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A couple more piggy musings.

Recently two issues have come up concerning the lives and happiness of our beloved piggies that have challenged my long-held assumptions. I wonder whether anyone has definitive info on either one.

1) There is disagreement whether piggies can exist forever happily and well-fed on trees alone. My home street has 14 bean trees, 20 piggies, 10 meat collectors and no feeders. It's been like this a long time (weeks, maybe months), the piggies are always happy and ready to be nibbled and the collectors fill regularly. I have always assumed that, as long as the trees were petted and watered (which mine are, being on two bean routes) the piggies will enjoy endless, happy life. However, it has been suggested to me by two players (one of whom said she had her information from staff) that, despite my experience, piggies living only on trees will eventually die. Can anyone shed further light on this?

2) In one of the recent etiquette forum threads it was suggested by one writer that if you nibble piggies on someone else's home street then you should add food to their feeders, presumably because your nibbling depleted the food in the feeder. Now I have always assumed that feeders and collectors work together while nibbling is completely unrelated - in other words that no amount of nibbling by visitors would cause additional food to be consumed from feeders. But that is just my (hitherto) unquestioned assumption. Has anyone ever tested this or received godlike info from staff?

Posted 4 months ago by Hawkwell Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • 1.) They can live on trees so long as trees are well-kept. But every time you nibble one, or every time a meat collector collects from one, it shortens their life, so eventually they will die.

    On my other character, I've got 20 piggies that have been living off of trees just fine for ages now, with the occasional filled up feeder (very occasional, since the food is gone in 4 hours after I fill it; maybe I fill it a couple times a week). I guess I haven't been keeping up the trees too well, either, but enough that they've been fine; I'm sure visitors have kept the trees up a bit, too, though there's not much traffic through that street.

    2.) I've never heard of that suggestion before. So I have no clue.
    Posted 4 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My pigs have been living on trees alone since we switched to the new housing, and to my knowledge, I haven't lost any.
    Posted 4 months ago by Aliera Subscriber! | Permalink