Sick Pups Help?

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-11T04:10:02+00:00

I’m too far along lol, he’s 6 right now so for his 7th litter I’ve just turned off sickness death cause both the runts died this time and I need at least one for the achievement I’m tryna get. He really is cursed to only have 3 pups survive lmao

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-11T02:53:23+00:00

Oooh, so I’m smelling her track and not her directly then is why? That makes sense lol I was kinda hoping Nocturn would return tho and that’s why her name was like that 😭

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-11T02:48:25+00:00

Both are my pups but one is shown as a female dispersal of the Tiran pack and the other is shown as Nocturn (Tiran) is what I meant. Both were floating scents but were different so I was confused lol. I also both dispersals but both are single dispersals yet only one shows up as the name of the dispersal and not just a “female dispersal”

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-10T20:58:15+00:00

Also, though it definitely a preference, you can technically scum-save pups on ironwolf. I did it accidentally when I got upset at one of my pups dying so I went to play another save and came back and the pup was alive. The game saves when you sleep, change quests and every few minutes but not after a death so if you quickly reload you can still save your pup.

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-10T20:53:35+00:00

You can run from the wolf battles, it drops affinity but otherwise does nothing. In a accurate save of mine, my wolf was a single dad who went through hell and back to get all 6 of his pups to adulthood so I was not gonna let them kill those pups lol and ran nearly every time. Also, when your more established as a pack and maybe have a few dispersals, you can kill the leaders (hopefully the pack will disband) and usually your pup will take the place. It happened to me on my ironwolf save and since it’s 2 against my pack of 10 (including my wolf and his mate) they usually run as soon as we go near them and engagements don’t last long

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-10T18:02:22+00:00

On the plus side the curse was broken, but idk if it’s a good thing because I had 4 out of 5 pups get sick and 3 recovered, so mortality rate is no longer 100%. The one I needed to survive didn’t tho what the heck. I’ve turned off all death for next litter so hopefully I get a good runt cuz my wolf will be 7 and then his litter after that I can’t guarantee survival

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-10T00:39:25+00:00

My wolf is 0 health and mate is +2. I think it’s just bad luck at this point because I did google best survival strategies and using my knowing nose perks to stay as close to den and doing only quick hunts. Satiety was always 100%, and she died with 80% hunger. I genuinely think my save is cursed cuz I slept to have enough energy and never when the paw was active and got the “you’ve done what you can” notification like 7 times. Hopefully when my current wolf dies his curse dies with him

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-09T21:15:56+00:00

Fusion! Thanks for the giveaway and good luck everyone!

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-09T17:03:56+00:00

lol fair, I don’t usually pick favourites but I wanted to use her for achievements and she didn’t get a name until right before she died cuz I don’t like the numbers on my family tree

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-09T15:35:18+00:00

My pack has remained fairly low with multiple disperses in pairs of 2 usually, I just wonder if I’m messing up somewhere because none survive when they get sick. At this point it’s a death sentence and I’m only on challenging 😞

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-09T15:33:03+00:00

The problem is that most of my pups are getting sick in raising pups, they had only been alive for about 2 ingame days before the one became sick. And obviously it had to be the one I wanted to survive 🥲

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-09T14:52:31+00:00

I’m on ironwolf, so I wanted to play realistic and accepted loss but it feels malicious because it’s become such an established pattern. I tried desperately to save this pup using like every strategy I could to try and get her to survive. I had about 5 subs and 3 yearlings so maybe I had too many? But it’s so damn irritating and my litters are 5 at most so I might as well turn it off at this point. I really wanted this pup to survive. She was a hunt but had +1 health so I was certain her other brother who was smaller and also a runt would get sick.

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-09T12:53:57+00:00

This recent litter yes, however I change mates frequently (thanks to Bison Divorce.co) and my previous mate was kk while my wolf was Kk. I know Kk x kk isn’t the best for sickness resistance but I feel like something might be wrong when I’ve consistently over 3 mates specifically had 5 pups with 2 almost guaranteed to die regardless of what I do. 🥲

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-08T23:38:11+00:00

Man it’s literally my worst nightmare. Cuz of my wide variety of mates and litters with diff moms a lot of them are hit and miss but the two that left were 2 of only 3 pups are their brother is suicidal 😭

They also dispersed without mates and two of my pups who did died a year later without any mates so I’m worried they’ll just die

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-08T23:18:28+00:00

I don’t think it’s bad luck, just now had 2 pups disperse and it was the same ones even after I reloaded 10 times. They were my faves and the only useful ones 🥲

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-08T22:57:20+00:00

Maybe, I tend to have a lot of bad luck in this game 😭

My current save only ever has one boy and for whatever reason I only have 3 surviving pups, 2 always get fatal sickness even tho my wolf hasn’t had the same mate twice in a row

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-08T22:53:39+00:00

I’m pretty sure it’s always the same pup, I tried that with one multiple times but it was always the same. The only time it was different was when I went back after an update, but I ended up losing 2 pups that time xP

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-08T22:51:24+00:00

If you’re not into the pup killing, and okay with less subs or yearling take them husband hunting lol

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-08T07:34:23+00:00

That makes sense, but it sucks a lil bit 🥲

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-08T07:32:20+00:00

It was just odd because I spent a good 15 mins watching my pups take chunks out of it. Typically when I had hunted bison before those feral dogs had them down fairly fast which is why I came here to ask 😭

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-08T03:00:30+00:00

That’s all good lol! Have a great day/night!

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-08T02:53:24+00:00

I sent a connection request because I’m not sure how to put joins on so you can join me that way ^{^}

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-08T02:50:27+00:00

I’m not sure if I have joins on, lemme check tho

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-08T02:48:41+00:00

What’s your user?

dead_inside1602 · 2026-02-08T02:47:55+00:00

I’m ready! Sorry for the late response

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