Is there a way to lock your doors to wild animals?

[Shnoze Shmon]

I now have an alcoholic squirrel on my hands, I've tamed it and named it Hammer after the initial state I found it in. This isn't the first animal to break into a storage area, but it is the first to add a bar to it's needs.

I'm not looking to contribute to the delinquency of critters, and I don't want to keep my colonist out of a needed storage area.

[schnappkatze]

If colonists close the doors behind them (you can toggle that when clicking on the door) and nothing is blocking the door, wild animals are not supposed to get through or be able to open doors.

[Jaasrg]

Only in Rimworld.

Wild animals should respect closed doors and think this is even a tip game gives when manhunter shows up.
For tamed ones, do they respect area you set them in?

[BlackSmokeDMax]

The only time wild animals can open doors is when they are doors you do not own.

Meaning, this was a door on the map when you started. What you need to do is "claim" it.

[Playzr 🐵]

They only break through owned doors when they don't have access to food (winter) and want to escape the map. This can happen when you build a moat around your settlement, then find that some goat on the inside has bashed its way through your reinforced plasteel door to your kill box.

[Shnoze Shmon]

will try the closing the door behind them toggle, thanks

the tame ones do respect areas, but it's more about restricted from than allowed to go. Of course I haven't tried banning Hammer from the beer. Don't want to see what a squirrel suffering from withdrawal looks like

I built and own it all, 1st game - playing from tutorial - peaceful option, only integration of structure into base is a set of ruins I store chunks in and not physically attached to anything

no moat, no trapped animals

My storage room did have ambrosia but it didn't eat any, nor manage to lite a joint, the other drugs had been recently traded away... how fortuitous. it was also 2 doors from a lot of pen animal food storage which is what a giant sloth got into. Took 5 draftees with firearms standing in doorways playing wack-a-mole to turn that guy into kibble.

[Shnoze Shmon]

I realized I've been very lucky. What if it had been a boom rat instead of a squirrel?

Makes note: NEVER store explosives and beer together.