Mating Tent

**Mating Tent** is a building in *Cult of the Lamb*.

## Description

It is a building that allows the player to invite two Followers to make an Egg, but they may not accept. This action costs one Sin, regardless whether or not they choose to mate or not.

Certain actions will occur after two Followers have been picked:

* Both followers will shrug. (Fail)
* One follower will reject the other, causing the other to cry for a short time. (Fail)
* Both followers show signs of rejection by making a sick face. This always happens when Followers are blood-related (parents, siblings or children) or if their chances of mating are 0%. (Fail)
* Both Followers giggle before kissing. (Potential success)
* Both Followers show interest before kissing. (Potential success)

If they go inside the tent and mating is successful, the player is prompted to pick traits for the resulting child.

The player is allowed to pick up to two traits. If the resulted egg is a **Golden Egg**, up to four traits can be picked instead. The player will be notified if the egg is golden immediately when the trait picking screen shows up. Note that unique traits, like **Immortal** (Narinder) and **Don't Starve** (Webber) cannot be picked.

After picking the trait, both the followers comes out nearly naked with one of them carrying an egg and leaving it nearby. Both of them will be exhausted afterwards, and will require rest. To hatch the egg, it must be placed at Hatchery/Hatchery II and constantly given care until ready to hatch.

When the egg hatched into a Baby Follower, its form is dependent on their parents:

* If both parents have identical forms, the baby too will have their form, but its type and color will be randomized if possible.
* If both parents have different forms, the baby will have either of the two forms when hatched.
* If either parents are using unique forms (i.e: Leshy), and the egg is **not** golden, it will always hatch as an abomination, which can be changed later after they are grown to adult. However, as this isn't selectable by default, it cannot be re-selected once another form is picked.
	+ This will still take effect even with Twitch integration that overrides the unique followers with a Twitch Follower appearance.
	+ If the egg is golden however, the egg will instead randomize its form to a selectable one, including either Lemur, Caterpillar or Seal if neither of the 3 has been acquired for the form selection yet.

There are some factors that affects the rate of the follower accepting each other:

* Lustful trait increases the chance by 10-20%
* Celibate trait reduces the chance by 10-20%
* You cannot pair a follower who came as a baby with their (grand)parents (Chance always falls to 0% regardless).
* You cannot pair followers with their siblings (Chance always falls to 0% regardless).
	+ This includes ex-Bishops like Leshy and Heket, or Forneus's children like Aym and Baal.

## Strategy

* Generally, you want to aim for a Golden Egg. However, unless you are using Twitch Integration and the watchers decided to bless you with a Golden Egg, the chance of the followers making a Golden Egg are relatively rare.
* You can crack the egg afterwards instead of putting them at the Hatchery, producing 1 Egg Yolk (or 5 in the case of Golden Egg) that gives powerful benefits when used as a drink at Drinkstation or as a food in Kitchen. This will sharply decrease the Followers Faith. though, so be careful.