Feeding Trough and Pet Food management?

[AriesMouse410]

I play on an unoffical server with a group of friends, and we have several bases in various spots on the map. We're slowly starting to get each one set up with feeding troughs, but now comes the time to figure out the most efficient want to keep them filled and our dinos happy.

I've need the main feeder for Site A and Site B, as I have more time in the day to log on. That being said, is there any easier way to keep our dino pets fed and happy, even if the people they belong to are not able to log on often? Is it better to just keep trying to keep the trough spammed full of berries and meat (We have a Therizinosaurus, but he's gentle gather build, when we find a female for him she'd be power). Getting meat isn't hard, but it's tedious, and if I am 100% honest, I am the worst at gathering of the group.

Is kibble viable as a trough filler? We have dodo eggs for days, and not a lot to do with them, and we're starting to get a steady supply of Parasaur eggs as well, which to us as useless, as we have no interest in using that kibble at this time. I have a steady farm going, so getting the ingredients for the kibble is pretty easy, jerkying the meat is the only hard part, mostly because I'm impatient.

I've read in some places that puttng cooked meat in the trough is better, as it stacks higher, and thus spoils slower, but those were posts from a year ago (and my search attempts wont show me anything newer than that).

More food for thought ( pun intended ), is it better to make certain troughs for specific food types? Like one trough for only berries, and one only for meat? Their inventory seems plenty big, but with a bronto, we could easily fill a berry trough to the brim if we wanted.

[eliteangler]

I don't know about the kibble, as I haven't used any. However, I will say that it doesn't really matter what meat you put in the boxes, other than prime because it spoils so quickly. If you are the type of person that has to have everything organized, then by all means you should have separate troughs for meat and berries. Also, make sure the dinos that you intend to be feeding out of the trough(s) have the trough icon above their name indicating that they are in range and will be able to eat out of it. Also, if you use separate troughs for berries and meats, be sure the herbivores are in range of the berries trough and the carnivores are in range of the meat trough. Hope this helps.

[eliteangler]

One more thing... Some creatures do not eat berries or meat. Scorpions, for example, eat spoiled meat. Make sure to do research on the tamed dino as to make sure you gather the correct food for it. Also, if the dinos are just sitting in the base, and are not very active, they will eat less. If you fly around on a Ptera or an Argie, or run around on a raptor, the active ones will use their food quicker.

[lammaer]

Dont worry too much about feeding - when animals are idle (they are just standing on your base, even on neutral) they can survive for weeks.

Food is consumed rapidly ONLY if the animals are using stamina (moving/fighting for long) or injured (the healing uses food).


For example: i have 3 quetzals hoowering in the air on the various spots of the map, and after 1.5 week all of them have more than half the foodbar filled). Dont worry if their food icon is not full, that will not cause harm.


So: once / week visit your base, fill the Feedding through with half raw meat / half berries and thats it. (ifyou have some special animals, those are exception through, give them the proper food.)

Dont need to tinker with kibbles and other slower spoiling items, its pointless.

ps: never improved the food stat for any tamed animals, so they have "vanilla" food stat and thats more than enough for keep them alive for long time). Never ever lost a dino to starvation.

[Tere-Insanity Gaming]

Use a mod called tavan's trough. Lasts lots longer as it it refrigerated.

[lammaer]

Originally posted by Tere:

Use a mod called tavan's trough. Lasts lots longer as it it refrigerated.

Usually not a viable thingie, because having mods on a server is painful from maintenance prospective. From the OP's description I think they are not the admins on the server...

[AriesMouse410]

Thanks for all the helpful tips! I've been pretty good about keeping meat on the dimos I am riding ( I've been slowly making a pack of megalodons, a passion I never expected to have) and I always try to keep at least a full stack of meat on which ever one I'm riding (same for my raptor).

Honestly, I was just hoping the kibble would be a good use of the eggs, since we're getting to the point of having more than we know what to do with a lot of the time. With nearly 10 of us on this realm, we've ended up with a lot of silly tames like a mass of dodos, and dilos (All of which are kept in their own pen for wandering and egg farming. Still no chocolates yet! D: )

For the moment, most of the troughs are kind of randomly placed where it seemed the most convienent, so they are mixed food (though some day, I'll sort it all out, get everyone their own nice pen )

Will the scorpion eat out of the trough if the meat in it spoils, or do I have to keep the spoiled meat on her? My friend tamed one, and she's sitting at Site A (Given us 1 egg so far), and I want to make sure she's fed to. I put about 20 spoiled meats on her now.

[Erty]

Filling a through with either raw or cooked meat and berries should keep almost all dinos fed, although certain dinos have special dietary needs like the achatina that only eats sweet vegetable cakes, and the archaeopteryx that only eats chitin. And the meat spoiling can come to your advantage as you can regularly collect the spoiled meat and put it into a fridge for use in producing narcotic.

[AriesMouse410]

Originally posted by szabferi:

Originally posted by Tere:

Use a mod called tavan's trough. Lasts lots longer as it it refrigerated.

Usually not a viable thingie, because having mods on a server is painful from maintenance prospective. From the OP's description I think they are not the admins on the server...

My friend owns the server, and at the moment we only have 3 mods (and I think he is hesitatnt to add more do to lag, and just a general lack of serious need for more).

[Erty]

Originally posted by AriesMouse410:

Will the scorpion eat out of the trough if the meat in it spoils, or do I have to keep the spoiled meat on her? My friend tamed one, and she's sitting at Site A (Given us 1 egg so far), and I want to make sure she's fed to. I put about 20 spoiled meats on her now.

The scorpion will eat both raw and spoiled meat (but preferring the latter) and should do so normally from a through if near one

[eliteangler]

The scorpion will eat spoiled meats out of it's own inventory or the trough. Same as the other dinos and the regular meat/berries.

[Danny-NL]

just drop meat and berrys in the Feeding Trough. meat will spoil and you have spoild meat.
we do it like this sinds you can place Feeding Trough and it works fine

[lammaer]

Originally posted by AriesMouse410:

Originally posted by szabferi:

Usually not a viable thingie, because having mods on a server is painful from maintenance prospective. From the OP's description I think they are not the admins on the server...

My friend owns the server, and at the moment we only have 3 mods (and I think he is hesitatnt to add more do to lag, and just a general lack of serious need for more).

The main problem is not the stability of the mods, but the updates. If any mod updated by the mod maker, the server need to be shot down and need to be updated, otherwise no one can connect to it.

This is because the mods on the server are not automaticaly updated, but on the player's machine they are when the game started. If the version of a mod mismatches between the client and the server, the clients cannot connect.

On my LAN server I run something like 20 mods, they have no stability issue and since I run the server only when I play, it is updated before every start.