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Deadmeat1471

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Animal pens
« on: April 05, 2009, 02:43:26 pm »
Anyone got any builds for it, i had this...

level 1
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Level 2
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^ramp   
' drop
o wall
= door


with the second level drop put as pit, and adding the animals.

Im thinking of taking the ramp away and putting stairs.

Prob is they dont stay there, they all bunch up by the doors instead of the pen.

i had one before like this

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and they just sat down there in a line-pit with each other battery farm style (currently the best way IMHO)
« Last Edit: April 05, 2009, 02:45:34 pm by Deadmeat1471 »
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Deadmeat1471

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Re: Animal pens
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2009, 02:47:32 pm »
Ill cage em soon as i get materials.... but a pen would be far more economic!  ;D
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KirigStonebeard

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Re: Animal pens
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2009, 12:18:30 am »
If you have the door set to tightly closed rather than forbidden, they'll think they can walk through it, and thus tend to bunch up around the door (not to mention generating lots of FPS-killing pathfinding errors). Forbidding it should take care of it (though obviously you'll have to switch to just tightly closed to get dwarves in/out for slaughtering, caging, etc.)
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Jim Groovester

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Re: Animal pens
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2009, 01:09:09 am »
If you have a wood log then you have the materials to construct a cage.
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Re: Animal pens
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2009, 01:25:47 am »
Set a meeting zone inside the pen. That's where they're trying to go.

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Use ropes to tie them inside.
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Deadmeat1471

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Re: Animal pens
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2009, 08:10:52 am »
Quote from: KirigStonebeard on April 06, 2009, 12:18:30 am
If you have the door set to tightly closed rather than forbidden, they'll think they can walk through it, and thus tend to bunch up around the door (not to mention generating lots of FPS-killing pathfinding errors). Forbidding it should take care of it (though obviously you'll have to switch to just tightly closed to get dwarves in/out for slaughtering, caging, etc.)

Nice idea ill try it, meeting area is good idea too.

No point commenting on cages as i stated in the first post, im not making 50 cages anytime soon.
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revier

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Re: Animal pens
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2009, 08:45:18 am »
You don't need 50 cages, though - just one will hold an infinite number of creatures. The only reason to build more for livestock is for the look of it.
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Deadmeat1471

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Re: Animal pens
« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2009, 08:50:28 am »
Shit i never noticed that!!

Deadmeat1471 <---- kills self.
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