[MIRROR] Codifies male goats not having an udder #656
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Mirrored on Skyrat: Skyrat-SS13/Skyrat-tg#25030
Original PR: tgstation/tgstation#79722
About The Pull Request
This was addressed in #78759 (1b1fde4908826ef5c54ffc0734e74028270af3fd) and reviewed (and merged even though I didn't respond to it, oh well), but I half-assed it because the whole point was to prevent male goats from having an udder, but I only added it to the subtype of Pete i made in that PR. Let's expand that to all male goats now.
Why It's Good For The Game
It doesn't make biological nor morphological sense as to why a male goat can provide milk. Ideally this should be like this for all animals (because that's real life) but that's a later issue with further balance implication.
I think it's still an interesting idea that Nanotrasen will just send you any old goat despite it being "useless" beyond being very good at eating plants. Maybe cargo should have a way to guarantee getting a female goat in the future? It's just like real life where zoos and farms have to constantly dealw ith female animals (such as giraffes or other exotic stuff) tending to be far rarer/cost far more than their male variants due to the potential to generate offspring (there's more nuance to husbandry than this but just play along)... and in space, every animal is "exotic".
It still remains possible to biogenerate milk, which tends to be far faster than feeding/milking goats- which is something that the cook should have access to anyways.
Changelog
🆑 san7890
balance: Male Goats should no longer spawn with an udder, instead of it just being Pete.
/:cl: