The coop does not pick up eggs, it produces them over time. Both the chicken coop and milking stations require you to set up an entry in your ini file to tell it which animals to use to produce the eggs and milk. See the pinned discussion above to explain how to set that up.

Do I just leave the egg layers and milk creatures next to the stations and they'll produce?

@Isara Yes if you leave the animals within about 2 foundations of the structure it will produce eggs/milk.

hiya, I've figured out the chicken coop works, but I'm still having a problem with the milking station. I've tried to have (vanilla) Ovis standing near it, as well as cows (from RR-StarFarmAnimals mod), but nothing. Suggestions?

nvm, I just needed Megaloceros to get the milk station to work. xD

how to you get the milking station to work with the Megaloceros

If you don't change anything in the ini, it automatically works with the Megalceros already. Just place a milking station near them and it will start producing milk. See the ini discussion for changing it to other animals.

Hiya. We're running TheHunted and Valguero map. Without any settings at all neither the coop nor the milking station work because we're not running vanilla, and so far we haven't had any luck with configuring the ini file to recognize dodos and megaloceros (or pelagornis or sheep, for that matter).

We crossreferenced the values you need with the spawn codes from this document on theHunted:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nGeNo1B7uNsstaZTkyCeXOy6Wx99CKxSiY33mQDFS3c/edit#gid=866781679

Here are the current ini settings we have up:


I haven't included the bait because that is working (as it doesn't have to point at any non-vanilla animals). Have we gotten your syntax properly?

@Calyx Just jumped in on valguero with The hunted and Rpcooking, placed a coop and milk can and summoned the dodo and sheep from that google doc, both were working for me.
Did you replace down the stations after changing the ini? Is The Hunted loaded first in the mod order? ( I copied what you pasted in your message so the syntax is correct)

Thanks for the quick reply and the suggestion! I'm editing to sum up what has happened.

The picking up and putting structures down didn't do it, so I did what you did - I spawned a tamed ovis from theHunted blueprint above and VOILA! Milk! So whatever our animals are pulling their BPs from, it must be from a different directory or path. Frustrating, but at least we know that if we can find the correct BP path for our desired egg layers / milk givers that the mod will work. We'll take it up with theHunted next.

Much appreciated! This mod is great. Thanks for all your work.

@Calyx old thread i know but new information, try replacing DarkARk with the mods number 2112724006 like so:
Blueprint'/Game/Mods/2112724006/Dinos/Dodo/DA_Dodo_Character_BP.DA_Dodo_Character_BP'
We've had that issue with a differnt mod, the game considers them different animals.

I had some help from Dienstbier(Mimi) on The Hunted discord and after some testing we came up with this code for the Coop to gather eggs from dodos. :)

EggLayerPath=Blueprint'/Game/Mods/DarkArk/Dinos/Dodo/Baby/DA_Dodo_Character_BP_Child.DA_Dodo_Character_BP_Child'

@Zadira good to know, probably something similar for milk then too.thanks!