Egg laying mechanics

[K]

I've made an egg pen in the hopes of mass producing kibbles for taming but I'm getting barely any eggs, so I did a bit of research and in the wiki it says

"Currently female dinos will drop eggs continuously, no matter if the player is around or not. (Technically spoken, the creature cannot be in stasis*, i.e. the creature has to be loaded which in practice means a player has to be in its vicinity. On the other hand, the game starts the egg laying calculation routine when the creature comes out of stasis, i.e. a player enters the area.)"

I'm finding this a bit confusing, it says female dinos lay eggs continuously regardless if a player is nearby or not but it is also saying for it not to be in stasis* a player has to be near by and the the game starts the egg laying calculation when a player is nearby.

does this mean that when a player is nearby it starts the timer?
egg laying doesn't seem to happen at exact intervals (17 minutes without ovi and 11 minutes and 20 seconds with ovi) so is the egg laying not entirely stopped when players are out of range but instead paused and then resumed when a player renders the dinos?

I have male and several females of each species and an oviraptor nearby and that seems the most that I can do to increase egg laying rate but even then it is only a 2% chance every 11 minutes and 20 seconds, I'm getting on average maybe 5 eggs a day with 9 mate boosted females of a certain species, what can I do to get more?
Just tame a ton of females?
Was it always this hard to get eggs?


*stasis as far as I understood means that when no players are in rendering distance of dinos everything they do is stopped including egg laying (and pooping and moving)

[KitsuneShiro]

Do you have a Male for the boost?

Do you have an Oviraptor (on wandering) for the buff?

[K]

Originally posted by KitsuneShiro:

Do you have a Male for the boost?

Do you have an Oviraptor (on wandering) for the buff?

yes

[Xenulus]

I still don't understand the egg laying mechanics even after 1700 hours. Example: I currently have tamed 6 Yuty females, and 1 male for mate boost, obviously, and a wandering oviraptor, but only 4 of them will ever lay eggs. The other two I've had for months now and have never laid a single egg, ever. 2% chance also seems stupidly inaccurate because one of my rex egg layers will crap them out nonstop, can't turn my back for a minute with it laying another, and another, and another. All my rates are at default.

[K]

Originally posted by Xenulus:

I still don't understand the egg laying mechanics even after 1700 hours. Example: I currently have tamed 6 Yuty females, and 1 male for mate boost, obviously, and a wandering oviraptor, but only 4 of them will ever lay eggs. The other two I've had for months now and have never laid a single egg, ever. 2% chance also seems stupidly inaccurate because one of my rex egg layers will crap them out nonstop, can't turn my back for a minute with it laying another, and another, and another. All my rates are at default.

I'm playing on official so all default rates as well.
2% is what the wiki says but it's interesting that you say some dinos lay eggs more frequently than others, i'll start paying attention to which ones lay eggs and which don't

[KitsuneShiro]

Official rates. Yuck.

Look up the kibble farm breeding towers build videos from pre-kibble rework. Elevate (hatch frames, ramps, etc) the dinos so you can use a whip to collect eggs. Get more females.

[Veeshan]

Same here, wildly different rates per dinos, official rates.

That said, with 9 females you should be getting them fairly briskly. My team of Ankys and Turtles (roughly 9ish) crank me up to 50 in a few multi-hour sessions. Argies take at least three times longer despite similar numbers.

Your analysis of stasis mechanics seems broadly correct. When in render distance they lay regularly when loaded into render distance they play ketchup.

[K]

Originally posted by Veeshan:

Same here, wildly different rates per dinos, official rates.

That said, with 9 females you should be getting them fairly briskly. My team of Ankys and Turtles (roughly 9ish) crank me up to 50 in a few multi-hour sessions. Argies take at least three times longer despite similar numbers.

Your analysis of stasis mechanics seems broadly correct. When in render distance they lay regularly when loaded into render distance they play ketchup.

according to the wiki all dino species should have the same egg laying time cycle lengths, do you know if it's just your argy's that take longer or is it a general thing?

from your experience what dinos would you suggest for each kibble type? (based on speed of laying eggs)

[Veeshan]

Originally posted by karimakader:

Originally posted by Veeshan:

Same here, wildly different rates per dinos, official rates.

That said, with 9 females you should be getting them fairly briskly. My team of Ankys and Turtles (roughly 9ish) crank me up to 50 in a few multi-hour sessions. Argies take at least three times longer despite similar numbers.

Your analysis of stasis mechanics seems broadly correct. When in render distance they lay regularly when loaded into render distance they play ketchup.

according to the wiki all dino species should have the same egg laying time cycle lengths, do you know if it's just your argy's that take longer or is it a general thing?

from your experience what dinos would you suggest for each kibble type? (based on speed of laying eggs)

So I'm sure that technically somewhere in the background the algorithm that determines egg lay chance is the same, but when translated to real life the fluctuations in randomness are so large (large cycle times, super rare, etc) that on my end I see massive differences in rate between species. It'd probably take several hundred hours to detect if they are actually similar rates.

So my plan is to ignore the speed of egg laying, and focus on what's easiest to get in each tier, because random chance is random and I may get screwed or not regardless of species.

[K]

Originally posted by Veeshan:

So I'm sure that technically somewhere in the background the algorithm that determines egg lay chance is the same, but when translated to real life the fluctuations in randomness are so large (large cycle times, super rare, etc) that on my end I see massive differences in rate between species. It'd probably take several hundred hours to detect if they are actually similar rates.

So my plan is to ignore the speed of egg laying, and focus on what's easiest to get in each tier, because random chance is random and I may get screwed or not regardless of species.

fair enough but I've also read that there is a limit on eggs of a certain species, tamed or wild, in a certain radius. So possibly dinos that are easy to get but not in the immediate surrounding area of your base would be best I guess

[Dradiin]

Ugh i forget the actual name of it but get yerself an Egg Raptor, they promote egg laying. The skinny things that make god awful noses when you get close.

[DigginTiger]

I play Sp. All my dinos are mate boosted. I don't have any oviraptor wandering though.
But what i can say for sure is that the laying egg rates seem to be way to low for the kibble mechanics.
Fortunately, There are other ways to get eggs...

[Veeshan]

Originally posted by roro4066:

I play Sp. All my dinos are mate boosted. I don't have any oviraptor wandering though.
But what i can say for sure is that the laying egg rates seem to be way to low for the kibble mechanics.
Fortunately, There are other ways to get eggs...

You NEED an Oviraptor. The egg lay rate for mate boosted is allegedly double that of unboosted. But Oviraptor DOUBLES it above that, allegedly. Huge boost.

[Rommell8]

Originally posted by Veeshan:

Originally posted by roro4066:

I play Sp. All my dinos are mate boosted. I don't have any oviraptor wandering though.
But what i can say for sure is that the laying egg rates seem to be way to low for the kibble mechanics.
Fortunately, There are other ways to get eggs...

You NEED an Oviraptor. The egg lay rate for mate boosted is allegedly double that of unboosted. But Oviraptor DOUBLES it above that, allegedly. Huge boost.

why>Dinos lay eggs, at like machine guns speed

stop talking and listen



I use the egg catching thing is S+ ..my containers are Full of more eggs than I can use. & ,I play single player..they don't lay eggs when I am offline

[Veeshan]

Originally posted by Rommell8:

Originally posted by Veeshan:

You NEED an Oviraptor. The egg lay rate for mate boosted is allegedly double that of unboosted. But Oviraptor DOUBLES it above that, allegedly. Huge boost.

why>Dinos lay eggs, at like machine guns speed

stop talking and listen



I use the egg catching thing is S+ ..my containers are Full of more eggs than I can use. & ,I play single player..they don't lay eggs when I am offline

If you are finding eggs at an increased rate then obviously you wouldn't need to increase the rate. I have no idea where you're looking but I find eggs in the wild maybe once every 20 hours of gameplay.

[K]

Originally posted by Dradiin:

Ugh i forget the actual name of it but get yerself an Egg Raptor, they promote egg laying. The skinny things that make god awful noses when you get close.

Oviraptor