What's the value of happiness?

[Mariolo]

Happiness now affects the reproduction rate of critters beyond just a threshold for their mood. It can be hard to calculate how much value you get for say, putting a critter condo and getting +1 happiness. So I did some testing to see how the reproduction is calculated.

At 0 happiness, you only have the base reproduction rate. For every point after that, you get 2 x base reproduction to that, so for pacu with base 7.5 every happiness point increases it by 15%. At 4 happiness the rates are exactly the same as before, and going below 4 doesn't immediately drop to base rate. I managed to get it up to 180%/cycle on pacu, which is insane.

I tested this with Pacu, Glo Squid, Dreckos, and Dartles, and the results seemed consistent, thought I may be completely wrong because the game doesn't show decimals so I had to make a few guesses.

TLDR: it increases linearly based on the base reproduction of the critter. 8 happiness will almost double the output of 4 happiness.

 

[Capybara007]

Im new to this game and i thought this was a very philosophical thread for the title

[Tigin]

+225% of base reproduction rate per happiness, it's tuned so 4 happiness gives the same result (+900%)

[AugyBear]

17 hours ago, Mariolo said:

I managed to get it up to 180%/cycle on pacu, which is insane

 

If my math is right, that means a pre-nerf Pacu could potentially produce enough omelettes for 10 dupes! (3200kcal eggs -> 5600kcal omelettes * 1.8 eggs per cycle = 10,080)

[Parusoid]

I got 90% for being happy plus 7% base reproduction rate with happiness 6 for beakons so I'm not sure if the math is mathing here if we assume each happiness point gives 2.25 x base rate 

Edited May 26 by Parusoid

[Tigin]

(1+2.25 * 6)*6.66% = 96.666%, which matches what you see