Livestock > Camels

Camels are also one of the easier animals to raise in Egypt, only requiring straw. However, they do require large amounts of it, so soloers should think twice about raising them. You will also need honey if you wish to produce camel milk.

Accomodation

Camels must be housed in a dromedary pen. Dromedary pens are placed outside and require a small construction site plus 200 boards and 400 bricks to build. Dromedary pens must be placed on a sandy area, but need not fit entirely within the sand. As long as you can stand on a single square and harvest sand, it is suitable for camel raising.

Attracting Camels

There are 4 (?) camel regions. In each such region, at or shortly after midnight gametime, a camel is released. It will go to whichever pen in the region has the most straw. If your pen was close to the largest amount of straw (uncertain how close), you will see signs that wild camels have been nibbling at the straw.

Camels will only be attracted when the door is open.

They will eat ALL the straw in the pen when they arrive.

Notes on getting the straw

When you collect 500 grass by hand, you can start collecting grass offline using the Offline Chores menu, if you have a paid account. Don't forget about greenhouses. If you're drying straw by dropping it in clumps on the ground, stop doing that. Get yourself 3 drying racks: you can dry 200 grass at a time on each drying rack. That way you can just drop off the grass and go gather more instead of messing around with it. Put the drying racks near the dromedary pen.

Feed

Camels eat straw. They eat 10 per camel every two egypt hours (40 RL minutes or about 330 per RL day). For each 10 straw consumed 1 dung is produced.

• Note, offline grass production is about 960 per RL day so a solo player will struggle to keep even 2 camels.

Reproduction

Camels appear to stud in the Current Age (as in Ancient Days). Thus you want 1 male and 1 female attracted from the wild; and then you should shut the door and let them breed up to 4 females and 1 male (for maximum production), killing all the extras. How long it takes camels before they start breeding, or how often they can breed, is not currently documented.

My camels breed about 1 female and 1 male camel each day. - Michaelk

Profit?

If fed each camel makes one dung every 2 hours.

If a female which has given birth recently is fed honey, she will produce milk at the same interval. You must give all the females in a pen honey, not just whichever ones have given birth. If you 'Check the health of your camels', it will report if a baby camel was born recently (otherwise 'your camels look healthy'). Newborn female camels will also start giving milk if at least one other camel is giving milk when the new female camels are born. Camels will continue to give milk until a female camel is slaughtered.

Slaughtering them gives 30 camel meat, 10 oil, and 6 leather.

Pheromones

A drop of Camel Pheromone (Female) can be collected once every day or two (real life days) from a camel pen with 10 female camels. Like cobra venom, you have to collect it for more to be produced; it doesn't accumulate. To get 10 female camels in a pen, allow them to reproduce and slaughter selectively until you have 9 females and 1 male. Slaughter the male camel, and attract a new camel with an open door. (You will probably want to take most of the straw out of the camel pen before opening the door, because it will all be eaten when a new camel is attracted). If a male is attracted, slaughter it and try to attract another camel.

The same procedure can be carried out reversing the sexes to produce Camel Pheromone (Male), although this takes more effort since in a pen with few females, fewer camels are born.

Camels do not appear to produce pheromone if their food runs low, so you will need around 3300 straw per RL day.

There is no known use for Camel Pheromones.