Baby Dilo died despite having food??? No cause of death stated.

[carnivoremimic]

Okay so I've only had this game for a few days and I've been trying to sucessfully breed either a dodo or a dilo and no matter what I seem to do I always loose it after hatching.

After loosing 4 dodos I build a structure with space for babies to move around in safely without worry of a dinosaur killing it and I railed off section for fires in a corner I could set the egg next to to keep warm.

I got a dilo egg from my two highest level Dilo and watched over it during it's entire incubation procress.

It finally hatched and I quickly imprinted on it, skipped the naming process, and put meat in it inventory but it didnt eat any and died a few seconds later. Stating that it "was killed" but not by anything.

I don't understand why this happened and it really made me mad because I can't even rebreed those two dilo cause the female somehow got killed by a wild dilo while I was watching the egg, and I really liked her cause she had pink markings which I hadn't seen before.

(( She was set to passive and I heard to danger music start but couldn't find where the danger was till too late because it was dark and my torch broke and I didnt have the supplies to repair it on me.))

[Shpeeno]

Not meaning to troll (okay, entirely meaning to troll) but why are you breeding two of the most useless dinos in the game?

[Seikuri]

So the bug of babies not eating properly still exists. Fun. Wont be breeding/ahtching anything anytime soon. Lost too many Troodons this way

[Bullwinkle]

The dude is obviously trying to learn the mechanics so when he breeds useful dinos, he doesn't screw it up.

[Bullwinkle]

What kind of meat are you putting into the baby's inventory, RM? I have a hypothesis. When you tame an unconscious animal, if you put low-nutrition food (like fish meat), the beast will eat as soon as one piece of fish meat will erase its hunger. If you put high-nutrition food (like prime meat jerky) the beast will wait much longer before eating. It will wait until it needs an entire piece of whatever food is in its inventory. So, if babies do the same thing, it might be possible to put a high-nutrition food in their inventory that prevents them from eating until their food is at a negative number (meaning they will starve to death). I'd recommend starting with low-nutrition food like fish meat to guarantee they will eat right away.

[Adam West]

till the bugs are fixed you should breed dinos with >5k food only.

[DarthaNyan]

Originally posted by Adam West:

till the bugs are fixed you should breed dinos with >5k food only.

or forcefeed babies.

[carnivoremimic]

Originally posted by Bullwinkle:

The dude is obviously trying to learn the mechanics so when he breeds useful dinos, he doesn't screw it up.

Your right I am trying to practice with faster and easier to obtain dinosaurs so that I didn't screw up with something more valuble.

It was just regular meat, I tried looking up if they needed a specific kind of meat and only thing I could find just said "meat" so I figured that would work even if it needed higher quantities.

[Seikuri]

Barys breed, hatched and grew without a problem. Troodon need to be forcefeed for hours till far into juvenile stage or they random stop eating and starve to death :D

[DarthaNyan]

Originally posted by ⚣RoryMizu⚣:

Originally posted by Bullwinkle:

The dude is obviously trying to learn the mechanics so when he breeds useful dinos, he doesn't screw it up.

Your right I am trying to practice with faster and easier to obtain dinosaurs so that I didn't screw up with something more valuble.

It was just regular meat, I tried looking up if they needed a specific kind of meat and only thing I could find just said "meat" so I figured that would work even if it needed higher quantities.

Normally carnivores automagically eat when their food goes down by 50 points. So if baby had less than 50 max food at the moment of birth (5000 base, as someone pointed out earlier) - it wont be able to eat by itself for some time until they get that extra food threshold from growing up.

Edit: That is if you feed them with normal raw meat.
Fish meat or cooked fish meat might be a better choice for babies.

[carnivoremimic]

Originally posted by Bullwinkle:

What kind of meat are you putting into the baby's inventory, RM? I have a hypothesis. When you tame an unconscious animal, if you put low-nutrition food (like fish meat), the beast will eat as soon as one piece of fish meat will erase its hunger. If you put high-nutrition food (like prime meat jerky) the beast will wait much longer before eating. It will wait until it needs an entire piece of whatever food is in its inventory. So, if babies do the same thing, it might be possible to put a high-nutrition food in their inventory that prevents them from eating until their food is at a negative number (meaning they will starve to death). I'd recommend starting with low-nutrition food like fish meat to guarantee they will eat right away.

Oh that's a really good hypothesis! I was only using like the basic meat but even that might be too high for it? I'll have to work on getting some fish meat.

[carnivoremimic]

Originally posted by DarthaNyan:

Originally posted by ⚣RoryMizu⚣:

Your right I am trying to practice with faster and easier to obtain dinosaurs so that I didn't screw up with something more valuble.

It was just regular meat, I tried looking up if they needed a specific kind of meat and only thing I could find just said "meat" so I figured that would work even if it needed higher quantities.

Normally carnivores automagically eat when their food goes down by 50 points. So if baby had less than 5000 max food at the moment of birth (as someone pointed out earlier) - it wont be able to eat by itself.

So basically I will have to force feed it?

[DarthaNyan]

Originally posted by ⚣RoryMizu⚣:

So basically I will have to force feed it?

yes.

Or use cooked fish meat that should be half as nutritious as raw fish that is half as nutritious as raw meat for a total of restoring 12.5 points of food to a dino (not tested, but raw fish and cooked meat restore 25 points, raw meat restores 50).

[carnivoremimic]

Originally posted by DarthaNyan:

Originally posted by ⚣RoryMizu⚣:

So basically I will have to force feed it?

yes.

Or use cooked fish meat that should be half as nutritious as raw fish that is half as nutritious as raw meat for a total of restoring 12.5 points of food to a dino (not tested, but raw fish and cooked meat restore 25 points, raw meat restores 50).

I'll test the theory on an adult Dilo and see if it is 12.5 points, thanks for the advice

[DarthaNyan]

Originally posted by ⚣RoryMizu⚣:

Originally posted by DarthaNyan:

yes.

Or use cooked fish meat that should be half as nutritious as raw fish that is half as nutritious as raw meat for a total of restoring 12.5 points of food to a dino (not tested, but raw fish and cooked meat restore 25 points, raw meat restores 50).

I'll test the theory on an adult Dilo and see if it is 12.5 points, thanks for the advice

Dont forget to take out everything else from its inventory for test.

[carnivoremimic]

Originally posted by DarthaNyan:

Dont forget to take out everything else from its inventory for test.

It is 12.5 points for cooked fish