Best way to heal dinos?

[KippenKaasBaas]

I'm looking for a way to quickly heal my injured dinos.
I have tried the things I have a good supply of in my current world:
Raw meat
Cooked Prime meat
Cooked Mutton
A Daedon.

I keep prime meat and mutton cooked for stacking and spoiling reasons.
My daedon seems to stop healing after about 10 second, even with meat in it's inventory.
And the actual healing that it does seems to be minimal.

Any help to quickly getting my dinos back in the fight is appreciated.

[zerassar]

Wild plant species Z. or Multiple daeodons. Otherwise you've listed all the non-mod methods.

Remember they get more nutrition from cooked meat rather than raw. So stack them with cook meats and turn on passive healing.

[Lordbufu]

The key to using a Daedon, is keep its food stat filled, as soon as its out of food it will stop healing.

So using food on it (even force feeding) with a high gain, makes the healing process somehwat easier, for boss fights on a MP setting kibble is often the prefered food choice to keep them healing as much as possible (since it restores more food).

Unless you have extinction, or are willing to cheat, the only other options beside hand feeding a warpig or the dino's themself.
Is either a snow owl, you freeze the dinos and heal them that way, seems to be a lot faster and cheaper then a pig.

Or simply using the refillstats command while mounted on each dino.

*edit* Big aberration fan, and totally forgot about the wild plant species ... i feel ashamed now ><

[KippenKaasBaas]

Originally posted by zerassar:

Wild plant species Z. or Multiple daeodons. Otherwise you've listed all the non-mod methods.

Remember they get more nutrition from cooked meat rather than raw. So stack them with cook meats and turn on passive healing.

Wait, I always though raw meat was more effective for dinos than cooked meat? Learn something new everyday I guess. I'll try it out thanks.

[zerassar]

Originally posted by KippenKaasBaas:

Originally posted by zerassar:

Wild plant species Z. or Multiple daeodons. Otherwise you've listed all the non-mod methods.

Remember they get more nutrition from cooked meat rather than raw. So stack them with cook meats and turn on passive healing.

Wait, I always though raw meat was more effective for dinos than cooked meat? Learn something new everyday I guess. I'll try it out thanks.

Daeodons are the only exception to this.

Having bred hundreds of them I can very much attest to this. Using S+ troughs is a god send being able to exclude the daeodons from the main meat trough.

[KippenKaasBaas]

Originally posted by Lordbufu:

The key to using a Daedon, is keep its food stat filled, as soon as its out of food it will stop healing.

So using food on it (even force feeding) with a high gain, makes the healing process somehwat easier, for boss fights on a MP setting kibble is often the prefered food choice to keep them healing as much as possible (since it restores more food).

Unless you have extinction, or are willing to cheat, the only other options beside hand feeding a warpig or the dino's themself.
Is either a snow owl, you freeze the dinos and heal them that way, seems to be a lot faster and cheaper then a pig.

Or simply using the refillstats command while mounted on each dino.

*edit* Big aberration fan, and totally forgot about the wild plant species ... i feel ashamed now ><

Good suggestions.
The force feeding seems somewhat broken to me. It takes sooo long to force feed the enormous quantities of food needed to heal your dinos. They should ad craftable bandages or something. Something to heal injured dinos in a few seconds when they are out of combat. In combat it would be too OP.

[zerassar]

That is the point of it though... Force feeding was over powered so they put a timer on it.

[Lordbufu]

Originally posted by zerassar:

Force feeding was over powered so they put a timer on it.

And that is why kibble deadons became a thing, aint nobody got time for that with 45+ food stat on a warpig :P

[KippenKaasBaas]

Originally posted by zerassar:

That is the point of it though... Force feeding was over powered so they put a timer on it.

Plenty of ways to add out-of-combat healing to a game without making it OP.
Cool idea would be to knock out your own dinos by force feeding them narcotics and this making them heal faster. The dino is temporarily rendered useless while it makes the healing more effective.
You know any good mods that supply new healing methods?

[zerassar]

Originally posted by Lordbufu:

Originally posted by zerassar:

Force feeding was over powered so they put a timer on it.

And that is why kibble deadons became a thing, aint nobody got time for that with 45+ food stat on a warpig :P

Indeed. It still wound it back a little rather than every carnivore being about to heal itself faster than an owl lol

[Lordbufu]

Sadly many suggestion have been made to improve healing on dino's, but sadly non of them where heard or taken serious (though we did get the owl in Extinction, so there is that atleast, not always an option for everyone on SP though without cheating).

I know there is a mod out there that does out of combat healing, and you can i think configure how OP it is, but i havnt looked into it myself so i kinda forgot the name ><

[Serangel]

The snow owl is over powered at healing, just get one and pump stamina as high as you can get it. Sure it's not as passive as a pig, but it will use far less food and heal 10 times more.

My snow owl that had 10k Stam would heal around 5k health to everything in range. Then just let the stam recharge and do it again.

With out mods or cheating in Valentine's candy, there's no better way.

[KippenKaasBaas]

Originally posted by Serangel:

The snow owl is over powered at healing, just get one and pump stamina as high as you can get it. Sure it's not as passive as a pig, but it will use far less food and heal 10 times more.

My snow owl that had 10k Stam would heal around 5k health to everything in range. Then just let the stam recharge and do it again.

With out mods or cheating in Valentine's candy, there's no better way.

Unfortunately, like I said in my post, I do not currently have acces to a snow owl. I'll make sure to make that a priority.

[Lordbufu]

Originally posted by Serangel:

Valentine's candy

Thats also a good point, im glad to be reminded since the event is on the calander again :)

[Serangel]

Originally posted by KippenKaasBaas:

Originally posted by Serangel:

The snow owl is over powered at healing, just get one and pump stamina as high as you can get it. Sure it's not as passive as a pig, but it will use far less food and heal 10 times more.

My snow owl that had 10k Stam would heal around 5k health to everything in range. Then just let the stam recharge and do it again.

With out mods or cheating in Valentine's candy, there's no better way.

Unfortunately, like I said in my post, I do not currently have acces to a snow owl. I'll make sure to make that a priority.

Everyone has access to snow owls. The game is literally made to have access to everything except the 3 dlc maps themselves and titans since you do need to be on Extinction. Valguero has snow owls on it and it's a free map. Not to mention you could just trade someone for snow owls if you are playing online, and spawn them in on single player and then tame them yourself instead of force taming so it's not too cheaty.

[ZorTheCruel]

Post boss fight, where I have a ton of injured dinos, warpig loaded with tons of cooked meat or cooked prime, if you have it, works best.(be sure the pig isnt eating regular raw meat from a trough though, or it will ignore its inventory food. S+ troughs have an options wheel for configuring what can or cant eat from the trough)

However to heal one or two dinos that are heavily damaged (like from cave runs) daeodon is not really efficient. Snow owl works best for that.

To get a snow owl you would have to transfer or roll a character on extinction and tame one and use Obi to bring it back to your current map. I don't like using dinos that aren't on the map I am playing on, so I looked for an alternative as well, and I found one that I like:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=940016487

It adds multiple levels of healing potions that are usable by the player *or by a dino*. It is OP for multiplayer, but for solo, it is a lot better than just cheating using admin commands to auto-heal a dino. And the better potions (that refill a higher % of health) cost higher value ingredients to craft, etc. It might provide what you are needing, Kippen. I think it fits nicely for this problem.(the cooldown is per person/dino, not on the potion itself, so you can put it into different dinos inventories to use up the charges on each one fairly quickly. The dinos do not auto-use the healing potions, so you can't just be OP and load them up with them for a bossfight)