0005254: Only one member of a flock of Giant Keas steals an item, then the entire flock, except the thief, returns for more.

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0005254

Dwarf Fortress

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public

2012-02-18 03:44

2012-02-20 16:46

Reporter

Incompleteness

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Toady One

Priority

low

Severity

trivial

Reproducibility

have not tried

Status

resolved

Resolution

fixed

Platform

Windows 7 Home Premium

OS Version

64 bits

Product Version

0.34.01

Target Version

Fixed in Version

0.34.03

Summary

0005254: Only one member of a flock of Giant Keas steals an item, then the entire flock, except the thief, returns for more.

Description

The thief leaves the map with the item, triggering an announcement. Then the rest of the flock returns and repeats the operation until the last single Giant Kea has stolen its item.

It seems to me they should all steal an item together and make off with it or follow their leader/thief off the map.

I did not notice normal Kea flocks do this but I wasn't watching closely for them to leave while hiding all my dwarves underground. One of the Giant Keas got a special name after killing a hunter marksdwarf trying to defend the items.

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0003876

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Wild animals keep trying to follow their cage-trapped companions

Notes
(0020028) Pickled Tink (reporter) 2012-02-18 05:42	I think this might be related to the herd pathfinding behaviour I noted and reported in http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=3876 [^] (Though this is not a duplicate of that) Herd pathfinding is a follow the leader conga line. If the leader dies or leaves, next in line becomes the leader. So they run in after the leader, who steals stuff. Then the leader runs away and they follow till it leaves the map, then they go "ooh! Shinies!" and come back for more.

(0020296) Toady One (administrator) 2012-02-20 16:46	Yeah, it was a missing LOOSE_CLUSTERS tag.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2012-02-18 03:44	Incompleteness	New Issue
2012-02-18 05:42	Pickled Tink	Note Added: 0020028
2012-02-18 05:57	Knight Otu	Relationship added	related to 0003876
2012-02-20 16:46	Toady One	Note Added: 0020296
2012-02-20 16:46	Toady One	Status	new => resolved
2012-02-20 16:46	Toady One	Fixed in Version	=> Next Version
2012-02-20 16:46	Toady One	Resolution	open => fixed
2012-02-20 16:46	Toady One	Assigned To	=> Toady One