all my egs

[SlowBobTnT]

enebody knows where all my pet eggs ?
normaly i should have 100ts, i have 2

[Bokonon]

I'm sure people would love to help you but ... how about a screenshot or maybe a better description of your problem? Other than you think you should have more eggs, I have no idea what you're talking about. Why you think you should have more eggs at least would be nice to know.

[SlowBobTnT]

ka where my egs are

[Dschinghis Pan]

Any accessible resource is visible on the top left of your screen. Just navigate to critter eggs and click on them, the screen will focus on their location.
If you don't have any, that might be because they got bad.
I used to have some eggs and stored them "somewhere" - later on, I didn't had eggs. Chance are, storing eggs in containers does not preserve them, but ruin them. Eggs in the open incubate, putting them in storage... dunno? Maybe when hatching, the critter is just deleted because critters can't hatch in storage? Or it just runs away or dies due to unfitting environment.

[Battleseed]

If you stored them in bins, you probably have a bunch of raw eggs for cooking now~

[John Hadley]

Eggs lose viability statistic each cycle if they are stored in a storage container or if the temperature is too hot or cold. If viability becomes 0% then the egg will crack open and turn into egg shell and raw egg. IF the egg is not stored in a container then it will gain incubation statistic every cycle and if the incubation reaches 100% then the egg will hatch and turn into a critter and an egg shell.

Raw egg like other foods will spoil a little bit each cycle. If it reaches 0% then it turns into a rot pile and after awhile the rot pile turns into polluted dirt. The polluted dirt will slowly turn into polluted oxygen if it the pressure in the air around it is not too high.

[fractalgem]

yeah. Storing your eggs in containers eventually makes them become non-viable.

[zOldBulldog]

So, what is the best way to collect eggs and save them for later?

Container in chlorine/co2/vacuum? Or something else?

[fractalgem]

If you want to eat them later, store them in co2/chlorine/vacuum.

If you want to hatch them-well, just letting critters run wild is fine because they'll always lay one egg.

[custume]

Originally posted by zOldBulldog:

So, what is the best way to collect eggs and save them for later?

Container in chlorine/co2/vacuum? Or something else?

Have any one found a way to store them ? didn't the devs say they would add it later

[dunbal]

All my eggs are gone all I see are these egg shells lying around....

[zOldBulldog]

Originally posted by fractalgem:

If you want to eat them later, store them in co2/chlorine/vacuum.

If you want to hatch them-well, just letting critters run wild is fine because they'll always lay one egg.

Are you saying that our choices are only:

- Store them in chlorine/co2/vacuum to *eat* later
Or
- Hatch them immediately, since there is no way to store and hatch later if you are not ready to ranch them right away?

That leads to the kind of frustration I experienced in my last game, and shows why most games with eggs keep them viable forever if properly stored:

- I was so busy learning that I delayed ranching. But I saved all eggs in CO2 storage.
- I allowed Hatches to roam my base freely. The plan was to wrangle them when ready to ranch them.
- I was able to keep my base between 22-28C all game.
- By almost cycle 200 my base fully covered the starting biome.
- I finally became stable enough to catch up with neglected things. So I cleaned up the base of debris (for morale) and setup the rooms for my Hatch ranch.
... But when I went to wrangle thos wild base Hatches... They had disappeared!!! There was not a single one in sight, and since the starting biome is the only one with Hatches, there was no chance of finding more except for a lucky printer roll.
- No problem, I thought. I have several eggs (of virtually every beast by now) saved in storage, I will incubate some Hatch eggs and get started... but all of my eggs had disappeared, just like what happened to the OP.

I think they heard my cursing all the way into another continent.

I am sorry to say, but this is a horrible design for egg handling. Almost every other game with eggs keeps them viable if stored properly. People will expect it. If ONI is going to do something different, the least they could do is to warn players during the tutorial portion of the early game.

[Omega]

What actually happened here is that you broke the natural life cycle of your hatches in your base by having your dupes sweep the eggs to storage. Next time set up a small area and sweep the eggs to a storage, then uncheck the eggs tick from the box so they drop out. The eggs will hatch out, and provided you didn't sweep them to a closet somewhere, they will keep replacing themselves there and more or less make you coal (at the 1/5 rate of wild animals) if you sweep them some dirt( or something) there by the same method. Just like ranching, without the tech or the dupe skills.

Edit: Also, so you don't have to wait on that lucky hatch/hatch eggs roll, you can dig out every buried object nearby and likely find another hatch or two.

[zOldBulldog]

Originally posted by Omega:

What actually happened here is that you broke the natural life cycle of your hatches in your base by having your dupes sweep the eggs to storage. Next time set up a small area and sweep the eggs to a storage, then uncheck the eggs tick from the box so they drop out. The eggs will hatch out, and provided you didn't sweep them to a closet somewhere, they will keep replacing themselves there and more or less make you coal (at the 1/5 rate of wild animals) if you sweep them some dirt( or something) there by the same method. Just like ranching, without the tech or the dupe skills.

Edit: Also, so you don't have to wait on that lucky hatch/hatch eggs roll, you can dig out every buried object nearby and likely find another hatch or two.

Thanks, will do this in my new base.

Once the eggs are moved this and they hatch, are they considered domestic or still wild? If wild, this would be perfect as I could drop them into a natural preserve where they would become self-sustaining until needed.

[Omega]

They will still be wild when you move the eggs like that. I can't remember if they are affected by overcrowding as wild or not since I normally ranch earlier than cycle 30 and don't have to stack them for a full lifecycle. Just in case you might want to leave the ranch open to a large area like your main ladder.