0008500: Egg-layers abandon eggs to follow trainers

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0008500

Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Mode -- Pets

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2014-11-01 12:07

2014-11-01 17:23

Reporter

Stormfeather

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Priority

normal

Severity

minor

Reproducibility

have not tried

Status

new

Resolution

open

Platform

Windows

OS Version

Win 7 Profess.

Product Version

0.40.14

Target Version

Fixed in Version

Summary

0008500: Egg-layers abandon eggs to follow trainers

Description

I've noticed that when I'm trying to breed once-wild creatures that lay eggs (in this case Emus), when a trainer enters the pasture to train one of them, any other of the creatures bonded to it immediately go toward it - including those that are currently nesting. These emus then continue to bounce back and forth between the trainer and their nest of eggs while the trainer is in the room. Obviously, this ruins the eggs for hatching.

This is (naturally) a big problem for trying to raise more egg-layers that used to be wild, unless maybe you have it set up to have one-by-one rooms with a nesting box and door for each animal (which I don't, but might have to construct for a while)

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Additional Information

Although I'm not a computer program-y person, I wonder if this might be linked to the issue of pets trying to path through the doors constantly - they're perhaps trying to get to their trainers, because the priority for that has changed/is too high?