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KylonOrina

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Animals eat now?
« on: March 06, 2011, 01:21:29 am »

Topic. I just started playing again. The last time I played was .16 I believe.
I just noticed one of my starting animals had the hungry marker so I checked its status and yup it was hungry. When did animals start getting hungry or thirsty and what do I do about it?
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G-Flex

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Re: Animals eat now?
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2011, 01:26:16 am »

Grazing animals eat grass now, but other animals still don't have to eat. Bigger animals generally require more grass, I believe.

It would probably help to set up a pasture zone where there's grass, and assign the grazing animals to it.
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Re: Animals eat now?
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2011, 01:28:36 am »

BTW: With the default settings, tame elephants will essentially starve to death WHILE EATING because they cannot consume enough grass fast enough to stay alive.
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KylonOrina

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Re: Animals eat now?
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2011, 01:29:29 am »

huh. Well I started out with 2 random Yaks. The front of my fort is grassy (for now). How large of a pasture zone should I need?

And if Elephants are incapable of feeding themselves is there any way to keep tame elephants alive without modding?
« Last Edit: March 06, 2011, 01:52:15 am by KylonOrina »
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Lamphare

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Re: Animals eat now?
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2011, 02:29:49 am »

no way
but you can change to something like  [GRAZER:40],
but that still make them eating all the time, thus being less useful(if not at all) as chained war animal.
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Slackratchet

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Re: Animals eat now?
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2011, 11:49:06 am »

Would this be why animals are starving to death in cages now?
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BigD145

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Re: Animals eat now?
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2011, 12:46:07 pm »

With all the things Toady does in each release, it would probably be a good idea to read the changelog before posting useless topics.
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Re: Animals eat now?
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2011, 01:21:48 pm »

With all the things Toady does in each release, it would probably be a good idea to read the changelog before posting useless topics.

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