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Author Topic: Was there a bug regarding grazers in cages?  (Read 534 times)

Foxite

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Was there a bug regarding grazers in cages?
« on: December 06, 2014, 07:41:19 am »
I vaguely remember that there was a bug that caused grazers in cages to never need to eat, is that true?
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Decidophobia

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Re: Was there a bug regarding grazers in cages?
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2014, 07:44:54 am »
I don't know if there has been such a bug, but in older versions no animals ever needed food. Nowadays grazers will starve in cages, though.
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Larix

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Re: Was there a bug regarding grazers in cages?
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2014, 02:03:31 pm »
I'm not aware of any cage-specific oddities.
The only animals that need food (and can die of starvation) are grazers that are members of your fort.

Consequently, wild animals, mounts of enemies, caravan pack animals and animals brought by caravans need no food. Caravan pack animals will still starve to death when they go insane. Animals brought for sale become fort members when you buy them and wild animals when you tame them.

AFAIK this hasn't changed in the .40 versions. You can exploit this behaviour by not taming captured large grazers and keeping them in cages or locked pens. I had some success breeding "wild" rhinoceroi and draltha in .34.11, keeping them in stone-floor rooms without any plant growth.
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