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Offline for a few days - will my piggies survive?

As above - I'm offline for a week or so. Will my piggies starve? 

Posted 14 months ago by White Tiger Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Probably, but you can grab a ton of cheap food (such as mushrooms) and drop them on the ground and they'll eat that.

    Alternatively, if your piggies wander near your trees then they'll feed themselves, I think.

    Grab roughly 10 bits of food per (real life) day per piggy. More to be safe (you can always pick up again what they don't eat).
    Posted 14 months ago by Negata Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes. Unless you have a piggy feeder. Maybe you need even 2 feeders to keep them alive that long. I would say it's only worth it with RHK.
    Posted 14 months ago by Victoria Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Depends...if you have trees, they should, since they will likely nibble the trees.  If they are in pens, probably not...my piggies aren't eating off the ground any longer and I just lost all 5 of my penned piggies over the past few days even when I've been hand feeding them and left food on the ground for them.  (and yes, I've posted a bug report on this).

    ETA: Piggy feeders only work with RHK...if you don't have it yet, not worth having a feeder around.
    Posted 14 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Drat, no remote herdkeeping.  Will have to leave food out and hope for the best. Oh well, it's not as if I paid anything for them!
    Posted 14 months ago by White Tiger Subscriber! | Permalink
  •  Piggy feeders only work with RHK...if you don't have it yet, not worth having a feeder around.

    Not true. If a friend with RHK fills the feeders up for you, they or you can drop them in your pens and your pigs will be fed 
    Posted 14 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I was away last weekend.  I think I had 6 pigs and filled my feeder when I left Friday morning.  When I came back Sunday afternoon, two were piles of meat :(
    Posted 14 months ago by Cabinwood Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wow. Piggies are.... PIGS!
    It seems like now that the game is open all the time, more people are having trouble keeping their pigs alive when they step away from the game for a while!
    Posted 14 months ago by Jhennauchan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm resurrecting this thread so I can ask a related question:

    I didn't play the game for a couple of days, but I left a pile of 50 cherries for my two pigs. When I came back, one pig was hungry and the other was dead, and there were 49 cherries in the pile. (I do not have a pig feeder or a meat collector.)

    Is this the way it's supposed to work?

    Edited to add: The weird thing is, I know the pigs eat the cherries while I'm playing the game. I wonder if this is a bug.
    Posted 13 months ago by Becky Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Trees will keep piggies alive for a surprisingly long time.
    I forget whether trees regrow after each Glitch day or not.. But if they do, that may mean a reasonable amount of pigs could be kept alive indefinitely.
    Posted 13 months ago by Navocado Subscriber! | Permalink