A couple of Baby questions

[Artemis]

Hi all,

My small tribe lost a juvenile giga overnight, and we've not been able to determine why. I have three questions that would perhaps lock it down, if anyone knows the answers please let us know.

1) Are there any exploits or bugs that allow a non-tribe member to remove items from a locked feeding trough on a pve server?
2) Approximateely how long would a juvenile (22.5% maturity, 180/800 weight) gigantosaurus live with zero food in the bin?
3) Would a juvenile giga eat spoiled meat if there was nothing else to eat?

Maybe we might have emptied the bin to restack the meat, got distracted and forgot to refill it. Would the juvie giga last for six hours without food?

Thanks in advance,
Heartbroken Giga parent.

[Serra™]

Juvey dinos only eat raw/cooked meat.. I would suggest filling the feeding thingy with cooked meat next time.. Maybe fill 2-3 at a time if you know no one will be on/around.. I don't know how fast juvey gigas lose food but I know it can happen pretty quick on juvey quezts (lost my poor Rhada to hungry adult dinos :/)

[Stumpy]

One trough of raw will last 13.3.hours before it spoils, but a growing hog's will eat it before it all spoils. Best to have 3 or 4 troughs and 1 with cooked meat due to spoilage.

[Stumpy]

Giga*

[Spacedoge[C]]

1) No. Allied tribes seem to be able to eat from your feeding troughs though. Also any dinos near that will try to eat from it of course.
2) Not long at all. It depends on the current food stat and hp. You see how quickly the food decreases and the hp decreases 1/second. I've been lucky and found young dino bleeding and manage to feed them but sometimes I catch them bleeding and can't put food in them quick enough. I would say no more than 5-10 minutes max, but don't rely on this as a buffer by any means.
3) Only dinos that eat spoiled meat are scorpian and beetles and spiders.

Protip: If the young dino goes into stasis then it will consume much less food. This can be hard to control on official servers or highly populated servers. You need to make sure no one (even other tribes) go near render distance of it. Generally overnight more meat spoils than gets eaten (in my experience). I cook all my meat for overnight trough feeding as it's way more efficient-however if you are in the base being active then raw meat will be more efficient.
If you have some neighbour in the opposite time zone up all night then your baby will likely not go into stasis and so will consume the food rate as specified by the calculator.

If you are lucky to control herbivore island then you could easily set up a breeding centre there. Make sure you use a seperate base during feeding, and just check on it at intervals to make sure the feeding trough has something in it. Other locations suitable for breeding centre could be the ice floats in the north ocean.

[Zace Kopernicus]

Thanks for comments so far. They align to our expectation and understanding.

What we cant work out is why it died when it did, with nothing at all in the bin, not even spoiled meat.

Went to sleep at midnight with full trough. Should have lasted 3.33 hours, pr more than double since offline. (Usually wake at 6am with 27 stacks of about 9 units esch plus a few hindred spoiled)

When I got up at 7amit was dead. I demod something to make a timestamp. It had died two game days earlier (530 am).

If something took it out of stasis, why was there no spoiled meat?

If we screwed up and didnt fill bin properly, why did it not die for almost 6 hours?

We are perplexed.

[Spacedoge[C]]

Originally posted by Zace:

Thanks for comments so far. They align to our expectation and understanding.

What we cant work out is why it died when it did, with nothing at all in the bin, not even spoiled meat.

Went to sleep at midnight with full trough. Should have lasted 3.33 hours, pr more than double since offline. (Usually wake at 6am with 27 stacks of about 9 units esch plus a few hindred spoiled)

When I got up at 7amit was dead. I demod something to make a timestamp. It had died two game days earlier (530 am).

If something took it out of stasis, why was there no spoiled meat?

If we screwed up and didnt fill bin properly, why did it not die for almost 6 hours?

We are perplexed.

Meat spoils regardless of stasis. Spoiled meat also spoils. Scorpians might have eaten it if there is any nearby. Does sound odd though, perhaps you didn't put meat in the trough or some tribe miscommunication. I find flying my quetzals or birds they burn through a lot of food and when they land they will eat quite a bit.

It may have been in stasis for a while then suddenly it came out due to one newb spawning near by or passing through.

I'm pretty sure that in stasis they eat zero food-at least this is true for adults. If you had no food in the trough, and you all logged out and non one was near to bring it out of stasis it would survive until you log back in.