Dwarf Fortress Bug Tracker - Dwarf Fortress
View Issue Details
IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0011257Dwarf FortressCreaturespublic2020-01-31 06:552020-02-04 12:23
ReporterTalvieno 
Assigned ToLoci 
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilityalways
StatusresolvedResolutionno change required 
PlatformPCOSWindowsOS Version10
Product Version0.47.01 
Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0011257: Animals not using nest boxes
DescriptionI've made a couple fortresses now and can't seem to get chickens to use nest boxes the way they used to. I've designated a pasture area over the boxes, put hens in the pasture (and I do have roosters), but none of the boxes get claimed.
Steps To ReproduceTry to get a chicken to claim a nest box.

Here's a bugged save: http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=14693 [^]
Additional Information
TagsNo tags attached.
Relationships
Attached Files
Issue History
Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2020-01-31 06:55TalvienoNew Issue
2020-01-31 09:43TalvienoNote Added: 0039737
2020-01-31 10:40TalvienoNote Edited: 0039737bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0039737#r16186
2020-01-31 12:10FantasticDorfNote Added: 0039741
2020-01-31 14:33TalvienoNote Added: 0039743
2020-01-31 14:33TalvienoNote Edited: 0039743bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0039743#r16200
2020-02-03 20:22TalvienoNote Added: 0039842
2020-02-04 01:25FantasticDorfNote Added: 0039852
2020-02-04 12:23LociNote Added: 0039867
2020-02-04 12:23LociStatusnew => resolved
2020-02-04 12:23LociResolutionopen => no change required
2020-02-04 12:23LociAssigned To => Loci

Notes
(0039737)
Talvieno   
2020-01-31 09:43   
(edited on: 2020-01-31 10:40)
An update: After playing further, I'm not sure this is actually a bug. It seems to take a lot longer than it used to for them to claim nest boxes - unsure why - but after about a year, one of the hens did claim a nest box. If that amount of time is a bug, then this could stay open, otherwise I'd mark this as closed.
(0039741)
FantasticDorf   
2020-01-31 12:10   
They should be laying infertile eggs regardless providing you aren't clearing them away. If they're only laying on impregnation, that's a bug in itself compared to previous version's behaviour.
(0039743)
Talvieno   
2020-01-31 14:33   
They don't seem to be hatching eggs at all. Even after claiming the boxes, they don't lay any eggs before they wander back off into the pasture. After a time, the boxes become unclaimed again.
(0039842)
Talvieno   
2020-02-03 20:22   
At year five, the hens are finally using nestboxes. Not sure why it took so long for them to start, but it does mean that this can potentially be closed.
(0039852)
FantasticDorf   
2020-02-04 01:25   
I have tried this save and you have a hen egg barrel on your zlevel 8 food stockpile 5th row from the top, if eggs are being collected to stockpiles (which can be filtered by using stockpile settings, which havent been used as they are set to all food) dwarves will take them away and not allow them to fertilize or poultry to sit upon.

Relevant breeding advice on the wiki involves usually forbidding doors so that dwarves do not path to take fertilized and unfertilized eggs before they hatch when a stockpile is open to deposit to.

(( http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Nest_box#Fertilized_eggs [^] ))
(0039867)
Loci   
2020-02-04 12:23   
Thanks FantasticDorf!