Chicken Egg
| Chicken Egg | |
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| Vital statistics | |
| Size | 1 x 1 |
| Stack Stacking data for (all) items is set at the Stack page in the Stacking property data section.<br><i>Please use "Source Edit" mode when editing this.</i> | Max:3 (Eggs) |
| Skill(s) RequiredSpecific needed skills.<br>The default skills every hearthling starts off with, Oral Tradition, Primitive Tools & Wilderness Survival), are ignored. | (None) |
| Discovery Req.This(<i>discoveryreq</i>) is only for items that need to be discovered in addition to items listed in "Object(s) Required"/<i>(<i>objectsreq</i>).</i><small><br><b><i>(Temporary active on all pages, but leave empty if "None".</i></b><small> | (None or Unknown) |
| Object(s) Required | Chicken |
| Produced By | Chicken Coop |
| Specific Type of | Egg |
| Required By | (8) Birthday Cake, Chick, Easter Egg, Easter Egg (Blue), Easter Egg (Green), Easter Egg (Pink), Easter Egg (Red), Turquoise Pigment, (Egg (13): Batter, Boiled Egg, Egg & Bacon, Fried Egg, Omelette, Poached Wolverine, Purple Pigment, Soot Egg, Unbaked Egg Cake, Unbaked Fishpie, Unbaked Magpie (Pie), Unbaked Meatpie, Unbaked Wellplaiced Pie) |
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An egg laid by a chicken. Required by several cooking recipes, can be eaten fried or boiled.
How to Acquire
Chicken eggs are laid by hens in a chicken coop. It takes roughly 24 hours for a hen to lay an egg. There needs to be at least one empty space below the hen, otherwise the egg won't appear.
If there is a cock in the coop with the hen, the produced egg will be fertile and will hatch into a chick. Fertile eggs need to be brooded by a hen in order to hatch. To be brooded, the egg needs to be in a space anywhere below the hen. A fertilized egg can be moved, but if it's been without a brooding hen for too long, the hatching process will stop. This will "kill" the egg, effectively turning it into unfertilized.
Fertilized eggs show a timer counting up to 100%, this indicates when a chick is going to hatch. It takes Game: 6d (Real: 43h 46m), or about 2 days (real time), for a chick to hatch from an egg. (be aware that the timer takes some time to show up on freshly laid fertilized eggs)
Quality
New eggs that are layed will have a quality of the average qualities of the hen and the cock, ±5.
Trivia
Because removing a fertilized egg doesn't immediately stop its hatching timer, chicks sometimes hatch inside a cauldron while boiling eggs.