CaRat Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 How would I use this and how big does my water source need to be etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathmanican Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 There are lots of ways to deal with them. A simple, minimalist, approach is to just let them move to nearby water. One tile is all you need. They will be "overcrowded", and glum, but as long as you keep the room open (no doors), you can avoid the "cramped" status. They will continue to lay one egg per life cycle, and provide free food. Search up pacu farming on the forus, and you'll find lots of things to do later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaRat Posted August 5, 2019 Author Share Posted August 5, 2019 Ok thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le0n1des Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 Is save scumming for this pack sufficient for carnivore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LZ96 Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 I had 4..5 times of this pack of pacus.. it was glorious.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oosyrag Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 11 hours ago, Le0n1des said: Is save scumming for this pack sufficient for carnivore? Technically yes. 400kcal of meat over 100 cycles is 4kcal per cycle. A pack of pacu turned into meat is 8kcal/3 cyles raw, or 12.8 kcal/3 cycles cooked, which is just enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurgel Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 One thing: Water temperature is critical if you want to keep them alive long-term. You need a temperature of 10...25C or Pacus will slowly die out because they spawn the tropical or the gulp variant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkReaper115 Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 16 hours ago, mathmanican said: They will be "overcrowded", and glum, but as long as you keep the room open (no doors), you can avoid the "cramped" status. They will continue to lay one egg per life cycle, and provide free food. I can't believe it's not broken. Really?! A single water tile is all it takes as long as there are no doors? I suddenly feel like savescumming until I get my dupes to live off pacu filet forever. Now I only need to know for how long a pacu lives and how many kcal the filet has (or surf and turf, I already ranch Dreckos, Pips and Hatches) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sktzofreak101 Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 I am on cycle 300+ on Rime and have yet to have this come up in the printer :/ I even tamed a wild pacu to be sure it was "discovered" if it needed to be. May just be unlucky but has anyone else had the pacu print on Rime? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beowulf2010 Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 39 minutes ago, sktzofreak101 said: I am on cycle 300+ on Rime and have yet to have this come up in the printer :/ I even tamed a wild pacu to be sure it was "discovered" if it needed to be. May just be unlucky but has anyone else had the pacu print on Rime? They do print, just rare. I had one pop up on cycle 60ish just this morning without seeing a single wild one on a Rime asteroid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamuraiJones Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 Lol, pacus... our favorite critter to abuse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oosyrag Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 It doesn't matter if there are doors or not. The key is if there is also an egg in the room/pool with them. If you don't remove the egg when overcrowded, others will not lay any more eggs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathmanican Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 8 minutes ago, oosyrag said: It doesn't matter if there are doors or not. The key is if there is also an egg in the room/pool with them. If you don't remove the egg when overcrowded, others will not lay any more eggs This is false. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamuraiJones Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 41 minutes ago, oosyrag said: It doesn't matter if there are doors or not. The key is if there is also an egg in the room/pool with them. If you don't remove the egg when overcrowded, others will not lay any more eggs. Overcrowded prevents accelerated laying by tame creatures. Wild creatures, and ungroomed tame creatures will continue to lay slowly. I think "slowly" is still 1 egg per lifecycle for all critters. There's another modifier I think that happens in stables, but I'm pretty sure mathy is correct that it does not apply to wild animals. At least, not in this context. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonefarmer Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 I must be lucky, I've gotten at least 4 sets of pacu from the printer. They just keep flopping into the reservoir. All the regular pacu seem to lay at least one egg before dying so they replace themselves. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1826329705 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathmanican Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 2 hours ago, Clonefarmer said: All the regular pacu seem to lay at least one egg before dying so they replace themselves. If you ever get so many that you see them hit "cramped", then your population could disappear. That's all you have to worry about. Enjoy the free food and eggs for lime/steel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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