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FallingWhale

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Re: Egg Hilarity
« Reply #60 on: February 18, 2011, 03:10:40 am »

They're trapavoid while stealth.  Once spotted, they're easy.
They avoid traps unless impaired.
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Kaelem Gaen

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Re: Egg Hilarity
« Reply #61 on: February 18, 2011, 05:24:07 am »

All this talk about eggs can you harvest them yet? and if so how... (Debuild the nest?)

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Re: Egg Hilarity
« Reply #62 on: February 18, 2011, 05:27:12 am »

eggs are almost instantly grabbed from the nest boxes and shoved into food stockpile unless you forbid them.
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Re: Egg Hilarity
« Reply #63 on: February 18, 2011, 05:30:04 am »

ah so I need to make a bigger Food stockpile... time to make... AN EGG PANTRY!

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Re: Egg Hilarity
« Reply #64 on: February 18, 2011, 11:07:34 am »

Since even sentient eggs can hatch, dragon eggs probably will as well.

The problem I'm thinking of is not with the hatching, but with the inability of megabeasts to breed at all. Unless the eggs are a very unique mechanic...

Only !!SCIENCE!! can solve this.

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Re: Egg Hilarity
« Reply #65 on: February 18, 2011, 11:34:18 am »

Since even sentient eggs can hatch, dragon eggs probably will as well.

The problem I'm thinking of is not with the hatching, but with the inability of megabeasts to breed at all. Unless the eggs are a very unique mechanic...

Only !!SCIENCE!! can solve this.

True.

However, as far as we know, any female creature will lay eggs, and if a male is present for wild creatures, the female will count as pregnant (is the game tracking female pregnancy via spores?)
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Re: Egg Hilarity
« Reply #66 on: February 18, 2011, 01:06:42 pm »

Actually vanilla dragons are not sentient.  Not sure what it means really, but it may mean ya don't have to jump through as many hoops to get viable dragon eggs.

And creatures that combine the grazer tags and egg laying tags, starve on the nest.  Poor Coco the Chocobo...
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Re: Egg Hilarity
« Reply #67 on: February 18, 2011, 02:04:09 pm »

Any creature can be made to lay eggs with a few simple tokens added to their file.  This is causing me to think about giant cave spider and regular cave spider.  Namely, making the cave spider not-vermin and make it the same creature as the GCS.  When a clutch of eggs is laid, there should be some 1/500 chance of the egg being a GCS, while a 499/500 chance of being a CS.

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« Reply #68 on: February 18, 2011, 02:07:20 pm »

Pretty sure vermin status is creature-level.
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Re: Egg Hilarity
« Reply #69 on: February 18, 2011, 02:08:22 pm »

It would be cool if forgotten beasts could randomly lay eggs hatching into lesser abominations twisted in their image.

Or eat dwarf, shit hideous monster egg.

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Re: Egg Hilarity
« Reply #70 on: February 18, 2011, 02:22:44 pm »

Pretty sure vermin status is creature-level.
Yes, but if you USE your EYES...
Namely, making the cave spider not-vermin and make it the same creature as the GCS.

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« Reply #71 on: February 18, 2011, 02:46:44 pm »

I'm more-or-less creating a fortress centered around the cyclical bumrushing of my outdoor nest boxes by alligators and their subsequent slaughter and egg collection.
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« Reply #72 on: February 18, 2011, 05:35:16 pm »

Seems like a good place to ask this... Is anyone else having issues with a single pet claiming every available nest box?
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Re: Egg Hilarity
« Reply #73 on: February 18, 2011, 05:42:21 pm »

I had it for a short time, but not with a pet.  After awhile they seemed to abandon all but one, but it takes awhile.  Deconstructing and rebuilding the offending nests seems to fix it faster.
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