Chickens

[brickster7]

I have a few chicken coops built, and im getting a VERY small amount of eggs. Is this bugged? Or am I doing something wrong?

[Clyntonr]

The description says you get a passive amount of eggs, that equals very little. It's not meant to be your main source of food, just an added bit

[brickster7]

Yeah that makes sense, but with 6 chicken coops I get 2 eggs a year.

[Clyntonr]

Yeah that does seem off. I have 2 coops and regularly have 6-10 eggs in the market stalls, not sure how many a year but much more than what you seem to be getting with more coops. Initial plot size makes a difference also though not sure to what extent

[brickster7]

I have never had more than 2 eggs. I'll try and see if the plot size has anything to do with it. They aren't extremely small.

[Nyx Aphelion]

it is a passive food source yes but its more likely have more then you are seeing, as likely you have it in surplus mode so you only see whats extra after food is being accounted for towards your supply. you can change it to see total resources at the top to get a better look at what your situation is really like. as of writing this comment my surplus tab says i only have one egg and it usually fluctuates around 1 to 2 eggs depending on the month but in the total resource tab i actually have 7 eggs and thats cause most of them are already in the markets being sold to villagers for food.

[DragonFlykm]

Not sure but I think the veges have a bit of trouble too. It could be that they need a lot more time to grow than should.

[Xionrise]

You get them decently common, but your people eat them right away as its usually one at a time

[Humble]

Very rarely I had more than 2 egg, it's like I had 5 house, 2 chicken coop, and 3 veg farm, Veg farm take a while but gave lot in fall season, but chicken coop only gave 2, almost never than 2 for mostly of time, I see that I can't stock up egg as I like, so I'm not sure.

[Lowenbrau]

Originally posted by brickster7:

Yeah that makes sense, but with 6 chicken coops I get 2 eggs a year.

Yeah, I have chicken coops, and for about 9 months, I haven't seen a single egg. Bug perhaps?

[Fenix]

In short, a chicken coop is the type of farm that should be in all houses until you decide on the specific orientation of this house for food with which you will have problems, it is the most profitable (the exceptions are immediately vegetable and apple houses, there is a specific need for a large plot)

[[Heretic]Rivga]

Originally posted by brickster7:

I have a few chicken coops built, and im getting a VERY small amount of eggs. Is this bugged? Or am I doing something wrong?

Eggs are amazing but you need to REALLY invest in them, despite what you think you get 1 egg per Month per plot you build the coop in.

What is happening is that as you have a small amount of eggs they are getting consumed before you even see them - so it looks like they are not being produced.
The ones that are not being consumed will be stored in your market stalls.

So an example:
100 Families and 70 Burgage plots (as some are double plots) if you have 3 food sources and Eggs will be your 4th. So you invest 35 Plots to produce eggs

So each month on average 25 eggs will be consumed, leaving 10 over which will go directly to the market. if this repeats it will take 7 months to reach 70 market cap for eggs and only then will you see eggs in your storage. - this example assumes your population is not moving to help the math.

Tip for you: if you invest in eggs do it big, when you reach a certain point that you have a load of eggs being produced and spare other food - build a storage just for eggs and do not allow to go to market - once you have enough to give you a months or two buffer then allow them to go to market and you have a constant additional food source.


Even at low levels eggs are good even if you do not notice. 1 egg per plot means you are saving 1 other food - as food is worth 2 this means that the egg pays for itself in 12.5 months. If you have spare month eggs are a great investment.

For those that do not know if you click on an individual market stall you can see what it holds - it is likely you will find some eggs there.

[admiral8q]

[Heritic]Riva. Very well explained. I gave you the chicken award. Heh heh! Good advice on stashing it up in a granary first as a 'float'. I didn't think of that.

One thing I've learned is to remember there are 2 settings when looking at the resources at the top right of the screen. Two modes. Surplus and Actual. Had me confused at first because I was like, "How can you have a negative amount of a resource?".

[madpraxis]

You have to realize too, that it isn't meant as a 'MAKE FOODS' button. It's more for personal use with the little spillover going to the community pot.
Just think of it as a way to get a secured single food source without any effort to that household.

To be fair, veggies are sort of that way too, the big ass veggie fields breaking everything kind of kicked veggies from 'feed my self and fob off the bit extra' out the door, hah.