Ahoy there folks.
As some of you no doubt know by know. Tribbles eat your food and make more tribbles. What even less of you may know is that sometimes you get rare tribbles that instead of healing you outside of combat will give you a damage or defense buff (supposedly these are spotted tribbles)
I personally have yet to see one of these. But I have concluded that I must be scientific! I must document all this to see if there is a pattern. So that is what I began doing this morning when I got a tribble.
I leave the little bugger alone in my inventory with one kind of food and wait to see what happens.
So then folks I want you to do the same. Let us gather data to determine if there is a pattern to the tribble breeding.
Post your results here in the thread and I'll add them in when I get a chance. Check this thread to see what hasn't been done. Remember just leave the one tribble and one item of food in your inventory recording both and the result.
Currently documented Tribble types:Click here for the image
In order from left to right of standard healing Tribbles:
White Tribble (Grex Susilo).
Cream(beige?) Tribble
Grey Tribble (Grex Vitales).
Light Brown Tribble
Brown Tribble (Grex Dotson).
Dark Brown Tribble (Grex Thompson).
Light Brown/Brown striped Tribble.
In order from left to right of damage buff Tribbles:
Brown/Light Brown spotted Tribble.
The big Tribble breeding list:Here is a much better laid out guide to food and tribbles.Brown Tribble (Grex Dotson) list:Reference picture of this breed
Ferengi Jellied gree-worm = White tribble (Grex Susilo)
Klingon Targ milk = Dark brown tribble (Grex Thompson)
Andorian Tuber root = Light brown tribble
Bajoran Moba fruit = Dark Brown Tribble (Grex Thompson)
Feline Supplement 74 = White Tribble (Grex Susilo)
Banana Pancakes = White Tribble (Grex Susilo)
Croissant = White Tribble (Grex Susilo)
Flaked blood fleas = Dark Brown Tribble (Grex Thompson)
Extra info on Tribbles:
It is confirmed that Tribbles breed in your bank vault. Unknown if they breed in fleet vaults though.
Also here is some breeding information from IfniLuck but it uses breeds instead of colours so not able to put it in yet. Still could be useful.
Common
Thompson (Black | Heal):
Andorian Tuber Root -> Sparkes
Bajoran Deka Tea -> Dotson
Dotson (Brown | Heal):
Klingon Gagh -> Susilo
Sparkes (Tan | Heal):
Andorian Tuber Root -> Vitales
Field Rations -> Vitales
Catfish Sandwich -> Vitales
Vitales (Grey |Heal):
Ratamba Stew -> Tuffli
Vulcan Plomeek Soup -> Tuffli
Uncommon
Susilo (White | Heal)
Stahl (Peach | Heal):
Ratamba Stew -> Vitales
Tuffli (Brown/tan striped | Heal):
Vulcan Plomeek Soup -> Jasperson
Rare
Jasperson (Peach/Brown stripes | Damage buff):
Chateau Picard -> Deangelo
Slug-O-Cola -> Cavallaro
Klingon Rogek Blood Pie -> Stahl
Deangelo (Black/White striped | Regen buff)
Klingon Gagh -> Stahl
Ratamba Stew -> Sparkes
Slug-O-Cola -> Dotson
Ferengi Jellied Gree-worm -> Stahl
Cavallaro (White/Black striped | Damage buff)
Bolian Souffle -> Stahl
Comments
One question. How often do they breed?
Time seems to vary dramatically.
I have reports of near instant breeding although in my cases it has taken a lot of time. Might be affected by food amount and number of tribbles.
Argh thats true. I've got dark brown and just brown one so far forgot about the varying shades. **** thats going to be a pain.
Screenshot time I guess. I'll have to make a colour chart of known Tribble colours
So wait the spotted tribble is not a combat buff one?
My first tribble I put into a slot on my character, Im pretty sure he doesnt eat any food as hes not in my inv.
The second one I picked up I put it in the lower right hand slot of my inv and let it eat,
Once I had a new tribble I delete the "father" original and move the new one into the bottom right slot, so far iv got about 10 doing this but everyone has had the same stats, 1.2/6 secs, just a different breed name.
I had high hopes when I found a Haggis food item (im from Scotland) but tho the tribble ate it there was nothing special about it. I think I was looking for a tartan tribble or something
Also one guy supposedly got a combat buff tribble from a white tribble consuming klingon blood wine
My bad it is stripped not spotted...
There are several varieties of patterned tribbles.
If you have one with a large stripe and dots, it will on occasion give a 5 minute buff, but mostly is as useless as the solid color ones.
The hour buff tribbles come in two varieties. Either an hour health buff, or an hour damage buff.
Healing
Large stripe - dark tribble, light stripe
Dots - Dark tribble, light dots
Damage
Dots - Light tribble, dark dots
There may be a large stripe light tribble with dark stripe I have not seen that would make it two of each type but I've been breeding them quite a bit for the last few days and nothing new has cropped up.
The patterned tribble that is not an hour debuff definitly has a stripe down the middle and small dots on the sides of the stripe.
To breed them esaily, I keep a row of 6 tribbles in my first line of inventory. I throw whatever I find or feel like buying in the 2nd row (or more, depending on desired space use). They reproduce roughly once an hour and will make anywhere from 1 to 5 or so new tribbles, seems fairly random.
The type of food seems entirely random, but I haven't paid enough attention to make a call on that. They have eaten pretty much everything I've found on the ground, and a wide variety of replicator food. I have gotten rare tribbles off of nothing but replicator food and off nothing but random drop food.
The color of tribbles needed for the rare ones also seems to make no difference.
I have bred 6 health tribbles and 3 damage tribbles so far with almost no extra effort on my part. All of my away team carries a health tribble. Yes they still pet them incessantly after each battle and sometimes it takes 1 or 2 fights to get all of them rolling with the buffs.
**I am color blind, so if there are two tone tribble that are shaded, I can't tell, they look like standard brown or tan or white or cream to me, but they don't see to do anything special either.
Thats the genetically altered wheat from TOS episode with K7. I have not seen it in game anywhere yet, that might be a joke.
But If your going to look I'd start at K7.
do you know if you can breed them in your bank? I'm game to give it a try.. keep the lil' buggers in my bank and drop off food and try to document what I drop off, and what is the result. ^_^
You mentioned damaged tribbles? Care to explain more?
damage tribbles. they give you a damage buff when you pet them.
Yes, you can breed them in your bank. I found that out accidentally when I put one in there with 5 foods, and when I logged back in I had no food and 6 tribbles.
Kidding aside thanks for the heads up on the varieties of them. Didn't realize there were buffs associated with the various colors. I'll have to pay more attention to what tribbles I got now.
FYI, you can equip them on your BOs and they will pet them too.
They often bite without being provoked, and will steal money from your wallet to purchase illicit drugs.
In my beta and pre-release experience I noticed that most Tribbles were solid color except for the few exceptions of a multi-colored Tribble I received. It didn't require any special doing or special food that I noticed ... I just had 9 or so food/drink items and one randomly appeared. I never tested it's affects but I noticed that the first page of this thread didn't show one. It was a multi-colored Tribble that seemed no different from any other except for it's color. I don't know if this helps ... don't really care. Just adding it to the database.
Carry on ...
Then again they also have the best kinds of sex ... like crazy women. They aren't for marriage but are damn good at ... well ... you know.
Good..lord...doesn't the 25th century have SPCA??
The thread is about you breeding tribbles, not you trying to mate with them yourself :P
In my experience, the type of food you feed the tribble has no effect on what type you get, however I haven't done any controlled experiments, I just chucked a load of food and a couple of tribbles in my bank, waited a few days and then set up a maternity ward on my ship...
No, Quadrilicale exists, I seen it many times during missions. And there is no food vendor at K7.
Some foods can be replicated.
I have no idea what food items might lead to what tribbles (if any).. so it may be random, or it may be about what you feed them. who knows?
Just a suggestion
I'm quite excited about breeding tribbles now, I had no idea there were rare varieties and buffs associated with them! I noticed last night that I got a light brown one with dark brown horizontal stripes. I'll keep an eye out for the spotted ones~
Yes I know I was away so I'm updating now.
And as for the chart thank you very very much the one who posted that up. And if someone can get some of that weird wheat and try it out I'd be very appreciative.