MayonnaisePlease Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 So i'm trying to get a snail farm going and, i'm aware the level doesn't impact much anything however i'm worried about how often i'll have to feed them. I've tamed up a 130 and 150 and only level food so feedings won't be very often at all. Should I stick to taming high levels, or would a low level suffice with only leveling the food stat as well? I just figure i'd ask because 20+ cakes to tame high level is a bit expensive for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldster Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Odd. Just tried this first time yesterday. Grossly underestimated the number of cakes I'd need and how many hives would be available in the redwoods and so failed miserably. During my doomed attempt I read a dododex tip that said what you did, that more food stat equals fewer feeding occasions; i.e. you can leave them alone longer. Think I need to tame a bee first though. Not viable to gather honey wild. Although I do have a bronto and a bear... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero064 Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 I go for the lowest I can find and mostly level food. (Maybe weight if I plan to use it to transport poly, although I haven't done that for a long time.) Check them often and force-feed them cake as needed. And you'll need a honey source. Good ghille makes wild honey quite viable (just be quick!), although taming your own is best. The bear also helps a lot for the wild honey. On some maps there are places you can thrown a tree platform up to access the honey. This works great if your base is fairly close and as long as nobody destroys the nest. There are many other places where you can build a bit of a platform up to the hive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberAngel67 Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 2 hours ago, MayonnaisePlease said: So i'm trying to get a snail farm going and, i'm aware the level doesn't impact much anything however i'm worried about how often i'll have to feed them. I've tamed up a 130 and 150 and only level food so feedings won't be very often at all. Should I stick to taming high levels, or would a low level suffice with only leveling the food stat as well? I just figure i'd ask because 20+ cakes to tame high level is a bit expensive for me. I haven't played on Official for so long, but I don't recall it ever taking that many Cakes to tame them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyWaffles Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Ghille and bug spray and you can get honey very easy. I tame between lvl 50 to 100 and only level food. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer Moderator invincibleqc Posted October 7, 2020 Volunteer Moderator Share Posted October 7, 2020 2 hours ago, MayonnaisePlease said: So i'm trying to get a snail farm going and, i'm aware the level doesn't impact much anything however i'm worried about how often i'll have to feed them. I've tamed up a 130 and 150 and only level food so feedings won't be very often at all. Should I stick to taming high levels, or would a low level suffice with only leveling the food stat as well? I just figure i'd ask because 20+ cakes to tame high level is a bit expensive for me. I would recommend only high level. Food is good for the ones you use for pasts, and weight is good for organic poly storage. Go on Scorched Earth, in any of the caves, and tame the level ~250 and you will be able to max them at 450. 🐌 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zapha Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Taming highlevels is a waste of time. I did 10 snails between 25 and 60, spent all points into food until they have 4000 (that's enough for more than 2 weeks) and the rest in weight allthough that's not really necessary as long as you don'r want to store crazy amounts of polymer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d1nk Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 2 minutes ago, Zapha said: Taming highlevels is a waste of time. I did 10 snails between 25 and 60, spent all points into food until they have 4000 (that's enough for more than 2 weeks) and the rest in weight allthough that's not really necessary as long as you don'r want to store crazy amounts of polymer. Do the same for 150s and its like 10000 food.. Taming high levels isnt a waste of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer Moderator invincibleqc Posted October 7, 2020 Volunteer Moderator Share Posted October 7, 2020 3 minutes ago, d1nk said: Do the same for 150s and its like 10000 food.. Taming high levels isnt a waste of time. Or the 250s and it's twice as much. 🙃 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero064 Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 28 minutes ago, invincibleqc said: Or the 250s and it's twice as much. 🙃 Haha, that's crazy. How long does that go between feedings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer Moderator invincibleqc Posted October 7, 2020 Volunteer Moderator Share Posted October 7, 2020 29 minutes ago, zero064 said: Haha, that's crazy. How long does that go between feedings? I couldn't tell. I tamed those about 3 years ago, and if that was just for me they would have starved/decayed by now. I logged on just to take that screenshot but haven't really been active for the past year otherwise. Knowing my tribemate, he is probably feeding them everyday. Though, according to their food consumption it would lasts: 21937.5 / 0.001736 = 146 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes, 28 seconds With the lags... I'd say 6 months? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MayonnaisePlease Posted October 7, 2020 Author Share Posted October 7, 2020 1 hour ago, invincibleqc said: I would recommend only high level. Food is good for the ones you use for pasts, and weight is good for organic poly storage. Go on Scorched Earth, in any of the caves, and tame the level ~250 and you will be able to max them at 450. 🐌 Good lord! Suppose i'll set up a small metal outpost base on a scorched server then. Any specific "less lethal" / easier caves there I could run to grab said snails? Scorched is the only map i'm very unfamiliar with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer Moderator invincibleqc Posted October 8, 2020 Volunteer Moderator Share Posted October 8, 2020 8 minutes ago, MayonnaisePlease said: Good lord! Suppose i'll set up a small metal outpost base on a scorched server then. Any specific "less lethal" / easier caves there I could run to grab said snails? Scorched is the only map i'm very unfamiliar with. If I remember right, at the entrance of the nosti ruins, there is always 2-3 snails down the first stairs before you encounter any wild stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizard03 Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 8 hours ago, Oldster said: Odd. Just tried this first time yesterday. Grossly underestimated the number of cakes I'd need and how many hives would be available in the redwoods and so failed miserably. During my doomed attempt I read a dododex tip that said what you did, that more food stat equals fewer feeding occasions; i.e. you can leave them alone longer. Think I need to tame a bee first though. Not viable to gather honey wild. Although I do have a bronto and a bear... Id 1000% go with the bronto and bear.....On the island, I have a quetz with a platform saddle, and bear, honey is no problem. I can gather 45 honey out of 3 wild hives in less than a few seconds. I also have a gen and fridge on the quetz specifically for honey, but not sure if your going to be able to do that, might go with a preserving bin. Just keep an eye out for those thylo's. As for cave snails, Iv tried to tame them, but it won't let me? ----------------------------------------------------------- In all honesty tho, snails feels kinda like a waste of time.....If I need poly, I can quickly gather what I need, so I never seem to need some on standby since I can just go smack something for it. As for paste, I never seem to have a problem with it either. Either Im blasting enough bugs to fill an entire bank vault with chiten, or Im using the frogs for something and it just comes about naturally. I feel like they need some form of TLC to really be useful, or need a change up of diet to become more viable. P.S. You can put veggie cakes in the tek trough and the snails will automatically eat it. Just make sure your other dino's nearby don't get hurt {they will auto eat the cakes if injured} and make sure the herbivores have plenty of berries in the trough or they will eat the cakes as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R0b1983 Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 You must get high lvls since the higher the level higher the food. I get about 1 week from 1 vegetarian cake. Totally worth it. I have 6 going and I'm never short of paste. Hope this helped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R0b1983 Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 The real beauty of it it's making 100 every hour without you doin anything Win win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer Moderator invincibleqc Posted October 8, 2020 Volunteer Moderator Share Posted October 8, 2020 10 hours ago, wizard03 said: As for cave snails, Iv tried to tame them, but it won't let me? I've tested just now, and they are still tameable. What cave did you go in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokinterror Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 i have a lvl 6 that i cloned 30 times just have a trough full of cake no idea what they use i cook it up every day got sick of wasting 1hr taming 1 snail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deedoubleu Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 Don't go for lowest level - if you have good longneck you will most likely kill it with single shot. While I was still using snails I tamed lvl 40-80 species. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokinterror Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 1 minute ago, deedoubleu said: Don't go for lowest level - if you have good longneck you will most likely kill it with single shot. While I was still using snails I tamed lvl 40-80 species. tbh i shot it with a 219 ln and another 3 in the shell after it was out to ruin taming for lower lvl so its cheaper to clone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nungtor Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 I tamed snails between lvl20 and lvl90 and only leveled up food to 3k+. With one personal beehive you will be set with paste and making only cakes one time in a week. You have to go there anyways to clear out the inventory. Also i reommend a Gacha there to collect the paste dropped by the snails. If u are in render, this sums up to the double amount paste. Having a dedi storage near is also helpfull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sativa420 Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 We have out 30 snails right now, we build a lot with metal, I always tame a lvl 5, it tames out to lvl 7 and then we just clone them. ( we tame pretty colors during the events to have variety- only technically need 1 to clone and they are cheap too. 2500 shards. They gather points fast and soon they are able to go a week without feeding. So taming high levels is a waste of time IMO, but everyone has an opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DodoRaptor Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 On 10/7/2020 at 7:58 PM, MayonnaisePlease said: Good lord! Suppose i'll set up a small metal outpost base on a scorched server then. Any specific "less lethal" / easier caves there I could run to grab said snails? Scorched is the only map i'm very unfamiliar with. If you don't play on SE already, you don't necessarily need to move. The Island also has snails at level 250+ in the Swamp Cave. Also tamable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizard03 Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 9 hours ago, invincibleqc said: I've tested just now, and they are still tameable. What cave did you go in? swamp cave, level 280 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer Moderator invincibleqc Posted October 9, 2020 Volunteer Moderator Share Posted October 9, 2020 31 minutes ago, wizard03 said: swamp cave, level 280 As stated above; Scorched Earth's caves. It's the only places where > 150 are tameable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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