Best ways to egg farm?

[Zedrin]

I've been trying to get a few specific eggs to make kibbles, but for some reason a lot of my dinos are really slow at laying them.

I try to aim for at least 1 male and 2 females of whatever I'm working with.

My pterodons have provided me with only 2 eggs over a long course of time. Same goes for my scorpians (both are 2F 1M), only my first scorpian egg was when it was by itself.

Dimorphidons are the same way. My pachys haven't laid a single egg yet (but don't have a male to mate boost so that probably explains it)

My dilos seem to lay eggs fairly consistently but I have lik 12.

For a while my lystrosaurs were also laying eggs but now they've stopped, after I got my 5th one.

Is there anything specific that helps dinos lay eggs? Should I have them just on the ground or should I have them on a foundation?

I'm laying single player as well.

Alternatively if there's better ways to encounter and steal wild eggs i'm all ears.

EDIT: do not suggest getting an oviraptor. I'm having trouble getting eggs in the first place, I don't exactly have eggs to spare, let alone any large eggs that they'd like.

[Païtiti]

Get an oviraptor. They highly increase egg drop rates.

Furthermore you need to be in range of your dinos so that they lay eggs.

Also it is somethimes the problem that dinos lay eggs but the eggs fall through ceilings/foundations. You might wanna check beneath your base for eggs.

[Zedrin]

Originally posted by Der wuschige Eichkater:

Get an oviraptor. They highly increase egg drop rates.

Furthermore you need to be in range of your dinos so that they lay eggs.

Also it is somethimes the problem that dinos lay eggs but the eggs fall through ceilings/foundations. You might wanna check beneath your base for eggs.

That's not exactly feasible. That requires things like bronto, rex, quetzal, or gigant eggs. I don't have any of those dinosaurs nor can find their eggs in the wild.

This entire post is because I'm having trouble getting eggs. I don't have eggs to spare.

From what I've read it also requires over 400 dodo eggs with up to 2 hours to get an overaptor which is unrealistic. My other eggs are so sparese because of these issues in the first place that they wouldn't work to get me an ovi either.

Plus, my dinos are all on the ground, not on platforms or foundations. They're just not laying eggs.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Zedrin:

I've been trying to get a few specific eggs to make kibbles, but for some reason a lot of my dinos are really slow at laying them.

I try to aim for at least 1 male and 2 females of whatever I'm working with.

My pterodons have provided me with only 2 eggs over a long course of time. Same goes for my scorpians (both are 2F 1M), only my first scorpian egg was when it was by itself.

Dimorphidons are the same way. My pachys haven't laid a single egg yet (but don't have a male to mate boost so that probably explains it)

My dilos seem to lay eggs fairly consistently but I have lik 12.

For a while my lystrosaurs were also laying eggs but now they've stopped, after I got my 5th one.

Is there anything specific that helps dinos lay eggs? Should I have them just on the ground or should I have them on a foundation?

I'm laying single player as well.

Alternatively if there's better ways to encounter and steal wild eggs i'm all ears.

Really significant numbers of eggs(and more importantly consistently so) only come about with not just 2 or so/// more like 5-12(depending on the dino). And also enabling this better is having an oviraptor, weighted down, and put on wander(so it doesnt move) for a better drop chance bonus.

Since you say you cannot(and Im assuming your wincingly playing on an official server or sp with default settings) get an oviraptor, then you are stuck with just getting lots and lots of females of the same dino type.

Egg laying isnt a guarantee. Its a chance per so many minutes. Statistically things can be against you at times and then other times you'll be inundated with eggs(if you got lots of dinos).

[kymbl]

how about mating the dino's and use fertilized eggs for kibble?
isn't it one egg guaranteed per day in this way -plus eventually the eggs they would give the normal way

[rommel64]

In single player you could add this line to your game.ini and you'll have a lot of eggs.

LayEggIntervalMultiplier=0.01
Yoy can change the 0.01 to what ever you want.

[Zedrin]

Originally posted by kymbl:

how about mating the dino's and use fertilized eggs for kibble?

I've been trying that a bit. I figured there should be a faster way but I guess I'll go back to it. I need to design some better mating pens.

Originally posted by retsam1:

Really significant numbers of eggs(and more importantly consistently so) only come about with not just 2 or so/// more like 5-12(depending on the dino). And also enabling this better is having an oviraptor, weighted down, and put on wander(so it doesnt move) for a better drop chance bonus.

Since you say you cannot(and Im assuming your wincingly playing on an official server or sp with default settings) get an oviraptor, then you are stuck with just getting lots and lots of females of the same dino type.

(Single player as I mentioned in my first post.) I figured I probably just needed to get more dinos, but I wanted to verify there weren't other variables involved, e.g. my proximity to the pens.

Are there any calculators that'll tell me how many of a type of egg I'd need for an ovi beyond just the core 5?

Originally posted by rommel64:

In single player you could add this line to your game.ini and you'll have a lot of eggs.

LayEggIntervalMultiplier=0.01
Yoy can change the 0.01 to what ever you want.

I might do this just for the sake of time. Kinda sucks there's no slider for it in game settings when loading.

Is egg laying based on player location at all or is it just a constant thing? I remember hearing something about stasis but then also hearing that eggs can be laid during stasis now.

[SenorMIIKE]

get 1 male and 5 females is best combo and eggs drop more often when your near the dinos just running around your base doing stuff or afk near them and check often

[rommel64]

With that setting they will lay eggs fast.

[Brittlebullet]

Originally posted by Zedrin:

Originally posted by kymbl:

how about mating the dino's and use fertilized eggs for kibble?

I've been trying that a bit. I figured there should be a faster way but I guess I'll go back to it. I need to design some better mating pens.

Originally posted by retsam1:

Really significant numbers of eggs(and more importantly consistently so) only come about with not just 2 or so/// more like 5-12(depending on the dino). And also enabling this better is having an oviraptor, weighted down, and put on wander(so it doesnt move) for a better drop chance bonus.

Since you say you cannot(and Im assuming your wincingly playing on an official server or sp with default settings) get an oviraptor, then you are stuck with just getting lots and lots of females of the same dino type.

(Single player as I mentioned in my first post.) I figured I probably just needed to get more dinos, but I wanted to verify there weren't other variables involved, e.g. my proximity to the pens.

Are there any calculators that'll tell me how many of a type of egg I'd need for an ovi beyond just the core 5?

Originally posted by rommel64:

In single player you could add this line to your game.ini and you'll have a lot of eggs.

LayEggIntervalMultiplier=0.01
Yoy can change the 0.01 to what ever you want.

I might do this just for the sake of time. Kinda sucks there's no slider for it in game settings when loading.

Is egg laying based on player location at all or is it just a constant thing? I remember hearing something about stasis but then also hearing that eggs can be laid during stasis now.

If dinos don't have a player kind of close to them (not sure what the actual distance is) they don't lay eggs. If it's say a dino pen next to your base then there should always be plenty of eggs. My advice is take time to collect some small eggs like Dodo eggs or eggs you don't really need and tame an Oviraptor, it's worth it. It's a bit tedious this way (takes up to a few hundred Dodo eggs) but easier to do if you're lacking big eggs, and since the level on the Oviraptor doesn't matter for egg producing you can make the tame easier by finding the lowest level possible.

[Zedrin]

So something else I just stumbled across is regarding terrain: http://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/535151589904219428/

I'm going to try moving my dino pens up from lakeside to a cliff. Coincidentally this poster is in the same location I am so if relocating worked for him it should help in my case.

Otherwise, I'm gonna try gathering more dinosaurs.

[Team Triss]

Originally posted by Zedrin:

I try to aim for at least 1 male and 2 females

LIVIN' THE DREAM

[Akita]

So Im curious if my problem getting very few eggs is due to the "falling through the ground" effect mentioned in that link above. I dont see any when I hit K and look under ground. I have 8 female and 1 male dilo, and almost never see eggs. I moved them up to the second floor of a house up on a cliff, but not much difference.

Can anyone confirm if you actually loose eggs when dinos are on a particular terrain? Where do most people put their egg farms?

[Maireen]

Originally posted by Akita:

So Im curious if my problem getting very few eggs is due to the "falling through the ground" effect mentioned in that link above. I dont see any when I hit K and look under ground. I have 8 female and 1 male dilo, and almost never see eggs. I moved them up to the second floor of a house up on a cliff, but not much difference.

Can anyone confirm if you actually loose eggs when dinos are on a particular terrain? Where do most people put their egg farms?

K key doesnt help once something falls through the ground as there's no solid ground for it to stop. Example is throwing an item from your inventory being on the ground compared to being up in the air or on the water surface.
Falling through structure only applies if there's an already existing egg there then you leave the area allowing the place to go in stasis and the eggs fall through. I have this happen all the time with my argents and pteras up on the roof, I see the eggs on the ceiling then leave the area for 5-10 minutes and come back with the eggs on the ground.

[Zedrin]

What I've done for a few of my dinos is put them on a ramp. They'll sometimes fall through the ramp but at least then they hit the ground and I can still retrieve them. Seems to work best for smaller eggs, like scorpian.

I try to keep them away from water as well--apparently you get more ground clipping issues if you're near the water/have multiple terrain types to deal with. Location seems to be more important than you'd expect. Look for areas with grass textures.

I've greatly upped the number of females I have for everything and now I'm swimming in eggs (though for SP I still had to up the egg-lay rate a bit since eggs won't spawn persistently like they would in a MP server). It seems egg gathering isn't proportional to the number of females you have, but maybe exponential instead. Doubling your females will do significantly more than double your egg production.

[Zedrin]

Originally posted by Shawn Murphy:

Make your tribemates do it. I will NEVER spend more than half an hour doing one thing in this game, except killing.

Doesn't solve issues in Single Player.