Drogith

The one lying dead on the ground was a lvl 54... that one hurt

10 hours ago, Filala said:

hi ! do u mind to share the way to cool them down? i tryed to get water bucket them but didnt worked :c i was able to get 1 baby bear successfully to the end of the breeding but sadly from 2 bears only the lowlevel survived aka lvl 19 the maturation >_< we getting some hard heatwaves on a island that has normaly 15-18°C goes up to 33 ...

Build your enclosure so that it has access to the ocean, when the bear gets to hot, have it follow you into the water to cool off, then bring it back inside. Alternatively, Use torches for heat instead of a fire. We had a cub light itself up a few weeks ago because it wondered too close to the fire. Torches will not do that and you can turn them on/off as needed for heat/cold.

8 hours ago, Aery said:

This.

Yeah we lost many baby bears as well but only to too hot temperatures, it seems the older they get the more damage they get from too hot temperatures, and just die in the end around 10-15%
I heard something about using penguins or parrots, but I thought parrots parrots only work on shoulder, but wiki doesnt say if parrots cool down or heat up, also penguins are supposed to only make things warmer? So if you don't mind sharing Drogith, could you tell us please how to cool bears of?

Penguins help with cold resistance without heating up the area, so they won't make you cubs overheat and will protect from some of the cold. Their radius is super small though so in the arctic/tundra climates it doesn't really help with cold snaps.

2 hours ago, Bisbois said:

From what  I have heard you can bring animals to the water or splash them with buckets of water to cool them off. However, since fires can easily keep them warm and dousing them in water only helps so much - it's far easier to just move to the tundra and breed there, as it doesn't get as hot.

Yes and no. A heat wave will still kill your cub in the tundra. That's why we added the swimming pool in the breeding pen.

Well... it happened again during the rapid fire patching of last night. We developed a way to raise animals in the Tundra region. How to keep the babies warm, how to boost their cold resistance... hell, we even have a way to cool them off during a heat wave, because like my kids in real life... these babies are fussy. So last night, in the middle of a series of patches, with no cold front and torches blazing... we lost 3 baby cubs to hypothermia. Prior to the patch, they were 100% okay, after the patch was a different story.

This has been an exhausting endeavor as people have stayed up through the night trying to keep these guys alive and several other baby bears in the past... We thought we had it this time... and we did... but the update hurt BAD. I know some of the folks in my company want to dive into breeding and learn everything there is to breeding in cold climates, but with the randomness and fickleness of the server and of the cubs...

Devs, this may be a low priority, but can you please look into the breeding numbers? It's kind of depressing after you put in so much work.