[Suggestion] Pick up small pets to help them move around

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• 10 Aug, '25
  Elissa - Producer System

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  "Ability to pick up Chickens and Cats" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2025-08-06), including upvotes (4) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 26 Apr, '24
  TJ Merged

  Chickens can't climb ramps or stairs, and there's no way to pick them up. Please implement one or both of these features, so that chickens can follow you up ramps back to their food/water/coop and/or you can pick them up if they wander down a ramp or stairs and carry them back.

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• 27 Apr, '24
  OSIAS Merged

  Not being able to manipulate chickens or sheeps physical position easily is lacking. Take the game raft which made it simple.
  
  Just allow us to pickup and move our animals. Also the ability to control other owners animals.

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• 28 Apr, '24
  Elissa - Producer System

  "Pickup Chickens and Sheep" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-04-27), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 28 Apr, '24
  Elissa - Producer System

  "Improve chicken movement and/or allow chickens to be carried" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-04-26), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 31 May, '24
  Indigo Merged

  Two part suggestion:
  
  1 - In Open World, when my friend isn't online, his tamed horse sometimes gets stuck in walls or he forgets to put him on wander, would be cool if atleast the owner of the open world could move or help control the animal if the person who tamed it is offline.
  
  2 - I have a cat, it is somehow ALWAYS going under the house and getting stuck, I have to tear down parts of the floor and walls and even though he his on follow, he still glitches out and wont follow me to his food bowl. Would be cool if there was a way for you to pick them up and move them easily or maybe give them an UNSTUCK option that will spawn them back over by their food or bed.

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• 04 Jun, '24
  Elissa - Producer System

  "Pick-up or Move Pet" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-05-31), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 08 Jun, '24
  Kodie Collings Merged

  I'd love to be able to pick up chickens to move them around easier.
  
  Also would be great if, while holding them in hotbar slot, if you fall from a high place, you have reduced fall speed as a reference to Zelda.

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• 09 Jun, '24
  Elissa - Producer System

  "Chicken Pickup & Hidden Trick" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-06-08), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 27 Sep, '24
  Tom Merged

  As title states. Sometimes your tame gets stuck and the easiest way to fix that is to be able to pick up a tamed animal. We can already pick up wolf and boar carcasses- why not have the ability to pick up tamed animals?

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• 27 Sep, '24
  Elissa - Producer System

  "Players should be able to pick up dogs/wolves/boars" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-09-27), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 16 Nov, '24
  NotProvided Merged

  We can carry there corpses home, it would make sense to use the cargo slot to be able to pick them up and carry them out of situations that would otherwise cause us to bury them.
  Lost a few wolf tames to scorpions (just lost my frost wolf of like 80 hours to a double scorpion boss spawn)
  this would also help the derpy AI snagging them on every rock and twig requiring some odd positioning to free.
  
  wolves, cats, dogs, chickens ect, to be clear, nothing we couldn't already carry.

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• 21 Nov, '24
  Johan Meijlaers Merged

  Oi!!!
  
  Got a drac in my chicken coop!
  
  By the time I had it out with him all my chickens were all over the place. Open coop, put chickens on follow and eventually get them all back in. Close coop. So far I am good. Then put chickens back on wander. Never in my life have I ever needed doing so, Picking them up and chucking them back into the coop always did the trick.
  
  Go for a bit of prospecting for a nice bit of ore when all of a sudden I hear a 'cluck'. Chicken still on follow, now at the other end of the map. It will eventually rubberband to a place close to home (or failing that being eaten by a drac) but it will take some doing and given that I have the attention span of a chicken myself I might well forget to put into wander again, just for good measure.
  
  Would also be nice with cats, usually getting them out of a tree involves setting the tree on fire or some other such nonsense (I am not going to ask for a fire engine (yet ;-)
  
  Cheers ;-)

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• 21 Nov, '24
  Elissa - Producer System

  "A way to pick up chicks, I mean small animals" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-11-21), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 30 Dec, '24
  Nara

  Same issue here, house has 2 floors, cat gets stuck in walls thinking the food bowl is on the upper floor, while it's actually downstairs -_- It's painful to watch. Perhaps some AI tweaking would not hurt as well, but simple pickling them up would solve a lot of my pet problems.

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• 13 Jan, '25
  Kraken Merged

  My chickens phase through floors or get stuck while wandering. It would be useful to be able to pick them up and carry them back to where they belong

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• 13 Jan, '25
  Elissa - Producer System Merged

  "[Suggestion] Make chickens able to be carried" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2025-01-13), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 03 Apr, '25
  BYKmatty Merged

  PLEASE Oh GOD PLEASE can you add an ability to pick up chicken's. they keep getting out of their walled off coop and getting out o my base. I just want to be able to pick them up and put them back

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• 04 Apr, '25
  SilverFiero Merged

  I would love to be able to pick up chickens and haul them. I put my 2 chickens on follow and led them from a base in the south end of the map, north through the desert and halfway up into the riverlands! It took hours!
  
  I know I could have just killed them and ordered more from the workshop but I just wanted to see if it could be done. Well, it can. Most of the way though, I kept asking, why can't I just pick these things up?! Same is true for my little pet dog, why can't I pick him up and ride with him on my mount?

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• 04 Apr, '25
  Dubritski Merged

  you can use the hitching rope to bring them back

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• 06 Apr, '25
  Elissa - Producer System

  "THE CHICKEN's are LOOSE" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2025-04-03), including upvotes (3) and comments (2), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 06 Aug, '25
  Anthony Truax Merged

  Given these are both small animals, there should be a way to pick up chickens and cats. These animals have the worst habit of falling through the stage, or finding ways over rails and out windows. Being able to just pick them up, even if just your "bulky" item spot would be great.

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• 14 Jan
  Elissa - Producer System

  "Allow moving animals or at least just chickens by picking them up" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2025-12-31), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 31 Jan
  Lemohr Merged

  It would be nice to carry your pet when it its walking around too much especially when the follow option is hard to initiate when the pet is so small that it goes to small spaces in the base and got stuck.
  
  It is also nice to show off some pet when playing with friends especially when the update about the breeding and variant skin colour comes around.
  
  It also doesn't make sense when a bigger dead body of animal (wolves, boar and etc.) can get carried but not a live cat or dog that has a smaller build than wolves and boar.

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• 01 Feb
  Elissa - Producer System

  "[Suggestion] Carrying small - medium tames / pets" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-11-16), including upvotes (5) and comments (2), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 03 Feb
  Elissa - Producer System

  "Ability to carry a pet (Cat & Dog)" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-01-31), including upvotes (2) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 17 Feb
  Gidion Merged

  I've had a number of occasions where pets stand in the doorway of my house, and I can't leave. I've started adding back doors just to have an exit. Can we get the ability to push pets just enough to get past them?

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• 19 Feb
  Elissa - Producer System

  "Push Pets out of the way" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-02-17), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 22 Feb
  HighMaintenance511 Merged

  Chickens, cats, dogs, maybe some juvenile livestock. It can be tricky to get some to Follow you where they need to go on your base. To that end, add an ability to carry a Live small/juvenile animal and drop it in front of you. This could be especially useful for Chicks and Chickens, they tend to move slow on Follow.
  
  Joke graphic included to help illustrate the point.

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• 23 Feb
  Edymnion

  God yes. We have had cats get stuck on dressers or in corners unable to get out so badly we had to tear the walls down to let them escape just so they could eat!

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• 25 Feb
  Elissa - Producer System

  "carry live small animals" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-02-22), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

  

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• 14 Mar
  Noisy Koi Merged

  it is frustrating how often pets will block doors or ladders, entrances, exits, benches, their own feeding troughs, they will block anything and everything they possibly can, including each other.
  
  Please either disable collisions with pets entirely or let the player push them out of the way instead of tamed animals blocking player movement.
  
  It would also be awesome if we could pick up dogs/cats and carry them around, tho that is much lower priority/importance.

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• 16 Mar
  Elissa - Producer System

  "Pet Collisions" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-03-14), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 17 Mar
  Motospider Merged

  I would like it if you could pick up juvenile animals because its a little bit annoying to have to manuver them around obstacles and when you pick them up it should use your heavy gear slot

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• 19 Mar
  Elissa - Producer System

  "Picking up Juvenile animals" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-03-17), including upvotes (3) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 20 Mar
  Logovore

  We should be able to stick them in a heavy slot on our mount, so they can journey with us (and give us their auras)!

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• 01 Apr
  Stephen Merged

  It would be nice to be able to pick up the smaller animals to reposition them in game. Especially when they bug out and try to get outside for food/water when the bowl is full and they are assigned to only certain bowls.

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• 13 Apr
  Elissa - Producer System

  "Ability to pick up smaller animals such as cats, chickens, dogs to reposition them." (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-04-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 25 Apr
  anthony Merged

  being able to put the smaller pets on your shoulder or a way to carry them as its slow transporting them

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• 01 May
  Elissa - Producer System

  "GRIBBLERS" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-04-25), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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