How does "foraging animals" work?

[Cpt. Cardillo]

I searched in the forum but im still confused. So i set one guy to forage animals as a job, and they are river raptors but the guy just won't move. I have storage for raw meat and skins built and they are in my base dead, so i don't know why is not working.

[Metroid]

i had the same problem before and had to build a furnace for burning dead bodies then set it to there job then move the foragging animals to be underneath find bodies and before incinerate them
for some reason foraging wouldnt have them run out and actively find the dead on its own but if you do the job quee wrong your guy will just burn them without taking and storing meat and leather first oo'

sorry im not much help by saying that but that was the only workaround i found to get my guy to actually forage them on his own hope it helps or someone else gives you a better idea oo"

[Cpt. Cardillo]

Ah thanks for the answer, i guess ill try your method. Still i hope someone tells me an easier method for this, its giving me a headache haha.

[Tadwei]

Never actually built a furnace to test. Will get back to you on a method.

[Metroid]

Originally posted by Cpt Cardillo:

I searched in the forum but im still confused. So i set one guy to forage animals as a job, and they are river raptors but the guy just won't move. I have storage for raw meat and skins built and they are in my base dead, so i don't know why is not working.

oo i found an old post in the forums that tarsis had made with the following way he got foraging to work. ill test it out myself later aswell as id also like to know whether it still works xd

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tarsis ~

Works fine for me? Set up skin storage (not leather), set up meat storage, set up corpse furnace, turn on

1 AutoHaul Skin storage
2 AutoHaul Meat storage
3 Forage
4 Put corpse in furnace
5 Find corpse

Works like a charm. Steady critter kill and cleanup.

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[Chompster]

It's broken. Simply setting somene as foraging animals should be enough to have them do what they're suppose to do. If all these other work around steps are needed then it just means its broken.

[Tarsis]

Originally posted by Chompster:

It's broken. Simply setting somene as foraging animals should be enough to have them do what they're suppose to do. If all these other work around steps are needed then it just means its broken.

QFT should work outside of base and put loot in your bull/garru pack as well.

[Skeldarkday]

The foraging works off and on. I had put one of my squad member as his job. Was not doing it so I just forgot about it. Then all a sudden it does it. But only looted the meat not the skins.

[SnugSnug]

I seem to be able to get skins or meat to loot depending on which order i place tasks but not both. I haven't successfully managed to get anyone to forage/loot horns/teeth.

I tried splitting the task up between 2-3 characters so one would loot haul skins the other meat but neither seem to work without also having corpse disposal tasked which prevents the other character from effectively doing their role.

Haven't tried latest build this was all prior to .17.

[Cpt. Cardillo]

Originally posted by Metroid:

Originally posted by Cpt Cardillo:

I searched in the forum but im still confused. So i set one guy to forage animals as a job, and they are river raptors but the guy just won't move. I have storage for raw meat and skins built and they are in my base dead, so i don't know why is not working.

oo i found an old post in the forums that tarsis had made with the following way he got foraging to work. ill test it out myself later aswell as id also like to know whether it still works xd

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tarsis ~

Works fine for me? Set up skin storage (not leather), set up meat storage, set up corpse furnace, turn on

1 AutoHaul Skin storage
2 AutoHaul Meat storage
3 Forage
4 Put corpse in furnace
5 Find corpse

Works like a charm. Steady critter kill and cleanup.

end quote~

Still not working for me, at least i tried with river raptos and nothing, it will just incinerate the bodies without taking the skin.

[Peregrine]

Originally posted by Skeldarkday:

The foraging works off and on. I had put one of my squad member as his job. Was not doing it so I just forgot about it. Then all a sudden it does it. But only looted the meat not the skins.

I have the reverse problem, they'll take the skins but not the meat.

I gave up and just used it to source leather.

[Metroid]

yea sorry about that. that was the only way i could find to get them to find and take some of the items off the corpses myself i had to remove the part of the job to place corpse inside furnace. i did find a way to always get the meat though by having someone set to forage animals along with hauling to a campire. the guy will charge the corpse grab meat, haul it to the campfire, cook it then toss it into animal feeder nearby ;p

[Yograin]

Forage Corpse and then Haul to Storage works for me. But it seems it only takes the specific meat barrel into account and it has to have enough room.

I currently have 7 barrels for meat and the guy responsible has 7 tasks to "haul to storage"

The incinerator guy does not touch any corpse which still has its full inventory possibly because the crabs are not dead but Im not sure. Anyway the moment the forager takes the meat the corpse incinerator does his job too.

[Metroid]

Originally posted by Yograin:

Forage Corpse and then Haul to Storage works for me. But it seems it only takes the specific meat barrel into account and it has to have enough room.

I currently have 7 barrels for meat and the guy responsible has 7 tasks to "haul to storage"

The incinerator guy does not touch any corpse which still has its full inventory possibly because the crabs are not dead but Im not sure. Anyway the moment the forager takes the meat the corpse incinerator does his job too.

i take it by you saying crabs you have your base set up near the howling maze?
my base is set up in skinners roam at the lake east of holy nation territory.

i made my meat collector guy haul to campfire, cook, forage, then find corpses. it sounds kind of backwards but i dont have to actually make him haul to a food barrel or animal feed trough as instead he will cook it and then auto haul it to any food barrel or feeder trough in range that has space. I made it a point to have food storage and an animal trough in every single building so no person or animal will ever starve no matter where they are in my base =p

the true irony ive noticed lately is that since theres an animal feeding trough outside every building for the dogo's my people will swipe food as they enter or leave a building from the animal trough....

[Peregrine]

Originally posted by Metroid:

Originally posted by Yograin:

Forage Corpse and then Haul to Storage works for me. But it seems it only takes the specific meat barrel into account and it has to have enough room.

I currently have 7 barrels for meat and the guy responsible has 7 tasks to "haul to storage"

The incinerator guy does not touch any corpse which still has its full inventory possibly because the crabs are not dead but Im not sure. Anyway the moment the forager takes the meat the corpse incinerator does his job too.

i take it by you saying crabs you have your base set up near the howling maze?
my base is set up in skinners roam at the lake east of holy nation territory.

i made my meat collector guy haul to campfire, cook, forage, then find corpses. it sounds kind of backwards but i dont have to actually make him haul to a food barrel or animal feed trough as instead he will cook it and then auto haul it to any food barrel or feeder trough in range that has space. I made it a point to have food storage and an animal trough in every single building so no person or animal will ever starve no matter where they are in my base =p

the true irony ive noticed lately is that since theres an animal feeding trough outside every building for the dogo's my people will swipe food as they enter or leave a building from the animal trough....

I can't get it to work no matter what I do.

Either they take the skins or the meat, not both.

Also having my guys "Ditch" their food around the base. It's annoying since I want them to KEEP that food. So I either lose my Ditch Resources or I have to deal with them being stupid about food. Ugh.

[Ronin]

so i know this is an old one but i think i found the answer, when you attack a animal it isnt marked as dead until you take the meat off it or it bleeds out thats why it doesnt work, I set up mine but he only loots from animals marked as dead