Monday, November 15, 2010

Fenrocks

 Introducing....the Fenrock!



Directly from the full starter pack information:

About the Fenrock starter pack (full)
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The starter pack (full) comes with 9 eggss, 1 of each possible combination of Red, Blue and Green and is ideal for those who want to start breeding for particular combinations. A Fenrock home rock is also included incase you don't already have one and 2 Large gravel food bowls .

To hatch your eggs, simply place them on the ground within range of an Fenrock home, then click the egg cup and select "unpackage". Once the egg is unpackaged, click the seed and select "Hatch" this will rez your Fenrock, and you can now sit back and watch it .

You should also have some food out, although he won't be hungry until 4 hours after he is born.

About the Fenrock home rock
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The Home object is what Fenrocks use to judge how far they are allowed to roam from. To configure the distance, change the description of the home rock . The home rock is modifiable, but it is not recommended to change it's size greater than 1-2 meters in height (fenrocks can't fly.)

Clicking the fenrock home rock will update all Scrabs in range with a new home position. You need to click the fenrock home everytime you hatch an egg or unbox an fenrock.

The Fenrock home covers a square area of land, allowing for traditional cages, the distance is calculated by using a maximum y and maximum x coordinate, this means that when an orch is in the corner of its roam distance, it will be further than the allowed distance from the Fenrock home .

An easy way to determine what your home distance should be, is to rez a large square covering the area you want, then divide the width by 2. So a 10x10 meter pen would require a distance of 5 in the home object. The home object should be placed in the center (on the ground).

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 IMPORTANT :

Fenrock reach maturity at age 7, when they will start mating and producing seeds. In order to breed new Fenrock, you will require an adult male and an adult female, males will be ready to mate every 3 hours, and once a female is pregnant she will be ready to lay her egg after 2 days.

Live Fenrock and eggss must never be taken into your inventory. Doing so will break them, so in order to take them into your inventory, you should use Fenrock box forFenrock and egg Cups for eggs. These products are available free at the main store.

extra use : Fenrock can eat scrabs eggs ;)

If you read the post on Bubbies, you will recognize the Fenrock as one of luc Walmer's breedables. This is another of his that interacts with a breedable he created, namely the Scrab which I will talk about in the next post.

Yes, again, this is a RBG based breedable, meaning the defining features of it are based on color, shine and glow.  They look like the full jackal form of Anubis, the god associated with mummification and the afterlife in Egyptian mythology. The only online reference to fenrock I could find was for the MMP Tibia. Regardless of the origin of the name, they are cute creatures.

Like all breedables, these need food to grow and reproduce. They also use a "home object" as a base point. The home objects luc uses vary in design by "species" but they all function the same way. Rez the home object, edit, set the desired distance you want your Fenrocks to wander in the description line and close the edit dialogue. You can then rez the food near the home object. Now you are ready to put out the Fenrocks; either the boxed lives or eggs. Lives you need to unpack, eggs you need to unpack then hatch.


The downside of the Fenrocks is, just as with the Bubbies, the need for a home object. If you ever want to add a Fenrock, ensure all your current Fenrocks are close to the home object again when you touch it to activate the new ones you are adding. If not, their home point will be where they are at and they may end up being out of range of their food. Since these do not have a sleep function, that makes adding new Fenrock tricky. Although they do not move quickly, they do move and if you have several, keeping them contained near the home object to activate newly added Fenrock can be a task.


You need to package your Fenrock and their eggs for transport or sale.  This will also take place with any updates the creator does. It can be time consuming if you have several Fenrock or similarly scripted breedables. Unlike some other breedables that you can use an update totem on and update several at once, namely the Ozimals bunnies.


luc has created his breedables to only get glow and shine at later generations. The generations are determined by the female. If your females are all Gen: 0 then all their offspring will be Gen: 1. All Gen: 1 females will produce Gen: 2 and so on. Once you get to Gen: 3 and Gen: 4 you will start to "unlock" glow and shine for luc's breedables.

This breedable also come with a sex change device. Since the genders are random when you unpackage or hatch, this is handy if you find you have too many of one gender versus another. Just package in the sex change prim like you would a crate and allow it to do it's work.


The menu on the Fenrock differs from the Bubbies:





As you can see there are fewer options. Sound, Nothing, Name, Package


These are explained in the previous post for the Bubbies. The Name feature is the same as the Bubbies, meaning you type in open chat the format "name, YOUR NAME HERE" without the quotation marks.

The sound for the Fenrock reminds me of the Egyptian word for dog which is "iwiw". It's a rather higher pitched echoing sound.

Just as a note, I turn all sound off for all my breedables as I have so many in a small area it wouldn't sound very good with the mixture, although it should be noted, none of the breedables I've found with this same scripting have sounds that carry very far so it is possible to have them far enough apart you can wander from one group to another without much overlap of sound.


The Fenrock I chose to feature in these photos is a "special". He was a free gift and already has shine as seen in the photos, but he also poofs a texture of the word "LOVE" when touched and has an added comment you can read in open chat.





I haven't seen this yet with luc's other breedables, but the Grouse, created by Cog Zeplin, which uses the same scripting, and that I will talk about in a later post, have several "specials" including many exclusive ones Cog made individually for customers like me.

NOTE: For some reason, the Fenrock and accessories are not included in the affiliate vendor. I hope this changes as it expands your sales opportunities if people want to take full advantage of luc's interacting breedables as well as allows you to purchase food (no 10% rebate, but you are allowed to buy through the vendor for his other breedables) without tp'ing all over.

Pricing:


Fenrock Starter Pack Full L$ 500 (includes 9 eggs, 2 large gravel bowls, 1 home rock, 2 sex changer)
Fenrock Food Pack Medium L$ 100 (3 medium gravel food bowls - 84 servings each)
Fenrock Food Pack Large L$ 200 (3 large gravel bowls - 168 servings each)
Fenrock Starter Pack Medium L$ 300 (4 eggs, 2 medium gravel bowls, 1 home object, 1 sex changer)

Freebies:

Fenrock Boxes (to allow you to take lives to inventory)
Fenrock egg cups (to allow you to take eggs to inventory)
1 Special Fenrock
2 Fenrock Fast grow (to speed them to mature age for faster breeding)
1 Shoulder Pet Fenrock



I give this breedable 3 out of 5 stars as it's RBG based, doesn't allow for bonding (I'd have to completely separate a male and a female from the rest) and it doesn't show who the parents of the egg are. The upside is the interaction with luc's other breedables, specials, the sex change option and that, personally, I really like the Anubis look.

To see Fenrocks you can go to luc's location: Bubbie World Shop
or at my Neverland Breedables Ranch

Next post: Scrabs

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