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Animal Husbandry - How long does it take to make a baby?

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in Ashes Of Creation General Discussion
I was thinking about the animal husbandry thing today and I was wondering how long it takes to have a baby. Does it happen instantly when we match the animals up or can it take weeks or month? What if the two animals don't want... each other? Like a giraffe and a camel. Their first instinct might not be to have a baby right away. Are there some things that won't pair up so we're waiting forever for something that won't happen? Will there be animal love potions to speed up the process? Maybe fertility cakes they can eat?  Speaking of eating. Do the animals eat? Will we need to feed them hay and stuff everyday until we sell them? Will animals come in 3 stages like the armor?  Say, baby, teen, and adult. So you can have a baby Griffin, teen Griffin, and adult Griffin? So many questions. Will animal poo be used by farmers as fertilizer so some animals have better poop than others? Like, Magical Unicorn Poop makes Rainbow Corn grow or something? Also, will there be Unicorns? I'm sure that will be the most hard to breed and sought after animal. I predict Pegasus, Narwhal, and Whales with Feet, will also be popular. Maybe not whales with feet, but I want one for me. 

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    ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    I'm gonna sell Magical Unicorn Poop
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    ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    4 minutes, then on average, you wait 9 months.
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    ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    4 minutes? That's good going.
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    ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    Flameh0t said:
    4 minutes, then on average, you wait 9 months.
    Look at Mr Stamina over here and his 4min
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    ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    I asked long ago if they were going to have fertilizer in game and they never did clarify. I think it would be great. Because I plan to load my caravans full of it on a regular basis and then laugh and laugh when the people that attack get literal shit for loot.
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    ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    I don't think it will be 9 months (in game time) because that is what, 9 weeks RL?
    Most of the time these things are sped up to unbelievable levels so the players can see the fruits of their labor.

    My guess would be several days, so maybe an hour or two rl.

    Hopefully your husbandry skill grants you the ability to convince more and more creatures to do more and more things with other creatures they wouldn't be naturally inclined to do. The higher your skill, the greater your chance of making an abomination.
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    ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    Get some magical potion and speed the process by a few times et viola you got a baby in 10 mins :3
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    ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    would it depend on the species of animal?
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    ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    I'm sure we'll here a lot more about this kind of stuff in Alpha 2 Phase 2 and Beta 1. I think breeding times and spawn times for animals would have to be balanced with current player activity. The size of freeholds generally don't lend to being able to breed many animals at a single time unless there are specific node buildings to do so. 

    My personal preference would lean on the side of being fun and useful, rather than being realistic. Even 9 weeks to birth a calf is still pushing the boundaries of what I'd consider to be tolerable. 
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    Azathoth said:
    Hopefully your husbandry skill grants you the ability to convince more and more creatures to do more and more things with other creatures they wouldn't be naturally inclined to do. The higher your skill, the greater your chance of making an abomination.
    What kind of weird inbreeding fetish porn are you trying to make them do to each other..
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    ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    edited August 2018
    9734 said:
    The size of freeholds generally don't lend to being able to breed many animals at a single time unless there are specific node buildings to do so. 
    Love shack! Lol. Mmm... maybe a romantic stable. Maybe it'll just be buttons, like an interface with wait times. That's more likely. If there were ponds and aviaries and corrals and stuff for them to do their thing in my freehold would look like a zoo. Hmm... Can we make a zoo?
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    ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    All I could think of from this thread is this.



    Old school South Park.
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    ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    I really hope it is an upgrade over BDO's husbandry which was pretty nice and a step in the right direction!
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    ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    Its gonna be like the og god of war. The animals will be doing it off screen with lots of noise and at the end poof you have a baby! 
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    ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    I think one of the streams said the seasons would change every week, so my guess would be three weeks on the outside.
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