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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0013130 | Dwarf Fortress | Creatures | public | 2025-03-26 11:01 | 2025-03-26 11:33 |
| Reporter | Gnomeknight | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Platform | Microsoft Windows | OS | Windows 10 Pro | OS Version | 22H2 |
| Product Version | 51.08 | ||||
| Summary | 0013130: Water buffalo get a negative thought from being caught in the rain | ||||
| Description | When caught in the rain, water buffalo get a negative thought ("is [annoyed/dejected/exasperated/grouchy] when caught in the rain"). Water buffalo should not develop a negative thought from being outside while it is raining. Instead, they should get a positive thought, because they need rain and humidity to thermoregulate on dry land in real life. In years without a lot of rainfall, they are forced to relocate to permanent wetlands, or else they die horrible deaths from heatstroke. Let them be unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In their lane. Focused. Flourishing. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | This bug was first noticed during a Fortress Mode playthrough. In order to reproduce it, the following steps were taken: 1.) A new object testing arena world was created. The selected world type was "small arena" because of the map's lack of protection from rainfall. 2.) The game was paused, and weather/temperature/time settings were recorded as follows: no cumulus clouds, no stratus, no fog, warm, noon. (These are the default settings.) 3.) A sample of 100 water buffalo (50 cows, 50 bulls) was spawned onto the map's grass tiles (dense field sedge) for testing. To prevent infighting, all water buffalo in the sample were members of Side 0000001. Bulls and cows were segregated into two separate cohorts based on sex, and were placed at opposite sides of the map. All water buffalo in Sample 1(a) were between the ages of 4–6 years old, healthy, and had no equipment, skills, recent thoughts, memories, values, preferences, or needs. No conditions were checked off. 4.) The personality facets of each water buffalo were assessed. 19% of the sample (8 cows, 11 bulls) "does not mind being outdoors, at least for a time," 10% (4 cows, 6 bulls) "likes working outdoors and grumbles only mildly at inclement weather," and the remaining 71% (38 cows, 33 bulls) did not have any outdoor/weather-specific personality facets. 5.) The game was unpaused and immediately paused again, and all water buffalo were checked to see if they had developed any recent thoughts. None had. 6.) The weather settings were changed from "no cumulus clouds" to "many cumulus (rain)." Stratus, fog, temperature, and time settings were left unchanged. 7.) The game was unpaused and immediately paused again, and all water buffalo were assessed to record their reaction. All of them had developed the negative thought "is [annoyed/dejected/exasperated/grouchy] when caught in the rain." | ||||
| Additional Information | There's some other creatures/animal people that this applies to (e.g. hippos, amphibian men, giant slugs), but I don't know whether to make separate reports for those or compile them all under here. | ||||
| Tags | animals, creatures, livestock, Rain, thoughts, Weather | ||||
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-26 11:01 | Gnomeknight | New Issue | |
| 2025-03-26 11:01 | Gnomeknight | Tag Attached: animals | |
| 2025-03-26 11:01 | Gnomeknight | Tag Attached: creatures | |
| 2025-03-26 11:01 | Gnomeknight | Tag Attached: livestock | |
| 2025-03-26 11:01 | Gnomeknight | Tag Attached: Rain | |
| 2025-03-26 11:01 | Gnomeknight | Tag Attached: thoughts | |
| 2025-03-26 11:01 | Gnomeknight | Tag Attached: Weather | |
| 2025-03-26 11:32 | Quietust | Note Added: 0042618 | |
| 2025-03-26 11:33 | Quietust | Note Edited: 0042618 |
