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I understand that they nerfed it 1.5x, 2x and 3x for small, medium and large pens. Why the heck am I not getting any breedings going on in the pens now at all? Small Pens have 2 rabbits and 2 chinchompas each and they were producing a lot of babies before the nerf per day. After the nerf, they've only produced a total of 3 offspring in the pens. From Monday. Pens are fed etc, happiness 100, health 100.

What is going on?

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over 4 years ago - /u/JagexCamel - Direct link

Ensure your animals are adult or elder. I've fallen for this before as the farmhands stops your animals at adolescent. My chinchompas seem to be breeding fine =)

over 4 years ago - /u/JagexCamel - Direct link

Originally posted by ig666

It is absurdly difficult to produce enough animals to supply the buyers, especially the small pen buyer, unless you are free all day to game the breeding ticks. Why were the amount of animals that are required to fulfill the buyers’ orders not decrease, with the amount of beans per animals increased, if you planned on making breeding success more rare?

It is still possible to buy animals off other players to complete these contracts. It's also possible to horde animals like I do and then sell them all later in one big bulk.

over 4 years ago - /u/JagexCamel - Direct link

Originally posted by ColdHrtdBch

I have no farmhands in any pen and have 2 elder chins, 1 with sparkling and 1 with joyful I think. That's why I thought it's weird.

It's worth remembering that the non breeding pens do not have failure mitigation like the breeding pen. With the small changes to breeding times this will be noticed more than before. Traits should be looked at alot more now after the nerf. I find having parents with the studly trait is helping me when breeding animals.