Doors vs animal flaps. Do animals pass doors?

[Twilight]

Can it be that only the flaps let animals pass? Or does it depend on trainability... I have some animal stables/barracks within my base as a safe zone, bt if the animals are not able to roam through the corridor doors that's useless now.

Anybody has an answer?

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Originally posted by Alex Misanthropic:

Originally posted by BlackSmokeDMax:

They will not open doors. However, if you leave a door held open, they will go through it, and it will expand a pen area to include that new area, if enclosed.

my animals are passing doors and leaving animal pens whenever they want. you guys have any idea why?

Are they doors you built, or are they doors that were there at the beginning of the game? If they are from the beginning, make sure to claim those doors. Un-claimed doors are free to pass for both animals and raiders.

Or are you talking about the animals sneaking out when one of your pawns goes through? If so, you could build a small "airlock" of fence gates. I put one of those near all exits to my compound, just as a easy, cheap prevention in case something else happens to the main pen.

Not sure what else it could be. Perhaps a screen shot or something...

[Jethmar]

Originally posted by Alex Misanthropic:

Originally posted by BlackSmokeDMax:

They will not open doors. However, if you leave a door held open, they will go through it, and it will expand a pen area to include that new area, if enclosed.

my animals are passing doors and leaving animal pens whenever they want. you guys have any idea why?

figured it out myself: the mod "lock doors" is creating this error

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Originally posted by Alex Misanthropic:

Originally posted by Alex Misanthropic:

my animals are passing doors and leaving animal pens whenever they want. you guys have any idea why?

figured it out myself: the mod "lock doors" is creating this error

Ah! Glad you got it sorted!

[Mindless Dupe]

Originally posted by Twilight:

Autodoors also won't let animals pass?

It depends on the type of animal. Pen animals (horses, donkeys, ducks) will only go through animal flaps on their own. They can be led through doors by pawns. Some animals (guinea pigs, hares, boomrats, e.g.) - any that can be assigned areas - and will go through doors on their own subject to area control. (Just learned all this today myself.) LOL.

[Astasia]

Pretty sure they figured that out too in the 6 months since this thread died.

[Cheet4h]

Originally posted by Astasia:

Pretty sure they figured that out too in the 6 months since this thread died.

On the other hand, people searching the forums for a question like that and stumbling on this thread will now actually find a solution and don't need to start their own thread.

I mean, most people won't do a search and just start another thread anyway, but maybe it helps a little.

[Astasia]

It was answered/explained in the very first reply to this thread.