Animals and doors

[Oenothera]

Wild and domestic animals freely pass through the door. It's stressful, as they eat up the supplies in the storerooms. If the doors are locked, then the settlers can't get through them either. Is it possible to make sure that animals do not enter freely into houses and storerooms?

[galadon3]

Domestic animals can't use doors (exception is the barn door), unless you train them to be pets. So animals you don't want to stroll around your houses: tame, don't train.

The other ones that can get past doors are the pests, rats and polecats. Either hunt them down or put cat or dog pets on pest control.

[wolv]

i have exactly the same issue, my chickens gets eaten all the time :(

[.O.]

if wild animals are getting in, then you have a hole in your settlement outer perimeter somewhere.

pets as mentioned can go wherever they want, so either provide them with proper troughs for their food or they wll start eating your crops.

Also, my memory may be wrong but I think pets can climb stairs, but not ladders?

If that's true then you can build creatively to prevent pets from going into storerooms, the downside is that they can no longer haul stuff to the storeroom.

[galadon3]

Originally posted by Wolv:

i have exactly the same issue, my chickens gets eaten all the time :(

I havent really tested it since I have cattle and sheep, nothing a fox can really hope to eat I think (oh yea I think I forgot foxes being able to sneak through too I think)
but at least the game says that sources of light protect tame animals. As I said haven't tested it.

And yes pets can't climb ladders, found that out when I had put a ladder down into a mining area and then waited in vain for my haul-dogs to take away the mined ore and stone.

[LC Ulric]

We really need this to be a fix at some point. Yes, you can just domesticate them up to the trained not pet level. But it doesn't solve the issue of them destroying fields. They have feeders they ignore to destroy my fields

[galadon3]

Originally posted by LC Ulric:

We really need this to be a fix at some point. Yes, you can just domesticate them up to the trained not pet level. But it doesn't solve the issue of them destroying fields. They have feeders they ignore to destroy my fields

either put your tamed animals in a pen or put fences around your fields

[Ubiquitous FUD]

I played a similar game and they had great door control settings - they had various 'type' tags for each entity in the game, the ones you could control, and used it as a hierarchy for door access: Family, then Workers, then Guests, then Pets, then Animals. So if you picked "Guest", then all guests, workers, and family could go through the door but no pets or animals. Best door control / access system I have seen.

[Jambie Lionheart]

I want force fields.

[Philtre]

Originally posted by LC Ulric:

We really need this to be a fix at some point. Yes, you can just domesticate them up to the trained not pet level. But it doesn't solve the issue of them destroying fields. They have feeders they ignore to destroy my fields

For animal types that eat crops, keep them in pens, and don't train them past "domesticated". Let your dogs do the hauling.