0004962: War Animals Won't Eat - Dwarf Fortress Bug Tracker

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0004962

Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Mode -- Pets

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2011-11-21 13:23

2014-08-04 15:01

Reporter

Pickerel

Assigned To

Footkerchief

Priority

low

Severity

minor

Reproducibility

always

Status

resolved

Resolution

duplicate

Platform

OS X

OS Version

Leopard

Product Version

0.31.25

Target Version

Fixed in Version

Summary

0004962: War Animals Won't Eat

Description

Part of the reason I put this as such a low priority is because of the fact that I probably modded in the ability to make Elephants myself, making it not a problem for Vanilla DF.
I had my elephants eating just fine (and in fact outcompeting every other creature, it seems), but then I made them War Elephants. They are starving to death even though I have them outside in a nice area full of grasses, and at first I thought it a duplicate of the 'tame animals can't eat fast enough' bug. However as I watched and checked back every so often, I noticed that they were not even eating the grass. I put them indoors to see if they could eat indoor 'grass'. They will not do so, even though they are starving while other animals in similar situations immediately eat a ton of grass and fill themselves up.
I searched and could not find a reference to this exact problem, leading me to believe that I most likely, long ago, modded in the ability to have War Elephants (though it is realistic: they did exist). So anyway, when making a creature a war creature, it seems to remove the ability to eat, making the creature quickly starve to death. Hence this bug report. I think that is all.

Steps To Reproduce

Get an animal that grazes.
Go to the raws and give it the ability to become a war animal.
In-game, capture or bring along one of these creatures.
Make the animal a war animal. I recommend elephants.
Place animal anywhere, or allow to roam.
Watch for signs of the animal eating grasses. Likely observe no such feeding behavior.
Cry as your precious war animal starves to death regardless of the abundant food around it.
Repeat ad nauseum.

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0004113

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Toady One

Large grazers (elephants and giraffes) can't eat fast enough to keep from starving

Notes
(0019059) UristDaVinci (reporter) 2011-11-30 18:05	Tame Elephants are currently bugged, and will die of starvation while eating, because they can't eat fast enough. Did you try your experiment with war goats or any other small grazing animal?

(0019241) Footkerchief (manager) 2011-12-22 10:02	Reminder sent to: Pickerel Can you reproduce this problem with smaller war animals e.g. goats?

(0024293) Footkerchief (manager) 2014-01-20 19:28	Didn't get follow-up info.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2011-11-21 13:23	Pickerel	New Issue
2011-11-30 18:05	UristDaVinci	Note Added: 0019059
2011-12-07 09:27	Footkerchief	Tag Attached: AWAITING UPDATE
2011-12-07 09:28	Footkerchief	Relationship added	related to 0004113
2011-12-22 10:02	Footkerchief	Note Added: 0019241
2014-01-20 19:28	Footkerchief	Note Added: 0024293
2014-01-20 19:28	Footkerchief	Status	new => resolved
2014-01-20 19:28	Footkerchief	Resolution	open => duplicate
2014-01-20 19:28	Footkerchief	Assigned To	=> Footkerchief
2014-08-04 15:01	Footkerchief	Tag Detached: AWAITING UPDATE