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#### Has something changed with feeder mechanics, or are my piggies on some sort of hunger strike?

In my old home, the 4 piggies I had there went through a full feeder pretty quickly. Since moving to my Bortola cottage, the 3 piggies I have now barely touch the feeder, and I'm starting to worry that something is buggy. I didn't log in for 3 real-life days due to Life Stuff, and I was concerned that my piggies would be hungry or perishing. But the feeder was at 78/80! 3 piggies, 3 Earth days, 18 Ur days, 2 total food used...huh? Since I've been playing again, my feeder has been at 79/80 or even 80/80 each day when I've logged in. (I just logged in, and it's at 80/80 right now.) I've moved it around in the yard, making sure to place it prominently within their pacing range, but nothing changes. The piggies are still nibblable and healthy, and they fill the meat collector per usual...but it seems they've put themselves on some sort of radical fad diet.

Posted 14 months ago by Clara Net | Permalink

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- Do you have more trees? Piggies will nibble trees, so this might make a difference. It might even matter what type of trees you have. My piggies seem partial to gas trees for some reason.
  Posted 14 months ago by Splendora | Permalink
- I had 3 trees until yesterday (2 spice and a cherry) and planted a 4th (bubble) yesterday. But I thought piggies were supposed to eschew trees if you have a feeder...at least they always did in Beta, and I had several more piggies and a full 5 trees then, when my feeders would empty at an alarming rate. Hmm...
  Posted 14 months ago by Clara Net | Permalink
- Hehe. Eschew trees vs. chew trees.
  Posted 14 months ago by Widdershins | Permalink
- "Hehe. Eschew trees vs. chew trees."
  *snurgle* :D
  Posted 14 months ago by Clara Net | Permalink
- Not quite the same thing, but I have two feeders (thanks, Rube: got them both before I could use them!) and my piggies only ever eat from one of them.
  One of them is at the end of my garden with only a wood tree, and that's the one that gets used. The other is near my other trees, and stays full, which suggests that they prefer to eat off the trees if they can: I *think* that two of my piggies never come over to the side of the garden with the used-feeder, so I guess that they only ever eat from the trees.
  Posted 14 months ago by FlickGC | Permalink
- Incidentally, are you also a gardener, feeding the piggies crops for their plop? I am still learning RHK so I can't use a feeder yet, but I dropped some cherries in the pen and my piggies haven't touched them. They're also not starving because they let me nibble every game day. I suspect they're probably so stuffed from all the crops that they don't have an appetite for regular feeding.
  Posted 14 months ago by Joojoo | Permalink
- At least your piggies are eating. I dropped like an entire garden worth of crops in the pen and then left for the day. Came back to dead piggies. Stupid pigs.
  Posted 14 months ago by Papa Legba | Permalink
- My piggies seem to be eating more than usual. Recently I've kept coming home to find empty feeders and piggies eating trees. I've added one more feeder for them. Silly pigs.
  Posted 14 months ago by Zurin | Permalink
- <giggles> Stupid pigs and Silly pigs! ROFLMAO!!!! Sorry guys I laughed so hard reading this I spit my coffee over my desk =/
  Posted 14 months ago by Casombra Amberrose | Permalink
- From my experience (and that of a friend), feeding them grain does very little to keep them alive. They do much better with crops.
  Posted 14 months ago by Carnivale Justice | Permalink
- Wait I'm confused... I have read several conflicting statements about feeding piggies. Based on my own observations - I have 3 piggies in my house with one egg tree: I left 9 potatoes and 9 onions on the ground for them to eat and while they haven't touched the potatoes the onions disappeared.... hmmmm
  Posted 14 months ago by Jezzle | Permalink
- I've once dropped a bubble as a present outside a friend's house. Nearest piggy ate it. :(
  Posted 14 months ago by Lara | Permalink
- Carnivale, unless things have changed in the past two weeks, piggies do eat from the ground. It's how I used to keep my piggies fed when I had a cave home and kept my piggies on the ledge, away from the trees and crop plots. I both saw them walk up to the dropped fruits/beans and munch as well as noticed a reduction in the amount of fruits/beans when I would come back. That being said, I don't believe they eat grains on the ground because they ignored the grains I had left for them before I switched to beans/fruits. To be honest, I think there's probably some buggy inconsistencies with piggy behavior, but I can't really confirm or deny that. There's too many discrepancies in people's accounts of how their piggies get fed.
  P.S. I think feeders exist for convenience, not because it's the only way to keep your piggies fed when you're not around.
  Posted 14 months ago by Joojoo | Permalink
- I don't have an animal feeder due to my low-level AK sills, so I leave beans on the floor for the piggies. So far, the beans have been diminishing in number, so I interpret that as the piggies eating the beans. And I haven't gotten a piggy casualty since (or maybe that was because I owned only 3 piggies then). And I refill the bean supply every day, or every other day.
  When I moved to Shimla Mirch, I could hog-tie only one piggy, so I was able to take only one piggy with me. I did the same procedure, but this time, I also put spinach on the floor. When I logged in to refill the supply, I found all the spinach gone, with a few remaining beans still there. So I assume that the piggy has a preference for crops that are grown from the ground rather than harvest that comes from trees.
  Before launch by the way, I also owned several piggies and left them potatoes on the floor. They also didn't (or probably rarely) ate the potatoes. Maybe they have favorite food types?
  Posted 14 months ago by roderick ordonez | Permalink
- I've spent the last few weeks leaving a pile of grain on the ground, and I've only recently started using a feeder. Mine, at least, ate from the ground.
  Posted 14 months ago by Reihox | Permalink
- My pigs ate from the ground as well. I didn't have trees or RHK for the longest time in my house (was waiting for that quest to plant 5 trees in your yard), and I had a piggy that I kept very well on veggies left on the ground. I would occasionally supplement that with hand feeding for some plops. But the veggies on the ground disappeared regularly, so I know it wasn't just my hand feeding them that kept them alive (considering I only did it once or twice a week at best).
  Posted 14 months ago by Little Miss Giggles | Permalink
- The question then becomes, why use a feeder? I was out of game for 4 days, had 3 feeders and 28 pigs. Came back in to 13 plops, because the feeders are cap'd at 80. But if I can just drop 250 grain on the ground, it's more than the 3 feeders and they still eat?
  So what's the point of the object?
  Posted 14 months ago by XD | Permalink
- Hmmmm.... good question. I guess for aesthetics. Having a feeder makes your home look less messier than having a line of crops littered on the floor. Feeders also have a counter that tells you how much feed is still left, or how much the piggies have eaten. And you can place them anywhere and the piggies will still get food. And piggies will sometimes not eat the food offered on the ground (picky eaters!).
  Also, if you plan on having 28 piggies (and being gone for a few days), I'd suggest adding more piggy feeders. I don't know the rate at which piggies eat, but judging from my pre-launch experience, 20 piggies can empty my two piggy feeders quite fast, that I had to refill both feeders every test session. Probably just do both: have crops scattered on the ground and have feeders full.
  Posted 14 months ago by roderick ordonez | Permalink
- I only have 1 cherry tree and five piggies.
  Till i got the feeder i didn't even manually or put food on the ground just to feed my piggies.
  They just ate from that single cherry tree.
  I only noticed the feed option on the piggies when i asked my friend what's it for and she told me i have to feed my pigges coz they will die but it confused me since i haven't fed my piggies till i got the feeder and it was 1 week or so w/o the feeder.
  To some it, the pigges ate from the single cherry tree and when i water,pet and harvest it the piggies would come and eat from it.
  Hope this helps.
  Posted 14 months ago by KurtLing | Permalink