hi Mitz I'm planning to make an upgrade to this mod, already got most of it tested and working in 1.3.....I'm still drawing the visuals for chicken coop, chicken HOUSE, XL chicken cage.
also got duck house and goose house working. feel free to drop me a msg and let me know if i can upload. thanks

wake up samurai

1.3 update: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2778675006

Please let me know if you pick it back up, Mitz, I will pull my update.

My sincere condolences, Mitz. It's so hard to lose a pet, a big part of your family. I hope you're doing better now that some time has passed. Tsym for your work even if you decide not to return to this project, we your fans understand. Be well!

Did you plan to update to 1.3 ?

Sorry for your loss, and I hope you're doing well. I took a few moments to upgrade this mod to use [SYR] Processor Framework, I'd like to provide it to you for your use if you so desire: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-ln8QCSZq_E0PIBn6hQCg4-sc7r81-s-/view?usp=sharing

oh no! *offers hugs for lost mews*

sorry about midnight,
cool youre back into modding

bad news: the posterchild of my steam avatar, midnight, passed away today.
good news: DEUS VULT, RISE FOR THE CULT OF THE FALLEN FURY!
I AM BACK IN THE SWING OF MODDING!
PRAISE TOOTHLESS!
all 1.1 / 1.2 mods will be updated to 1.2 and 1.3.
1.0 mods will be updated to 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3 if they pass the quality assurance test (they have some reason to exist in the modern era)

Don't worry about updating anything until you feel better. No pressure at all, we've all been there.

yeah i'm ok-ish, just still recovering from a burnout followed by a rut. haven't picked up a game in weeks...

You alright mate? Look after yourself.

I wish you well Thank you for your work.

Uncertain if I'll get to an update this summer; i've been a mess the entire summer. I do think it won't be too difficult to update; I haven't played any form of game for a good week, and rimworld for months.

love your mod, hope for update

Well then, you do prove a point now.
I probably can make a bigger coop once I get back into modding. It'll likely be the same texture but I'll downsize this one and make a bigger/same sized one that takes more feed at once for more eggs.

Due to the below reasons the only reason an informed player would build a chicken coop is for aesthetic reasons as chicken's are already a relatively poor source of food in vanilla and the chicken coop takes away the very few slim advantages farming chickens did have in vanilla. Sure it also reduces/eliminates the lag but so does ignoring chickens entirely which is what the balance of the chicken coops ultimately promotes.

Suggestions for possible changes to improve balance:

1. Reduce the amount of feed required to simulate chickens feeding 'free range' on grass outside the coops.

2. Provide different size coops so that as the chicken farms grow so that colonists can construct larger coops that require more feed at once but produce more eggs. This way less pawn time is lost to hauling.

3. Either eliminate the steel cost or reduce both wood/steel costs.

You state that "THIS ISN'T A FOOD SOURCE" but that is not an accurate statement. The sole purpose of chickens in Rimworld is to serve as a food source.

Your mod while an interesting idea is not balanced well. These are the reasons:

1. Outside of the mod chickens can feed on grass with no colonist time needed to produce or move feed to them. The chicken coop requires pawns to dedicate time to producing and then moving feed to the coops. This makes the chicken coops less time efficient than farming chickens without it.

2. Outside of the mod growing chickens does not require the use of wood or steel. The chicken coops do require these extra resources. This makes chicken coops less resource efficient than farming chickens without it.

eggs can substitute in for meat in recipes, unless you're using a mod like rimcuisine which I would suggest hunting animals and stocking the meat with a meat smoker mod.
being able to kill the "chickens" in the coop would be very difficult to code actually. I'm not a rimworld programmer and setting up the stuff for doing assemblies is cursed for me.

I would love this if you could fit more chicks in and get chicken meat out of it as an option even just getting eggs makes it tempting.....

..honestly it's to much a lag to deal with too many animals and half the time I would rather just grow food and buy meat

maybe bearhiderug you just saw the film about Noah's Ark and want to put animals into the coop, 2 by 2?

@nin woah woah woah, you're feeding the chickens eggs? that's not the point! It's supposed to be a vanilla-friendly way to earn eggs for cooking cupcakes and such without using soy crap! it's literally just CHICKENS IN A BUILDING not A FOOD SOURCE.
@bearhiderug That is beyond my coding possibilites, I'm not a master coder so that would require assembly coding which will likely never happen.

I think with Hay, this mod is awesome, with Kibble however I guess you should reduce the cost. It's nice not having the lagg but the math is rather simple:

Invest 8 eggs, get 5 back makes no sense to me personally.

Nevertheless, really like the mod, I changed it so it gives me back 10 eggs over the course of 4 days, giving me 2 eggs profit per cycle with Kibble.

Appreciate the work you did in your spare time to share this with the community.

This mod is meant to reduce lag of using chickens; instead of having 5 entities in a pen, you can convert 5 chicken eggs into this pen.
the benefits include:
the chickens can't die
they eat just as much food, not more
you don't lag your game to high heavens storing chickens, the code is efficient so you can place 20 of them with no lag

overall, this is meant to reduce lag instead of being more efficient.

Is it me or.. is it not beneficial to use this mod?

50 kibble requires 20 meat and 20 veggies, the meat can be replaced with eggs (1:5), which would mean 50 kibble equals 4 eggs and some veggies.

Meaning it costs 8 eggs to get 5 back, or am I wrong?

If you mean "can you farm duck and geese eggs" I unfortunately have to say no. I could do it but I'm not fully out of SS13 right now. It's pretty easy, through some trial and error, some referencing, you can figure out how to make a copy of the coop and make it spawn duck eggs and require duck eggs.

does this work with ducks and geese?

Updated to 1.2!...
I have a poll for you all.
https://www.strawpoll.me/20846279/
Vote on what you want me to make next!

I'll get to updating right away! I'm currently into rimworld after finishing my SS13 binge.

ah good! I'll get to updating the mod in full eventually... right now i'm taking a break from rimworld, but I wish i could use my chromebook to update it.

Okay, so I added it in with a couple hundred other mods, and it’s working perfectly. There are no errors in the log and the pawns can build and interact with the coop with no issues.

Thanks damsel! Report in when you figure out if it works or not.
It should work, I do not think they revamped the code in between 1.1 and 1.2

ok cool

I'm working on my mod list right now i'll throw this mod in and see how it goes.

ah don't worry, it's univeral fermenter is updated, I think if a brave person can do a fresh run with my mod in 1.2, that'd be great!
I'm really tired these days, so it may take some time to get to booting up rimworld again.

hi diabolical damsel, careful what you wish for...
i once wanted a minion farm with the minions mod (in my 1.0 game), and suddenly i had like 300 minions :)

hi midnight, pelador made a mod which can also do fermenting in a (non-universal fermenter way, compatible way as there were a lot of potential issues in the past with multiple universal fermenter files or something, but he stopped modding due to other committments and mlie kindly picked up the reigns... maybe that could help you meanwhile if universal fermenter is not working for 1.2 yet?).

I'm looking forward to making my farm dreams come true when this is updated.

yeah, i was waiting for universal fermenter to update. i'll get to it once i absorb my coffee.

1.2? this is a great mod helps alot

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Ahh I should contact them again :P
I'm planning on in the next few days making a meat synthesizer hydroponic thingy. Milk will be up next. or before that. I have a blueprint in my head how these 2 will be rolled out.

I really like the creativity of using 'fermenting' for the chicken and egg problem, also I think the Universal Fermenter page has a list of mods that are dependent on it if no one had suggested you contact them yet.

That's... a lot of content to add, but it's a possibility.
I'm on a partial break from modding, but I'll consider it. I'm also workin on a mega-project in the background.... Not sure if it'll survive the coding process.

can this also do other eggs? like geese, duck or ostritch

Well, if you want to, you can edit the <drawSize> of the chicken coop! just look in the defs folder with a notepad program. I kept it a small size because I think the chickens may want to walk around the coop, y'know. I can change the published drawSize to a higher number with enough requests.

My rule of thumb is that if it looks like it can be walked around and doesn't fill most of the space it's using, then it should be passable.
And of course they're 2x3, my bad.

aren't these 2x3? or did the code get glitched?
I can say these are sold because instead of housing 5 chickens in a 10x10 coop, you can house 4 sets of them in these hutches - I expected people to put them in their barns which usually have a lot of space :P

Really cool mod.
I made some changes to make the coops passable because 2x6 impassable props are super annoying to position in some cases and the visuals make it look like there's a lot of room on the sides to walk around.

cool

hey there! I got a room on a discord, If you're already in mlie's room it should let you in. https://discord.gg/dhPfAy I don't like 25000 discords so I'm renting out a channel on a friend's. I have notifs on that discord, so I should be able to see ye there.
If you can't click the link, put dhPfAy as a code into your "add a server" thing. It should recognize that!