Hatcing a Giganotosaurus egg: questions

[AstroZombie]

So I seen a few posts from other people crazy enough as me to hatch one of these. But had some questions, maybe general ones about hatching, maybe specific to this egg:

I don’t normally do the hatching but was forced to for this particular egg due to the length of time involved. My base is below the snow in the North. In other words, Im at the beach, no snow, but the snows a stones throw or so away. Its warm where Im at. The spot I am hatching it is a massive room; we’re talking its large enough to hold a few Gigans in itself. I have a half dozen fridges, troughs, and 3 ACs off to the side. I also have about 10 campfires. With all that in mind…

-We’ve hatched everything up until now with that very setup. From quetzs to doeds. No issues. Now again, maybe its me never hatching before: the gigan egg is almost done. Its got 20% or so to go yet on it. Ive had it ONLY on the 10 fires. Sometimes I need all 10..sometimes for no rhyme or reason, it gets too hot with all 10 and I only need 8. Then it gets cold and I need to go back to 10 for a few hours. It makes 0 sense to me but w/e.

Because of the back and forth which is completely random, the egg has taken a good chunk of damage. Even though Ive sat there starring at it for hours like a loser, the second it got too hot or cold, it took a serious damage hit. With 20% left to hatch, it has about 10% to 15% health left on it so I am very nervous about it dying. But..we may have a second Gigan egg coming to us.

That said, I am reading about people using 8 to 10 ACs to hatch stuff. I will say with our quetz eggs, we were able to toss it between the 3 ACs for hours at a time, while we went about our business and never once had an issue.

Will the Gigan egg work the same way? How many ACs are really needed for it to work that way? In other words, if I toss down 10 ACs and the Gigan egg in the middle, will it be fine for hours on end like the quetz egg was? Or will I have the completely senseless and random too hot/too cold crap like I have had with the 10 fires?

[Vilemouse]

The giga egg is the hardest to catch.. heat wise..it requires a VERY hot area.. iv hatched one before with 8 AC's because i lived in the south.. very hot part.. it will depend on where you live

[AstroZombie]

Originally posted by Jesse:

The giga egg is the hardest to catch.. heat wise..it requires a VERY hot area.. iv hatched one before with 8 AC's because i lived in the south.. very hot part.. it will depend on where you live

Jesse,

With those 8 ACs: Could you just leave the egg there and go about your business without ever needing to move it? With the fires, every few hours, I need to light more up to 10 or sometimes, unlight 2 down to 8 as it fluctuates between too hot or too cold :/ id like to be able to leave the egg for hours at a time without worry like I could do with the quetz.

How big of a room do you have the 8 ACs in?

[AstroZombie]

input!

[[ACE] Flicked]

Air conditioners only provide thermal insulation for a two foundation radius around them. It can provide up to 100 insulation right next to the airconditioner, but tapers off pretty rapidly towards the edge of that radius. The insultation factor stacks if you have multiple airconditions with overlapping radii (not sure if that's the right plural form). If you're having trouble with the temperature not being stable enough, it is probably because you don't have enough air conditioners buffering the egg from the fluctuating environmental temperature. Adding more should buffer it more, but make sure they're places so that their effective area is overlapping and place the egg in that area.

I've never hatched a giga egg, but they have the same degree variability (3 degree range), and same kind of extreme temperatures that the quetz egg does. You should be able to set it up and leave it the same as the quetz egg. However, if the giga egg is significantly bigger than the quetz egg even if you're putting it in the same area that you incubated the quetz egg, it could be that not all of it is in the range because of it's size, and therefore, it's not being buffered properly. Adding more airconditioners on the other side of the egg would probably help with this.

We incubate all eggs in a 2x4 wide building with 7 airconditioners in it (one at each corner, one in the middle, and two more in the middle of the short ends of the building) with most of the bulding being covered by the effect area of about four airconditioners. I've never had any eggs that we've tried (rex, quetz, carno, sarco, stego) lose any health when incubated in this building. We use standing torches to heat the area for hot eggs (they can be placed closer together than campfires and burn for longer with less resources). Since our base is in the snow biome, quetz eggs just get set out in the room with no tourchs on and are fine.

[Dragon]

I believe 8-10 AC units can allow all eggs to incubate regardless of area with no damage taken. Just line them up in a U patttern and set the egg in the middle.

[Kloric]

Hello, our baby giga is going to finally be done in a hour.. we have a hatching area with 10 ac units, no egg we ever place there takes damage, the giga egg takes 50hrs to hatch we can throw it down the entire 50hrs if we want no damage is ever taken...time the hatching make sure you have tim 28hr hand feed, will empty its inventory in a hour or less...even when close, I had to stay up the entire night with it, every 40-50mins to give it meat...becomes a lot easier, but that intital 28hr feed is a complete pain, eats a peice of meat every 10 seconds...good luck man, you make it thru that hand feed and can enjoy your new giga....in about 2 weeks lol :D

[Oz Perez - 47 Chromosomes]

can u do it with standing torches?

[Cobretti]

Necro aside yeah you can do standing torches but air cons are relatively cheap so unless you are hatching Wyvern, why would you put yourself through that pain of managing torches?

Even when I was playing prim+ I avoided torch management by taming dimetrodons.

We spend enough time sitting around waiting for things in this game so I think when it comes to hatching you need to go for the set and forget solution especially now that % done is on the egg so you can calculate the exact hatch time at any given moment, which was not always the case.