Having a much harder time maintaining pets than thralls and I dont know what to do. Gruel has a high decay timer, plus when inside a thrall pot it decays even slower.
Meat in the other hand has a very short decay timer, the feed box doesnt seem as efficient as thrall pot to increase decay and I dont understand the mechanics at all… I have a bunch thrall pots filled with gruel and it spoils very slowly, I only get one decayed gruel at time after a long time spam.
Now the feed box in the other hand… everytime I open it there is a LOT putrid meat, I dont understand why meat spoils in stacks and the gruel is only one at time.
I don’t think it has anything to do with gruel vs meat.
The pet feed box just doesn’t work properly. I don’t know if the stuff is decaying or if the animals are just gorging themselves, but they will empty a pet feed box pretty much every day regardless.
Meanwhile my thrall pot just stays happily full (with cooked meat) for ages.
Yes… if I didnt live nearby a bunch Kudus I dont know how I would be managing 14 animals that eat meat. The feed boxes just dont feel optimized, the more food you place the more food goes wasted.
I got to the point Im trying to manage it with just a few stacks, 3 stacks of 50 meat inside each box (The animals are separate in 2 groups, so I have 1 box covering each group of 7) and see how long I need to restock it while I keep the rest in a preservation box…
Just feed everything honey. All your thralls and pets will eat it and not die to starvation.
Build 4 beehives per feed box to start. And then just fill up their corresponding feed box or thrall pot.
When you have those filled, take the honey and fill pets and thralls individually with them until you take them on the road to packmule. I have greater bears who’s entire inventory is full of honey and have 60 some days til they die to starvation.
Never though of Honey. I just give them my useless lobsters raw. They love it. It spoils yes, but from my ichor traps, i pretty much have enought to fill daily in one swoop
And notice that they always take in stacks of 5 form the feed box.
Yeah something is just not right about Feed boxes. 5 hours ago I made this topic and filled my boxes with 3 stacks of 50 Savoury flesh for testing, after just a few hours a LOT food was consumed.
Both boxes have 2 stacks of Savoury flesh left alone with 50 meat. The other stack have dropped, in the first box to 30 and 26 in the other box. There are only 7 animals on each feed box, which means the animals are eating A LOT.
The decaying food process is the worst problem. All stacks have the same decay timer right now, only 10 minutes left no matter if the stack was left alone or consumed. That means all 3 stacks will produce a putrid meat at the same time, which makes the box mechanics even more messed up, its definitely not optimized. Adding too much food just means having even more food wasted for little total time added.
Funcom, you really need to do something about Feed Boxes. Its not fun as it stands. The best way to feed animals is keeping the minimum required food on boxes, then once a day take the stored food from preservation boxes and place on them… Im not sure if thats intended, but its definitely requires a LOt more interaction than thralls and thrall pots
Bark and Vines for Rhino, it never expires.
Bears eat Honey, it never expires.
The rest will be happy with human flesh and the amount you get collecting religious tokens in infinite.
Thrall Pots, I started putting dried fish in because savory and steaks is just too much. I’m usually putting 500 to 600 a day in them to keep everyone happy and it’s just getting out of hand trying to keep up to the demand. I have around 20 thralls and twice that many pets. The thralls are 80% of the work load.
I have about 30 thralls deployed on one pot and I have no real issues feeding them the good stuff. Every few days I take the camel out and spend an hour harvesting. Cook it all up fill the pot and put the excess into a bunch of icebox.
Or you all could just use honey instead of babysitting your pets and thralls every day or three. I’ve spent literally 25 minutes, total, since the update to feed my pets/thralls. One day I made the beehives and troughs, the next I filled the troughs, the next I filled their inventories.
I might have to fill them again in a couple weeks.
You didnt get ignored, some server friends suggested the same and Im replacing everything with honey now, but it just doesnt sound right. Im pretty certain feeding tigers with honey is not something Funcom intended.
Asteria, can you check what your default hunger time is for your pets? (mine was the default 7 days, which i think is around 10k minutes) maybe yours is set much lower and that is what is causing the food to get used up quickly (plus your decay rates?)
i love the new honey mechanic (with the Queen and Worker Bees), especially since we can sitll gain a bit of honey over time, but mainly get a boost with finding Bees. (once i get the devkit working, ill try and add a Rolled Oats honey seeds option)
I think there’s server settings to specify if you have to feed them their “preferred” foods or not. On the official servers, this is disabled. So it’s at all consumable, they’ll eat it, they just might not like it as much.
What would be special is if they’d actually show the specific buffs that the thralls / pets are supposed to get from eating their preferred food, and have those scale up based on the quality of said food.
Oh, and if feeding everything honey is immersion breaking for folks, I direct you towards people for our human and carnivorous pets. There’s no shortage of human flesh that can be obtained quickly, in mass quantities. Faster even than the rate that honey is produced, really.
