Infinite worms?

[nicky41594]

I tamed a chicken and had put 10 worms in the trough but apparently the chicken can catch worms itself. currently have over 600 apparently O.o anyone have any info?

[RPG Gamer Man]

I never seen this happen. My trough is always empty and i have to fill it with grain. I tried putting worms in it before, but they never ate them..maybe it is the preference of your chickens? They may have different tastes..

[Kota The Femboy]

I was able to recreate this. It's definitely a glitch. I had two female chickens and one male with no other followers in the pen. The male was at full hunger, the females were both at 0 hunger, and the trough had no food in it. I put in 27 worms and saw the magic. Rather than going to the trough for worms, it seems the chickens will peck at the ground instead. I would guess this is intended to take a worm from the trough and was meant just to be for fun. However, each time the chicken's peck for a worm, they seem to copy the number of worms currently in the trough while still only reducing the trough's inventory by 1 worm. Thus you have infinite worms, unlimited eggs, and unlimited food for other creatures through the unlimited eggs.

Technically, the worms aren't infinite for those who like math. They will copy the number of worms from the trough to their inventory, then will proceed to eat the ones in their inventory until they have run out. At which point, they take from the trough again, reducing the inventory by 1, and reducing the amount of worms they copy by 1. So you have the factorial of the number of worms in the trough if you don't refill it. Other animals do not have this behavior and will directly eat from the trough so they will reduce the amount you can copy by however much food they require.

Slight addendum: It seems while you're outside the camp, the game is still counting pecks. This is very wishy-washy, but I think when you return to the camp, the next time they peck for worms, it counts each of those unrendered pecks as being a new worm. Which means each of those unrendered pecks adds the number of worms currently in the trough to their inventory. I had 975 worms in my trough, and after going to the Wasteland for about 5 minutes, I came back to 14705 in each of the female chickens. I suppose I will be finding the stack limit soon

[massltow]

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