Basic Hatchery Egg Storage

[Zarquan]

I was thinking that it would be nice if there was a building like a storage container where eggs can be stored and they can hatch from.  Eggs from this building will not be taken to the egg cracker and eggs will not be taken to the egg cracker when it could be taken to this building instead.  Eggs from this can be taken out put in an incubator.  Eggs in this container will hatch.  I think it should be much larger in size, but much smaller in capacity.  Any eggs in this container would contribute to the creature count and expecting debuff.

The main purpose of this building is to have a simple way to make sure that your species don't go extinct if you have a lot of eggs and put the egg cracker on continuous and allow you to easily move eggs around without having to worry about forgetting them and losing an eggs.  I often play for short period of times and forget some of the things I was doing before, so I usually avoid orders that will cause problems if left ignored.  If there is another way to do this with early game tech, I would be happy to learn about it.

[Rogue Witch]

You can use a Smart Storage, Egg cracker, Automation enabled doors, and automation wiring to make your idea happen. Though eggs in the smart storage wont hatch. 

[RonEmpire]

Storing them currently creates an inhibited debuff. where they lose viability.  so the longer they're in storage the more likely they become raw eggs.   Storage is basically the same as an egg cracker but a very slow cracking process.

[Rogue Witch]

Once you reach steady state, the 'slow cracking process' issue doesn't matter. Also look into the forums for 'Automated egg management'. There are many ingenious solutions and work pretty well.

[Zarquan]

2 hours ago, Rogue Witch said:

Also look into the forums for 'Automated egg management'. There are many ingenious solutions and work pretty well.

Well, your quote is actually the first instance on the forums of the phrase "Automated egg management." 

My thinking is that this is doable with the following system:  You use sweeper arm to drop eggs on a pressure plate with automation.  Then you can drop them in the rest of the stable once hatched using doors that you regularly open with automation.  If you have 10 hatches, then every 100 cycles, you need 10 eggs.  Eggs take 20 cycles to hatch (I believe), so you need 2 eggs at a time to maintain the population.  That results in 10 eggs hatching per 100 cycles, which will maintain the population of hatches at around 10.   It will support a little less than 10 because the hatchling won't vacate immediately and I assume their mass is greater than 2 kg, though I don't have the numbers in front of me. 

I suppose a better way to do this is to use automation to make the sweeper drop an egg every n cycles, where 100/n is the number of hatches you are supporting.  That would be more appropriate.  If you want to support 10 hatches, you would drop an egg every 10 cycles. Ironically, large ranches are easier than small ranches. 

Because who would have thought that dropping eggs from a great height wasn't the solution? 

I'm also not sure that the sweeper arm dropping items is an intended behavior...

[Rogue Witch]

1 hour ago, Zarquan said:

Well, your quote is actually the first instance on the forums of the phrase "Automated egg management." 

My bad, Search for "Automated Pen Management" and look for JonnyMonroe's post on that topic page. I really dont know how to directly link that post here.

[Zarquan]

14 minutes ago, Rogue Witch said:

My bad, Search for "Automated Pen Management" and look for JonnyMonroe's post on that topic page.

I think his approach is a lot like my second approach.  Essentially, select an egg to hatch every certain period of time.

14 minutes ago, Rogue Witch said:

I really dont know how to directly link that post here.

You can click the share button and copy the URL in to your post.

[goboking]

I've said it before, I'll say it again...an option to queue critters indefinitely on the incubator and a simple cryostorage unit that stores eggs without a loss in viability solves every egg production/critter breeding automation problem in one fell sweep.  Put the incubator on X, the cryostorage unit on X-1, and the egg cracker on X-2 and all your problems are solved.

[Zarquan]

I agree.  Especially if the cryostorage eggs can't be taken away to be eaten without explicit orders.  Because then the incubator(s) can be like the dropping area and the cryostorage is like the automation that protects a single egg.

I realized my automation setup in the second setup requires a little more work, as you need to know if an egg has been dropped.  To do that. you have a pressure plate and another sweeper or door to move it to the hatching area.

[Mooka]

+1