Managing Deviant Mood is awful

[donnylicious]

Constantly running to 20 different deviants and re-upping their mood gets tiresome fast. Anyway to automate this?

[GrtCdnStoner]

dont worry about it? it only makes thier mood go up faster so far .. no real impact either way

[Hexoplex]

Look at their container and at the bottom there should be boosts you can do to make it faster.

[Nyamses]

What do you mean by managing Deviant mood? The most you have to do is to satisfy their requirements/preferences and leave them to do their thing.

If you mean exchanging their Mood as a method of refilling their Power, that's really not necessary, unless you absolutely NEED that Deviant active at a very specific time.

[Armitage Shanks]

Do you mean refilling their deviant power? If so, it's not a mechanic you are supposed to be doing all the time. It's just there if you want to have a deviant active when it has no power (eg. your Chef Rex has no power and you want to cook a batch of buff food). They automatically regenerate deviant power and mood over time, and if you meet their requirements they regen faster.

[EvilHare]

Originally posted by GrtCdnStoner:

dont worry about it? it only makes thier mood go up faster so far .. no real impact either way

You will notice that certain collectors will find exceptional items when their mood is maxxed.

Beavers - Furniture
Digby - Precious Ores
Rabbit - rare cooking items from animals

I do not know if there are other collectors but this is what I discovered. Not hard to appease them. Except ones that like toys. Do your deviant figurines count?

[Nyamses]

Originally posted by EvilHare:

Originally posted by GrtCdnStoner:

dont worry about it? it only makes thier mood go up faster so far .. no real impact either way

You will notice that certain collectors will find exceptional items when their mood is maxxed.

Beavers - Furniture
Digby - Precious Ores
Rabbit - rare cooking items from animals

I do not know if there are other collectors but this is what I discovered. Not hard to appease them. Except ones that like toys. Do your deviant figurines count?

Yes, the Deviant figurines (Model V, etc) do count as toys.

[EvilHare]

Originally posted by Nyamses:

Originally posted by EvilHare:

You will notice that certain collectors will find exceptional items when their mood is maxxed.

Beavers - Furniture
Digby - Precious Ores
Rabbit - rare cooking items from animals

I do not know if there are other collectors but this is what I discovered. Not hard to appease them. Except ones that like toys. Do your deviant figurines count?

Yes, the Deviant figurines (Model V, etc) do count as toys.

Great news! I have 4 types

[Manslayer]

I hate these damn wolves that keep attacking them. I don't actually know if it does anything, but they bite them then my house all the time. Lowers my mood.

[Armitage Shanks]

Originally posted by Manslayer:

I hate these damn wolves that keep attacking them. I don't actually know if it does anything, but they bite them then my house all the time. Lowers my mood.

They don't. Territory deviants are basically invincible, even the combat ones. Build some active defenses or move your territory to a place where no aggressive mobs spawn. Simple.

Originally posted by EvilHare:

Originally posted by GrtCdnStoner:

dont worry about it? it only makes thier mood go up faster so far .. no real impact either way

You will notice that certain collectors will find exceptional items when their mood is maxxed.

Beavers - Furniture
Digby - Precious Ores
Rabbit - rare cooking items from animals

I do not know if there are other collectors but this is what I discovered. Not hard to appease them. Except ones that like toys. Do your deviant figurines count?

There's literally nothing you can do manually to increase a deviants mood in containment. All you can do is meet as many of it's requirements as you can and let it regain mood passively. Also, the rare resources come from increasing the power threshold that sends deviants out to work. Set it to 100 and you get rare items more often, but it means your deviants are onb cool down for longer.

[donnylicious]

Yes, I'm talking about transferring mood over to power. OK, so they don't need to be transferred. I tried leaving it and I noticed the items they obtain are significantly less. The lethal rabbit I did not touch the entire day and he only brought me 3 meat and 1 hide. When I was transferring mood into power, he was getting 3-4 meats from 1-3 different animals and 2 or more hides.

So it seems like sure, you do not have to manage them, but without power, they are dormant longer and you get less.