Feeding Goats

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• To be able to feed the goats you need to use instant goats. This adds the Box of Goats to your Workbench.
• They produce a wad of cashmere for each 250 Calories they consume.
• Every item that can be digitized can be fed to the goats. See details there.
• Items with "green" as part of their name give double their autosell calories.
• The Box of Goats Calorie level is reset to zero with every new Retcon run.

Box of Goats

You are the proud owner of a box of goats. They look (angry/jittery/curious/playful/haughty/saccharine) and (hungry... mostly hungry/inexplicably still hungry).

So, you should be careful about what you leave laying around near the box, because if the goats get ahold of it, it'll be gone forever.

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Drop in the following items:
<List of items and Calorie units>
quantity: #
all
all but one
[ Toss it in! ]

After feeding the goats, depending on how many Calories they've accumulated, you get one of the following messages:

• When the goats haven't had enough to produce cashmere:

It doesn't look like your goats are ready for harvesting yet.

• When the goats have had enough to produce 1 wad of cashmere:

Once they've finished eating, you notice your goats have produced a bit of cashmere.

• When the goats have had enough to produce 2 wads of cashmere:

Once they've finished eating, you notice your goats could use a quick shave. And a hair cut. Two bits.

• When the goats have had enough to produce 3 or more wads of cashmere:

Once they've finished eating, you notice your goats have produced a handsome crop of cashmere.

You got an item: X wads of cashmere

Sometimes, when feeding them, you'll get:

Huh. There are some goat horns at the bottom of the pen. You do a quick check to make sure none of the goats are missing theirs, but everyone looks fine. Huh.

You got an item: goat horns

When feeding them X combat items dropped by villains, you also get the following:

• When no cashmere was produced:

Once they finish eating, you challenge them to a quick game of marbles and walk away with one. Score!

• when cashmere was produced, in addition to the usual cashmere messages, you get:

You're not really sure when the goats took up shooting marbles, but they abandoned (one/some) when they went to eat. Finder's keepers.

You got an item: X goat's eye marbles

When feeding them 3*X Fast Eddy's cold cash, you also get the following in addition to thee cashmere messages:

Wow! Some of this looks like gold!

You got an item: X golden cashmere fleeces

Messages

Adding an item:
You place the X <item> in the box of goats. The goats take turns standing on your offering for a while, then eventually get hungry and eat it bite by bite. Wow, they really will eat all sorts of crazy stuff.

Adding a special item (see below):

Trying to add more of an item than you have:
You don't have as many of those items as you'd like to feed your goats. You're trying to give them X, but you only have Y.