0004446: Grazing hungry animals eat slower - snowballs starvation - Dwarf Fortress Bug Tracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0004446	Dwarf Fortress	Creatures	public	2011-04-04 12:53	2014-09-12 11:45

Reporter	Dekon	Assigned To	Toady One
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Platform	Windows
Product Version	0.31.25
Fixed in Version	0.40.13

Summary	0004446: Grazing hungry animals eat slower - snowballs starvation
Description	Akin to 4113, and I can't entirely confirm this, though it seems likely. Hunger tends to slow down all activities. One of these activities, one would imagine, is eating. Since larger animals need to feed -all- the time in order to survive, some animals that could normally survive in the current setting cannot if they fall into hunger. Because they're hungry, they eat slower - and because they eat slower, their rate of intake can drop below sustenance. This seems to be especially true with Yaks, who are borderline. If a Yak becomes hungry, he will inevitably die even if given plenty of pasture.
Steps To Reproduce	Start a fortress with a Yak or two. Wait for the Yak to get hungry before assigning it to a pasture. The Yak will constantly eat, but too slowly to survive, thus ultimately dying.
Additional Information	While similar to 4113 and a possible reason, the two are different bugs. 4113 has a general problem that some animals cannot sustain themselves even if eating all the time. This bug is more akin to a specific problem - the possibility that hunger is causing a decrease in eating speed, leading to a snowball effect.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2011-04-04 12:53	Dekon	New Issue
2011-04-04 13:25	~~user6~~	Relationship added	related to 0004113
2014-09-12 11:45	Toady One	Status	new => resolved
2014-09-12 11:45	Toady One	Fixed in Version	=> Next Version
2014-09-12 11:45	Toady One	Resolution	open => fixed
2014-09-12 11:45	Toady One	Assigned To	=> Toady One