As I’m currently on real life holiday, with limited broadband access, I’ve been late in posting up the latest sionChicken and sionCorn notecards which came out – on the 17th of August. But both can now be found in full in the sionChicken FAQs section onsite here.
- Notecard | Food and Fraud – released 17th August concerning the sionCorn food soon to be produced by cornFarmers for sionChickens to eat.
- Notecard | Mutant Chickens and the EULA – released 17th August concerning the mutant / glitch chickens, of which I’d just a few days earlier had one.
Personally, I have to admit that I didn’t find any useful information in either of the cards. The subject of sionCorn being made into food bowls for sionChickens to eat is one swathed still in mystery, as it’s currently calculated the first lots of corn grown won’t reach maturity until September 1st or so, and currently everybody is experiencing fluctuating corn cob colourings which apparently is being put down to cross-pollination. So nobody, not even those who have admitted they are growing up to 100 plants (that’s 1800 prims) can guarantee what colour or variant their own corn cobs or subsequent food bowls will be come the maturity date.
The second notecard I found even more puzzling. It came out supposedly in response to the many questions on the mutant / glitch eggs, but gave few answers. As I’d only just come across these glitch eggs, having had one laid only a day or so before the notecard arrived, I became more confused than informed. The notecard states that via the EULA, sionLabs doesn’t want the mutant black/black eggs to be sold, and they don’t support them as they can’t guarentee the code sitting behind such eggs. This puzzled me specifically because I arrived at my own egg through a combination of Version 11 ancient sionChickens and a faulty V11 preteggtor. According to a notecard sent out by Shammy from sionLabs, the new EULA or user license agreement only pertains to V12 sionChickens or later. As far as I can work out, the EULA and it’s objections against selling mutant eggs is not relevant to these eggs anyway.
However, I understand the rest of the notecard in it’s suggestion that sionLabs can’t stop the selling of an exciting glitch like that, but can not support it should something untoward happen out of hatching the mutants. So saying that, the notecard goes on to suggest that any seller of such eggs make sure they communicate or document it with the following quote from the notecard -
All we can really ask is that these mutants be sufficently documented when transferred, so that purchasers know what they are getting. While we would prefer that such eggs not get widely distributed, there is not too much we can really do. We hope you enjoy the unique chickens.
What does documented mean? That the notecard be included? That it’s origins as a ‘mutant’ egg be included? I know of new buyers in the market being confused about scarces versus perfect blacks versus originals versus older eggs versus killer roosters versus many more permutations in the market. I’m not so sure it’s easy to properly document such mutant eggs while ensuring that any buyer is aware of the risk of buying and hatching such eggs.
From my part, I’m not intending selling my one egg. I happen to love pure black chickens, so eventually would like to hatch it, and possibly find a mate for it. Maybe I will then get rid of my old but very friendly ‘Killer’ chickens – I have one stuck at Version 10 still, and one who successfully upgraded to Version 12 recently, and makes an excellent nanny chicken in with two mating scarces.
The image above is of my own mutant, currently boxed up. I wonder if it’s a boy or a girl?
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Your mutant chicken will not be pure black in the same sense that your “killer” black is black or a scarce is black. The mutant chickens have regular colored bodies (ie. hens are white and roosters are green with brown heads) and will have black wings and tail. The negative color vector translates into a pure black color, while the 0.00 vector is technically grayscale. Thus breeding a mutant chicken with another chicken – say a pure blue chicken for example – will mean that 0.00 vector will combine with the other chicken’s color to produce a slightly darker version of the other chicken’s color.
This means that if you breed a mutant with a pure orange chicken, you could get black and orange new wave eggs.
Hopefully that helps clear things up about them. Great blog site btw!