Why are animals able to open doors?

[LeOnIdAs]

The animals that are tamed seem to be able to open doors and then sleep inside the rooms and roam inside.

This is unreal, isnt it? Please remove such behavior.

[Hothnogg]

If you have trained the animal to pet statues they can go through any door/gate.
Tamed can only go through barn doors only or any doors that are set to be open.
click on a door to see if set to open or default
Wildlife can go through barn doors and doors set to open

[efgadsby]

I am wondering the same thing. Doors are set to default and the animals just wander right in. I'm guessing it's because the dogs and goats need to get in to haul supplies, but I would really like to at least have the animals sleep in the barn at night.

[Traveller]

If they couldn't get through closed doors then they wouldn't be able to haul to stockpiles. Solution might be to add another condition to doors that exclude pet use but I'm not sure there's enough reason to warrant the time to put on that by the devs.

[Leonidas]

The only way I stop my animals from killing the chickens is to lock the doors

[The Energizer_Bunny Snarl]

you can build a bridge over the water with wooden beam, and then have a wall going alongside. then you can build a door to your farming/courtyard > and yes, animals can swim under bridge, open the door, eat your berry bushes and not yet stored food, before scurring back to and through the door, under the water and escape. yes this includes deers and polecats.

domestic animals / wild animals / trained animals all swim > open door > thieve food > escape - meanwhile your hunter is chasing and missing before being exhausted, hungry, and defeated > and you have to wait another year to scour the map for hopefully a berry bush in the wild survives long enough to harvest. so you can plant, and wait a year for it to grow... to be destroyed by the door opening deer. and no, you cant target an animal to shoot while person is drafted > ofcourse not. and no, you cannot force a second person to hunt an animal already being hunting animal. two people shooting a bow at one deer makes no sense...ofcourse.

[Fido]

Originally posted by LeOnIdAs:

The animals that are tamed seem to be able to open doors and then sleep inside the rooms and roam inside.

This is unreal, isnt it? Please remove such behavior.

You don't need to tame every animal just because the option is there.

Only train cats, dogs, hauling- and attack animals you're fine with eating up your food stocks.