chicken fence

[SpiritFire]

ok... so i built this and put a baby chicken in it..
https://postimg.cc/3d6PMWkW
then it promptly ate the food i put out then ran right under the fence to go wander off and get eaten by a wolf.
is there a minimum type of fence that a baby chick wont go thru or under?
would a gum or palm fence work or does it have to be even better?

sigh... felt so bad for that chicken.
apparently the crude fence which says 'does the job' doesnt.

[spielerinchen]

seems to be a bug that some players encounter. has nothing to do with a type of fence. i didn't encounter it so far.

in your picture you've put the coop with the back directly next to the fence. i place my coops always middle in the enclosure, at least one field away from every side of the fence.

here's an example how i'm usually building chicken enclosures & place coops
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849317118
i would guess that your chicken went out at the back of the coop.
that's why i place the coops away from the fence & 2 always back to back. that seems to work for me so far. i also don't place more than 2 coops next to each other. if i have more than 4 chickens, i let one field free between the 2x2 coops set up.

[SpiritFire]

no it ran under the opposite side form the coop. went right under the fence. didnt even use the coop yet.. i think maybe because its a baby, im not sure.

[wiwisat]

May have been a glitch of some sort with the fencing placement. I've had BUGS contained in the first type of fencing you can do. rustic gumwood? I had a sleeping wary mu move when I was placing a fence around it as it had already glitched down a double wall (they aren't supposed to go up or down a double stack of dirt, then it proceeded to move along as I was placing posts for a fence. finally moved back when I took out some of the posts(still sleeping BTW). Apparently they will glitch through fences etc. if you don't give them enough room to begin with.

[bmzerkel]

I just had a chicken eaten too that got out :(

[spielerinchen]

@bmzerkel
since the last update i didn't encounter that bug anymore
more info & screenshots about your fence would be helpful

[bmzerkel]

Originally posted by spielerinchen:

@bmzerkel
since the last update i didn't encounter that bug anymore
more info & screenshots about your fence would be helpful

I buried the feathers and bought another one. seems to be staying put now. At least nugget got a proper funeral

[craftylaracroft]

To keep the chickens safe you need a STONE FENCE and it will say CRITTERS CAN'T get in and CRITTERS CAN'T GET OUT. I have that for my fence and the chickens can't walk through this fence! No animals can get in.

[100% Recycled Awesome]

Originally posted by craftylaracroft:

To keep the chickens safe you need a STONE FENCE and it will say CRITTERS CAN'T get in and CRITTERS CAN'T GET OUT. I have that for my fence and the chickens can't walk through this fence! No animals can get in.

The game treats all fences the same. It doesn't matter what type.