Dino Food
Happy March! (whoah slow down 2020). Our upcoming patch has a few changes involving dinosaur food that I’d like to chat about. Our motivation was to provide players with a few different strategies when choosing how to feed their dinosaurs, both in ways to save money, and also ways to improve their dinos well being.
- Food Specialties
- Food Slots
- Feeder Bonuses
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- PTR up this weekend
Food Specialties
Are you interested in saving a few dollars when feeding your dinosaurs? Now you can buy them food appropriate for their size. If your dinos happen to large, then buy food that is suited for large dinos. The benefit to this is foods specific to a dino size are much cheaper than the generic food. For example, Tree Leaves are half the price of generic Plants.
Your total food inventory can now be found hovering over the Vegetarian and Meat icons.
Food Slots
You assign each feeder what food to be filled with through the feeder info pane. By default, feeders are assigned to be filled with the generic Vegetarian (Plant) or Meat food (Fresh Meat) that are suitable for all dinosaur sizes. Selecting a food specialty means your Veterinarian now fills the feeder with this food instead of the generic food.
Just be careful! Dinosaurs will ignore a food specialty not appropriate for their size. For example, above I have my Veterinarian filling the feeder with Grass that I know is suitable for small dinosaurs like my Minmi.
Feeder Bonuses
Did you not all feeders are built equal? Feeders currently have two types of bonuses:
- Capacity: These feeders can hold more food so your Veterinarians do not need to return as often
- Health: These feeders provide a Health bonus every time used by a dinosaur. The bonuses on the feeders can be found at the bottom of their descriptions.
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PTR Up this weekend
Our upcoming major content patch: Dr. Dino is up on PTR for those willing to help us out. This includes all the content we've been showing this past month: Medicine, Maps, New Computer system, Toys, Food System, Employee upgrades, new portal mechanics ++! Early testers help a ton so thanks.
xoxo Taky & Smashlore
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