0010532: Animals without certain tags will not spawn in sites even if forced to be present

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0010532

Dwarf Fortress

Animal Populations

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2018-01-17 11:59

2018-01-17 13:27

Reporter

squamouss

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Priority

normal

Severity

minor

Reproducibility

always

Status

new

Resolution

open

Platform

Windows

OS Version

Windows 10

Product Version

0.44.05

Target Version

Fixed in Version

Summary

0010532: Animals without certain tags will not spawn in sites even if forced to be present

Description

If you take a creature, set it to spawn in a certain civ but nowhere else using ANIMAL_ALWAYS_PRESENT, and give it nothing but the PET and TRAINABLE tags, you will be lucky if you can even get two of such animals throughout the entire civilization. However, if you add something like WAGON_PULLER, HUNTS_VERMIN, or one of the other behavior tags, they will suddenly appear by the hundreds. I do not know if this is intentional or not but having some means to ensure creatures without these functionalities will be common in a civilization would be a great asset to modders.

Steps To Reproduce

Set it so a creature does not spawn in the wild, and use the new animal class system to have it always present in the civ of your choice. Then, make sure the only animal tags it has are PET and TRAINABLE, or even just PET. If you check animal populations, there will be at maximum ten of them in the entire civilization, but more often there will be less than that.

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