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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
0004113 | Dwarf Fortress | Vegetation | public | 2011-03-03 09:49 | 2014-09-25 21:29 | |
Reporter | Alumine | |||||
Assigned To | Toady One | |||||
Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | have not tried | |
Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | |||
Platform | OS | OS Version | ||||
Product Version | 0.31.19 | |||||
Target Version | Fixed in Version | 0.40.13 | ||||
Summary | 0004113: Large grazers (elephants and giraffes) can't eat fast enough to keep from starving | |||||
Description | Aside from the path-finding bug, there is another problem. Even if I permanently move my animals around, so that they find new grass tiles, I noticed Elephants and Giraffes are still always hungry and starving to death after some time. It's like they can't eat fast enough. Elephant raw has a note. [GRAZER:12] don't have browsing trees yet So it looks like at some point, they should be able to eat off trees, which should fix the issue of them starving. | |||||
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(0015709) Footkerchief (manager) 2011-03-03 09:51 |
Reminder sent to: Alumine Are you able to rule out 0004018 as the cause? |
(0015714) Naros (reporter) 2011-03-03 12:59 edited on: 2011-03-03 13:00 |
The only way Elephants will be able to keep from starving is if they ate every tick, and happened to stand on a magical tile of grass that is never depleted. As it is understood: 1 time unit adds 1 hunger Eating reduces hunger by 12 units. Eating or moving requires 10 time units. Eat + Move = 20 time units. So any grazing creature that has a GRAZER value of less than 20 will starve even on perfect grazing grounds. Browsing trees will likely solve it for elephants, so it's a matter of waiting for the BROWSER ability to be implemented, in addition to animal feed like hay? |
(0015882) Alumine (reporter) 2011-03-07 03:18 |
yes. 0004018 is definitely not the cause. animal feed would be awesome! |
(0015910) hyperactiveChipmunk (reporter) 2011-03-07 11:39 |
Confirming. My war rhinos suffer the same fate, it seems. Nobody fears my emaciated, waif-like rhinos. >8( |
(0015914) DoctorZuber (reporter) 2011-03-07 11:45 |
Noo.... How can we have mighty rampaging elephants if they're all dead!? Sounds like this calls for a raw edit till this gets fixed proper-like. |
(0015986) Rhenaya (reporter) 2011-03-08 20:25 |
this is even a problem with water buffalos (60 grazer), only cows and upward (120 grazer) dont seem to starve while grazing |
(0017062) Dekon (reporter) 2011-04-04 12:00 |
Can confirm - Yaks seem to barely eventually starve after a long, grueling period - despite being able to constantly consume. Honestly it just sounds like the amount of hunger eating reduces needs to be upped, with perhaps more food being required for smaller animals (referencing wiki chart on pasture). Yaks shouldn't have to eat -ALL- the time to survive anyway, nor should elephants. While feed/browsing may help, Yaks still won't browse, even when browser is introduced - so they'd still die. |
(0017063) ellindsey (reporter) 2011-04-04 12:06 |
I've been able to keep yaks alive, and even breed them, but only by creating very large pastures and rotating them to new grazing ground after they destroy all the grass in the old one. Also, I keep numbers down to less than half a dozen adults. |
(0017065) Dekon (reporter) 2011-04-04 12:46 |
All I had were two yaks on a 17x21 pasture, and they certainly hadn't consumed everything. They both starved to death. What -MIGHT- have happened is this - The Yaks were hungry when I put them on the pasture. Hunger slows down activities...which might include eating. If hunger slows down eating, then the Yaks would eat slower, and thus would not be able to maintain themselves. This would snowball, and especially a starving Yak would not be able to survive long. |
(0017356) Alumine (reporter) 2011-04-14 06:40 |
well I modified the grazervalues to a minimum of 100, nothing starved so far. |
(0017367) kwieland (reporter) 2011-04-14 12:59 |
It could be related to the bug that makes animals graze only on the north (west?) corner of a pasture. |
(0017926) Alumine (reporter) 2011-06-03 07:19 |
I think everything on DF starts in the northwest if they have the choice. If you channel a square in the ground for example, they'll start in the northwest |
(0018243) theothersteve7 (reporter) 2011-07-15 07:09 |
From a balance standpoint, the amount of open grassy space you need per animal is awfully high. High enough that animals bigger than alpacas and goats aren't really worth it in practice, especially with milking and shearing where they are, and that cat farming seems like a logical course of action for leather. Dwarves are traditionally decked out in kitten leather. Raising grazervalues seems like a very wise decision; 60-100 seems a fair minimum given animal stupidity. You may wish to make animal hides not all a constant 1 per animal as well, and to change the milking increment per species. |
(0018260) Kumquat (reporter) 2011-07-16 10:11 |
Indeed. From a realism standpoint, the amount of feed grazers need isn't linearly related to mass. A vole, for instance, needs to eat about its own weight a day to survive, and it's rather ludicrous to imagine an elephant doing so. Larger animals have slower metabolism, and probably also relatively more 'low-metabolism' tissue like fat and bones. A square-root relationship would probably be closer to realism, so you'd get 3 sheep 40kg each eating as much as a single 400kg cow. Then again, animals from harsh biomes, such as yaks and camels, should thrive with even less, but that probably goes beyond automatic tweaking. |
(0018267) kwieland (reporter) 2011-07-17 07:58 |
I was thinking about this yesterday as I was out hiking. Does it make sense for elephants to live any climate? Probably not. But, you could raise them anywhere with the ability to stock food and feed them "hay" or some such feeding mechanism. |
(0018754) kenoh (reporter) 2011-09-23 21:46 |
Posted this in the suggestion forums. Kumquat has the exact right idea. For the grand majority of animals, for every double in size their metabolism only goes up 75%. It's called Kleiber's Law. I would bet that Toady would like to see the math for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleiber%27s_law [^] |
(0023500) nshapter (reporter) 2012-08-28 08:54 |
^Bump^ This is still the case in 34.11 I have an approximately 20x20 pasture with nothing but one starving Rhinoceros assigned. |
(0030033) ptb_ptb (reporter) 2014-09-08 07:37 edited on: 2014-09-08 07:39 |
Water buffalo still starving in 40.11 |
Issue History | |||
Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
2011-03-03 09:49 | Alumine | New Issue | |
2011-03-03 09:51 | Footkerchief | Note Added: 0015709 | |
2011-03-03 09:51 | Footkerchief | Relationship added | related to 0004018 |
2011-03-03 09:52 | Footkerchief | Summary | Elephants and similar dying => Elephants and giraffes can't eat fast enough to keep from starving |
2011-03-03 12:09 | Hieronymous Alloy | Issue Monitored: Hieronymous Alloy | |
2011-03-03 12:59 | Naros | Note Added: 0015714 | |
2011-03-03 13:00 | Naros | Note Edited: 0015714 | View Revisions |
2011-03-03 13:47 | Khym Chanur | Issue Monitored: Khym Chanur | |
2011-03-07 03:18 | Alumine | Note Added: 0015882 | |
2011-03-07 11:39 | hyperactiveChipmunk | Note Added: 0015910 | |
2011-03-07 11:45 | DoctorZuber | Note Added: 0015914 | |
2011-03-08 20:25 | Rhenaya | Note Added: 0015986 | |
2011-03-27 07:32 | Footkerchief | Relationship added | related to 0004354 |
2011-03-27 20:49 | Footkerchief | Relationship added | related to 0004367 |
2011-04-02 13:49 | Footkerchief | Summary | Elephants and giraffes can't eat fast enough to keep from starving => Large grazers (elephants and giraffes) can't eat fast enough to keep from starving |
2011-04-04 12:00 | Dekon | Note Added: 0017062 | |
2011-04-04 12:06 | ellindsey | Note Added: 0017063 | |
2011-04-04 12:46 | Dekon | Note Added: 0017065 | |
2011-04-04 13:25 | Footkerchief | Relationship added | related to 0004446 |
2011-04-14 06:40 | Alumine | Note Added: 0017356 | |
2011-04-14 12:59 | kwieland | Note Added: 0017367 | |
2011-06-03 07:19 | Alumine | Note Added: 0017926 | |
2011-07-15 07:09 | theothersteve7 | Note Added: 0018243 | |
2011-07-16 10:11 | Kumquat | Note Added: 0018260 | |
2011-07-17 07:58 | kwieland | Note Added: 0018267 | |
2011-07-22 16:51 | Vherid | Issue Monitored: Vherid | |
2011-09-23 21:46 | kenoh | Note Added: 0018754 | |
2011-12-07 09:28 | Footkerchief | Relationship added | related to 0004962 |
2012-08-28 08:54 | nshapter | Note Added: 0023500 | |
2012-08-30 04:07 | Knight Otu | Relationship added | has duplicate 0006181 |
2014-08-09 11:32 | Footkerchief | Assigned To | => Footkerchief |
2014-08-09 11:32 | Footkerchief | Status | new => confirmed |
2014-08-09 11:57 | 4maskwolf | Issue Monitored: 4maskwolf | |
2014-09-08 07:37 | ptb_ptb | Note Added: 0030033 | |
2014-09-08 07:39 | ptb_ptb | Note Edited: 0030033 | View Revisions |
2014-09-12 11:44 | Toady One | Status | confirmed => resolved |
2014-09-12 11:44 | Toady One | Fixed in Version | => Next Version |
2014-09-12 11:44 | Toady One | Resolution | open => fixed |
2014-09-12 11:44 | Toady One | Assigned To | Footkerchief => Toady One |
2014-09-25 21:29 | 4maskwolf | Issue End Monitor: 4maskwolf | |
2015-01-03 13:41 | Footkerchief | Relationship added | related to 0004637 |
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