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[Big Bee]

If a critter starves to death, is it impossible to butcher it?

On a completely unrelated note, how do I get starving animals to just freaking eat instead of moping around in the pasture and then dying?

[BishopX]

If a critter starves to death, is it impossible to butcher it?

Yes

On a completely unrelated note, how do I get starving animals to just freaking eat instead of moping around in the pasture and then dying?

Does your pasture have grass?
Does your pasture have enough grass for all your animals? My rule of thumb is ten spaces per "small" animal (sheep,goats...) and at least 50 per large animal (Yak,Cow...)

If you are trying to raise elephants, rhinos or giraffes you may need to adjust the grazer values in the raws. Currently they need to eat constantly or they starve to death.

[Canuhearmenow]

If I wanted to make nice, square plot of farmland, how would I go about doing that, especially if the ground is pock-marked with farm ruining "[insert stone type here] floor."

[BishopX]

If I wanted to make nice, square plot of farmland, how would I go about doing that, especially if the ground is pock-marked with farm ruining "[insert stone type here] floor."

Flood it. Preferably to at least 2/7 for complete coverage. Then drain it off.

[Big Bee]

If a critter starves to death, is it impossible to butcher it?

Yes

Yay!

On a completely unrelated note, how do I get starving animals to just freaking eat instead of moping around in the pasture and then dying?

Does your pasture have grass?
Does your pasture have enough grass for all your animals? My rule of thumb is ten spaces per "small" animal (sheep,goats...) and at least 50 per large animal (Yak,Cow...)

If you are trying to raise elephants, rhinos or giraffes you may need to adjust the grazer values in the raws. Currently they need to eat constantly or they starve to death.

There is so much green grass that Ireland just filed a class-action lawsuit.  I always have this problem with starving animals.  They just don't seem to eat.

[myrkul]

I have discovered mutilated ambushers in my trap corridor and wondered where they came from. This leads me to believe weapon traps do not reveal ambushes.

[BishopX]

If a critter starves to death, is it impossible to butcher it?

Yes

Yay!

On a completely unrelated note, how do I get starving animals to just freaking eat instead of moping around in the pasture and then dying?

Does your pasture have grass?
Does your pasture have enough grass for all your animals? My rule of thumb is ten spaces per "small" animal (sheep,goats...) and at least 50 per large animal (Yak,Cow...)

If you are trying to raise elephants, rhinos or giraffes you may need to adjust the grazer values in the raws. Currently they need to eat constantly or they starve to death.

There is so much green grass that Ireland just filed a class-action lawsuit.  I always have this problem with starving animals.  They just don't seem to eat.

That's odd.

You have a pasture marketed out as an activity zone?
Animals are assigned to the pasture?
Are you using any mods? or have you modified the raws?
Have you tried removing and re designating the pasture?

[Big Bee]

There is so much green grass that Ireland just filed a class-action lawsuit.  I always have this problem with starving animals.  They just don't seem to eat.

That's odd.

You have a pasture marketed out as an activity zone?
Animals are assigned to the pasture?
Are you using any mods? or have you modified the raws?
Have you tried removing and re designating the pasture?

Nope; plane Jane.  Maybe the little guy was so hungry that he was fated to die, and spending two seasons in the pasture couldn't correct it.  He was a pet before I realized he was starving and assigned him to the pasture.

[Sutremaine]

If you are trying to raise elephants, rhinos or giraffes you may need to adjust the grazer values in the raws. Currently they need to eat constantly or they starve to death.

Elephants and rhinos cannot eat enough food to support themselves, so you will need to adjust the values. Rhinos have a grazer value of 20, meaning they have to eat every single turn or get hungrier. Since they need to take a turn to move onto a new patch of grass, they starve. Elephants have an even lower grazer value and can't graze from trees like they're supposed to, so they just starve.

[nil]

Hey, has anyone experience nest box failure after upgrading to the new version?  I'm using a fort made in .19; while originally my dwarves were almost able to live off eggs alone, but since moving the nest boxes into a tower, it stopped working--first, in .19, because one peahen was claiming all the boxes, and now, in .21, because most of the boxes sit unclaimed most of the time.  Occasionally a bird seems to claim them if viewed via the q menu, but it doesn't last and they never sit down on them.  They're definitely accessible..

[veok]

@Nil - I know this doesn't help, but I too have experienced nest boxes were nestboxes get claimed, the birds lay an egg, but then when a dwarf comes by to remove the egg, the birds jump off and don't reclaim a nestbox.

Help! I suck at designing spiral ramps! Is there a design I can stick in a 4x4 space?

[Urist Imiknorris]

OOOO
OOOO
▲▲▼O
++▼O

OOOO
OO▼▼
OO▲+
OO▲+

O▼++
O▼▲▲
OOOO
OOOO

+▲OO
+▲OO
▼▼OO
OOOO

O = wall
▼ = down ramp
▲ = up ramp
+ = floor

I hope you didn't mean 4x4 including walls.

[veok]

Nope, once I decipher that, I think it'll work wait. Thanks, Dwarfnorris.

[nil]

@Nil - I know this doesn't help, but I too have experienced nest boxes were nestboxes get claimed, the birds lay an egg, but then when a dwarf comes by to remove the egg, the birds jump off and don't reclaim a nestbox.

Sweet, this is exactly what's happening.

[monk12]

@Nil - I know this doesn't help, but I too have experienced nest boxes were nestboxes get claimed, the birds lay an egg, but then when a dwarf comes by to remove the egg, the birds jump off and don't reclaim a nestbox.

Sweet, this is exactly what's happening.

I've noticed that birds will only hang out on a nest box if there are eggs to hatch. Once the eggs are removed they start wandering around until the next time they feel like laying eggs again. I suspect this behavior is a result of the bugfixing Toady did in regards to nestboxes.