Hear me out. Turtle cages...

[MastaHu]

I know this is not supposed to be a part of the game but I would like to see If it could be adjusted anyways. Turtles have no collision in regards to barriers. I was thinking about making a turtle cage to harvest eggs and meat. Unfortunately, with the turtles having no collision with barriers, they just pass right through anything. Except a log sled or log holder when stacked full. I already posted on the bug reports due to collision aspect but I would like to know if the community would like something like this added to the game. For some reason, I thought it would be cool to have a turtle cage for fun and to keep a live animal ready to go if needed to harvest for eggs or meat.

[Ryzilynt]

I would not be opposed.

[ryannorgreeves]

Also not opposed. Curious of the mechanics of this. Does the cage need to be built in a manner that the turtle can live in the water, but also get to the land to lay eggs or is the concept that we capture the turtle out of water and it lives outside the ocean the whole time after?

[ConflicT Zv]

Yeah we had rabbit cages in The Forest so why not? Though the logistics of it brought up by @ryannorgreeves is a good point. Having more ways for sustainable food sources is never a bad idea.

[MastaHu]

Originally posted by ryannorgreeves:

Also not opposed. Curious of the mechanics of this. Does the cage need to be built in a manner that the turtle can live in the water, but also get to the land to lay eggs or is the concept that we capture the turtle out of water and it lives outside the ocean the whole time after?

From what I was able to test, I built three log holders as a box and used a log sled as a gate in maybe a foot of water at the beach. It was pretty jank but seemed to have persistence. However, not sure if they will despawn after a few days or so. If they added the collision to the turtles, you could build a better solution with normal stick fences. An actual blueprint would be cool but I doubt they would add it. With enabling the collision on the turtles would at least would provide a solution to it.

[BORG]

I'd be OK with the having Turtle nests. I think it'd be a great way to make food automation a little nicer and as well, you could have it be a visual aspect of building. Sort of like creating an animal farm. Would be cool if you could catch fish as well and build a decorative pond as a food supply. Make it so there has to be minimum 2 fish for it to repopulate and only so many populate in a pond at certain sizes. if the player could map out the pond area too that would be pretty wild. This especially would be appreciated I think, by builders.

[Ryzilynt]

Originally posted by ryannorgreeves:

Also not opposed. Curious of the mechanics of this. Does the cage need to be built in a manner that the turtle can live in the water, but also get to the land to lay eggs or is the concept that we capture the turtle out of water and it lives outside the ocean the whole time after?

There are land turtles and sea turtles in the game presently.

[ryannorgreeves]

Originally posted by Ryzilynt:

Originally posted by ryannorgreeves:

Also not opposed. Curious of the mechanics of this. Does the cage need to be built in a manner that the turtle can live in the water, but also get to the land to lay eggs or is the concept that we capture the turtle out of water and it lives outside the ocean the whole time after?

There are land turtles and sea turtles in the game presently.

Whoops. For some reason my mind was stuck on the sea turtles. Seen them a lot more.