My hen won't use the nests and is laying eggs on the floor.

[Krystian W]

I don't know what to do to get it working. I have the More Animals mod, which causes the nest recipe to be missing and two versions of it, one with an English name and the other with a name in the game language, but it can't be made normally. The mod uses the latest version of the game, so I'm worried it might cause problems. Please help.

[LadyWYT]

18 minutes ago, Krystian W said:

The mod uses the latest version of the game, so I'm worried it might cause problems.

The latest stable version, or the most recent release candidate(which is unstable)? If I understand the mod page correctly, the mod version for the stable Vintage Story release requires a mod-specific nesting box for the birds(species doesn't seem to matter) to use. For release candidate versions of the mod, it looks like vanilla nesting boxes can be used instead.

I'm guessing that you're probably playing on the stable release, and have vanilla nesting boxes in the chicken house. I would try replacing them with the mod's nesting boxes, and see if that makes a difference. If the crafting recipe is missing, you might try getting the item via creative mode(/gm 2) and switching back to survival(/gm 1) when you're done replacing the boxes.

[Krystian W]

12 minutes ago, LadyWYT said:

The latest stable version, or the most recent release candidate(which is unstable)? If I understand the mod page correctly, the mod version for the stable Vintage Story release requires a mod-specific nesting box for the birds(species doesn't seem to matter) to use. For release candidate versions of the mod, it looks like vanilla nesting boxes can be used instead.

I'm guessing that you're probably playing on the stable release, and have vanilla nesting boxes in the chicken house. I would try replacing them with the mod's nesting boxes, and see if that makes a difference. If the crafting recipe is missing, you might try getting the item via creative mode(/gm 2) and switching back to survival(/gm 1) when you're done replacing the boxes.

I'm using the latest stable version and I have both types of sockets set up, but it doesn't do anything

[Krougal]

Also even in vanilla for several versions, they will sometimes lay eggs on the floor right next to a box.

I don't know what exactly causes it. If there are no boxes at all, they will lay on the ground, but of course never sit on them, but it might be related to that code and it somehow not detecting a valid box.

 

[LadyWYT]

5 minutes ago, Krougal said:

Also even in vanilla for several versions, they will sometimes lay eggs on the floor right next to a box.

I don't know what exactly causes it. If there are no boxes at all, they will lay on the ground, but of course never sit on them, but it might be related to that code and it somehow not detecting a valid box.

 

I forgot about that. I assume that when it happens, poor henny-penny just couldn't make it to the nest box in time and just...made do with the ground.

 

37 minutes ago, Krystian W said:

I'm using the latest stable version and I have both types of sockets set up, but it doesn't do anything

The only other thing I can think of to try is putting a nest box or two on the ground to see if that helps. Judging by the screenshot, the chickens should be able to reach the boxes, but it's possible there's no path they can recognize to reach them.

[Krystian W]

2 hours ago, LadyWYT said:

I forgot about that. I assume that when it happens, poor henny-penny just couldn't make it to the nest box in time and just...made do with the ground.

 

The only other thing I can think of to try is putting a nest box or two on the ground to see if that helps. Judging by the screenshot, the chickens should be able to reach the boxes, but it's possible there's no path they can recognize to reach them.

Do you know if a wild rooster caught as an adult and not tamed can breed with a hen caught as a chick?

[LadyWYT]

Just now, Krystian W said:

Do you know if a wild rooster caught as an adult and not tamed can breed with a hen caught as a chick?

It can. The generation only matters on the female animal when breeding--the male animal can be any generation.