Seagulls flying through walls

[SplodyGoblin]

created an entirely enclosed farm only to learn that the seagull just come through the wall, as well as entirely ignoring scarecrows. wondering if it would be possible to patch this in the future, similar to the shark swimming through land issue from before

[The Minted Lady]

This. As it stands, I find it useless to have crops at all because they're more work to maintain and protect. Meat is a lot less trouble keep as a food source. I also noticed that after the recent big patch, seagulls do not seem to be distracted by scarecrows at all.

[Gunthrek]

My scarecrows still seem to work for the most part. I do think they should increase the radius of their effectiveness so you don't have to have scarecrows all over the place.

[Closer of Doors]

Scarecrows seem to work for me to some extent, but I agree that crops aren't worth the trouble after a while.

[steveman0]

Really? I entirely closed a room for growing crops as I saw elsewhere that's an effective strategy. I went several hours without seeing any seagulls. The room is a small roughly 3x3 shape with solid wood walls, wood roof, and door that I keep closed when I'm not working inside.

[SplodyGoblin]

I made mine out of thatch, but It'd be pretty interesting to see if the AI responded differently to the 2. I strait up watch the seagulls plunge through my walls

[The Minted Lady]

Update to this request:

I'm playing right now, with a two-story raft. The second floor has my kitchen and the first floor has my small/medium crop plots in a 2x3 room surrounded by wooden walls, with a floor above and reinforced foundation below. The 3x4 kitchen is directly above that.

Well, while I was in my kitchen refilling the water purifier, a seagull flew right in front of me--vertically through the floor--and started pecking at my crops. As soon as it disappeared into the floor, I heard the attacking noises and rushed downstairs to see it for myself. It was there, attacking one of the medium plots, and fly right through one of the walls when I got there to scare it away.

So yes, I still feel this needs to be addressed. They didn't just fly through wooden walls, they also flew through a wooden floor.

[Natjur]

They ignore walls and floors and attack crops and from what I read the devs designed it that way so you have to protect crops manually and with scarecrows. You can't just box them in

Being able to 'box in' crops to stop crows = too easy food with no cost.
Scarecrows work but need to be remade so there is a cost and be place in the right spots

[SplodyGoblin]

If the scarecrows work, I have yet to see it. even when they go for the scarecrow over the crops, it's done for in one or at most 2 attacks. I feel it needs improving

[Gunthrek]

The scarecrows aren't reliable enough to justify making them the primary source of deterrence. Their effective radius is too small, and sometimes the seagulls still go after crops instead of the scarecrow. I don't want to have dozens of scarecrows cluttering up the raft and requiring constant maintenance. One or two should be reasonable, as IRL you usually see one in the middle of a very large field.

[Rafa Jones]

引用自 Redleader4571：

created an entirely enclosed farm only to learn that the seagull just come through the wall, as well as entirely ignoring scarecrows. wondering if it would be possible to patch this in the future, similar to the shark swimming through land issue from before

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[The Minted Lady]

Well if it's that way by design, then there really is no reason for me to keep crops. I primarily eat coconut chicken and whatever meat I get from fishing/island boars. It's a lot easier and less frustrating than having my crops pecked at constantly. I'll just have to keep getting my watermelon, pineapples, and flowers from islands.

I can understand wanting to maintain the challenge but right now there's no incentive for me to deal with crops. I keep two nests where I can easily shoot them, so I don't need crops to coerce the gulls.

[Anonymous Helper]

Maybe devs will eventually fix the seagull clipping thru walls but at the same time make plants require direct sunlight to grow to prevent players from placing them in enclosed places. How does that sound?

[hazardousgamingarcades]

引用自 The Minted Lady：

... then there really is no reason for me to keep crops.

There is a certain item now, biofuel refiner that uses raw food. So maintaining some crops is beneficial.

引用自 Avarus Brightfyre：

The scarecrows aren't reliable enough to justify making them the primary source of deterrence. Their effective radius is too small, and sometimes the seagulls still go after crops instead of the scarecrow. I don't want to have dozens of scarecrows cluttering up the raft and requiring constant maintenance. One or two should be reasonable, as IRL you usually see one in the middle of a very large field.

Scarecrows work just fine, you most likely aren't applying them correcrly. Use them when you leave your raft, that way crops arent destroyed by the time you make it back. When repairing them, you get back all but 2 pieces of the recipe so no huge cost. And they can be placed really close to crop plots. So for you to need a dozen scarecrows, then you gotta have somewhere around 2 dozen crop plots. Which if it is the case, I don't think you need to worry about the scarecrows cluttering your raft.

And with the whole "in real life" thing, come on people this is a game. These are "Raft" seagulls, not "Earth" seagulls. There are birds that can pull stones from the ground and drop them on your head. "Earth" birds can't do that, they'd hit the ground fast with a rock in their talens. So with that, is it really too hard to imagine the seagulls may just be hungry and strong enough to plow through your flimsy raft walls and floors and get to your crops?

引用自 Anonymous Helper：

Maybe devs will eventually fix the seagull clipping thru walls but at the same time make plants require direct sunlight to grow to prevent players from placing them in enclosed places. How does that sound? :wizorbwink:

And that sure would be an interesting mechanic.

[Player 1]

OK... that the Dev. did this on purpose that Birds can Fly trough all would be Stupid (sorry). This Game is allready VERY hard if you are "Single Player". Good that i read this Post before i did Build crops on my Raft like i planned to do... Who needs Healthy food if you have no Time for nothing allready ?

[SparkPlug]

Here's my suggested solution: have the seagulls attack crops/plants while they are growing but ignore them once fully grown.

That way, people who want them for decoration no longer have to worry, but people constantly replanting for a source of food/dyes will need to keep guard.