Rabbit

A Rabbit

Breeding Rabbits

Rabbits can be bred in a Rabbit Hutch, which can hold up to 100K Carrots for them to eat. They may be slaughtered for Rabbit Meat and the chance for a Rabbit Pelt. Dexterity increases the chance to get a pelt. (In T3, 24 Dex gave about a 96% return of pelts.)

Rabbits breed very quickly, so keep an eye on them. If they run out of carrots, they will escape the hutch. They will also escape, if there are too many in the hutch. Exactly how many that is is not known, but the number is bigger than 30. (I've had it up to 68, but I wouldn't recommend it ---Avram 05:50, 7 December 2010 (EST))

In T3, a female rabbit would eat 1 carrot every 3 game hours, while a male rabbit would eat 4 carrots in the same time period.

Uses

It's fairly simple:

• Rabbits
• Are
• Food

That is to say that they are:

• People Food (rabbit meat for cooking)
• Snake Food (Throw them in the Serpentarium)
• Falcon Food (Bait for Test of the Safari)

Catching Wild Rabbits

• Rabbits can be found in grass by dropping Carrots on the ground nearby. Carrots may randomly be replaced by white rabbits. If a spawn occurs, it will happen all at once - every carrot in visual range has a chance to change to a rabbit, all at the same time. You will have a very brief time (~25 seconds realtime) to pick up the rabbit before it disappears, along with your carrot.

• Rabbits can be caught day or night. Rabbits may be caught within minutes of placing carrots, or they may not spawn before the sweeper cleans up the carrots. Rabbits do not appear at a consistent time of day, or minute during an hour.

• The total number of carrots used may or may not affect the spawn rate - rabbits can spawn with as few as 25 carrots placed, and almost certainly with fewer.

• Rabbits may spawn multiple times within realtime minutes, or there may be hours between spawns at a given location.

• More male rabbits appear to spawn than female rabbits, generally, but both are possible in the same spawn. The gender of the avatar does not appear to have an effect on the ratio of male rabbits to female rabbits.

• Rabbits have been seen to appear even when the player is standing in the middle of a grid (e.g. 25 carrots over 5x5 coords), so the idea that you need to "back off" from them is not true. Rabbit spawning is not negatively affected by doing chores such as gathering grass, or by chatting with players.

• Rabbits can spawn from a placed grid multiple times. If you have carrots out and a spawn wave occurs, transforming some of the carrots to rabbits, it is completely possible a second spawn wave will occur later, transforming some of the remaining carrots. You do not have to pick up and re-place carrots for another spawn to occur.

• Rabbits MIGHT move in a "spawn wave" from South to North - twice when I had a rabbit spawn, neighbors to the north reported a rabbit spawn soon after, with the delay being higher the farther away we were from each other. This could also be a wave in other directions, or complete happenstance.

(Old Information)

• I used a 10*10 grid (100 carrots), standing in the middle, and exactly 33 rabbits replaced carrots at 9:00PM game time. I waited 1/2hour (real time) before they popped. The game time factor could be avatar-specific. (Aeliel 3 april 2010)
  • They usually disappear quickly though, so don't take risks.

• I found that if you try to catch near anything that pollutes, you will have no luck. Make sure you place your grid in an non-polluted area. (Korrin)

Useful Fact

Based on T3 reckoning, it takes about 20 carrots to make a rabbit. In point of fact, a large breeding operation seems to break even at about 25 carrots per rabbit. JulianJaynes 14:49, 1 May 2009 (EST)

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