How and where to milk?

[Dirty Old Man]

Recently I've built myself a ranch, I had around twenty fertilized snow putit eggs lying around, so I hatched them all(I was a bit shocked to find out that an incubator does it instantly). I want to have the best cashmere textile possible, but in order to do that I need to have my baby putits to grow strong and in order for them to grow strong I need to feed them STRONG milk, as far as I know. And that means I can't feed them their own milk, because their milk is WEAK.

Where do I get the strong milk? How do I get it? I heard you can milk yourself, but would it be a good idea to feed them your milk? Like, is the potency of milk is calculated through the sum of stats, or some hidden level or what? Because who knows, maybe your own milk is gated by your very basic stats from the time you've just started playing.

[Iyasenu]

Wiki says that the milk's bonus seems to be based on the attributes and feat level of whatever produced the milk.
And it says that the more that the milk-producer's stats have grown from its initial state determines the gains its milk will give.

Then again, it also says "the details are being investigated" so take that with a grain of salt.
You can TRY getting some of your own milk, and using a stethoscope to see before/after changes from feeding the baby the milk.

[DW420]

Try combining your ranch area with a geyser and a small pond...unfertilised eggs will "cook" into ether slowing food and fertilised eggs will pop on their own (you might need to drop them into the pond in order for them to pop...as i haven't paid attention past the first time this happened)

[Iyasenu]

Wiki says hatching via beds or hot springs results in being able to feed the resulting baby milk only twice.
While hatching from an incubator allows for three feedings before the baby grows up.

Since OP seems to already have the incubator, it might be best to keep using that just to be able to benefit from one more milk feeding.

Though of course, you can still make use of the hot spring eggs made from unfertilized eggs, if you don't have another use for them.

[Dirty Old Man]

Originally posted by Iyasenu:

Wiki says that the milk's bonus seems to be based on the attributes and feat level of whatever produced the milk.
And it says that the more that the milk-producer's stats have grown from its initial state determines the gains its milk will give.

Then again, it also says "the details are being investigated" so take that with a grain of salt.
You can TRY getting some of your own milk, and using a stethoscope to see before/after changes from feeding the baby the milk.

I tested out feeding my own +4 milk and an evolved orc's(met him at 20F of the Void) +12 milk. A quick look indicates that potential-wise there doesn't seem to be any difference, however stat-wise and feat point-wise there's a drastic one. Feeding my milk caused the pet to gain a huge amount of perception(56), will(35), dexterity(32) and magic(79). Also, the casting skill is really high(63). Doesn't look like genetics are involved, because if they were it'd have sky-high charisma. 12 feat points.

The orc milk-fed pet gained endurance(62), magic(31), strength(34) and the rest are 10/20s.
Regen(16), marksman(72!), tactics (33), martial arts(44). 36 feat points.

In other words, stats are random, feat points gained from milk feeding is basically whatever +attribute it is on the milk. I haven't tried blessing the milk to see whether it affects anything, but maybe if I'll stockpile a ♥♥♥♥ ton of it afterwards I will check it out.

[Aurelia]

Originally posted by Dirty Old Man:

I haven't tried blessing the milk to see whether it affects anything, but maybe if I'll stockpile a ♥♥♥♥ ton of it afterwards I will check it out.

What I do know about blessing milk is that it blessed milk causes height increase, while cursed milk causes height reduction, so likely it won't do anything more than that, but please share your finding regardless. I'm interested in understanding these mechanics, but havn't had the opportunity to dive into them much.

[Dirty Old Man]

Originally posted by Aurelia:

Originally posted by Dirty Old Man:

I haven't tried blessing the milk to see whether it affects anything, but maybe if I'll stockpile a ♥♥♥♥ ton of it afterwards I will check it out.

What I do know about blessing milk is that it blessed milk causes height increase, while cursed milk causes height reduction, so likely it won't do anything more than that, but please share your finding regardless. I'm interested in understanding these mechanics, but havn't had the opportunity to dive into them much.

I realised that I still had some extra orc's milk, so I blessed it and tried it out.
No difference at all, just as you said all it did was increase the height, doesn't look like there's a change in potential or anything else. Same stats though as the other orc milk-fed pet, so they are not random at the very least. Dunno what influences them though.

[raviolles]

this is something i completely unknown to
how to milk yourself?
looks like my poor baby snow putits will be able to defend themselves after this

[Iyasenu]

Originally posted by raviolles:

this is something i completely unknown to
how to milk yourself?
looks like my poor baby snow putits will be able to defend themselves after this

I think you can make yourself give milk if you do something like drinking a Love Potion.
Or, eating a Dream Larva.
Also, eating any food that has either of those blended into it.
I think there are other ways, too.

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by Iyasenu:

Also, eating any food that has either of those blended into it.

Helpfully, you can often find foods with those traits in them from Rodwyn the Witch in Mysilia (traits hidden without Gourmet).

[thatbumzzz]

Is there an easier way to get love potions than the drug dealer? I've even save scummed and sometimes takes 10 minutes or longer to see even one potion.

[roy2x]

Originally posted by thatbumzzz:

Is there an easier way to get love potions than the drug dealer? I've even save scummed and sometimes takes 10 minutes or longer to see even one potion.

You are better off getting them from Rodwyn. She can stock both food and the dough to make them, that have aphrodisiac mix(and bug mix too for the same effect). So instead of buying 1 love potion you can just buy a stack of 6 bread with the effect already on them.

[thatbumzzz]

Mainly want the love potion to test stuff out, like egg shenanigans lol

[roy2x]

Hmm. I am trying this out as well. Its not 100% you get milk from yourself after eating stuff with aphrodisiac. Sometimes you get eggs, sometimes you get nothing at all. Milks are rare.