There are plenty of animals to find in Aloft, and there are a number of reasons to add each to your island. Our Aloft animals guide will go over each animal you can find and how to take care of them.
How to Get Animals Onto Your Ship
While exploring the world, you'll often come across wild animals. The type of animal depends on the biome, but you can add them all to your home island.
To get an animal to like you, all you need is one of their feed type. For Sheep, Alpaca and Goats that's Hay, made by combing 3 Small Plants at a Workbench.
For Pheasants, you must grind up seeds in a Millstone, which you can unlock via Knowledge stones in the Emerald Isles. This gives you Grain.
After feeding an animal, you can then pick it up. You have the option to either carry it manually to your island, or send it directly there. The latter only works if your home island is close enough.
Animals do not need to be constantly fed, but you must feed them before you can harvest their drops. They also periodically drop Manure, which is useful for farming as it can be turned into Soil.
There are a few tools tied to animals. Shears can be made using 1 Wood, 2 Sharpened Stones (2 Stones each), and a Hardstone. Using these on a fed Sheep or Alpaca gives wood. A Leaf Bucket can be made using 2 Leaf Cloth and 1 Rope, and is used on a fed Goat to obtain Milk.
Pheasants periodically drop Feathers and Eggs, though you'll have to wait after feeding them. You'll often find these lying around on islands with wild Pheasants too.
Where to Find Animals
Here's where you can find every animal in Aloft, what you need to feed them, and what they produce for you.
Animal | Where to find | Feed | Drops |
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Sheep | Emerald Isles, Fallen Heights | Hay | Wool (requires Shears) |
Alpaca | Emerald Isles | Hay | Wool (requires Shears) |
Pheasant | Fallen Heights | Grain | Feathers, Eggs |
Goat | Red Cliffs | Hay | Milk (requires bucket) |
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