Force Feeding Stim-berries for Eggs?

[HernDiddy]

I have been trying to force my stego to lay eggs. The logic is that every time the animal poops there is a chance that an egg will spawn instead of poop. Soooo, I've been force feeding her stims to get her food to drop near empty and then she'll eat non-stop and have to "go" regularly. The problem is that I've gotten a whole bunch of poop but no eggs. I mean nothing but feces. Has anyone had any luck forcing an egg lay? Right now it doesn't look possible.

[DeadlyPaws]

That isn't how that works, there's a time interval in which at every interval the dino has a "chance" to lay an egg. I does not happen in conjunction with defecating.

[Painy]

It should work for dodos tho

[DarthaNyan]

that trick only works with dodos. Only their egg laying mechanic is (or was) poop related.

[HernDiddy]

Oh, I thought the poop-egg connection was with all dinos. That's interesting. Made for a pretty good fertilizer farm for a while.

[Gunslinger]

omg that is so funny. Thank you for the post you made me smile.

[Stealth]

This animal cruelty!

[HernDiddy]

Animals gotta work! There ain't no free food!

[Chowder]

I've read that for only dodos, every time they poop they have a chance to lay an egg. Every other egg laying dino has a 1% chance every 2 minutes to lay an egg.

http://ark.gamepedia.com/Dinosaur_Eggs

Only female dinosaurs can lay eggs, and once mate boosted the chance of laying eggs is doubled. One male can mate boost multiple females of the same species around him, and vice versa.

Every dino which is capable of laying an egg has the exact same laying rate, except for Dodos.

According to ARK Dev Kit each non mate-boosted female dino which is in non-stasis mode has a chance of 1% to lay an egg every 120 seconds.

Female Dodo has a different mechanic: it has a chance of 13% to lay an egg instead of a feces when it poops (Dodo poops randomly from 100 to 300 seconds).

Also there is a limit on how many eggs can be present within a close range: for most dinos this limit is 6. Excpetion is Titanoboa which has a limit of 8

[EvilSmoo]

This *is* a useful tactic if you want to get poop faster for fertilizer. And have an herbivore or two.

Not so much atm, because dodo poop seems to make just as much fertilizer as bronto poop, but if size ever starts mattering, I'm fairly certain that people will run lots of berries through their Brontos. Or maybe do Rex runs, park it on some ramps, and feed it stims while it eats meats...