Animal Handling

[bee]

I've been playing for over an in game year now, and probably around month 6 my villagers stopped putting fodder in the animal troughs. It was all selected, and even with the animal handling job at full, nobody would do it. I even tried getting rid of all the jobs and de-selecting any animals I'm in the process of taming - nothing.

Start of year one, they're all dead. I have no idea if it's a bug, or if I missed something.
I had 200+ hay and 80 animal feed in the barn just next to the pen.
They had been feeding the animals prior and nothing significant happened (that I noticed) to make them stop. Aside from choosing to slaughter some mature ones (left f/m alive to breed)
Both the pen and the barn are fully accessible (villagers still come to harvest produce like milk & eggs).
Neither construct were damaged.

Only thing I can think of is taming the animals? But they're already docile, and turning them into pets means they just get into the meals made for my villagers instead of their fodder. I really have no idea what went wrong/what I'm doing wrong.
On the bright side, I have meat coming out my ass. Not that I didn't before, though!

Please help!!!

[Ennui]

i can't find a way to make my villagers put feed in the animal troughs either :(

i just found this post in another thread saying that if the animal feed is on a stock pile it won't be fed to the animals:

Originally posted by Raveyl:

The fence corners do not join seamlessly but that does not interfere with the enclosures' functions. Once I had all the fencing built (with a gate) and the pen marker built also, the area became a colored block (similar to a room) and is available to hold animals. Select the pen marker and a list should be there now to select which type of animal you want inside. Then, in time or when said animal shows up on your map, your worker whose animal husbandry priority is highest will go to rope the animal and bring it into the pen. Make sure you have a trough built, and make your animal feed at the campfire/stove. Do not store your feed on a stockpile as the workers won't feed the animals as of now if you do store the feed--hopefully that is fixed in future. That's what has worked for me in the last day of playing, hope it helps.

[Chuey]

i wonder did you guys ever change the prioritize for the troughs from low to very high or so because when i don't touch the prioritize they would only give the animal 1 fodder per trough, check that if ya have not

[The Anglo Spaniard]

my dog is stuck in my storage building. it will not leave and is slowly starving to death. how do i feed it?

[randomchicken]

try to put these troughs in a fenced area, i did that and now there's food in the trough.

[bee]

Originally posted by Chuey:

i wonder did you guys ever change the prioritize for the troughs from low to very high or so because when i don't touch the prioritize they would only give the animal 1 fodder per trough, check that if ya have not

Unfortunately I've already done that!

Originally posted by Ennui:

i can't find a way to make my villagers put feed in the animal troughs either :(

i just found this post in another thread saying that if the animal feed is on a stock pile it won't be fed to the animals:

Originally posted by Raveyl:

The fence corners do not join seamlessly but that does not interfere with the enclosures' functions. Once I had all the fencing built (with a gate) and the pen marker built also, the area became a colored block (similar to a room) and is available to hold animals. Select the pen marker and a list should be there now to select which type of animal you want inside. Then, in time or when said animal shows up on your map, your worker whose animal husbandry priority is highest will go to rope the animal and bring it into the pen. Make sure you have a trough built, and make your animal feed at the campfire/stove. Do not store your feed on a stockpile as the workers won't feed the animals as of now if you do store the feed--hopefully that is fixed in future. That's what has worked for me in the last day of playing, hope it helps.

As for this though, where do I store it if not on storage piles? Some are on shelves too so I'm not sure what to do about that exactly :c

[KDR264]

What I noticed is what Cheuy said, set the priority to high, it’s likely your villagers have too many tasks and aren’t getting around to feeding animals

[Storm]

Originally posted by The Anglo Spaniard:

my dog is stuck in my storage building. it will not leave and is slowly starving to death. how do i feed it?

Only way I found is to prioritize releasing it, wait for the settler to leash him and take him outside, then cancel the operation and then cancel releasing the dog.

Kinda crappy but it works.

[Graf Schokola]

Originally posted by The Anglo Spaniard:

my dog is stuck in my storage building. it will not leave and is slowly starving to death. how do i feed it?

Save and reload. the dog will move after some time.

[bee]

Originally posted by KDR264:

What I noticed is what Cheuy said, set the priority to high, it’s likely your villagers have too many tasks and aren’t getting around to feeding animals

As said in the original post, I entirely rid everyone's tasks! Everyone was idle with prio 1 on animal handling and nothing. Priority on the troughs was highest, and I had tons of food for them.
I've seen other people talk about it so it likely is a bug that'll be fixed in the future! For now I've just made it so my fodder is on the ground inside without it being on a pile (allocated a pile for just fodder then got rid of the pile).

[1westie1 - TTV]

how do i feed my dog and wolves? they wont eat the bones and corpses on the storage piles

[t-Log]

I solved this by making more animal food and then prio the throughs very high and stockpile(s) only prio high. Then the animal food found a correct place.

[tlsrace]

Actually my pets keep the troughs full (9 of them). Also make sure before winter you cull the herd.

[bee]

Originally posted by 1westie1 - TTV:

how do i feed my dog and wolves? they wont eat the bones and corpses on the storage piles

Unless they're pets instead of docile, the only way I've found is by hunting something near it. It'll then run over and eat the corpse

[1westie1 - TTV]

Originally posted by bee:

Originally posted by 1westie1 - TTV:

how do i feed my dog and wolves? they wont eat the bones and corpses on the storage piles

Unless they're pets instead of docile, the only way I've found is by hunting something near it. It'll then run over and eat the corpse

they are tamed but NOT trained. and they decide to wander off to the fartherest corners of the map instead of being in the settlement which is annoying. i am trying to train them and hope if they dont die first then once assigned to a settler they will be closer to bones etc and will actually eat.

[tlsrace]

I click off the battle box before the battles as most of my settlers are archers. When i am cleaning up the wounded enemy i click the box allowing my dogs to fight. Note once you have a male and female dog trained, when pups are born they have a high training # to start. So quickly are fully trained.