How much pips eat?

[natanstarke]

Hi ppl how much a wild and a tamed pip eachs exactly?

[Artorias36]

Seems it eats 0,3 lumber per cycle.

[Sasza22]

I`m not sure if they are bugged or not but i didn`t see them eating anything.

[Coolthulhu]

They eat trees, not lumber.

It says 0.3kg/cycle. The kg part is obviously wrong since trees don't have mass as such, but the 0.3 means 30% of maturity value. In case of trees, it refers to the most mature branch.

So a pip will eat up to 30% of a branch per cycle. This would mean that one wild tree should sustain almost 1.3 domestic pips, since it has 7 branches and each branch gains 1/18 maturity per cycle.

[Promethien]

So 6 wild trees to feed a full stable of 8 pips. Seems reasonably easy to set up. 

[beowulf2010]

21 minutes ago, Promethien said:

So 6 wild trees to feed a full stable of 8 pips. Seems reasonably easy to set up. 

Not quite. Over time you'll probably get the occasional starvation warning as 6 trees will do 7.8 pips. I doubt any would actually die, but that's a warning that I only want to see when I need it. I'm personally thinking of going slightly smaller with 4 trees per 5 pips which gives me a slight surplus (5.2 pips worth of growth) and an extra stable or 2 depending on just how hungry for dirt the Oxyferns are. 

[natanstarke]

Thanks you all my ranchs and i are happier today :). Now im trying to make huge lettuce farms to rot them for the new crabs.