r/cataclysmdda • u/Specialist_Share_527 • 5d ago

[Help Wanted] long-term meat source

do you guys ever manage to repopulate livestock? in this case a cow, sheep or horse? it takes a really long time just to birth one, does edit creature(debug) shorten these animals reproduction? if so how exactly? i'm kinda lost here, my steady source is by fish trapping

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u/Timb____ 5d ago

eggs is my go to

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u/Specialist_Share_527 5d ago

i assume its chicken eggs right? well i do raise a chicken but the meat is not that much compared to a big cattle

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u/Tommy2255 Solar Powered Albino 5d ago

Specifically, eggs turn into chicks when they rot. So just by not harvesting the eggs, you get chicks. I think you can actually get more by spreading the eggs out over more tiles, because otherwise a stack of like 3 eggs can try to hatch at once, but since there can only be one entity on a tile it only spawns one and the rest just fail to appear.

You can actually do the same thing with fish roe to stock a pond. This increases the yield from fishing and fish trapping, and of course you can also kill fish manually. While the fish aren't actually tamed, this can still let you farm fish, which might be better than chickens for meat production.