Early Rhex Ranch Design

[Mariolo]

This was my first attempt at designing a Rhex-Dartle ranch. Theoretically you can feed 5 Rhexes with the meat of their offspring + 1 dartle, and you need almost 4 Rhexes to produce enough brine ice for 1 Dartle so this should be sustainable

All dartle eggs go to the upmost chamber. If the buffer chamber has no critters, the hatched dartlets go there. Otherwise they go to the right and are dumped somewhere.

When the Dartle at the Rhex ranch dies, the dartle at the buffer chamber is dropped unless the breeder ranch needs one.

One problem I had is with how critters calculate overcrowding. They consider all other critters the same size as them so 5 Rhexes + 2 dartles will overcrowd the Rhexes even though they would theoretically only need 92 tiles. I hope this gets changes.

I think needing 4 Rhexes to feed 1 dartle is quite excessive. I hope they get buffed since it's quite difficult to feed even a small amount of them

I've been told dartles can be starvation ranched which would be the better way to ranch them but I've yet to try this.

Edited May 25, 2025 by Mariolo

[Carib94]

Nice so here is my ranch, I kinda went with a hybrid where the Rhexes can either eat meat from feeder or just eat the live Dartlets/Dartles and they actually do end up eating the dartles after some failed attempts LOL. Had to be 4 Rhex Ranch since if imma have live stock in there, can be at most 2 dartles. The Rhex Offspring goes into adults for shearing, I rely on the priorities so that new adult Rhexes will hopefully get sheared before they get wrangled to evolution chamber, but if not oh well tbh lol.

As for the Dartle Ranch i have 3 in there along with the Mimika to give the Dew a boost and funny enough using the airborne critter trap is the only way to wrangle them out without manually relocating them The Dew plants may not be enough to keep all 3 completely fed but it will keep them to have enough calories to drop a couple eggs before one of them start to starve at an elder age. And Dartles can be starvation ranched, their calories allows them to at least drop a few eggs before they die to starvation when they are groomed or when they are not groomed they will at least lay 1 egg

 

[Mementh]

On 5/25/2025 at 5:24 PM, Mariolo said:

This was my first attempt at designing a Rhex-Dartle ranch. Theoretically you can feed 5 Rhexes with the meat of their offspring + 1 dartle, and you need almost 4 Rhexes to produce enough brine ice for 1 Dartle so this should be sustainable

All dartle eggs go to the upmost chamber. If the buffer chamber has no critters, the hatched dartlets go there. Otherwise they go to the right and are dumped somewhere.

When the Dartle at the Rhex ranch dies, the dartle at the buffer chamber is dropped unless the breeder ranch needs one.

One problem I had is with how critters calculate overcrowding. They consider all other critters the same size as them so 5 Rhexes + 2 dartles will overcrowd the Rhexes even though they would theoretically only need 92 tiles. I hope this gets changes.

I think needing 4 Rhexes to feed 1 dartle is quite excessive. I hope they get buffed since it's quite difficult to feed even a small amount of them

I've been told dartles can be starvation ranched which would be the better way to ranch them but I've yet to try this.

was this before or after the balances? i am trying to figure out the balance for these..  the rhex needs 1 dartle a day natural hatching takes 10 days which means you without acceleration need 4 dartle per rhex ( technically 3 but overdoing ) 
each rhex fuels @ 1 a day 120kg of brine ice, you need 13 dew drippers for 6 dartles 
closest with going over 2 ranches of drippers 6 each for 1 ranch of rhex's 3 each. 

assuming all meat came from live prey only?