u/borderline_bi

I'm having a bit of a hard time with ranching rn and I feel like I'm doing sth wrong or sth. I started with just keeping some animals for the products, not really for the money but mainly to keep for crafting and cooking. But now I've been wanting to do more actual breeding and get some pretty traits and stuff. So I'm having trouble with it bc of the animal limits. I feel like I'm just waiting for my animals to be venerated so I can get more pretty ones. I've been breeding them as much as I can and donating any that don't have new pretty traits. But still I'm at the limit. Maybe I'm supposed to focus on less species bc there's just so many but also I want all the different ones for the produce and also if I let any of the pretty ones get venerated without passing down those traits then I essentially lose them. I just don't know how I'm supposed to balance it. I don't even have every single animal type, though I do have most. How do you have it set up?

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What are some projects you're made or just ideas you have that are actually useful? Especially ones that are also relatively beginner friendly or at least not too advance.

For reference, I've been really wanting to do more arduino stuff cause I think it's fun but I've only done stuff for classes before. But for me, to actually be able to focus on it and finish it I need to actually be excited about the final result and feel like it's gonna be sth I'm actually gonna use. I don't want to spent time and money on sth that's gonna end up useless in the end.

So I really want to find more things I can do that are both fun and interesting but also useful in some way. I have a hard time actually focusing on stuff and finishing projects and stuff if they don't actually result in something useful. So I really want to have something useful out of it in the end. I also don't really want anything that requires me to buy a bunch of things up front because there's a very good chance I'm just gonna be left with useless materials that I'm not gonna use again. I like the idea of sth that at least at first either doesn't need materials (sth digital for example) or uses (at least mostly) materials I already have.

Some things I like and already do sometimes is sewing, both making clothes from scratch but also a lot of modifying or fixing clothes, which i like cause it's useful and while it does require materials rn I do already have them and i can also use old clothes and stuff which is good. I also draw sometimes, mostly just digitally rn, which i like cause bc its digital it's free but it doesn't really result it anything useful.

One general idea I had is something to do with electronics or programming. I've done some stuff with arduino for classes before, as well as other programming, though only a little bit, and i do like it. I like that i'm learning things and i need to use logic to figure out how to do things. But I'm not sure what I could do with that that would actually be useful. Also obviously I own a lot of random materials for arduino stuff already so that's nice.

I really want to make something useful for myself and ideally do so using either no materials or materials mostly already own. Any ideas like that would be great!