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[Alu]

Is there a thread about figuring out, what animals eat?
If not, lets make one and fill the wiki.
Right now I have several animals on the pasture and some are starving.
I guess we should make a list of animals starving and which food (grass-types?)is available.

My pasture:
Flora:
Hair grass
Dropseed Grass
Shrub, Birch, Maple, Ash +Saplings

Fauna:
Elephant
Hippo
Yak
Horse
Mule
Jaguar
Tiger
cat
Buck-/Doe Rabbit
Bunny
Buineahen
Piglet
Chimpanzee

Starving animals so far:
Elephant

[3]

The only animals that eat at all are grazing animals (any animal with the GRAZER tag), and they'll eat any type of grass. This includes elephants, which may be unable to support themselves when there's anything less than a vast amount of grass around - they eat so much that they tend to starve while eating.

(I'm technically lying when I say "only grazers eat" because speaking pets need to eat as well - as they're technically civ members of a sort - but they're rare enough to not really bear mentioning)

[Alu]

hmm ok, so if an elephant starves to death, its because he didnt eat fast enough?
But it makes sense. If they needed a specific type of food, I'd need to rely on food import by traders.

[3]

The elephant raw entry has a note:

   [GRAZER:12] don't have browsing trees yet

So at some point in the future they (and presumably giraffes and the like) will be able to eat off trees, which should fix the issue of them starving all the time. Until then, there's not much that can be done for them short of modding.

[Urist Imiknorris]

This implies that eventually we'll have a reason to not deforest the map.

[irdsm]

hmm ok, so if an elephant starves to death, its because he didnt eat fast enough?
But it makes sense. If they needed a specific type of food, I'd need to rely on food import by traders.

The animal pathfinding seems to be kind of broken. You can put them in a pasture but they mostly sit around. After they eat the grass wherever they're standing they don't seem to look for food. Toady mentioned that he's fixing the animal pathfinding for next release.

[Pan]

hmm ok, so if an elephant starves to death, its because he didnt eat fast enough?
But it makes sense. If they needed a specific type of food, I'd need to rely on food import by traders.

The animal pathfinding seems to be kind of broken. You can put them in a pasture but they mostly sit around. After they eat the grass wherever they're standing they don't seem to look for food. Toady mentioned that he's fixing the animal pathfinding for next release.

Yet another reason to wait, I take it. Say, anyone knows when the next release is coming about?

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

Elephants starve to death no matter what. They starve faster than they eat.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Modding time.

[MasterofYoda]

Even if I decide to juggle my beasts between several pastures every other month or so, somebody eventually starves to death because the Dwarves don't like dragging them the three squares to their new pasture (on an unrelated note, I noticed that any and all dwarves will haul animals between pastures whether or not they have animal hauling enabled)
   Usually its a horse or a yak, an animal large enough to make it annoying that my Dwarves won't eat it - which is annoying because there is no damned reason for them not to butcher it. If I notice that it's about to die of starvation, I'll mark it for slaughter, but then two dwarves get in a wrestling match over which butcher's shop to take it to (I fixed that by building a butcher in each pasture). Anyways, I've noticed this about other stray animals that die from other causes - the dwarves won't eat them, and they won't bury them. Is there a way to get them to do something with the corpse other than have it rot where it fell (usually in the meeting area)?

[IT 000]

1 Buy rhino from elves.
2 think elves might be cool for bringing you a cool creature
3 Rhino begins to starve
4 ? ? ?
5 Blame elves

[Girlinhat]

I would say that you messed up and didn't say "PROFIT" but on second that, you did say it.

[Urist Imiknorris]

juggle my beasts

Take one guess what I read this as.