Trough

This page was last verified for Vintage Story version 1.19-rc8.

Small Trough
Material	Wood
Stackable	64
Drops	Itself
Fuel
Temperature	600°C
Duration	40 s
Blocks

Large Trough
Material	Wood
Stackable	64
Drops	Itself
Fuel
Temperature	600°C
Duration	40 s
Blocks

Troughs can be used to feed livestock . Large troughs can feed pigs and sheep, small troughs only chickens. Grain can be placed in the trough by right-clicking the trough with the grain item in hand. Large troughs also accept dry grass and vegetables, but larger quantities are required.

Creation

Troughs must be made using wooden boards , meaning they can only be made once players are capable of creating copper or better tools via smithing .

Large trough

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe
5x Board

Small trough

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe
3x Board

Usage

After placing down a trough, players may fill the trough with various food items by right-clicking. Small troughs only accept grain, while large troughs accept more items. Different animals will eat different food items. Troughs can hold a maximum of 8 portions of food at a time.

Small troughs take one piece of grain per trough food portion. Large troughs take 2 pieces of grain or vegetables, or 8 pieces of dry grass, per trough food portion. Therefore, fully filling a large trough takes 64 pieces of dry grass, a full stack. Troughs do not accept mixed types of food, and must be emptied out before refilling with a different type of food.

Food continues to spoil while in a trough. Animals will eat partially-spoiled food but will not eat rot. To use the trough again, break the rot-filled trough and re-place it. Dry grass doesn't spoil.

Wild animals near placed and filled troughs will naturally be attracted towards it. One method of capturing animals for domestication is to place a filled trough inside a 2-block-high pit, so that animals can fall into the pit but not jump back out.

Large trough contents

Food preferences

Food	Pigs	Bighorn sheep	Goats	Deer
Flax	✔️	✔️		✔️
Rice	❌	❌
Rye	✔️	✔️
Spelt	✔️	✔️
Amaranth	✔️	✔️
Sunflower	✔️	✔️
Bellpepper*	✔️	❌
Cabbage	✔️	✔️
Carrot	✔️	✔️
Cassava	✔️	❌
Onion	✔️	✔️
Parsnip	❌	❌
Pumpkin	✔️	❌
Peanut	✔️	❌
Soybean	✔️	✔️
Turnip	✔️	✔️
Dry grass	❌	✔️		✔️
Hay	❌	✔️
Dry mash	✔️	✔️

*Bellpeppers are unavailable in Survival mode at this time.

Small trough contents

Food preferences

Food item	Chicken
Flax	✔️
Rice	✔️
Rye	✔️
Spelt	✔️
Amaranth	✔️
Sunflower	✔️

History

• The trough models were changed with version 1.19