How Locked Are Locked Doors?

[Didz]

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Like the title says, 'Just how locked are locked doors'

I decided to lock the door to the Chicken Shed simply in the hope that it would stop my pet dogs and cats from bothering the chickens.

Although truth be told I was half expecting all the cats and dogs to have keys and to set up a pay-per-view scheme with the local wolves.

But what I was expecting was that it was totally locked and nobody could get in at all. I figured if nothing else that the Settler Stewards would have the key. However, since I locked it nobody seems to have been through it and there are now several eggs on 'Urgent Haul' some of whom have been waiting days to be gathered, and I'm also worried that the chickens hay pile is not being refreshed.

Anyone know how locked doors are supposed to work?.

[kahlen]

If you lock the door no one could enter, not even your settlers. So if you need to enter the room with your settlers you can't lock it.

[Didz]

Ok! That's not what I read in the tool tips which seemed to imply that settlers had the key to get through it when necessary. But it is what it is, so I'd better unlock it and risk my dogs and cats killing the chickens and eating my eggs..

[kahlen]

That shouldn't happen if your cats and dogs are pets and your chickens are domesticated. If you have meat or smoked meat in storage then the cats and dogs will eat that.

[TheLostPenguin]

Steward settlers do technically have the keys to locked doors, they're the ones that will lock/unlock doors when you change the status of them after all, they just don't use those keys when doing tasks other than stewarding door statuses.

So far as I can see about the only use for locking a door is to keep a small supply of barley and berries protected from use so you have some available to plant at the start of spring, locking a shelf of each away in a special 3x1 room will stop any settlers getting to it until you unlock the door again. Other than that there doesn't seem to be a use right now, doors in normal usage function as locked for raiders even though they aren't locked, and nothing else potentially needs to be protected from your own settlers in such a manner.

[Didz]

Originally posted by kahlen:

That shouldn't happen if your cats and dogs are pets and your chickens are domesticated. If you have meat or smoked meat in storage then the cats and dogs will eat that.

Yeah! I'm happy with that as I'd rather they didn't starve. Just wish there were more rats and mice for them to hunt so they didn't need to eat human food.

[Didz]

Originally posted by TheLostPenguin:

Steward settlers do technically have the keys to locked doors, they're the ones that will lock/unlock doors when you change the status of them after all, they just don't use those keys when doing tasks other than stewarding door statuses.

So far as I can see about the only use for locking a door is to keep a small supply of barley and berries protected from use so you have some available to plant at the start of spring, locking a shelf of each away in a special 3x1 room will stop any settlers getting to it until you unlock the door again. Other than that there doesn't seem to be a use right now, doors in normal usage function as locked for raiders even though they aren't locked, and nothing else potentially needs to be protected from your own settlers in such a manner.

That's actually a really good idea.