How to Make Animals Happy in RuneScape 3

Player-Owned Farm is an activity that involves the player in managing their livestock at the Manor Farm. After playing with your player-owned farm for a bit, you’ll know that making your animals happy is one of the most important aspects to manage. By keeping your animals happy, you’ll get the maximum farming experience possible when gathering animal produce. Furthermore, your animals will have a greater chance to breed. In this article, we’ll be going through all the methods on how to make animals happy in RuneScape 3 so you can get the most out of your farm.

Feeding Your Animals with the Correct Food

You must feed your animals to increase and keep their health and happiness levels high. You can feed your animals by adding food to the trough that is available for each pen. Each animal will eat one food per hour that is available in the trough on their respective pens. Each food your animal eats will increase their health and happiness by 5-9%. Don’t forget that you must put in the correct type of food for each animal as incorrect food will be left uneaten. The following list will help you determine the correct type of food for each animal.

Rabbit: Seeds, Vegetables, Fruits, and Flowers.
Chicken: Seeds, Vegetables, and Fruits.
Chinchompa: Seeds, Vegetables, Fruits, Flowers, Mushrooms, Meat, Fish, and Insects.
Sheep: Vegetables, Fruits, and Flowers.
Spider: Seeds and Meat.
Zygomite: Mushrooms.
Cow: Vegetables, Fruits, and Flowers.
Yak: Vegetables, Fruits, and Flowers.
Dragon: Meat and Fish.
Frog: Insects.
Salamander: Seeds, Flowers, and Insects.
Jadinko: Seeds.
Dinosaur: Meat.

Feeding Your Animals with Delicious Honeycomb

A delicious honeycomb is a type of honeycomb you can feed to animals to increase their happiness by 10%. You can make them by adding marigolds into a beehive on the player-owned farm. Alternatively, you can obtain the delicious honeycomb from the Grand Exchange. Please be aware that this method will only work on animals that have grown from their egg state.

Using Strawberry and Vanilla Milk on Your Animals

Strawberry milk and vanilla milk are types of milk you can use on your animals to increase their happiness by 0-8% and 5-14% respectively. Furthermore, you can use strawberry and vanilla milk to increase your animal’s health. Strawberry milk will increase your animal’s health by 0-13%, while vanilla milk increase it by 0-9%.

You can obtain strawberry and vanilla milk by gathering produce from strawberry cows and vanilla cows respectively. Alternatively, you can obtain both of these items from the Grand Exchange.

Curing Diseases

Your animals have a chance of becoming diseased. Diseases will lower your animal’s happiness, so it’s important to cure them when they catch it. There are six different diseases that your animal can catch. Keep in mind that each of the six diseases has different symptoms. You need to identify the disease through its symptoms to be able to cure it. This table of diseases and their symptoms can help you determine which disease your animal is suffering from.

Rerolling Animal’s Traits

Some animal traits can positively or negatively impact your animal’s happiness. Therefore, in some cases, you should consider rerolling your animal’s trait by using the animal trait re-roller. You can purchase the animal trait re-roller from the Farmers’ Market for 300 beans.

The following are some of the traits that can positively impact your animal’s happiness.

Joyful. This trait will keep your animal’s happiness level at 100%, even without food available.
Charmed. This trait will keep your animal’s health and happiness level at 50%, even without food available.
Jovial. This trait will keep your animal’s happiness level at 50%, even without food available.
Immune. This trait will keep your animal’s health level at 100%, even without food.
Robust. This trait will keep your animal’s health level at 50%, even without food.