Incubation 101

[bigmoe808]

Do not fret my brothers, I think that I've come up with a solution to our problems. After trial and error (and accidently eating one of the fertilized eggs) I think I've finally figured out how to properly hatch an egg with excellent incubation and less chance of loosing egg health. Let me explain.

First of all, recognize that some eggs simple won't hatch in certain biome. Like a raptors egg in the snow biome, you're simply wasting your time. So don't blame me too much if you're not in the correct spot.

Second of all, for those of you who don't exactly like the idea of a three to five hour hatching process, this breeding system simply might not be for you. Because in using this method, you might as well place your bum against the screen and properly sit on your egg...that is to say this is basically egg sitting.

Now on to the secret. The three most important thing you have to take care in hatching an egg is location, location, and LOCATION! Why? Because your location on the island also determines the regular temperature of your environment, and will allow you to manipulate those tempts to your advantage with more precision. And, that itself, means more incubation, which means less chance of your egg dying, and less waiting for the egg to hatch because it isn't incubating.

But I digress, let me go further into explaining so you get the idea. First up, I myself live in the near middle of the island in a place I believe might be called the grand hills. But incase that is actually wrong, and only serves as the spawn point from the North 2 zone, I'll just say I live near the volcano in the middle of the island. Tempts usually drop as low as 9 degree Celsius, and I believe yesterday they went up as high as 31-32 degree Celsius. Note, this was very important to the incubation process.

Now, the egg I was hatching was a rex egg...don't judge me, you all know you tried it. Anyways, I was trying to hatch the umpteenth rex egg that I've gotten sense mating became a thing (after several failures and one accident) and it was this time that I started paying attention to the degrees of Celsius around me. Note, even if you're standing next to a fire, the degrees won't change, that itself is very handy as you're egg sitting. I placed the egg in a building I specifically made for incubation, a 3x3 in length and width, four walls high, and a dinosaur gate (these babies are born big). Inside, I had set up 6 fires against the wall and a refinery (fires are cheaper, don't worry about the refinery) to help with the process, and soon I plan to add in several ACs with a generator for other species. I also place 100 spark powder in each to keep the flames ablaze and not have to worry about them going out. So, we prepared? Let's get to it!

On to what you actually want to hear...read...you get what I'm saying. How many of the fires did I have to use, all or none? The answer is both, because as day turns to night and night to day, the number of fires I had set ablaze changed ever so smoothly. I started with four fires, and that made my egg happy. At the hottest of that day, 31 degrees, I found that my egg had suddenly became to hot with the four flames that had been keeping it comfortable. So I got up and started turning all of them off except for one, and my baby was happy again. Later on, when temperatures started to drop to the low twenties, I switch back to four flames. I paid close attention to the Celsius this time around and saw that the egg was still happy with four flames around 16 degrees Celsius. However, I figured it was going to get colder and turned on a fifth flame in preparation. As figured, it did get colder, slowly we kept dropping until we got to 8-9 degrees Celsius. My egg was good with five flames, but I think I turned on the sixth one just to be sure. And as night died and reincarnated as day, the temperature raised...but this time I was ready. I turned off the sixth fire around 14 degrees I believe, and the fifth just as it turned 15 degrees. Right on the mark as I remembered from before, at 16 degrees my egg was happy with just four fires.

And I believe we should stop right there for now. Honestly, I have computer issues, drives are old and constantly crashing, even when I was THIS close to watching my egg finally hatch! But, the method in following did work to my advantage, even when the health dropped to half before I realized what was up, and the next time I'm at it will be near perfection.

So, to be exact.

Rex Egg:

9-11 Celsius : 6 Fires

11-15 Celsius: 5 Fires

16-21 Celsius: 4 Fires

22-28 Celsius: 3-2 Fires

29-31 Celsius: 1 Fire

Now to be fair, let's just go over these little details to be sure of a few things. One, no two servers are a like (at least not that I know of) and your administrator could have done something or anything to shift the odds in and out of your favor. My particular server speeds taming by 2.5, whether or not this itself effects hatching is something I'm currently unaware of. Two, while I was egg sitting, I guilty admit to watching Netflix throughout the process-DON'T JUDGE ME!-as you all might find yourselves a little bored as the time goes comes and goes in it's own little way. So I don't exactly know if I listed all the degrees with there fires to exact. I promise you that that I needed four fires at 16 degrees Celsius, six at 9 degrees Celsius, and only one 31 degrees Celsius, but there's a chance that for other temperatures such as 11 degrees I might not have needed the sixth fire (even though it did no harm to have it ablaze). It's these little things that can save you both time and resources that you may or may not have, so I encourage you to take care in paying just as much attention to it yourself when you hatch your own eggs.

However like I said earlier, the most important thing you should prioritize is the location of the egg. Knowing the location allows you to know the regular and normal temperatures throughout the day and night. Knowing this will allow you to be prepared to shift and utilize your resources almost immediately before these changes occur, just so that they might greet them and continue the incubation process without worry. As you become able to anticipate these things, the whole ordeal suddenly becomes egg sitting such as a mother hen would do. Do this, and I promise hatching will become that much easier.

And for your information, I don't have a baby rex...he grew up pretty fast though! ;)

Turns out I logged back in just in time to see a lvl 114 sap struggling to stand up (he was glitching in the foundation) and I was also able to quickly imprint on him as well.

In further advice, I was recommend taking out to of your rexes and filling them to the brink with meat. The devs weren't kidding when they said these things needed to eat, and my baby nearly starved to death. Lucky, I took out both his parents before hand and kept them close by. As soon as I put the meat on him, the lad munched away. After that, it was just a matter of keeping his stomach filled until he went from baby to adult. Now he stands amongst my other kings with the potential to reach 172 (his father is a 161 with the chance of 5-8 more lvls) and lead the way to an stronger generation in the distant future.

Whelp, sorry to bore you with my long winded speech...or not! Spread the word, I got a baby rex!

XD

[EyeXombie]

I just built incubation chambers using ac units. Don't even have to monitor them that much. :) http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=535555981

[bigmoe808]

Originally posted by I Zombie:

I just built incubation chambers using ac units. Don't even have to monitor them that much. :) http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=535555981

Whelp, not gonna lie, that does sound pretty good. Just a little heads up, I guess, for those that may or may not have electricity up and running.

[EyeXombie]

Yeah I was gonna say, the lower classes won't be able to do this so still good advice.

[EyeXombie]

I was looking at all the posts where every one had like 10 fires going and stuff. haha. So i was like screw that im making a incubation chamber. haha

[bigmoe808]

Sweet, but quick question while I'm at it, do all the extra ACs run the gasoline fast? If so or not, would you say you can leave any egg in there?

[bigmoe808]

I still have several updates to my on breeding room, so I'm always open to new ideas.

[Zergling963]

I well its not my proper base but since I am in single player I cheated in a building and 6 aircons I find that keeps my egg babies happy with no health loss! This was the case with my 2 raptor babies I had going at the same time and seems to be the case for my now rex baby too! I plan on demolishing this building and making my own I am just testing hatching and working out plans for my castle nursery/breeding/incubation areas in the game! after this I will basically start working on building my future castle and in the meantime I have a rex with a decent bit of meat a feeder feeding my current raptor babies!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=536044514

That is them Juvaniles already! They grow up so quick! Well fortunately they aren't going too fast for me as I left it on my x5 taming speed and just whatever the natural hatching/growth rate is!

But I found 6 aircon kept my babies totally happy whilst they were in the egg! I am in the south around where that island that looks like it has water is! Next up build my permanant home then my dinos can grow and I can start hatching babies etc!

Big building job ahead though I just had to try raptor and rex babies for a start lol! I so love my dino babies! I am level 86 so I can straight away get electricity in and running! Right now everything I need Is placed on a platform on my quetzal lol :P

[Reuvin]

I can hatch every egg I've gotten so far in the snow biome with my 8 AC nursery I have. About 1000 base insulation there. So location is not as important as it may seem, the resources are. I have a Spino nearly fully grown now, and he's lived his whole life in the snow biome. Be funny if he had an animation for seeing grass for the first time. :P
(Newly hatched) http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=535844575
(Juvenile)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=535844616
(Pic I took before I had to get off, in case he died) http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=535844663

[EyeXombie]

Originally posted by bigmoe808:

Sweet, but quick question while I'm at it, do all the extra ACs run the gasoline fast? If so or not, would you say you can leave any egg in there?

No.. not yet anyway. They might add something like power restriction later on. But right now no matter what you have on it last the same amount of time. 1 gas last for like an hour i think.

[bigmoe808]

Originally posted by Zergling963:

I well its not my proper base but since I am in single player I cheated in a building and 6 aircons I find that keeps my egg babies happy with no health loss! This was the case with my 2 raptor babies I had going at the same time and seems to be the case for my now rex baby too! I plan on demolishing this building and making my own I am just testing hatching and working out plans for my castle nursery/breeding/incubation areas in the game! after this I will basically start working on building my future castle and in the meantime I have a rex with a decent bit of meat a feeder feeding my current raptor babies!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=536044514

That is them Juvaniles already! They grow up so quick! Well fortunately they aren't going too fast for me as I left it on my x5 taming speed and just whatever the natural hatching/growth rate is!

But I found 6 aircon kept my babies totally happy whilst they were in the egg! I am in the south around where that island that looks like it has water is! Next up build my permanant home then my dinos can grow and I can start hatching babies etc!

Big building job ahead though I just had to try raptor and rex babies for a start lol! I so love my dino babies! I am level 86 so I can straight away get electricity in and running! Right now everything I need Is placed on a platform on my quetzal lol :P

Originally posted by Spookasaurus Rex:

I can hatch every egg I've gotten so far in the snow biome with my 8 AC nursery I have. About 1000 base insulation there. So location is not as important as it may seem, the resources are. I have a Spino nearly fully grown now, and he's lived his whole life in the snow biome. Be funny if he had an animation for seeing grass for the first time. :P
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=535844575
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=535844663

Well now don't I just feel silly.

Oh well, results are results. Guess I'll be adding a ACs and see how they work. But for those that can't at the current moment, I hope to have help even if just a little.

[Zergling963]

Sure you did help those that can't do it right now :)

[elijahwan]

i applaud your guide as it is made for the non AC having folks--great job. Once you can get an AC though---incubation isn't an issue if you throw the egg next to teh unit its fine.

here is my little nursery inside teh Love Shack...

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=535617489

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=535617342

happy hatching!

[bigmoe808]

Thanks guys.

Think I'll make a few modification to the incubation room. Next set of twerps I'll try raising will be raptors if not another rex.

[Zergling963]

Originally posted by bigmoe808:

Thanks guys.

Think I'll make a few modification to the incubation room. Next set of twerps I'll try raising will be raptors if not another rex.

Yeah that is why I am doing cheat material tests before I actually start building my proper base! I want to have things down and working properly before I build what I need to in my castle so it all works properly! Sure there will still be modifications given time but still if I can get it working well from the start would be good! These little buggers have taught me a lot like block off any small gaps they can get into or you have to destroy expensive stuff to get them out! Particulary whilst they are still on wander! But I am learning a lot from my tests! After this rex baby test I plan on starting work on my base!

[bigmoe808]

Originally posted by Zergling963:

Originally posted by bigmoe808:

Thanks guys.

Think I'll make a few modification to the incubation room. Next set of twerps I'll try raising will be raptors if not another rex.

Yeah that is why I am doing cheat material tests before I actually start building my proper base! I want to have things down and working properly before I build what I need to in my castle so it all works properly! Sure there will still be modifications given time but still if I can get it working well from the start would be good! These little buggers have taught me a lot like block off any small gaps they can get into or you have to destroy expensive stuff to get them out! Particulary whilst they are still on wander! But I am learning a lot from my tests! After this rex baby test I plan on starting work on my base!

Yeah, I think I remember what it was like when my rex hatched. Honestly, as soon as you imprint on the child, you might want to disable it's wandering. Mines followed me after imprinting, and it was then I realized what would happen if I told it to stop following me. Thanks for the heads up though, tell me, how small of a space do raptors need to mate with one another properly.