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Miles_Umbrae

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Fenced pen/pasture
« on: April 02, 2018, 12:49:36 pm »
I know this suggestion has been made before, I just wanted to make this suggestion as its stand-alone post with a clean comment-section and with a fresh perspective.

A fenced pen/pasture would be a zone which boundaries are being religiously being respected by domesticated animals, civilian dwarves and caravans without having to be a wall thick, while invaders, predators and military dwarves would path through them with a slight penalty to speed when passing the boundaries, and building-destroyers would trample it to bits.

This could either be achieved as an alternative pen/pasture zone that require wood/stone/metal before it can be used, or that pen/pasture zones could be upgradable.
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FantasticDorf

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Re: Fenced pen/pasture
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2018, 01:14:39 pm »
Would the boundary be visually a tile thick (i did read you said to to dissuade away from walls, just asking for clarity) or a psuedo crossable 1/4 tile symbol of sorts? A bit like the distortion of caravans being 1 tile actually but 3x3 spritewise.

I usually use grates and pet locked doors to keep my creatures in makeshift pens, usually grazers are alright out in the open unless they are spooked so i see the practicality of preventing animals running off, but it feels like cheating to completely enforce it, especially if you can zone it all the way down to a immovable 1x1 for some purpose. That's my two cents besides my question.
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Miles_Umbrae

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Re: Fenced pen/pasture
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2018, 03:34:02 am »
Was more thinking that the edge of the pen/pasture would simply have a visibly thicker outer line to indicate that it's a fenced pen/pasture.
The whole point of the fence idea is for it to not take up as much space as a constructed wall.
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Re: Fenced pen/pasture
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2018, 06:19:03 pm »
It could use the tiles used for tent walls in adventure mode, maybe.
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Re: Fenced pen/pasture
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2018, 11:34:19 am »
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Re: Fenced pen/pasture
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2018, 04:17:36 pm »
Quote from: Bumber on April 05, 2018, 11:34:19 am
Quote from: Bumber on August 12, 2014, 02:36:58 pm
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev.html
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Raising livestock
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    Ability to build fences (more than one fence tile per tree used, as opposed to wall)
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Also:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=137856
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=86276
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3008 (Toady One commented on this one.)
OP acknowledged that Toady already knows what a fence is. This thread was started so we can discuss the art of fences in a stand alone thread (as opposed to "fences" which is presumably not related).

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So, I guess we're waiting for the op give us the new line of thought...
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