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[Gergination]

Do animals try and pathfind if they are in a 1x1 room.  I'm thinking about throwing a bunch of dogs in a pit and letting them breed like crazy but I don't want it to murder my FPS.

[Opirian]

If they are trapped in a 1x1 room where would they path too?
so no it wont murder your FPS

and also, just because im weird, does this not belong in gameplay questions?

[Martin]

The size of the room actually doesn't matter. You can stick them in a room with a door and so long as the door is locked and there is no meeting area in the room, they won't path. I've had about 500 animals in a 48x48 room that was locked up with drawbridges and a locked door and it didn't affect my FPS. As soon as I unlock that door and have it tightly closed, FPS drops to some number near 0.

[sneakey pete]

Hmm, but they do move around while in the room. I'm pretty sure that there is path finding going on, but its limited to the 48*48 area (instead of being limited to the entire map, above and below)

[Martin]

They do some random movement, but it doesn't seem to incur much if any cost. 3 animals trying to path out of a 2x2 pen slow my system down more than hundreds in that 48x48 pen that can't path out.