Wild animals open doors?

[Axebeard]

Has this always been a thing? I played DF ages ago and don't recall badgers being able to just open any door they wanted. I also noticed a distinct lack of "no-pets-allowed" doors.

[Other]

No-pets-allowed doors were deliberately removed, since they were the cause of a nasty FPS drop when used as intended. An animal that wanted to go through the door but couldn't would recalculate its path every tick, just in case some dwarf had opened the door ... but pathfinding is expensive.

[ziroc]

Yep. Yesterday I had a couple of giant ravens casually going through the main entrance and causing lots or fun.

[JerryTheCultist]

Originally posted by Other:

No-pets-allowed doors were deliberately removed, since they were the cause of a nasty FPS drop when used as intended. An animal that wanted to go through the door but couldn't would recalculate its path every tick, just in case some dwarf had opened the door ... but pathfinding is expensive.

the fact that was removed is pretty depressing, i get that the game is complex and its not that simple

but "♥♥♥♥ it animals can open doors now" is such a horrid solution

[Jiraboas]

Is there any way to prevent animals from entering fortresses? I have a herd of yaks outside my fortress and they keep entering my fort, going berserk and hurting my dogs until my dwarves kill them.

I dont get this. Why placing doors is a thing, when wild animals can just walk into your fort without any problems? That doesnt make the slightest of sense...

[Liren]

Originally posted by Jiraboas:

Is there any way to prevent animals from entering fortresses?

Drawbridge for an entrance. When you need to get in and out? Open it, otherwise leave it closed and it will no longer be considered a valid path.

Edit: flood gates work as well.

[Vanguard]

Could you just “forbid” the doors? Also you could set lots of cage traps in your entrance but make sure they don’t block wagons from going to your trade depot.

[Jiraboas]

Originally posted by Vanguard:

Could you just “forbid” the doors?

Yes, but dwarves will be not able to enter as well. There seems to be no way to block it for anyone else but your own dwarves.

[Jiraboas]

Originally posted by Liren:

Originally posted by Jiraboas:

Is there any way to prevent animals from entering fortresses?

Drawbridge for an entrance. When you need to get in and out? Open it, otherwise leave it closed and it will no longer be considered a valid path.

Edit: flood gates work as well.

Thanks, will try that. I dont build a drawbridge yet, is it possible early game? Will try floodgates as well, thanks!

[Jiraboas]

Originally posted by yolodriven:

This is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hilarious and so typical of Dwarf Fortress design decisions. I have nothing useful to say here, just laughing at the absurduty.

Yes it is! :D Fortunately wild animals ignore and/or avoid floodgates, so if you use floodgates instead they seem to ignore it even if the floodgates are open.

But this makes even less sense: If the reason why they can use doors is that they would cause fps problems with the pathfinding, why then floodgates works without any problems? They have to check the path to the floodgates as well...?

Really dont get this

[AlP]

Animals always opened doors. What was removed is just the pet setting.

[Perenti]

You need to move your yaks into the caverns