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[GadgetPatch]

The wiki and forum have both claimed that carnivorous sentient creatures will eat eggs, but I can't seem to get them to; when meat and fish are forbidden, carnivores starve rather than eat a raw egg, or meal cooked with just eggs.

Is this something that changed in v50, or was their egg-eating behavior just hearsay? Anyone know for sure if it used to work?

P.S. I've modded egg yolk, white, and even shell with the various MEAT tags, but this still doesn't seem to work. More here: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=165213.msg8449354#msg8449354

[Bumber]

Just checked via reverse engineering v0.47.05.

Issue #1 is a lack of an EDIBLE_RAW material in eggs in order to eat them raw.

Issue #2 is that prepared meals don't recognize egg-type items as being bonecarn/carnivore edible. Only meat, fish, and (theoretically) body part ingredients.

You can get around #1 via modding, but #2 is hard-coded. (Unless you want to use LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS to have your poultry lay meat items made out of egg materials. Pretty sure they'd still look like and be called meat, though.)