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New Mount: What the hell do I do?
This is a brand spankin' new baby girl.
The basics are as follows: There are 3 stats that need to be raised-- Maturity, Love, and Stamina. These are dependent on the mount's serenity level, which is something you can change with patters and slappers. Details found BELOW! Oh, and don't be alarmed by the changes in the stats... I used a lvl 5 mount as my example...ok, ONWARD!
The almighty SERENITY bar!
This is the bar at the bottom of that picture. At one end is aggressive (grrrr!) and the other end is serene (sigh!happy!). Note the little symbols sitting above that bar. That will be explained. The serenity bar works like a basic number line. The water droplet indicates 0 as so:
To get serenity down, you slap the hell out of the turkey. To get serenity up, you lovingly pat it. These equips are... slappers and patters.
Serenity controls what you can do with your mount, stat-wise. If your serenity is in a specific number range and you try to raise the wrong stat, well, you're just going to waste a lot of time. Males have a random chance for lowering serenity when they interact with any breeding equipment, and females have a random chance for raising serentity, so keep an eye out on your mounts while raising stats! Now for the numbers and the corresponding stats!
Maturity
Serenity is to be between -2000 and +2000. When at this serenity level, use water troughs for maturity. Maturity is the key to riding your turkey. When it is rideable, you can level it. It gains effects stats (like +agi, +vit, etc) this way. Maturity needs to be FULL UP for riding!
See? Maturity at 10,000. Woot!Ok, now I want to see some turkey sexin'!
Breeding requires your mount to be mature, and have love and stamina raised. Back to serenity bar adjustments!
Love
Serenity needs to be above 0. You raise love with big ol' butts. Yeah, that's right. Butts. Turkeys running into butts. Did I mention butts?
Stamina
Serenity needs to be below 0. You raise stamina with lightning throwers, because apparently being shocked gives you more stamina. The devs are weird, weird people.
Stamina and love need to be at 7,500 for fertility. That means the bars dont need to be full. Just check the turkeys from time to time.
Level
Your mount needs to be at lvl 5 for fertility. You ride the mount in fights, and you donate exp to them. The new update give them a 20% exp boost, so even at 0%, they get 20% exp. I ride mine at 90% until they hit lvl 5. Effects stats raise with level increase, too (check under the effects tab).
Other Things!
When you are making your mounts hit these breeding items, they will get tired. When the tired bar is full-up, you cannot make them gain more stats. Put them in the shed for awhile. In an hour you can start playing again for a little bit, but they will tire out pretty quickly. It takes 24 hours for full recovery. They also raise their stats more when fairly high on the tired bar (but not at full tiredness).
Energy is NEEDED to ride the turkey. To raise energy, you can use mangers, another breeding item, or you can feed them things like fish. Pure fish from a fisherman... I mean, just straight fish, man. That simple. They lose a little energy each time you mount them, and also moving from map to map. But that's fairly minimal.
Ok, that's about it. Different colour turkeys take different amounts of time to give birth. Gingers and Almonds were 49 hours. It takes longer with the newer colours, from what I have seen.
Hope this helps! I might do a paddock intro soon.
Great guide Aza, definately helped me back in the day when turkeys first came out.
Posted 16 June 2008 - 02:02 PM
