rhyniognatha failed incubation

[Osteoporosis]

I've had a couple failed incubations and dont know if its a program bug or just happens from time to time. Is a certain host better? I met 3 cravings and it died others I meet 0 cravings and it lived. Not sure whats going on.

[Onyx Wake]

The host dinos need to be big with a lot of drag weight. I used a paracer and it worked. Just don't sit on it because it seems to drain the health quickly. Probably keep force feeding it too.

[Valgard]

cant you just heal the impregnated dino with a snowowl or daeodon?

[greenlionguard]

This health drain thing is a balancing issue that would be minor if there were not multiple, They just need to get someone to sit down and observe the numbers to do some minor tweaking.

[Alucard †]

Like i said in similar threads i noticed that when impregnated the host dino loses hunger at alarming rate to the point it cannot feed itself above the threshold fast enough.

I had to force feed my host dino to keep it form loosing health.
Using Snow Owl or Daeodon works too Snow Owl especially might be preferable.

[Sgt Griss]

we have done 6 bugs as of now all on official. You need plenty of food. The starvation of the animal is part of the health loss component of the animal dieing slowly till the birth happens. they do eat but the only eat at a rate just enough to lose health at a pace they will die when the timer for hatching is up.

1. Tons of food there must be a ample supply in the animal or in a trough near by at all times.

2. make sure the animal takes no damage after its been impregnated other than the slowly ticking down health loss

3. your completely wasting your time if you are not use a Bronto, Giga, Carcha, or a Very high stat Rex, spino, parcer.

Do not use stegos as they for some reason will cause the bugs to die.

[william_es]

Originally posted by Valgard:

cant you just heal the impregnated dino with a snowowl or daeodon?

Yes, snow owls will work. But just barely. I have snow owls with 10K plus stamina specifically for healing, and all the did was basically stall out the loss of health. After using up all 10K+ stamina in healing, it was only a few hundred health over the starting point.

I would stack them up with food AND use a snow owl. Plus the more health the host started with the better. I've used rexes with an average of 124,000 health, and the first one reach less then 3000 health by the time the baby was born. I had 2 snow owls parked side by side and went from one to the next in rotation (so the one I wasn't using for healing would have it's stamina recharged).

[Hasukiiken]

paraceratherium with 156,000+ health and a snow owl

next time i take 2 daeodons (male and female) for protection - the snow owl cannot keep up with the health loss - you have to be riding the snow owl to activate the healing whereas the daeodons can be active while your stuffing the dino with food !

force feed the pacer was the only way to keep the food meter up but it was able to gather its own food so i didnt need to carry extra but carry lots of basic kibble for the daeodons to eat and maybe the paraceratherium too :)

the baby rhyo eats cooked meat and raw meat like any other carnivore

reminder you dont need to put the cravings into the hotbar just have them in your inventory and hit the feed button when it shows

[Valo]

Wow you guys have Rex's with 150k+... here I thought my 70k Rex's were impressive.. man this bug is gonna be hard to hatch

[Adam]

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