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Animal life questions

I've heard that other than chickens (damn those immortal chickens...I'm still traumatized from accidentally bombing one in Ocarina of Time), all animals die. I know they have some sort of hidden life meter, which increases and decreases based on actions. So I have four questions.

-What prolongs the life of a piggy?
-What depletes the life of a piggy (besides time)?
-What prolongs the life of a butterfly?
-What depletes the life of a butterfly (besides time)?

Another thing I'm wondering about is the fact that I treat all of my backyard pets equally, yet Kaylee the butterfly died yesterday and the other two are still kicking. Why is this?

Posted 12 months ago by Kestin Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • In order:
    -love
    -unkind thoughts
    -singing to them; also buying free trade coffee.
    -not believing in the giants

    Re: Kaylee? She was using your wireless connection. I'm so sorry.

    /humor

    One of these answers is true.
    Posted 12 months ago by CrashTestPilot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Currently piggies only die of starvation. Petting them or not makes no difference. If they're constantly fed, they don't ever die. This might change in future. Ways to make sure your pigs don't starve to death (from easiest and most foolproof to least foolproof):
    - If you have remote herdkeeping, making sure there's plenty of feeders and they're full with grain. For your reference, 18 pigs empty 8 feeders in approximately 2 days;
    - If you don't have RHK, leave plenty of food on the ground for them to feed on; spread out several hundreds of grain in the area where they pace;
    - Pigs sometimes feed off trees if they can reach the said trees; however I've noticed they only eat from trees immediately after you manually harvest the tree.

    Butterflies: each time you milk them, either manually or through automated milk collectors, this seems to decrease their hidden life bar a little. The more you milk them, the faster they will die. Have heard rumors that singing to them on a regular basis might restore a bit of life, but I don't know if this is true or by how much. From my experience, intensive milking through automated milk collectors *and* manually milking them, will kill a butterfly in as much/little as a week. If nobody milks the butterflies, either manually or automated, they will live much longer and possibly forever. I know some butterflies that are never milked and still live after 4 weeks after they've been hatched.

    Chickens currently never die.

    Hope this helps :)
    Posted 12 months ago by Heatseeker Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Time shouldn't be considered a factor to why animals die, time is irrelevant to the situation AFAIK.

    -What prolongs the life of a piggy? -- Pretting it, and keeping it well fed, this is taken care of best when you have remote herdkeeping and buy a feeder which should be maintained with an easy commodity such as grain, keep track of how fast the feeder empties, and if you need to buy (and fill) more than one. I have 15 piggies, so 3 Feeders works just fine if I am lazy.

    -What depletes the life of a piggy (besides time)?

    -Not feeding it and petting it, you'll need to pet for a nibble... it will only dies of starvation or a Rook Attack.

    -What prolongs the life of a butterfly?
    Singing to it. If they are left unused, they are ok.

    -What depletes the life of a butterfly (besides time)?
    Milking and massaging it, having a butterfly milker counts. And rook attacks.
    Posted 12 months ago by Rook Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Singing definitively prolonge the life of butterflies, i had a couple in my house, but was singing to only one of them, and it died slightly after the others (they were all hatched at the same time).
    Posted 12 months ago by niemand Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Rook:
    [...] you'll need to pet for a nibble [...]

    Once you have trained animal kinship 6, this is no longer needed. You can still pet 'em, but for only your benefit of some XP gains.
    Posted 12 months ago by Heatseeker Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Heatseeker wrote: Currently piggies only die of starvation.

    According to staff (and guides) in Live Help this is not true. Even our piggies have a natural lifespan, but it is much, much longer than the butterflies and  the chickens
    Posted 12 months ago by IrenicRhonda Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh... I have a couple pigs that should be renamed Matusalem in this case :)
    Posted 12 months ago by Heatseeker Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't think I've had any piggies die on me, unless they starved
    Posted 12 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • At one point, TS staff confirmed that singing to butterflies slightly prolongs their lifespan.
    Posted 12 months ago by Leites Subscriber! | Permalink
  • People keep saying that pigs have longer lifespans than chickens, and while I agree that piggies are very long-lived if they are kept fed, I simply cannot manage to kill a chicken, no matter how many times I squeeze it or how many eggs I ask it to incubate.
    Posted 12 months ago by karibean Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @heatseaker, I didn't see your post while I was typing it, and was too lazy to edit it at like 2 AM.

    Anyways, if you NEVER ever ever have to pet them again... then that makes my day.
    Posted 12 months ago by Rook Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Chickens do die - er, "ascend" - in a cloud of pink poof just like the butterflies, after a certain number of interactions.
    Posted 12 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I know they die after a certain number of interactions, but in my experience that number of interactions is so astronomically high that it is effectively impossible to kill them. And that number seems much higher than the number for piggies.
    Posted 12 months ago by karibean Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Even if it takes tons of interactions, the fact remains that they still do die/ascend, though.

    I'd say they live longer than piggies. Or rather, piggies tend to be used far more often (for many, meat is more valuable than grain), especially if you have them at home with meat collectors, and the only way to kill a chicken is to interact with it manually each day.

    My chickens shall live forever as I rarely use them. I tend to squeeze chickens on the streets instead and only use mine for the rare times I need to hatch eggs.
    Posted 12 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've killed a chicken or two in my time (not in an Alice Cooper sense, though)
    Posted 12 months ago by dr_loplop Subscriber! | Permalink