Shove vols escaping

[hunter]

I've built the refined metal enclosure for them. But it seems as soon as they barf dirt they can borrow through it outside. What gives? Is this a bug?

[zOldBulldog]

No idea, but you can probably remove the dirt with an autosweeper before they can get out.

[Rogue]

Attach a robominer on the ceiling to break up barfed stuff, more stuff for them to eat as well. Or you can use double tile as their dig range is 2 spaces..

I had a ranch with over 50+ voles and is built out of bunker tiles and has the room size of the sweep area of the robominer. Everytime I go to get meat, my calories count went up by around 500k+ due to the great vole culling. lol.

[Crack Panther]

https://imgur.com/IE5WL7z

[Crack Panther]

also, make sure your pneumatic door is higher than your floor (this seems to help)

[ZaphodCortez]

Put the door in the roof, and make the room so that there is at least a 1 tile space all around it. That way, if they somehow escape, they aren't going anywhere far.

[Battleseed]

Originally posted by ZaphodCortez:

Put the door in the roof, and make the room so that there is at least a 1 tile space all around it. That way, if they somehow escape, they aren't going anywhere far.

Needs to be 2 spaces.

[madcow]

I just keep wild voles, I don't bother taming them or feeding them.

One food source among many that the only effort I put into it is making a cruelly tiny all metal pen that I shove them into and then forget about until I feel like fetching the meat.

[Crack Panther]

Originally posted by madcow:

I just keep wild voles, I don't bother taming them or feeding them.

One food source among many that the only effort I put into it is making a cruelly tiny all metal pen that I shove them into and then forget about until I feel like fetching the meat.

Indeed, that is the most profitable method... but that only works if you got a lot of wild shove voles or if it's not your main food source :) i tamed a couple to increase the population and then wrangled the rest of the wild ones into the pen

I seem to be able to maintain a population of 40 tame / 10 wild with just the regolith from the meteor showers which is more meat than you'll ever need ^^

[zOldBulldog]

Originally posted by madcow:

I just keep wild voles, I don't bother taming them or feeding them.

One food source among many that the only effort I put into it is making a cruelly tiny all metal pen that I shove them into and then forget about until I feel like fetching the meat.

Screenshot please? Sounds perfect to shove the voles we get from the printer until ready to do a full-fledge farm.

[madcow]

Originally posted by zOldBulldog:

Originally posted by madcow:

I just keep wild voles, I don't bother taming them or feeding them.

One food source among many that the only effort I put into it is making a cruelly tiny all metal pen that I shove them into and then forget about until I feel like fetching the meat.

Screenshot please? Sounds perfect to shove the voles we get from the printer until ready to do a full-fledge farm.

Not able to do a screenshot atm, but all it is is a 6x6 box made up of a door and metal tiles with the critter drop off for wild voles wrangled and a storage container if I want to drop off eggs I get from Printer Pod.

That is literally it. It could be smaller, but I like my rooms 4 tiles high and I just usually make the box square. Oh and I build it where its there is CO2 so the meat doesn't spoil if my Dupes are busy. Its so basic I don't bother with automation like a sweeper unless I'm bored. But adding a sweeper is pretty easy since it uses little room.

[hunter]

Thanks for all the suggestions! Think the robominer would be the answer. It wasn't the door they were escaping through. But borrowing through a barfed dirt pile and to another side of a wall.

[Battleseed]

Originally posted by zOldBulldog:

Screenshot please? Sounds perfect to shove the voles we get from the printer until ready to do a full-fledge farm.

Not complicated. Simple metal box with a bin marked to sweep Vol eggs. 9 Vols and 6 eggs in that box pictured. The ones wrangled in space are put in a similar but larger box to fit a critter drop off. No feeding occurs, so they don't throw up anything. It's temp housing till you are ready to setup a proper ranch.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1854733862
Obviously, don't forget to empty the eggs from the bin. Vols don't cramp, so no need to remove eggs from the box.