Dogs often nearly starve to death in the den

[fopsy]

In fact, once I walked away for 30 minutes and two died of starvation in there! I don't know if this is specifically something to do with the den, or if they just aren't as concerned about their own hunger levels as they should be. It seems difficult to get them to leave without kicking all of them out, too.

[BlueLeafy]

There is no food source in the den, and they just don't seem to have the pathing knowledge to figure out they can leave the den to get food.

[Jill]

I've had some issues with dogs eating. In fact, I used to have one specific dog that seemed to almost starve pretty often if not helped out. I don't know if maybe his super long body shape was affecting his pathing or something.

While I don't know if it's related to that dog's problems, I have noticed a couple of cases where a hungry dog will go to the food dispensers, dispense some food, but then wander off without eating it, which could be another cause of some of the problems but I'm not sure.

[THE BATTER]

I don't tend to have issues with dogs starving in the den, but I do with the pathfinding and AI were a little better so that I didn't have to manually feed my dogs so much. They're REALLY bad at feeding themselves, and being so slow-moving doesn't help!

[tom]

I'll be looking into all this over the next few weeks! There's a pathfinding issue in the dens that I've been seeing pop up that causes dogs to get stuck walking into a wall and thus starving, and dogs are not taking care of hunger as well as they should be in all cases. Definitely will be trying to fix these issues!

[fopsy]

Originally posted by tom:

I'll be looking into all this over the next few weeks! There's a pathfinding issue in the dens that I've been seeing pop up that causes dogs to get stuck walking into a wall and thus starving, and dogs are not taking care of hunger as well as they should be in all cases. Definitely will be trying to fix these issues!

Thanks! And double thanks for being so open about development!

[True Immortal Idiot]

Another issue im having is with dogs that dont like pets, playing with them isnt nearly as efficient as petting. I feel like numbers could be adjusted so that petting gives less attention, playing gives more, or the bar could go down slower.

[Bird]

Originally posted by tom:

I'll be looking into all this over the next few weeks! There's a pathfinding issue in the dens that I've been seeing pop up that causes dogs to get stuck walking into a wall and thus starving, and dogs are not taking care of hunger as well as they should be in all cases. Definitely will be trying to fix these issues!

<3 Thank you for being a caring dev!