Breeding Pod

The Breeding Pod is an Iron Teeth building that produces kits on demand by consuming resources. Unlike Folktails, whose reproduction is housing-based and passive, Iron Teeth use Breeding Pods to generate new beavers with precise control: each pod must be staffed and continually supplied with water and berries to operate.

A Breeding Pod completes one breeding cycle every 5 days, consuming 5 water and 5 berries per cycle and spawning a kit at the end of that period. Breeding Pods are categorized as nonessential buildings for work scheduling, so beavers will only tend them during their working hours unless they are unemployed; an unemployed beaver will tend pods even outside scheduled shifts, which is useful for immediately stocking newly built pods. The resulting kits require maturation time (approximately 6 days) before they become productive workers and still occupy housing space while maturing.

Population capacity maintained by a single Breeding Pod depends on average beaver life expectancy. You can estimate the population a pod sustains with the formula: (Max_Age of beavers) / 5 = population maintained per pod. This calculation includes children; a single pod will not provide that many working adults because kits and juveniles are counted toward that capacity.

Practical usage and interactions:

• Ensure continuous supplies of berries and clean water. A pod stops producing if either resource is unavailable.
• Staff pods with employed beavers during working hours, or leave at least one unemployed beaver in the district to keep pods tended at all times and to fill new pods immediately.
• Account for the 6-day maturation delay when planning workforce needs: produce kits at least six days before you need additional workers, or research and build Advanced Breeding Pods to obtain adults instantly at higher cost and longer cycle time.
• Do not rely solely on Breeding Pods without ensuring housing capacity; beavers will not be added if there is no room.
• Avoid timing births very near daybreak, as in-game mechanics can slightly reduce life expectancy for kits spawned at that time.
• Manage growth in relation to resources and seasons: expand pods during temperate periods with healthy food/water buffers and pause or demolish pods before droughts to prevent unsupportable population increases.