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Author Topic: (39c) Dwarves releasing newborn animals from cages automatically  (Read 747 times)

Granite26

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This may be intended behaviour, but I've got all my food animals (Horses, Cows, Camels and Donkeys in this case) in cages together, one for each species.  I noticed a lot of 'release animal from cages jobs' being taken, and it turns out that they are releasing the lil' red animals from the cages. 

I can only assume that what is going on is that a new animal is born and placed in the cage with it's mother, but not tagged as SUPPOSED to be there.

I'm not sure if this is desired behaviour or not.  It is a pain to have to manually put them back in (or watch the birth rates and try to figure out which cage they belong in...) but it's a small one.  Seems like an easy fix though.
« Last Edit: July 24, 2008, 02:06:18 pm by Granite26 »
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Hyndis

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Re: (39c) Dwarves releasing newborn animals from cages automatically
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2008, 07:29:47 pm »

Not a bug. Animals can be assigned to a cage and if there's any animal inside a cage that isn't assigned to the cage (such as being born into one), then a dorf will release the animal.
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Re: (39c) Dwarves releasing newborn animals from cages automatically
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2008, 03:19:34 am »

Yeah, I've got this one written down in the notes from the last big release, but like everything else is off in limbo until I sort those out.
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