We all know you don’t have to feed the animals, but it just makes us feel better that they have food and other necessities around them. I even go so far as to do daily deuce sweeps.
If only mining didn’t take such an eternity then exploration underground by mining would actually be a viable thing, perhaps once they’ve implemented cave-ins they’ll allow you to mine a little faster in exchance for the chance of the roof coming down on you if your mined space is bigger than 2x2 and doesn’t have a support pillar somewhere.