Chickens need rebalance

[Thorfinn]

1 hour ago, Krosis said:

Wow, how mutch do you people need to eat in real life? It is true modern pouldry has a lot of fat and water so its less nutritous than it used to be, but IRL, an adult bird should feed a "normal" person for minimun 4-5 meals, mutch more if you have vegetables to make a proper meal

Don't know about that. It's pretty common for a restaurant to offer bbq chicken by the half or full, intended for just one serving. Yes, including salad, bread and veggies of some kind or other.

It would be nice if you could harvest, say, 1-4 feathers twice a month or so, kind of like you harvest berries. Though, TBH, I thought flint arrows were plenty powerful because of how big the stacks are. They probably aren't quite as good in 1.20, since now doing damage to critters spooks them.

[Krougal]

34 minutes ago, Thorfinn said:

Don't know about that. It's pretty common for a restaurant to offer bbq chicken by the half or full, intended for just one serving. Yes, including salad, bread and veggies of some kind or other.

It would be nice if you could harvest, say, 1-4 feathers twice a month or so, kind of like you harvest berries. Though, TBH, I thought flint arrows were plenty powerful because of how big the stacks are. They probably aren't quite as good in 1.20, since now doing damage to critters spooks them.

Well that isn't a Costco chicken, even I can't eat one of those suckers by themselves as a single meal, and I can eat.

 

 

[Thorfinn]

Fair. I don't do Costco, and dislike restaurants. I vastly prefer more "free range" chicken where I know they have not been fed growth hormones, and, fortunately, there's a lot of growers around here. There's even Amish-grown, if I travel about 20 miles.

There's only a couple pounds of meat on a chicken, so long as it isn't a Big Pharma chicken. Costco frankenfoods might be different.

[LadyWYT]

4 hours ago, Krosis said:

Wow, how mutch do you people need to eat in real life?

'Murica!

4 hours ago, Krosis said:

It is true modern pouldry has a lot of fat and water so its less nutritous than it used to be, but IRL, an adult bird should feed a "normal" person for minimun 4-5 meals, mutch more if you have vegetables to make a proper meal

In hindsight you probably could get an additional meal or two out of a chicken, if you're combining the meat with vegetables and such. It's been a while since I wrote the initial post, but I was angling toward meat being the majority of the meal involved. Assuming the chicken is the main part of the meals for the day, it's probably still not going to last more than a day, maybe two, for an active individual.

3 hours ago, Deaderpan said:

i agree with the comment made months ago talking about how chickens scare way too easily. the fact that they get spooked through walls aswell makes its worse. i understand that domestication is a huge part of the game but you just cant domesticate them without building your initial chicken coops away from your base.

I dunno, in my experience chickens tend to be pretty flighty critters, although it does depend on the breed of chicken. The ones in Vintage Story are similar to the English game bantams and jungle fowl, which are more skittish than their larger counterparts.

I don't usually have an issue with spooked chickens in the game though. Typically I'll locate the pen in the less active portion of my base, and spend more time outside of my base while waiting for eggs to hatch. Chickens also mature fairly quick, so it's easy enough to reach generation 4+ where they stop spooking quite so easily.

[LuisEdGm]

You should be able to feed chickens with raw berries, they do eat basically anything, small berries would make sense

[Khornet]

Out of all the things that need a rework/rebalance in the game I don't personally think they're a priority.
They eat, they breed properly (as in they lay eggs instead of just appearing out of thin air like they used to), they drop meat and feathers when you kill them, they're functional enough.
Most importantly though, the fact they eat only grain gives the over-abundance of flax grain acquired when farming linen an actual purpose.

Maybe stop the roosters from killing each other is one thing I'd add to chickens ASAP since roosters don't really do that much IRL despite the fact they DO fight.

Edited November 26, 2024 by Khornet

[Echo Weaver]

I'm generally satisfied with the chicken mechanics, but I would REALLY like them to stop spooking through walls. I searched for a mod that did this but didn't find one. 

[Nymue]

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the panopticon chickens that can see through walls either, which is why I love the chicken sit mod. Only have to suffer for one generation.
And while it's pretty mean to roosters, Roman legions often brought along capons (basically neutered roosters that get super fat) when they marched.

[LadyWYT]

16 minutes ago, Nymue said:

And while it's pretty mean to roosters, Roman legions often brought along capons (basically neutered roosters that get super fat) when they marched.

Neutering is a common practice in general for male livestock that aren't going to be used for breeding. It curbs some of the aggressive behavior and in some cases, makes the meat more palatable.

[Krosis]

On 11/26/2024 at 3:35 PM, Khornet said:

Maybe stop the roosters from killing each other is one thing I'd add to chickens ASAP since roosters don't really do that much IRL despite the fact they DO fight.

I would settle with a reduced winrate for the lower gen rooster. I swear its at 95%

[Krosis]

On 11/23/2024 at 6:54 PM, Thorfinn said:

Don't know about that. It's pretty common for a restaurant to offer bbq chicken by the half or full, intended for just one serving. Yes, including salad, bread and veggies of some kind or other.

Genuinely shocked. In my house, a good siced cockerel cooked in stew, was more than enough for a 4 people meal. 

 

On 11/23/2024 at 6:54 PM, Thorfinn said:

It would be nice if you could harvest, say, 1-4 feathers twice a month or so, kind of like you harvest berries. 

Them droping a feather now an then like they do with eggs would be cool too. Its nice to give options for people that doesnt like hurting animals, even in a game. 

[Thorfinn]

1 hour ago, Krosis said:

Genuinely shocked.

I'm not. Have you forgotten our national motto? Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

[Oscilation]

19 hours ago, Krosis said:

I would settle with a reduced winrate for the lower gen rooster. I swear its at 95%

'Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.'