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New guano strategies?

Yesterday, I got myself two guano-related upgrade cards. One of them says:

Feeding Batterflies a meal worth at least 80 currants makes them poop five guano at once (instead of three guano for a meal worth 100+ currants).

So... what does one feed the batterflies now, if one wants to do it with one click? If this impressive list is complete, there is no item that is worth exactly 80 currants, so disregarding the pumpkin ale, the next cheapest are the Simple BBQ (which requires several ingredient types), and then the Abbasid Ribs. Any other ideas on how to feed following the upgrade?

Posted 83 days ago by Not a Princess Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • 8 meat is worth exactly 80 currants. It doesn't need to be one single item.
    Posted 83 days ago by Andrew Tobolsky Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I know that it doesn't have to be, but feeding a specific number of something requires a lot more clicking.
    Posted 83 days ago by Not a Princess Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Rich tagine is relatively simple to make and just one will give you 5 guano with the upgrade, I nabbed 2000+ yesterday in no time at all
    Posted 83 days ago by Mr Mellifluous Subscriber! | Permalink
  • 4 Older Spice was suggested by someone in a prior thread on this topic.
    Posted 83 days ago by Janitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I wasn't very exhaustive, but I looked through and I think Deluxe Sammich might be the closest to 80 at 86.
    Posted 83 days ago by Humbabella Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm still not convinced that feeding one older spice at a time isn't still faster. Abbasid ribs have a TON of ingredients, with lots of spice milling, which is energy intensive. Willing to try to Tagine, though. (I am definitely looking for something I can feed one at a time.)
    Posted 83 days ago by Aliera Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Just use meat. Rich Tangine is easy to make & thus a nice bit of crafting iMG, but force feeding meat you can just hold down enter & feed "max" (the game will only serve them 8, even if you put 60 in the dialog). Back in the days of 5 meat for 2 and 10 meat for 3, I was a proponent of 5 at a time, but now -- just burn it.

    (This is presuming you have a fair amount of AK and / or RHK, thus meat is very easy to collect. This particular alt has none by design, so will use camphor or older spice)
    Posted 83 days ago by Sturminator IX Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Sturminator IX wrote: (the game will only serve them 8, even if you put 60 in the dialog)

    Really, not a stack of 40? 

    Off to collect guano now then
    Posted 83 days ago by IrenicRhonda Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Really, Sturm? Is that a new mechanic? Because if that's true, that's fracking awesome!
    Posted 83 days ago by Aurora Dellaterra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • feed it expensive grilled cheese
    Posted 83 days ago by Aether5 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If that's correct, that's awesome, Sturm. I'v always done older spice with my default set to "1". But hm... Definitely time to do more testing this weekend.
    Posted 83 days ago by Aliera Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Meat - with machines you can harvest more meat than you can deal with (feed them zucchini, 23 from a single plot) and a single gurly drink gets you 10 minutes of free nibbling.  Feeding batterflies processed food just to cut out a single keystroke is a huge overall waste of energy.  
    Posted 82 days ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Salmon
    Cheese
    Feed one
    /strategy
    Posted 82 days ago by LųĉĩđεşşΨ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes, the max consumption is limited to 100c. I've repeatedly overfed as I was trying to type in "5" but got 55 / 555 instead, and only 10 meat went away.

    I don't have the new cards yet, so I can't *confirm* that only 8 (80c) will get fed -- someone with the cards should try feeding them 10, & see how many get actually consumed.
    Posted 82 days ago by Sturminator IX Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I used Abbasid Ribs last night. It's not too hard to select, gives 5 guano, simple to make.
    Posted 82 days ago by Ayasta Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I buy deluxe sammiches and feed it to them. It works wonders with the new upgrade cards.
    Posted 82 days ago by Dr. Drizzle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Per player testing, batterflies were now overeating again. I've posted the issue over in the bugs forum:  http://www.glitch.com/forum/bugs/27190/
    Posted 82 days ago by Sturminator IX Subscriber! | Permalink