Pips

[caseyas435943]

Pips will rummage an arbor tree for a seed.

Do they do it just once in the tree first growth. Never doing it again?

So to get more seeds you need to replant the tree.

Or do the rummage it once after ever harvest?

[fradow]

When a new branch starts growing, it has a 5% chance of creating a seed in the trunk. A pip then has to rummage the trunk to get the seed out.

There are some builds specifically around drowning branches so they constantly regrow to maximize that (but that means no lumber).

[caseyas435943]

Originally posted by fradow:

When a new branch starts growing, it has a 5% chance of creating a seed in the trunk. A pip then has to rummage the trunk to get the seed out.

There are some builds specifically around drowning branches so they constantly regrow to maximize that (but that means no lumber).

So every branch grow cycle there is a 5% chance of a seed.

Seems odd. I've had 3 pips in a ranch with a tree. Over 200 cycles and not 1 seed.

Am I unlucky or does the branches need to be havested to start the chance again? Pips eating doesn't restart the chance I take it. Because in 200 cycles not 1 seed.

Maybe I'm just unlucky. Never know I guess.

Thanks.

[cswiger]

Originally posted by caseyas435943:

Am I unlucky or does the branches need to be havested to start the chance again?

Yes, you need to harvest the branches.

(Um, why wouldn't you want to harvest Arbor tree lumber? Having some ethanol can be handy even if you don't want to send it to a Petrol Generator....)

[caseyas435943]

Originally posted by cswiger:

Originally posted by caseyas435943:

Am I unlucky or does the branches need to be havested to start the chance again?

Yes, you need to harvest the branches.

(Um, why wouldn't you want to harvest Arbor tree lumber? Having some ethanol can be handy even if you don't want to send it to a Petrol Generator....)

You need to feed the ranched pips or the die.

[cswiger]

Originally posted by caseyas435943:

You need to feed the ranched pips or the die.

The pips go eat from an Arbor tree branch or eat a Thimble reed plant by themselves...?

You need 3 wild trees per stable of pips, but you are free to harvest the branches without the pips running out of food.

[caseyas435943]

With 3 pips in my range. A wild tree supports 3 not 4 from what I've read.

The branches never grow to harvest them. The pip nibble on them first.

I didn't think a pip ate anything but Arbor trees. Didn't think the ate reed plants. I'll have to look. But I don't think so unless they changed it. Which of course they could have, and I missed it.

[cswiger]

When Klei added the Cuddle Pip, they allowed both types of pips to eat reed plants now:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2826417308

You ought to be able to fit at least 10 trees or thimble reeds into a 24 x 4 ranch, which will provide a surplus of lumber (or reed fibers) even with the pips eating some growth.