Moving animals to a different pen... madness!

[Hades]

Running into yet-another non-intuitive problem with animal pens (the first being that attackers kill them if they can't path to colonists - but that's another post).

But let's focus on my new problem... how to move them?

I have a pen that is now overpopulated with alpaca, muffalo and geese... and built a second pen to move the geese to.

I know realism is a motivation for the new pen system.... so I bitterly swallow the pill that requires me to have animal skill to actually catch a goose. Well, rope it actually because you know you can't pick up a goose.

Anyway, after roping what I thought were geese... I end up dragging one of each animal over to the new pen somehow.

Maybe I'm just going mad and mis-clicked on them... but whatever... so I'm trying to move the alpaca and muffalo back.. .and it says "already in the best pen". I try to move a goose back.... "already best pen".

I go to the Animal tab menu and I can see the pens they are in... but no way to change the pen to the other one.

It's entirely possible I'm completely dumb... but how the hell do I move these freakin' animals to different pens??!!

[Kioli1]

I might be wrong but I think you can just change the type of animal allowed in the pen at the pen marker. Your colonists should move them automatically.

[UltimateTobi]

You must allow and disallow the respective animals in each pen. One pen only allows geese, while the other pen allows both muffalos and alpacas.

Your pawns will rope and move the animals automatically when they have time for it (just in case, increase Handle to 1 until it's all set and done).

[grapplehoeker]

Use your Pen Marker... click on it to view the options available to you.
One of them allows you to determine which animals are penned and where ;)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2592160884
Generally, your handlers will move various animals automatically around your pens in order to maintain the best food growth/consumption ratio... "best pen".
But, if you wish to pen a specific animal to a single pen, you may do so by making sure that no other pen allows that animal.

[Hades]

Thanks all... I had a feeling it would be something painfully obvious to some but not to me :)

I dunno... maybe better tool tips or something might help. I just really found animal and pens non-intuitive but maybe I'm so used to the old area approach too.

[ichifish]

Not related to the OP’s question but a funny incident: my booming, haha, boomalope ranching got a little out of hand (the shorter gestation periods really allow herds to grow fast!), and because my arid shrubland tile has ♥♥♥♥ soil I had to make a massive pen using my outer walls (no fence).

There still wasn’t enough for everyone to be satisfied, and when I opened the airlock to welcome in some tribal sappers it triggered the unintended consequence of all the nearby boomalope galloping out of the doors -directly into the sappers- in hopes of eating the grass out there. Good times. Rimworld you never cease to amaze me.

[RCMidas]

Originally posted by ichifish:

when I opened the airlock to welcome in some tribal sappers it triggered the unintended consequence of all the nearby boomalope galloping out of the doors -directly into the sappers

Was there anything left?