User:Eimear/scarabs - Revision history

Eimear: /* Details on Principles */

2016-09-04T21:32:18Z

Details on Principles

2016-09-04T21:25:33Z

Basic Steps

2016-09-04T21:25:07Z

Basic Steps

2016-09-04T21:24:17Z

Basic Steps

2016-06-29T21:55:04Z

Basic Steps

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Notes

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Notes

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Entering a Beetle

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Actually Breeding

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 * Mix any Yellowish Paint (Any paint color that has "Yellow" in the name)
-'''You do not have to do this.''' Everyone has a personal paint recipe for every colour, and it is massively time consuming to figure out, so Dawner can make your paint and all you have to do to meet this principle requirement is ''take it off the paint machine''. You are unlikely to use ths paint for your actual beetle!
+'''You do not have to do this.''' Everyone has a personal paint recipe for every colour, and it is massively time consuming to figure out, so ask OneBanana or Yendor to make your paint and all you have to do to meet this principle requirement is ''take it off the paint machine''. You are unlikely to use ths paint for your actual beetle!
 == Entering a Beetle ==

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 * Grow 2,000 cabbage and be prepared to grow another 500 every day. (I can grow 5 cabbage at a time, so I do ten lots of 50 cabbage and it doesn't take long)
 * Put your male and female and another donated male and 2 females in a tank. 2M 3F is an optimal ratio and tank population.
-* Use the ones at GVF; there is 0 reason to build your own!
+* Use the [[Khefre's Locker]] at GVF; there is 0 reason to build your own!
 * We are only interested in breeding beetles over 90% yours, so mulch the lowest % beetles in the Locker and make the 6 highest % you breeding stock

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 * Grow 2,000 cabbage and be prepared to grow another 500 every day. (I can grow 5 cabbage at a time, so I do ten lots of 50 cabbage and it doesn't take long)
 * Put your male and female and another donated male and 2 females in a tank. 2M 3F is an optimal ratio and tank population.
 * Use the ones at GVF; there is 0 reason to build your own!
 * We are only interested in breeding beetles over 90% yours, so mulch the lowest % beetles in the Locker and make the 6 highest % you breeding stock

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 == Basic Steps ==
 * Grow 2,000 cabbage and be prepared to grow another 500 every day. (I can grow 5 cabbage at a time, so I do ten lots of 50 cabbage and it doesn't take long)
 * Put your male and female and another donated male and 2 females in a tank. 2M 3F is an optimal ratio and tank population.

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 * Grow 2,000 cabbage and be prepared to grow another 500 every day. (I can grow 5 cabbage at a time, so I do ten lots of 50 cabbage and it doesn't take long)
-* Put your male and female and another donated male and 2 females in a tank. Use the ones at GVF; there is 0 reason to build your own!
+* Put your male and female and another donated male and 2 females in a tank. 2M 3F is an optimal ratio and tank population.
 * Build a [[Khefre's Locker]].
 * We are only interested in breeding beetles over 90% yours, so mulch the lowest % beetles in the Locker and make the 6 highest % you breeding stock

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 * If there are no cabbage in a tank, your beetles will all escape
 * If there are more than 15 - 20 beetles in a tank, they will start eating each other
-* I personally do put 6 beetles in a tank overnight and check them first thing in the morning but I never leave a beetle I really want to in there unsupervised overnight because there isa non-null chance it will get eaten.
+* I personally do put 5 beetles (2M 3F) in a tank overnight and check them first thing in the morning but I never leave a beetle I really want to in there unsupervised overnight because there is a non-null chance it will get eaten.

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 == Notes ==
-* If there are no beetles in a tank, they will all escape
+* If there are no cabbage in a tank, your beetles will all escape
 * If there are more than 15 - 20 beetles in a tank, they will start eating each other
-* I personally do put 6 beetles in a tank overnight and check them first thing in the morning but I never leave a beetle I really want to breed with in there unsupervised overnight
+* I personally do put 6 beetles in a tank overnight and check them first thing in the morning but I never leave a beetle I really want to in there unsupervised overnight because there isa non-null chance it will get eaten.

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 * 5 Paint of each of two colors
-All of these materials are at GVF for you to use already except the "5 Paint of each of two colors." You can find out what yours are and order them from Yendor if nobody in the Guild can make those colours.
+All of these materials are at GVF for you to use already except the "5 Paint of each of two colors." You can find out what yours are and order them from Yendor if nobody in the Guild can make those colours. (Not everybody can make every colour - I told you paint was a pain! But Yendor can make them all and is 2 minutes down the road.)
 Obviously, you can also learn to make [[paint]] if you want to it is just annoying :)

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 == Actually Breeding ==
-* Once you have 6 or more attractive beetles that are 90% or more yours, get rid of everything else
+* Once you have 6 or more attractive beetles that are 90% or more yours, get rid of everything else and start breeding selectively
 * For 90% of people, males give the color and females give the pattern
 * You can decide to just get the principle done and put any beetle over 90% into a beetle garden, OR you can decide you like beetle breeding and work towards a beetle you genuinely like

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	Obviously, you can also learn to make [[paint]] if you want to it is just annoying :)		Obviously, you can also learn to make [[paint]] if you want to it is just annoying :)
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		+	== Notes ==
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		+	* If there are no beetles in a tank, they will all escape
		+	* If there are more than 15 - 20 beetles in a tank, they will start eating each other
		+	* I personally do put 6 beetles in a tank overnight and check them first thing in the morning but I never leave a beetle I really want to breed with in there unsupervised overnight