egg help

[chaser5455]

1 how many eggs can u have in ur chicken fence can u have?
2 if eggs lay for so long will they hatch into chickens

[brewboy]

1 the max that the chickens will lay is 57 when you collect them more will be layed
2 not 100% sure on this but i think they will just sit there until you collect them

[Dronkos]

As brewboy sayed, there are only 57 spots where eggs can spawn. They do not spawn double so 57 at any time is max.

[chaser5455]

ok thanks

[cailean_556]

And no, eggs do not hatch into more chickens. I neglected to collect my eggs for a week. Still only had 100 chickens. A wee bit unrealistic (excluding the fact that crops grow in 20 hours - would you really want to sit around for 3 months while wheat grows?) but this game isn't really about livestock except for making a bit of extra cash on the side using waste materials from your harvests (straw/hay/silage etc). Be nice if it expanded to encompass this but...just sayin'...

[Sarxis]

This is why I took the Hagenstedt v6 idea of spawning up to 500 eggs in one spot and made my own i3d file with better egg spawning. 1000 chickens spawning up to 500 eggs in a nice cluster makes egg farming fun again!

[cailean_556]

I've always wondered why exactly 57...Why not 60? I doubt stationary eggs take up THAT much memory, so why not 10 dozen eggs? Or 20 dozen? 57 eggs is just under 5 dozen eggs. A small 'free range' farm that's supposed to supply a small village... 5 dozen is not going to supply a village, even one as small as on the Hagenstedt default map.

[clif9710]

Originally posted by cailean_556:

5 dozen is not going to supply a village, even one as small as on the Hagenstedt default map.

Supply and demand - too few eggs for the town - that must be why I got $57 when I took my first batch of 10 eggs into town! : )

[abeyance !!!]

LOL clif ... you could be right there

Originally posted by cailean_556:

I've always wondered why exactly 57...

I think its to do with the space needed for each egg spawn point to function properly .... when you create a nav mesh its sized and set with various "standard" spawn points by the game engine .... if you increased the size of the chicken nav mesh then i dont see why the egg spawns wouldnt increase aswell ( i might try and let you know if it works ^^ )

I'm sure they can also be increased by modding the necessary files but never tried

[cailean_556]

Yeah, abeyance, apparently the file that deals with the chicken eggs is hardcoded or somesuch, I can't remember specifics, was speedreading a forum thread and someone mentioned it... Dunno how true or false that is though... Keep us posted. ;)

[abeyance !!!]

You hardly have a link to that thread floating around ?

I'm trying to find a few files that i reckon are hardcoded to see if i can edit a couple of features using a modded lua but its a pretty steep learning curve :S lol

[cailean_556]

I'll try and go back through the forums to find it...don't hold your breath though. =P

[abeyance !!!]

hehe ... no matter if you cant but would be great if you can ... trying to find out as much info as i can ^^