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Thread: Test Center Milking Observations
)You continue to milk the creature.
You continue to milk the creature.
You have successfully gathered milk from the creature!
to the list of milkables i would add:
Banthas (plain, matriarch, or rogue only)
Rontos (plain only)
Also note that only one person can milk something so there will not be any big partys out looking for milk.
Vertexon wrote:
Not sure if anyone has posted this information yet, but I thought I'd share some initial observations from my milking experience tonight:
You must be within 3 meters of a creature to milk it (an option on the radial menu of milkable creatures). You and the creature must remain relatively still during the entire process. If the creature moves (even a few meters) the process will fail and you'll have to start over. In this case, you will fail even if you moved with it and stayed inside the three meter distance. Creatures that constantly move around (like every humbaba I encountered) are extremely difficult to milk. Creatures resting on the ground are very easy.
The creatures you'd expect to be milkable pretty much are. On Corellia this includes at least:
humbabas
paralopes
krahbu (not violent krahbu)
bageraset
sharnaff (not sharnaff bulls
Aggressive creatures do not appear to be milkable, even if they are a variant of a milkable herbivore (example: krahbu are milkable, violent krahbu are not)
Babies are milkable
Creatures in combat are milkable (I was able to successfully milk a humbaba while it fought a tabage).
Milkdoes not auto-stack in your inventory. You must combine the stacks by hand.
The milking process is a series of system messages, as follows:
You relax the creature and begin to milk it.
You continue to milk the creature.
You continue to milk the creature.
You have successfully gathered milk from the creature!
You can only successfully get milk from a creature once. After you have obtained milk, every subsequent attempt to milk that creature will give you the message that it is "dry of milk."
I did not keep careful records of the quantities, but average yield seemed to be 10-30. After an hour or so of milking, I had over 200 units.
Vertexon,
That's a great overview of the basicmechanics, but you didn't include any information about your character's scout skills. Is this at Novice only? Have you and other testers noticed a difference in yield do to skill boxes, and if so which?
Inquiring minds want to know....
Sojourner wrote:
Vertexon,
That's a great overview of the basicmechanics, but you didn't include any information about your character's scout skills. Is this at Novice only? Have you and other testers noticed a difference in yield do to skill boxes, and if so which?
Inquiring minds want to know....
Oh, sorry about that. 
I was a Master Scout for these tests. Test Center went down just before I wrote that, so I didn't have a chance to try it out at different levels of advancement to see if there would be a difference in yield.
I am puzzled that others are having success milking while following a moving critter. I tried that on half a dozen or more animals last night, and always failed on the next system message event ("The animal has moved..."). I do have some experience with staying close to moving wild animals (), so I'm not sure what I could have been doing wrong?
, so I'm not sure what I could have been doing wrong?I had success with moving creatures when I got up right next to them and then used the /follow command.
And for the record on Naboo I milked
Ikopi
Kaadu
Gualamas
Sorry if I butchered those names.
Yes, I'm thinking Talthazar is correct about the server tolerances on my position. I was able to successfully milk while moving today by walking "inside" the creature. Incidentally, I think the distance is closer to 4 meters than my previous statement of 3 meters. The milking code must be using a more precise measurement of distancethan the targeting HUD displays, because sometimes it'll work at "4 meters" and sometimes it won't. It always works at three meters or less, though.
Add murras and rogue bagerasets to the list for Corellia. Which pretty much throws my theory about aggressives not being milkable out the door. I have no idea why krahbus are milkable and violent krahbus are not.... while at the same time both bagerasets and rogue bagerasets are milkable. Violent krahbus do indeed list as "herbivore meat" - so I'm at a loss on that one.
Vynocks are herbivores. Can we milk them?
Would we use a ladder?
Great info, good job, all kidding aside.
Wish I had the patience to do this sorta stuff. Instead I was killing stormies for a badge. Tonite, it's killiing raiding Imps, just another day at the office.
JB
No vynocks. The smallest thing I've seen that was milkable (other than babies) is the paralope.
Creatures on Corellia which are definitely NOT milkable: any kind of durni,any kind ofvrelt, vynocks, scavenger rats, grondas, gronda patriarchs, any kind of grassland slice hound, any kind of dire cat,gurrcats, bull sharnaffs, plumed rasps,violent krahbu, any kind of butterfly, tabages, and any kind of gubbur.
Have not yet checked: swamp humbabas, savage humbabas, regular slice hounds, forest slice hounds, any canoids, any gulginaws, dwarf grondas, swamp gurrcats, forest murra, mountain murra, wooded paralope, or non-plumed rasps.