Talk:Beefalo/@comment-82.19.86.157-20150430090632/@comment-50.45.22.244-20150807203755

Like that one person said, a sewing kit will keep your items' durability up, so whatever wool you gather will be good for the entire game, provided you don't forget to keep repairing them.

But actually, pigs are far more efficient at providing manure. The trick is to turn one into a werepig by feeding it monster meat, then drop an entire stack of berries (or any kind of vegetable.  I think all vegetables work.) and let the werepig eat it. For every berry they eat, they drop a manure. So 40 berries will give you 40 manure almost instantly. They will forget about you while they're eating (unless you attack it). If you're worried about other pigs attacking it, simply feed it one monster meat and it will follow you. Lead it somewhere safe, and then transform it with more monster meat.

You can either walk away while it's eating, and return when it's a normal pig again. OR, you can go ahead and kill the werepig for pigskin and meat. They ALWAYS drop a pigskin and 2 meat (it's not random chance like with normal pigs, you get all the loot every time). Killing it and collecting the resulting pigskin will let you slowly grow the pig population in your world, which is quite handy. Werepigs all the way!