B42 My Pigs are eating walls and fences

[Walter Schwartz]

I cannot contain the pigs. They go wherever they please

[NicoloNegri]

i havent tried build42 yet but this sounds hilarious

[Shurenai]

I mean.. I've always heard people say pigs will eat Anything, So...

[Quill]

Originally posted by Shurenai:

I mean.. I've always heard people say pigs will eat Anything, So...

They will and do

They only stay in a Pen because they want to stay in

[namorufa]

Have you created a zone using the tooltip on the left of the screen? I thought in B42 animals will stay on a zone as long they have food and water even without fences, and the walls and fences are only to contain them in case they panic and try to flee outside of the zone when a zombie gets near.

[Mister]

Originally posted by namorufa:

Have you created a zone using the tooltip on the left of the screen? I thought in B42 animals will stay on a zone as long they have food and water even without fences, and the walls and fences are only to contain them in case they panic and try to flee outside of the zone when a zombie gets near.

Last time I checked, they didn't care about zombies, and zombies didn't care about them either...
It's just a zone where they can move freely and have access to food and water. The zone cares about walls and a roof. I believe it's related to the options in the sandbox menu about predators.

[jaelee1111]

Originally posted by Walter Schwartz:

I cannot contain the pigs. They go wherever they please

How about containing them in your stomach instead?

[trapévoid]

They go berserk if the animal info says "Stressed", especially boars, even if you designated a zone and built fences around it. They will break down gates, fences, etc. I don't know how to decrease animal stress levels yet. (my only solution was slaughtering the problematic ones.)

Just make sure you don't butcher your animals in front of others. They panic when they see you do that. Attach a rope, take the animal away from the pen/paddock, do your business.

[Walter Schwartz]

I had to use hay bail walls and concrete barriers to contain the pigs. The chickens and Turkeys did not in fact chomp wood and nails.

There was no animation, they just sledged whatever they wanted to, even prefab fences

[AriGryphon]

Originally posted by rakunduz:

They go berserk if the animal info says "Stressed", especially boars, even if you designated a zone and built fences around it. They will break down gates, fences, etc. I don't know how to decrease animal stress levels yet. (my only solution was slaughtering the problematic ones.)

Just make sure you don't butcher your animals in front of others. They panic when they see you do that. Attach a rope, take the animal away from the pen/paddock, do your business.

To lower their stress, you need to give them pets and head scratches and tummy rubs. Genuinely. Right click them and pet them. When in debug mode you can actually see the values - petting them lowers stress and raises acceptance (of you). Stress seems to go down very slowly as long as they can't see any zombies, are fed, watered, and sheltered, and their zone is large enough (all needs met, basically). But the main way to lower stress is giving them affection.

[The society of evil pumpkins]

I have minipig IRL, so , they reasly can eat walls, bcs my idiot destroyed the corner of my concrete wall. Soooo, be carafull with pigs...

[Dudah]

This happened to me too. Make sure they are in a zone you created, that they have food and water, if all that is ok, they are stressed for some other reason. Pet them, don't leave males with other males and don't kill any animals near others that you want to keep alive, they get very stressed.

[ash_williams]

Do they eat zeds corpses :)
Do you remember...

...That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".... (c)

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by Quill:

Originally posted by Shurenai:

I mean.. I've always heard people say pigs will eat Anything, So...

They will and do

They only stay in a Pen because they want to stay in

There was once news about man who had one of his nuts ripped off by his pig, Sanyika.
(basicly little Alex:D)
The pig was well over 200 kg:D (Yes they shown the pig in TV was hillariously big!)

[Vilkar Mooringstead]

Originally posted by rakunduz:

They go berserk if the animal info says "Stressed", especially boars, even if you designated a zone and built fences around it. They will break down gates, fences, etc. I don't know how to decrease animal stress levels yet. (my only solution was slaughtering the problematic ones.)

Just make sure you don't butcher your animals in front of others. They panic when they see you do that. Attach a rope, take the animal away from the pen/paddock, do your business.

yeah, killing other animals, zombies either walking or destroyed in the area, and certain other conditions i'm not sure of yet affect their stress levels. I almost got assassinated by my cockerel when i was removing a dead zed from the coop area. As for pigs, I don't think they're worth keeping until the build gets some fine tuning

[Alyssium]

Stress is caused by males of the same species in the same space or neighboring spaces, dead bodies, zombies around, slaughtering animals in front of your other animals, lack of food and water, not cleaning up manure, not keeping up with milking/sheering and petting. If your animals are calm they will not try to break out. Those are only my observations and since doing these things I have never had an issue again