Harvest yield = Species' base value * Storyteller harvest yield setting Harvesting completely destroys most plants, except ambrosia, berries bushes, cocoa trees, and agave fruit, which can produce multiple harvests before the organism dies at the end of its life span. The harvest yield is a crop stat for the quantity of items the plant is converted into when a human harvests the plant. Tamed non-pen animals can traverse closed doors and fence gates to reach food if it's all within their assigned zone. Tamed animals will eat mature plants and consumable items they have access to, either in their pen, surrounding the Caravan hitching spot they are roped to, or in their assigned zone. Food Consumption is the nutrition eaten per day and can be modified by a number of different factors, such as pregnancy. The relevant stats are called Grass to Maintain and Food Consumption. The food requirements of an animal is largely species dependent. Nutrition (final value) = Species' base value * Growth percentage multiplier Nutrition provided upon consumption is a plant stat, where the final value is a species base value multiplied for plant growth. Hungry, herbivorous animals will find and consume accessible plants after plant growth reaches maturity, typically around 65% of its total growing time and when it first becomes available for colonist harvest.

All plants are completely destroyed upon animal consumption, trees do not leave stumps in this case. Dendrovores like alphabeavers can consume trees, while the thrumbo can eat both trees as well as the typical herbivore diet of grass, dandelions, healroot, ambrosia, and fungi. While rooted plants can't be eaten directly by human pawns, plants provide nutrition when eaten by herbivorous animals.

Rimworld nutrient paste hay