How do you keep animals in their pens?

[Mist of Majora]

Some of my animals love wandering through the gates (which is odd enough that they can open them), and out into the fields.

Which wouldn't be a bad thing if I don't keep hearing 'goat 1 has decided to roam off, rope him or lose him forever'. Is there a better way to fix this?

Note: I came up with an idea to only use one gate to my pen, and connect it to a decently long hallway. It's still not fixing the root of the problem, but it's giving my guys enough time to run over and grab the animal before it bolts.

[Zalzany]

Read there info of each animial, some animials can jump, climb or go under fences making them worthless I assume a goat could just hop a fence its insane how those things can climb and jump if they want to. For these animials you need to put up a wall and a door, and just make it a no roof zone.

[Stormsong]

Make sure you're not using the Locks mod. It allows the animals to use the gates.

In vanilla, you don't have to do anything fancy to keep them penned with little to no oversight. Pen marker, a closed pen, a gate to get the animal inside (they can't use it to leave). Done.

[Koba]

Originally posted by Zalzany:

I assume a goat could just hop a fence its insane how those things can climb and jump if they want to.

Dude, YES! LoL

I already saw a goat "climbing" a tree... and is quite normal find some of them above houses, rocks, cars... Those SOB really likes some fresh air.

[Mist of Majora]

Originally posted by Koba:

Originally posted by Zalzany:

I assume a goat could just hop a fence its insane how those things can climb and jump if they want to.

Dude, YES! LoL

I already saw a goat "climbing" a tree... and is quite normal find some of them above houses, rocks, cars... Those SOB really likes some fresh air.

Thanks everyone! As a matter of a fact I did install the Locks mod yesterday as a way to remedy this situation, but looks like I only made the problem worse lol.

Time to work on making a giant chicken coop for all my animals haha

And wow, is it bad that after reading these comments, I'm suddenly afraid I'll come back to see my colony in fiery rubble with only my goats standing in the nice, fresh air...

[KhalunQalli]

Goats are creative, devious little monsters...

For any animal doesn't adhere to the 'pen' system (for instance my current game is using hares as a food source/ritual sacrifice target) you can always just set an area inside the pen and barn you want them to use and they'll stay in there. Modded animals specifically are great for this as they're not usually tied into the base code that makes "farm" animals stay in pens.

[trickyntt]

I had similar problem, after investigating the issue, noted that I had Locks mod, (used it all the time to prevent visitors to wonder around). So, you might want to check if you using this mod, and try to turn it off. Worked for me