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Not sure if anyone has posted this information yet, but I thought I'd share some initial observations from my milking experience tonight:

You must be within 3 meters of a creature to milk it (an option on the radial menu of milkable creatures). You and the creature must remain relatively still during the entire process. If the creature moves (even a few meters) the process will fail and you'll have to start over. In this case, you will fail even if you moved with it and stayed inside the three meter distance. Creatures that constantly move around (like every humbaba I encountered) are extremely difficult to milk. Creatures resting on the ground are very easy.

The creatures you'd expect to be milkable pretty much are. On Corellia this includes at least: humbabas paralopes krahbu (not violent krahbu) bageraset sharnaff (not sharnaff bulls )

Aggressive creatures do not appear to be milkable, even if they are a variant of a milkable herbivore (example: krahbu are milkable, violent krahbu are not)

Babies are milkable

Creatures in combat are milkable (I was able to successfully milk a humbaba while it fought a tabage).

Milk does not auto-stack in your inventory. You must combine the stacks by hand.

The milking process is a series of system messages, as follows:

You relax the creature and begin to milk it. You continue to milk the creature. You continue to milk the creature. You have successfully gathered milk from the creature!

You can only successfully get milk from a creature once. After you have obtained milk, every subsequent attempt to milk that creature will give you the message that it is "dry of milk."

I did not keep careful records of the quantities, but average yield seemed to be 10-30. After an hour or so of milking, I had over 200 units.

-Vertexon.

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