Temperature / Isolation / egg hatching

[Subdane]

I've got a fertilized raptor egg and I'm trying to hatch it, but I have some difficulties with the temperature. The egg has very little health left.
Which initiates a series of questions :)
But first let me try and explain what I did.

I build a second floor on the tribe house that is completely closed off. The floor and roof is made of thatch ceiling. The walls are made of wood.
I build a fireplace and three standing torches all centered around one "tile". But the air temperature (the temperature I can see from my inventory) is not affected at all by the torches or fireplace. It is completely unaffected and stays at about 12-14 degrees.
So I tried upgrading the surrounding floor and ceiling to wood, but that didn't do a damn thing.

The base/house is located at the southern beach of the island but the biome has turned into a winterland biome due to the recent holiday update.
Could this be the reason? A bug in the season update?
I'm playing on a private server. Do I need to change some settings?

Other questios.
Is there any difference to the isolation of the different materials? Thatch, wood and stone.
I cannot see if the egg is too hot or too cold. Is this something that has recently been altered?
Is there any way to regain the egg's health?

I hope someone can help me out here :)

[sAd]

More fires or thatach/stone and such dont influence the temp u see.
But fires influence the hypo/hyper (idk xD) insulation stuff
So you wont see any diff at the temp but a bit to the left
And as I know, you wont see if the temp is good for the egg or not, well, you see if the health reduces or the hatching time..thats to only indicator
Best is to build few air conditioner

[Sweet Briana 💋™]

Ok first off, 12-14 degree's is never going to work for hatching - ever - no matter it Celsius or Farenheit - unless you use quite a few air conditioners.

With 12 AC's you can hatch an egg in most conditions and no biome impact the health of a hatching egg with 20 AC's. I have tested this in Biomes that get below freezing and hot enough to kill you.

[Subdane]

Damn!
So I cannot isolate my house to raise the temperature, regardless of types of material.
The only way to raise the temperature is by using air conditioners, which is a level 55 item... :(

I was looking a different youtube videos and reading discussions by people raising the temperatures with campfires, standing torches or grills.
I must have misunderstood something there. What is hyperthermal isolation?

So there is no way to hatch eggs is cold environments without AC's?
Is there a way to see if the enviroment is too cold or hot for the hatching egg?

Thank you for your replies :)

[sAd]

Well, fires do help
The thing is..fire, forges and such increase some of ur hyper/hypothermystuff, not the temperature
This means, that the temperature stays the same, but ur better insolated.
Sounds weird that a campfire insolates you better from cold and doesnt raise the temp, but I guess they made it like this to have an easy way. Cuz like this...the hyper/hypotherm insulationthings work all same
Wear fur -> better protected from cold
Campfires kinda does the same

So yea, you can breed ur eggs with enough campfires, standing torches and whatever...but you have to consider, if the temperature raises the egg may get dmg again, cuz then it is too hot. So you have to turn some fires off
Air conditioner makes the life just easy. I have 7 formed like an U and I put the egg between them.
And they give so much hypo/hyperthermal insulation..that the egg can hatch also when its freaking cold or hot outside..the AC's work really nice xd

[Subdane]

I understand that AC's rock :D But I'm not level 55 yet, far from it and I enjoy the game too much. I don't want to rush my way there.

Okay, so my fireplace and torches will work, I just have to figure out the right temperature/hypo?
Is there any way for me see if the temperature/hypo is too low or high?

[BlazinMason]

Idk I would rather wait to breed when you get air conditioners. It's just better and less of a hassle since they keep the egg from getting cold or warm. If the devs added the dimetrodon yet... You could use them. Besides the better your eggs health is the higher the Dino's lvl will be.

[sAd]

Originally posted by Subdane:

I understand that AC's rock :D But I'm not level 55 yet, far from it and I enjoy the game too much. I don't want to rush my way there.

Okay, so my fireplace and torches will work, I just have to figure out the right temperature/hypo?
Is there any way for me see if the temperature/hypo is too low or high?

Just by checking if the hatchbar or the lifepointsbar decreases.
Just had a thought...idk about the penguins...somewhere I read that you stay warm near them. So maybe they work for eggs too.
Like a noob-air conditioner or so xD

Originally posted by BlazinMason:

the better your eggs health is the higher the Dino's lvl will be.

Erm, sure?
Bred now so many dinos and never saw a difference..and some eggs were rly low on health :o
And this info is nowhere else shared :o

[BlazinMason]

Originally posted by sAd:

Originally posted by Subdane:

I understand that AC's rock :D But I'm not level 55 yet, far from it and I enjoy the game too much. I don't want to rush my way there.

Okay, so my fireplace and torches will work, I just have to figure out the right temperature/hypo?
Is there any way for me see if the temperature/hypo is too low or high?

Just by checking if the hatchbar or the lifepointsbar decreases.
Just had a thought...idk about the penguins...somewhere I read that you stay warm near them. So maybe they work for eggs too.
Like a noob-air conditioner or so xD

Originally posted by BlazinMason:

the better your eggs health is the higher the Dino's lvl will be.

Erm, sure?
Bred now so many dinos and never saw a difference..and some eggs were rly low on health :o
And this info is nowhere else shared :o

Every time I have done it works. Done raptors, carnos, and rexes. All not losing health and they had 5-8 additional lvls then there parents. Always pick the egg up right away and put them by the ac. It could be server settings or something to maybe?

[sAd]

Nah, the baby lvl is = the stats it inherit
So for example
Parent 1:
Health: 20
Sta: 10
Oxy 15
Food 30

Parent 2:
Health: 5
Sta: 40
Oxy: 20
Food: 5

The baby could end up with
Health: 20
Sta: 40
Oxy: 20
Food 30
->Lv 110

Or
Health: 5
Sta: 10
Oxy: 15
Food: 5
->Lv 35

Lv of the Baby depends on the stats it inherit and this was something like 70% chance to get the higher one...so with luck it gets all high stats..with bad luck all low stats..or something between them..

[Subdane]

I succeded hatching the egg without AC's.
I made two standing torches and that seemed to do the trick. So 3 standing torches and a fireplace is way too hot for a raptor egg :D

[VooDooU]

hmmm I just tossed the 2 fertilized eggs I was able to get in the preserver.. gonna play with it after the winter event. BUT that egg room is a good idea, might be a must in the new house im trying to build... if I stop getting distracted lol. Question though about breeding: when breeding flyers do I ned an enclosed room? Like will they fly when wandering?

[Subdane]

I've been wondering about the same with flying creatures :)

[FivePM]

It really all depends on the egg. The more better the Dino, the more specific the egg temp has to be. Which is when ACs come in handy. I use 8 ACs to surround the egg leaving space for it to walk out into the open. Trust me. You're gonna want ACs when you get into some serious breeding