Worm feeding mechanics?

[Powowclouds]

Im trying to understand how to feed my worms. I have searched google and and Oh Crap, How do earthworms work (just a math contest) thread. However i cant seem to find the basic feeding mechanics for them. IE where to put food, how many worms per conainer... If someone has a link to the original thread about this i would appreciate it. The Oh crap, etc thread takes up all the searches on this forum.

Thanks,
ROC

[Erunildo]

Really simple actually,just put worms in a container and some plants and the worms will eat the plant next to them (the one in an adjacent "box") every 12 hours.

http://salemwiki.info/index.php/Any_Plant

[Powowclouds]

Can you put more than one worm in a container? Does the worm choose which box to eat from as there are four adjacent boxes? I had two worms per container with plants on all four sides. It seems only one worm per container actually "ate". Just my bad luck, as the worms were sharing a adjacent box in between them?

[Darkside]

You can have as many worms inside of a box as you want, but obviously the more worms in the box the less food you can fit for them to eat.

My suggestion is to take a wooden box, place 5 worms across the middle row, then place food for them across the tops and bottom rows, like so:

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F F F F F
W W W W W
F F F F F


where F = food and W = worm

Then you can come every 24 hours replenishing both rows of food

[Erunildo]

Yes as many as you can fit. Well they eat one of those four plants,maybe you were just unlucky. I put them like this

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worms in the middle so they have to eat for 24 hours.


P.s Damn you darkside:P

[Powowclouds]

Thank you very much!

[aragaer]

I'm using a bit different layout. 3 worms in an urn like this:

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F_
WF
FF
FW
FF
WF
F_

That's 3 food items for each worm and 2 empty spaces.

[jrsydevil]

In a chest:

W F F F W
F F W F F
W F F F W
F F W F F
W F F F W

Thats what I've been using.

[Powowclouds]

Does anyone know if container quality effects worm Q any? Ive also been using the urn method as you can get 6 worms with 36 hours of feeding in the same spot as a wooden crate.

Thanks for the help.

ROC

[Erunildo]

I haven't tested it but i am pretty sure that the container quality doesn't play any role in worm purity.