Rex eggs ....

[Xez]

So ive been sitting here waiting for almost 2 hours for my rexs to lay eggs, i have two females, mate buffed by one male and two oviraptors who are also mate buffed ... yet i have only gained one egg in the time ive been waiting... is there something i should do to get them laying more ? or is it literally just a waiting game ? xD thanks for any replies ..

[SirCollin]

Walk around your base and do stuff. Keep the Rexes where you see most often, you will see them on the ground every now and again.

[Xez]

Thanks ^^

[Zin T]

Originally posted by Sir Collin:

Walk around your base and do stuff. Keep the Rexes where you see most often, you will see them on the ground every now and again.

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[HawthornThistleberry]

This is only anecdotal, but I think that if you have the Rex do stuff, like hunt, that'll increase egg production for a while afterwards. Not totally sure that it's not just selective perception, but there've been quite a few incidents where whoever I took out to hunt, when I came back, she dropped 3-4x as many eggs as usual for the next hour or so. Maybe the egg cycle is tied to the experience gain? Or just to food consumption, which they'll do more of when you're exerting them? More research is required.

[Chop]

I've noticed if I move dinos that aren't producing to a different spot, it kicks up production. don't know if I am really doing anything but it definitely seems to help

[Tenoshii]

Originally posted by lou.mellor24293:

So ive been sitting here waiting for almost 2 hours for my rexs to lay eggs, i have two females, mate buffed by one male and two oviraptors who are also mate buffed ... yet i have only gained one egg in the time ive been waiting... is there something i should do to get them laying more ? or is it literally just a waiting game ? xD thanks for any replies ..

Do you have any other egg laying dinos in range? If you have more than 20, I would suggest putting your rexes in a separate pen slightly out of render distance. When I did this with my rexes and carnos, I got significantly more eggs. I've seen numerous posts indicate that with most dinos only 6 eggs can be on the ground in a given area around them.

Originally posted by HawthornThistleberry:

This is only anecdotal, but I think that if you have the Rex do stuff, like hunt, that'll increase egg production for a while afterwards. Not totally sure that it's not just selective perception, but there've been quite a few incidents where whoever I took out to hunt, when I came back, she dropped 3-4x as many eggs as usual for the next hour or so. Maybe the egg cycle is tied to the experience gain? Or just to food consumption, which they'll do more of when you're exerting them? More research is required.

I also have noticed that any dinos I take out into the wild for gathering/hunting tend to lay more often than if I was just standing at base next to them doing nothing. Not sure if this has to do with what you described or if it's based on location impacting egg laying for some reason.

[mayhem]

I've heard before that egg laying is kind of connected to the pooping mechanism, so the more you do that causes them to eat, the more likely they'll start laying eggs for a while after.

Maybe.

But mostly, yes, it's a waiting game. Obviously the more females you have standing around, the more eggs you'll be picking up. I usually try to have a ratio of 2 males per 5 females or so.

Eggs take a while to spoil and disappear too, so you can go do stuff, then do an egg run around your base. Go gather materials for a while, come back and do an egg run, go tame something, bring it back and do an egg run.

You can set up all your animals in such a way that you can run around quickly and grab any eggs they might've dropped recently.

[Attila the Hun]

Yes, there is a lot of anecdotal evidence running around on the forums about how dinosaurs lay eggs.

But here are the current known facts:
- Eggs decay every 30 minutes
- Every dinosaur that is mate boosted has a chance of laying an egg every 17 minutes (this is why sometimes you will see a dinosaur have 2 eggs).
- With the exception of dodo, every other egg laying dino that is mate boosted appears to have a very similar probability of laying eggs at the 17 min interval.
- all non-dodo dinos within your render distance will lay eggs at exactly the same time (being these 17 minute intervals)
- If a female is both mate boosted and ovi-boosted, the female has a chance of laying eggs every 11:20 seconds (note that 11:20 * 3= 34 min. This means there is an even rarer chance that you will see 3 eggs stacked on top of each other).
-It is NOT known if being ovi-boosted actually raises the probability of drops at each 11:20 cycle. -It is NOT known whether having the male(s) being Ovi-boosted does anything when there is an egg on their head. (These are things that some SHOULD attempt to test).
On another note:
When you leave render distance and come back, eggs have a chance of going through ceilings, and perhaps (not verified this) even vanishing underground if on ground.

All of these can be easily tested.

Now for some more anecdotal evidence. The probability of each female laying egg may change when you have 8+ females mate boosted, ovi-boosted.

[Attila the Hun]

Oh, and the ovi changing egg drop times already gives a full 50% increase in egg production

[Buster]

RNG hates you right now, as the others have stated do other things.

I have gone weeks without getting rex/quetz eggs then suddenly they start shooting them out like gumballs.

[Attila the Hun]

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[Andminus]

I can verify the gumball nature of eggs: just yesterday my two females were making so many that everytime I went into my house to smelt something or craft something, and came out, I would find another egg sitting under one of them, one time BOTH laid an egg; it's all random but it never hurts to stack it in your favor. Best thing to do is not really worry about it, go do stuff, come back, rex eggs are big, you'll see them from miles away usually.

[HawthornThistleberry]

Originally posted by Attila the Hun:

- If a female is both mate boosted and ovi-boosted, the female has a chance of laying eggs every 11:20 seconds (note that 11:20 * 3= 34 min. This means there is an even rarer chance that you will see 3 eggs stacked on top of each other).

Does this suggest 4 is impossible? Because I picked up 4 from under my carno just yesterday on a routine sweep through my barn -- and this was on a day that my spouse had taken that carno out for a bit of hunting about an hour earlier. (And she'd dropped several more during that hour before the stack of four.)

[Xez]

Thanks everyone this is all extremely helpful ! I will be sure to do more stuff with my females in the hoes the anecdotal evidence is true ! I did go out to tame a quetz and used one female and one male to bodyguard me while I was taming .... I noticed the female was dropping more eggs than usual whilst in the new spot fighting other Dinos at times ... So this should definitely be tested further !

[HawthornThistleberry]

Originally posted by mayhem:

I've heard before that egg laying is kind of connected to the pooping mechanism, so the more you do that causes them to eat, the more likely they'll start laying eggs for a while after.

One strong piece of evidence for this is the fact that those dinosaurs that have no egg-laying function yet, because they don't have a breeding cycle yet (notably frogs and fish), don't ever poop.