cannot drop a smolkers inside a large penned area

[Vardos]

made a large penned area and picked up a smolker and dropped in the middle with the gate open..... the game then TELEPORTS it outside my pen... WHY?

its just there to get killed.... sick of chasing them down or trying to keep them away from my area and thought penning them up to kill would be a good idea... but WHY cant i pen them?

its not like it breaks the game or abused it.

[Addamz]

Originally posted by Vardos:

made a large penned area and picked up a smolker and dropped in the middle with the gate open..... the game then TELEPORTS it outside my pen... WHY?

its just there to get killed.... sick of chasing them down or trying to keep them away from my area and thought penning them up to kill would be a good idea... but WHY cant i pen them?

its not like it breaks the game or abused it.

Animal farming has not yet been implemented in game (except wolves), and there is a bug with the rabbits, where they can still pass through gates that are closed.

Also you can keep them away using the standing torches (stick or stone) and/or campfires. Hunters hut will hunt them down for you too.

[Vardos]

not ranching them.

chased one a long ways away just to have it come right back to the same area i started chasing it away from. its extremely annoying. so i decided to just put them in a pen to kill them more easily, since they allow you to pick them up.

but the game for some weird reason teleports them outside the pen every single time i drop them inside the penned area.

[Addamz]

Originally posted by Vardos:

but the game for some weird reason teleports them outside the pen every single time i drop them inside the penned area.

Yeah like I said, animal husbandry isn't introduced yet, so fences will keep stuff out but I don't think you're able to keep them in. Though I don't know why it teleport's out. I do know they can pass through gates quite easily.

[Kalech]

Yeah its weird. I get husbandry isn't in the game but surely if we build a pen we should be able to trap one inside so it can't run away while we kill it.

If you play with a friend one of you can hold the smolker while the other beats the daylights out of it, down to 1 hit from death. Surely solo players should be able to dump them in a little pen so that they're easier to kill.

[Addamz]

Originally posted by Kalech:

Yeah its weird. I get husbandry isn't in the game but surely if we build a pen we should be able to trap one inside so it can't run away while we kill it.

My best guess would be something to do with clear definitions of border spawning. So animals don't continue to respawn long after you've built over the land area's they used to spawn at. Preventing a flock of rabbits, deer or wolves from spawning inside the perimeter every year.

I'm also guessing when they introduce animal husbandry they will add a tagging (branding) type of thing to the domesticated creatures, so they stay inside the fences.

[aot15x]

Your fences are probably facing the wrong way- the arrows should be pointing toward the inside of the pen. This should fix your teleporting issue, but as stated above there is no animal husbandry yet so they will still find their way out or just disappear entirely.

[Aldjeron]

Just build a fence with hedgehogs on it. and walk up to it with the rabbit....dead rabbit

[Myst]

its funny to see this pop up cause we JUST tried to do this in our mp game and they just kept teleporting out

[G-Fudge Gaming]

I had no problem dropping them into a pen and they would stay there until you leave the game and come back, then they would reset. Found it a good way to keep them in check for the session I play as there's only so many that will come to annoy you.