Help with VDay please!!

[Sova]

Hello guys! Please answer me, where to get event items, chocolate and sweets? I didn’t understand

[retsam1]

1. Breed dinos= candies drop randomly at birth etc.
2. Fish Coel with a fishing rod and bait= chibi pets etc randomly from hauling in the fish..

[Sova]

Thanks!

[Dyeshan]

Originally posted by retsam1:

1. Breed dinos= candies drop randomly at birth etc.
2. Fish Coel with a fishing rod and bait= chibi pets etc randomly from hauling in the fish..

I think maybe the dropping candies at birth is not in this time around

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Dyeshan:

Originally posted by retsam1:

1. Breed dinos= candies drop randomly at birth etc.
2. Fish Coel with a fishing rod and bait= chibi pets etc randomly from hauling in the fish..

I think maybe the dropping candies at birth is not in this time around

You would be thinking incorrectly then as its stated in the Community Crunch:

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/articles.html/community-crunch-168-valentines-day-r1098/

Originally posted by Community Crunch:

When mating, creatures have a 25% chance to drop an item. That item has a 50/50 chance to be one of the following:

Valentines Chocolate: Restores full HP, or knocks 40% off a creatures taming bar.
Valentines Candy: Gives your tame random dino colors when eaten.

[Cobretti]

I got chocolates when some of mine laid eggs

[Lordbufu]

Originally posted by Cobretti:

I got chocolates when some of mine laid eggs

Are you sure your not confusing it with easter, you know chocolate egss ..... ok sorry that was a lame joke :P

[Meline]

So can someone just clarify for me, do the random drops happen when the eggs are laid or when the dino is born?
I have fertillized eggs coming out of my ears right now but not one single drop!
Also having a little trouble getting fishing bait on the center map...

[Lordbufu]

Originally posted by Meline:

Also having a little trouble getting fishing bait on the center map...

Direbear + beehive is the way to go imo, pick 2 fish spots near beehives, and alternate between them. If you dont have a direbear, you can also just manually picks them, but you will have to stock up a bit more. This will allow you to just fish for any size, so you dont have to alternate bait etc, should be plenty of hives on the center by default to keep you going for hours on end. Apply the honey to your pole to refresh the spoil timers, is an easy way to extend the life time of honey while fishing, alowing you to not worry about how much you gather before going out to fish (its a bit cheaty but it works ;) ).

Leechblood should also be easy to get in the swamp area's, though i dont quite remember the best spots for that on the center map.

And if all else fails, tree sap is easier to manage then the above 2, its just a pain to get considering the time it takes to gather in a tree tap. And only allows you to catch the small fish, so your potentially leaving a lot of event fish behind with good chibi's ;)

Have not yet tried to get things via breeding, as im mostly interested in the chibi's atm.
But looking at the description, it says "when mating", so the act of love drops love candy id say ;)

[L3wt]

Can anyone confirm if you need actual pairs or can use 1 male for like 100 females? I did the latter and not a single drop from this supposed 25% chance. Either it's not in or you need 1 male to every female.

[Garick]

how do you use the box o chocolates to tame a dino? just drop it in its inventory while knocked out?

[fluffy]

Does a basic rod work for chibi pets?

[Lordbufu]

Originally posted by fluffy:

Does a basic rod work for chibi pets?

Yes, imo the best choice if you want to grind specific chibi's, less candies etc.

[ZorTheCruel]

Fishing the vday coel (they have little hearts rising up from them) is great for getting valentines candy and chibi's, but it doesn't seem to give any of the "box of chocolates" that way.(I didnt have time to fish a large number of them last night to get a proper statistics sampling, so I could have just been unlucky) I was using a mastercraft pole, and my server is set to 150% on fishing loot, but i was getting one chibi basically every time, and a lot of the heart candy. This vday fishing loot only applies to vday coelanth, fishing the regular vanilla coelanth does not give any v-day items.

For mating dinos dropping candy and chocolate, the chance of drop is when the mating percentage reaches 100%(when the fertilized egg drops or the gestation timer starts), not at birth of the baby dino. So saved eggs give you no vday items by hatching them. Also, there is no chance for v-day items with unfertilized eggs being laid.

[L3wt]

Originally posted by ZorTheCruel:

Fishing the vday coel (they have little hearts rising up from them) is great for getting valentines candy and chibi's, but it doesn't seem to give any of the "box of chocolates" that way.(I didnt have time to fish a large number of them last night to get a proper statistics sampling, so I could have just been unlucky) I was using a mastercraft pole, and my server is set to 150% on fishing loot, but i was getting one chibi basically every time, and a lot of the heart candy. This vday fishing loot only applies to vday coelanth, fishing the regular vanilla coelanth do not give any v-day items.

For mating dinos dropping candy and chocolate, the chance of drop is when the mating percentage reaches 100%(when the fertilized egg drops or the gestation timer starts), not at birth of the baby dino. So saved eggs give you no vday items by hatching them. Also, there is no chance for v-day items with unfertilized eggs being laid.

I call BS on the 25% then. I haven't seen anything out of dozens of eggs. Where do these items go when they spawn? I have eggs being picked up by a mod so could this be why? Everything else like the wild pink colors are everywhere.

[ZorTheCruel]

Originally posted by The Blight:

Originally posted by ZorTheCruel:

Fishing the vday coel (they have little hearts rising up from them) is great for getting valentines candy and chibi's, but it doesn't seem to give any of the "box of chocolates" that way.(I didnt have time to fish a large number of them last night to get a proper statistics sampling, so I could have just been unlucky) I was using a mastercraft pole, and my server is set to 150% on fishing loot, but i was getting one chibi basically every time, and a lot of the heart candy. This vday fishing loot only applies to vday coelanth, fishing the regular vanilla coelanth do not give any v-day items.

For mating dinos dropping candy and chocolate, the chance of drop is when the mating percentage reaches 100%(when the fertilized egg drops or the gestation timer starts), not at birth of the baby dino. So saved eggs give you no vday items by hatching them. Also, there is no chance for v-day items with unfertilized eggs being laid.

I call BS on the 25% then. I haven't seen anything out of dozens of eggs. Where do these items go when they spawn? I have eggs being picked up by a mod so could this be why? Everything else like the wild pink colors are everywhere.

Yes, I use the hatchery to pickup fertilized eggs too, and the candy and chocolates are left on the ground and they have a short spoil timer, so they do not stay there for long. The candy is much easier to get via fishing. But getting chocolates in any real quantity is really annoying.

Also, you dont get it from the egg. It drops separately at the same time as the fertilized egg dropping.