Sericulture and High quality eggs

[mitchdevano]

I am confused as how to obtain higher quality eggs and silk moths. I have only ever caught q10 silk moths and have never seen higher nor lower.
I am using a couple of q 77 herbalist tables but that does not increase the quality of the worm that was just hatched. Does the quality of the mullberry leaves come into play?

[Sevenless]

Each mulberry leaf eaten raises or lowers the worm Q towards its own by 1 point. Max of four points per generation. During the breeding cycle, all the eggs get a +/-5 to their quality when they are laid (base is average of parents rounded down).

It is possible to gain quality past your mulberry tree quality at roughly 1 point on average per 2 generations of moths (4 days). Typically tree quality goes up faster than that in a good settlement though.

[mitchdevano]

Thanks, Helped out alot.
So the quality of the herbalist table is irrelevant to the production of high quality silk?

[kralmir]

its relevant. it just only pulls down q if its too low q itself.

[krikke93]

its relevant. it just only pulls down q if its too low q itself.

In other words, the worms are softcappet by the tables.