Pens Preferences

[Rael_Barclay]

Argh! I don't know what I'm doing.

I'm trying to separate male and female animals so they do not breed. I cannot move anyone to my other pen because the first pen is better, Cannot rope, already in best pen or something like that. I tried to zone, nope. I tried to turn off the current pen and move just the male or just the female. My pawn moves all the animals. I checked the pasture setting to turn male/female on or only one animal or anything, and I couldn't find it.

I do not want to sterilize because I may want to breed later in the game, when my colony is more stable.

What am I doing wrong?

[Goadfang]

Not sure if this is a mod, but I use the auto slaughter to manage my herds. It takes a bit of thinking to set up, but works great once it's going. Basically, let them breed, then kill the extras.

[Ashiver]

Just release into the wild, slaughter, or sell the extras.

[ZS Maeklos]

Click on the pen marker. In the bottom left of the screen once it's selected, click on the Animals tab. Uncheck either male or female. Do the same for your other pen, but uncheck the opposite one. I.e., have male checked in one pen, female in the other. Then your herders will separate them out, bringing males into the male pen, females into the female pen.

[Rael_Barclay]

Thank you all for your answers! I was trying to convince myself to just slaughter or release them. At the same time, I kept thinking there had to be a solution. I will try what ZS Maeklos said and then resign myself to eating my critters or letting them go and be eaten by predators. :)

[Incidental_Fish]

Originally posted by ZS Maeklos:

Click on the pen marker. In the bottom left of the screen once it's selected, click on the Animals tab. Uncheck either male or female. Do the same for your other pen, but uncheck the opposite one. I.e., have male checked in one pen, female in the other. Then your herders will separate them out, bringing males into the male pen, females into the female pen.

This. It takes some time to figure it out, and there are a bunch of different interfaces when dealing with the animals and pens, but seriously *chef's kiss* This new system is pure class. I think my favorite thing is being able to tell how much natural grass is growing vs how much the animals are eating AND telling you how many you can hold in that pin as a result. The auto slaughter system is really handy too.

Until this update I never once messed around with the animals, but with the fences and the roping, and the everything, ahh I love it. my current colony has a mess of pigs and a few horses now and it's so much fun.

I hope you get it sorted, because it's an amazing change. If it's not on the animals tab, it's probably on the pen post itself.

[ZS Maeklos]

Ahhh, to avoid confusion: the Animals tab I meant is on the bottom left window for the Wooden Pen Marker. There'll be three buttons there: Animals, Food, and Auto-cut. It's that Animals tab I meant, not the one at the bottom of the screen.

It'll be in the same spot that the Bills tab shows up for workstations.

[IcyBuRRitto]

I’m gonna necro this post because I had this issue and pens weren’t sorting for me. I had an “animal gate” connecting both pens which sneakily merged them as one for sorting. You need to use a fence gate between them and then the sorting will work. Animals can freely pass through the animal gate so the sorter sees no sense in fulfilling the pen requirements