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#### Piggy Plop Bug- Idea of Cause, Looking for Testers.

I know staff has been working on the problem for a while, but there's a bug where you get the wrong number of seeds when you feed piggies. After a little thought, I had an idea and tested it out a few times. It seems that if you feed the SAME piggy again before it's done plopping, it overwrites the previous feeding, leaving you with only whatever it dropped before plus whatever you get from the second. For instance, feeding a piggy 80 corn, then feeding 10 corn, gives you not 30 seeds, but how many it dropped before the second feeding plus 3, which is the number you should get from the 10 in the second feeding. This ONLY happens if you feed the same piggy. I don't know for sure that this is what's causing the bug as a whole, but it tests true to me every time I try it.
What I'm looking for is people to test this out. Test guidelines are simple- select one piggy, feed 80 of a crop, then 10 of the same or another crop. Post the total seeds received, and what kind if you used more than one crop, in your reply.

Posted 6 months ago by Darius Atrepes | Permalink

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- Okay, fed 80 spinach then 10 spinach and got 11 seeds.
  Posted 6 months ago by SkyWaitress | Permalink
- I'm not overfeeding my piggy..my back yard smells bad enough with the current livestock..if I force feed I'll have to move into the Glitchen Arms for the night.
  I wouldn't say that was a bug either. That's just starting a task before the last has finished and so the last click overwrites the previous. It honestly never occurred to me to feed my piggy again until after his plops had dropped : )
  Posted 6 months ago by ~Arabesque~ | Permalink
- Really you should only feed them in increments of 3. 80 would be off so you would feed them 78. 10 would be off too so you should feed them 9. Otherwise, you waste a few veggies.
  Posted 6 months ago by Eye Wonder | Permalink
- Eye Wonder- I did have two large crop gardens in my back yard. I always fed all with 90 in my bags, which fed a stack of 80, and then the second I used feel all, which would be 10. Every time, I got 30 seeds back. The game seems to be set up so if you do that, you still get the right number. Every time except when I do it to the same pig, that is.
  Arabesque- Bug or not, the staff has been looking for the cause of a bug with much the same symptoms. It doesn't hurt to check it out. Also, most of the game is set up so that you CAN'T double up on an action and overwrite a previous one- you can't double mine, double harvest, and so on. ETA: You also can't double feed sloths, to use something a little closer to the problem. Batterfly drops are pretty much instant, so that one isn't really applicable.
  Posted 6 months ago by Darius Atrepes | Permalink
- I don't have recent results, but I noticed this too, when it went to stack feeding. I just wait until I get all plops before feeding again. I like to only use one piggy at a time, so they can't wander off and the plops will all be in a nice pile =] After feeding, click/select them again to bring up the menu, but leave it open and don't actually do anything...they will stay right there with your seeds and you won't wander up and down the street looking for them ^^
  Posted 6 months ago by Bunnykins | Permalink
- That leaving the selection window open is a great tip, Bunnykins. I guess it sort of works like batterfly feeding? Where if you leave the window open and wait, it comes to your head and hovers?
  Posted 6 months ago by Darius Atrepes | Permalink
- Ok I see, so you're doing like 90 at a time so to speak. Hmmm I've never done that before. I've always fed according to the stack size. 80 stack, so I would feed 78 at the most at a time and then I collect the seeds before I feed them again.
  Posted 6 months ago by Eye Wonder | Permalink
- I just did it with Potatoes. I got 6 potato seeds and somehow, one corn seed...
  Last feeding was corn, if that means anything, but it was for exactly 45 corn units to get exactly 15 seeds...
  Posted 6 months ago by burdger | Permalink
- So, burdger got the second part of the bug- mysterious seed of a crop he didn't feed. That, I think, would make it almost like the bug staff are looking at- less seeds than should be dropped AND a mysterious seed.
  Posted 6 months ago by Darius Atrepes | Permalink
- Ok, so I tested three piggies. The first I fed 9 onions, and received three seeds. I then used "feed all" with 90 broccoli seeds, and used "feed all" a second time before he was done. I received a total of 11 broccoli seeds... and 1 corn seed.
  The second, fed 9 carrots for 3 seeds. 90 broccoli the same way as above, for 13 seeds... and 1 corn seed.
  The third, 9 broccoli for 3 seeds, 90 zucchini seeds the same way as above, for 11 seeds... and one corn seed.
  It looks like you will get 1 corn if you "feed all" to the same pig twice before it's done plopping from the first.
  I have these pigs on shelves in my house, just hatched, so I can be sure they're clean pigs and know what they've been fed. It seems like the "mysterious seed" is always corn, and come after feeding them before. I have no way of knowing whether the previous piggies from my herd that I've fed have ever been fed before, or what they've been fed, since I usually just feed whoever I happen to highlight when I need seeds. These piggies will have been fed from the shell in a controlled enviroment.
  When I'm back in game, I'll add another pig shelf and see if the pig will NEVER drop corn if it's only fed the same thing, or if I'll still get corn, to narrow down what can cause the random corn seeds. That should show us if the corn comes from multiple food piggies only, or if it can come from single food piggies, as well as telling us if it only happens if the pig has been hand fed before.
  Posted 6 months ago by Darius Atrepes | Permalink
- I fed my piggie Dipples 80 spinach and then 10 spinach. I received 17 spinach seeds and 1 corn seed.
  Posted 6 months ago by Kashtana | Permalink
- I feed my pig 45 potatoes at a time and get 15 seeds. I can do that mulitple times before it is done plopping and I always get the right number of seeds. If I feed the pig 90 potatoes I get less seeds than I should.
  Posted 6 months ago by Octo | Permalink
- Octo- I can't replicate those results. I've fed three piggies, two sets each of 45 and 45, before they're done plopping. The last set resulted in 21, 22, and 20 respectively, with approximately the same amount from the first set of feedings, instead of the 30 seeds that should result in.
  Posted 6 months ago by Darius Atrepes | Permalink
- Octo, that's likely because you can't feed 90 crops at once - the limit is a single stack of 80. Entering 90 into the mount would return 26-27 seeds at once, not the entire 30.
  Posted 6 months ago by Negata | Permalink
- @Octo, yeah I feed my pigs 45 at a time too - but not the same pig. I'll feed one then feed another and watch the plops fall where they may lol : )
  Posted 6 months ago by ~Arabesque~ | Permalink
- Ah... that theory (OP) might be correct. I once tried feeding a piggy 300 veggies, but only ended up feeding it 80, or one stack. I never experienced the "bug" because whenever I feed piggies for seeds I do it on different piggies, e.g. 15 parsnip to one piggie, 15 cabbage to another, and 15 onion to yet another.
  Posted 6 months ago by Mal'akh | Permalink
- Related but not quite the same.
  Harvested 8 unit vegetable plot. Received 96 spinach. (expected)
  Spinach stacked 80, plus a stack of 16 (expected)
  Stack of 80 is on the left, stack of 16 on the right.
  Selected stack of 16 and dragged to piggy.
  Pop up asked me how many I wanted to feed.
  I said 24.
  Piggy ate 16 spinach. (expected)
  Piggy did not eat the additional 8 spinach from left most stack of 80. (unexpected)
  Piggy plopped twice.
  Plops yielded 8 seed packages. (unexpected).
  This has happened twice.
  Posted 6 months ago by WindBorn | Permalink
- Thanks for all the posts on this, it's been a confusing one. :)
  Posted 6 months ago by kevbob | Permalink
- Mine always give me the right number of seeds but sometimes they plop out of their mouths. This is disturbing.
  Posted 6 months ago by Captain Daisy | Permalink