SIGNIFICANT QOL changes to ranching

[Lord_earthfire]

I really think seeing that ranching is HALF A DECADE OLD now that "wiki isn't documented enough" is really a good way to look at it anymore.

The thing is: it is not not documented enough.

Really, e.g. the wiki has all the stuff you need to get through most evolutions in there. Like the paragraph "Chicken Breeds" is more or less most information you need to get all the feed-based mutations.

I've had a ton of beginner ranchers working besides me and the problem is: beginner ranchers all do the very same mistakes.

- They lay out incompatible feed before supplying the real stuff (And the wiki tells you not to do that)
- They are not good at botany (that's just a hard requirement for rancher)
- They do not handfeed chickens (the wiki tells you that it makes it faster to get higher tier chickens)
- They make way too many low tier chickens (although that is just a personal opinion)

The thing is simple: ranching is hard on the execution for new players. Because most of its difficulty comes from optimization. The wiki has most information you need, you just need to put all pieces into place. The only thing missing hard numbers and specific methods for T3 chickens (e.g. volthens, cluwnes or dragons). But they are theoretically not needed.

The most hard check for ranchers is botany, flat out. If you can do botany, you can do ranching. If you can't do botany, your ranching results get delayed hard. There is a reason why many good ranchers are also very good botanists.

My personal take: ranching going open won't change much. The nerds will maybe just go "huh, so you need 2 feeds of lizard tails for a stone chicken to get cockatrices instead of the 6-7 for most other chickens" (yes, from my testing it is in fact significant less feeds for cockatrices) and "huh, so i need to shove the henk this exact amount of times for it to lay cluwne eggs instead of going by feeling". At worst, people will optimize it on private servers, which i think should -not- be encouraged.