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11 minutes ago, jfc said:

I have many stone hatches now and they feed on sedimentary rock and i found a gold volcano, can I feed them that gold to get smooth hatches and just keep them fed on that?

No, they eat gold ore not refined gold.

If you're wanting sustained food for hatches, you can do mushrooms.  Its not difficult to get enough slime for shrooms from a small puft farm.  If you work your way to sage hatches, then its a pretty efficient way to produce coal.

 

2 hours ago, jfc said:

I have many stone hatches now and they feed on sedimentary rock and i found a gold volcano, can I feed them that gold to get smooth hatches and just keep them fed on that?

Smooth hatches only eat ore and are really hard to sustain. Stone morph can feed of off igneous rock so if you got a regular or minor volcano and you can cool the magma they can eat that. Some people experimented with melting regolith into magma and then feeding the resulting rock to stone hatches.

Generally it should be easier to sustain stone hatches as there`s a lot of rock on the map.

2 hours ago, KittenIsAGeek said:

If you're wanting sustained food for hatches, you can do mushrooms.  Its not difficult to get enough slime for shrooms from a small puft farm.  If you work your way to sage hatches, then its a pretty efficient way to produce coal.

It isn't really efficient for coal, as (unless something changed), they produce coal based on the mass eaten, not the kcals consumed.  So you get very little coal from mushrooms.

3 hours ago, KittenIsAGeek said:

sustained food for hatches, you can do mushrooms

Keeping in mind how hard it is to achiev a sustainable slime production ...

(Mushrooms would be one of the worst edibles to do this. Big morb farms are more of an

=> I like to produce bristle/gristle berries without duplicants and feed the overproduction to my hatches

Bristle berries and mushrooms have the same weight, so a hatch eating berries is more effective. (Less weight for each kcal)

If you are looking to make use of their Coal production, feed them anything but food items.  Food items have a very high Kcal to mass ratio.  This is problematic because the Coal produced is based on the mass consumed, not the Kcals.

If you are more concerned with getting Eggs and, when they die, Meat, then it is actually very easy to sustain Sage Hatches on food items, particularly Berries as you can recycle the water from your Dupe's bathroom trips back to watering the Berries.

19 minutes ago, jfc said:

I guess ill keep feeding them sedimentary rock since that has no use and than igneous rock 

Sedimentary rock is actually used early game as a basic insulator, as abyssalite can no longer be used to substitute for raw mineral. Also serves a convenient way to build ladders without importing sandstone or other raw mineral in the swamp. Also comes from fossils, a great mid to late game source of lime. Only if a creature created fossil

7 hours ago, KittenIsAGeek said:

If you're wanting sustained food for hatches, you can do mushrooms.  Its not difficult to get enough slime for shrooms from a small puft farm.  If you work your way to sage hatches, then its a pretty efficient way to produce coal.

 

disagree

feeding any kind of food to hatches yields small amounts of coal that it's hardly worth it

 

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