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[Bohandas]

If anyone hasn't tried yet (I don't remember seeing a post in this thread), I made an asexual egg layer pet with no [MALE] or [FEMALE] tags, but its eggs wouldn't hatch either.  Unless the game defaults to one of those... although viewing the creature it did say 'it'.

Judging by people's responses here, egg fertilization occurs the same way impregnation in general works, so an asexual caste's eggs would never hatch.

I'm still curious about a male egg-laying caste, though.

I'm curious as to what would happen if you had an egg-laying caste with the [MALE] and [FEMALE]  tags...

[G-Flex]

I highly doubt that putting both [MALE] and [FEMALE] on the same caste would work at all to begin with, although people are welcome to try!

[Demonic Gophers]

I highly doubt that putting both [MALE] and [FEMALE] on the same caste would work at all to begin with, although people are welcome to try!

I asked about that once in the Future of the Fortress thread.  It will pick one of them - either the first tag or the last, I don't recall which.

[G-Flex]

Well, I got roosters laying eggs, so we know that males can do so.

However, I'm still not sure if they'll hatch. Anyone know how long it usually takes for eggs to hatch after laying?

[Dante]

Hmm... I just had a thought...

Is it possible to have multiple types of eggs tied to one creature if we get the bug to do with unusual egg types fixed?  We could have creatures laying regular eggs most of the time, with an occasional unusual egg.

Even if you can't stack the tags on top of each other (you can't with ITEMCORPSE, which is very similar), then as long as the tag can be applied at the caste level, I'll be looking forward to having the occasional rare goose that lays golden eggs.

[G-Flex]

Yep. Strictly speaking, you can do that now, although you wouldn't be able to eat them.

Of course, as far as the game's concerned, an egg with a golden eggshell and regular whites/yolks is still both perfectly edible and made entirely out of the gold, as will be meals produced from it.