Critter breeding

[TheEvilMango]

Is there anyway to influence what kind of egg will be layed? Like is there certain conditions that can be meet to increase the chance of getting a smooth hatch egg or glossy drecko?

[Kabrute]

if you mouse over the type of egg you want from the critter in question it will tell you the conditions to get them.

[TheEvilMango]

Oh cool. Thank u. 

[Siromatik]

If you want to have an overview of thoses informations check this thread  :

ONI BIOLOGY

[clickrush]

Since this is up I have a question: When I want to maintain a certain number of critters in a ranch, lets say I want it to have 3 hatches more or less constnatly, do I have to manage that den beyound feeding the critters? Will the overcrowded debuff, the reproduction rate and the max age naturally balance out to the max number when the critters are constantly fed and groomed? Edit: I'am not planning to remove any eggs.

[Kabrute]

eggs count as critters for critter count glum rating, my solution is sweeper rail with eggs circling in a small space over open doors that drops to the main critter area.

[clickrush]

1 hour ago, Kabrute said:

eggs count as critters for critter count glum rating, my solution is sweeper rail with eggs circling in a small space over open doors that drops to the main critter area.

Ok but if you remove all the eggs then the breeding population won't sustain itself right?

[PhailRaptor]

19 minutes ago, clickrush said:

Ok but if you remove all the eggs then the breeding population won't sustain itself right?

Correct.  You'd have to check it occasionally and use Incubators to replace any lost adults.

[Kabrute]

the eggs circling in a small space drop replacement critters into the breeding area regularly..... that is sustaining them.....

[Siromatik]

Here my way to do for an hatchs farm : simply droping 8 eggs each 100 cycles and disable any others automation plus blocking the access door for 20 cycles, time for all eggs to passively bloom. So yeah this room is actually working 100 cycles on a complete 120 cycles.
But I avoid using Incubator until you cant add a repeat order on it and simply cancel this order with automation.

edit : IM A GOOD MATHEMATICIAN okay?? But you get the idea ahah

[0xFADE]

9 hours ago, Kabrute said:

eggs count as critters for critter count glum rating, my solution is sweeper rail with eggs circling in a small space over open doors that drops to the main critter area.

Very clever

The stable buff only matters for initial domestication right?  After that there is no real reason to keep them in such a small room

[Siromatik]

9 hours ago, Kabrute said:

in a small space over open doors that drops

Problem i meet here is if an hatch born in this room he still stuck by any sort of doors (maybe its only a bug?) so i builded it in a water pool to kill hatchling and use an arm on automation cutting power to drop egg where i want instead