat you can also craftwill produce batteries, or you can purchase batteriesfrom the lab or certain other shops.
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These are much more affordable to create, but will still take some effort.You’ll get three batteriesfrom the solar panel when it has reached its capacity. It’ll start creating more batteriesonce you pick up the finishedones.
How To Use The Auto-Feeder
If you want to auto-feed all your animals,you’ll need an auto-feeder for each barn or coopyou have. The description for the auto-feeder says to place it on your farm, but it’s a little more particular than that.
You will need tohave a silo set upon your farm to store hay.
You’ll need toenter the coop or barn you want to convert to auto-feeding. Once you’re holding the auto-feeder, an area of the barn or coop will show up with a red outline. You’ll need toplace the auto-feeder with the normal placement buttonin the red area.
Thered-marked area will turn green once you’re close enoughto properly place the auto-feeder. Now when you get low on hay,you’ll see a text alert above the auto-feederthat will let you know the hay is running low.
You canreplenish your hay by purchasing someat the ranch orusing your scythe on the tall grasson your farm or around the island.
The auto-feeder doesn’t know how many animals you have, soit will simply fill the maximum hay spotsfor whatever level barn or coop you have. This will only cost you a little extra hay since the animals will still only eat their portions.
Combine theauto-feeder with the auto-petter and auto-collectorto make your ranching even easier. You’re on your way to a well-automated farm.
