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[Sir Crashalot]

I wasn't prepared militarily for the first siege and they wouldn't come into my trapped entrances. I was glad at the time that I had walled off a 30x30 area with a pasture inside so they could graze without being ravaged by the invaders.

It took a while to get my military set up strong enough to take them on but I sorted them out after much rushed metalworking and equipping.
Strangely though, just after I saw off the siege all my animals started starving to death. I checked the pasture and they were all assigned to it but they were not eating and were all dying.

The goblins were all over the other side of the map so it had nothing to do with them.

Any ideas?

[Sutremaine]

What's the ground surface in the pasture area? Maybe there's nothing left for them to eat.

[Sir Crashalot]

Lots of grass completely untouched.

I think the game has bugged, even when I moved them to a new pasture they still starved.
They were fine before I moved them to the walled off area.

[Jerky]

What kind of animals are they? Certain ones are bugged so they get hungry faster than they eat.

[Sir Crashalot]

Water Buffalo calf x 2
Yak Bull
Cow
Reindeer cow
Horse
Mule
Reindeer calf

They didn't even touch the grass after I moved them there, or when I moved them away to another pasture after the siege. They munched away merrily at the old pasture no problems.

[Drazinononda]

Did you have a burrow alert set that did not include the pasture? There's been a bug reported that animals "assigned" to a burrow through an alert will not eat in a pasture outside of that burrow. They'll stay in the burrow, they just won't eat.

[Sir Crashalot]

Hmm.
I had a burrow keeping my civilians inside the fort for the duration of the siege. The pasture was a walled of enclosure well outside the fort and not included in the burrow, no animals were assigned to it and tbh I don't see an option to do that, but that sounds like that may be at least part of the issue.

Ta

[vanatteveldt]

I've never seen an animal obedient enough to starve while standing on a patch of grass because the boss told him not to eat...

[Drazinononda]

I've never seen an animal obedient enough to starve while standing on a patch of grass because the boss told him not to eat...

You've never seen an animal trained by a dwarf.

I had a burrow keeping my civilians inside the fort for the duration of the siege. The pasture was a walled of enclosure well outside the fort and not included in the burrow, no animals were assigned to it and tbh I don't see an option to do that, but that sounds like that may be at least part of the issue.

If the civilians were assigned to the burrow (w -> c) then it shouldn't have affected the animals' behavior. If the civilians were sent to the burrow through an alert (m -> a) those apply to your animals as well and would activate the bug.

Here is the bug report I mentioned earlier (which I actually submitted myself... heh) if you'd like to add your evidence. There is also a link there to the original thread where I learned of the bug.