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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0004637Dwarf FortressDwarf Mode -- Petspublic2011-05-14 08:462017-12-16 16:27
Reporterking doom Assigned Tolethosor  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status acknowledgedResolutionreopened 
Product Version0.31.25 
Fixed in Version0.40.13 
Summary0004637: Elk birds starve to death trying to hatch eggs because of [GRAZER] tag.
DescriptionSummary says it all. I caught and tamed a bunch of elk birds, made a pasture for them, added some hatching boxes, the females run to the hatching boxes, lay eggs and slowly starve to death trying to hatch them.
Steps To ReproduceCatch elk birds. Put elk birds in pasture. Put nest box in pasture. Watch female elk birds starve to death.
Additional InformationObviously this goes away if you remove the grazing tag from the raws.
Tags0.31.25, animals, pasture

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related to 0004113 resolvedToady One Large grazers (elephants and giraffes) can't eat fast enough to keep from starving 

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user11

2014-04-06 11:25

  ~0024676

Acknowledging this - don't believe it requires a save.

bjh21

2015-01-03 11:58

reporter   ~0031666

I think the grazing fixes in 0.40.13 have fixed this. Five elk bird hatchlings just hatched in my vanilla 0.40.22 fortress (though the eggs were laid in an earlier version).

user6

2015-01-03 13:41

  ~0031668

K, we'll call it fixed.

Please PM a manager on the forums (or reopen the report) if this problem is still present in the latest version.

Loci

2015-07-02 12:51

viewer   ~0032834

Confirmed in v0.40.24.

While they *may* survive if their eggs hatch and they don't immediately lay more, I had 3/3 starve in one year with unfertilized eggs. And that was with occasional flying critters scaring them halfway across the map. Dwarves would drag them back to their pasture and they would immediately return to their hunger strike atop the nest box.

king doom

2017-10-21 05:13

reporter   ~0036801

Still around as of 43.05

FantasticDorf

2017-10-21 09:13

reporter   ~0036802

Last edited: 2017-10-21 09:15

 Relation could be established to 0004018 and 0007933 since grazers don't path towards grass with the intention of eating it, as much as randomly meander and eat grass underneath their tile randomly.

A fix the player can do themselves is to raise grazer co-efficient then station the egg boxes over lush areas of grass to reduce consumption, but that workaround renders grazing pointless.

Or alternatively take the elk bird aside into a cage, feed with dwarves on cage feeding labours then release back into pasture onto the eggs, but that requires micromanagement.

mrmagolor

2017-12-16 16:27

reporter   ~0037335

Still present in 0.44.01.

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Date Modified Username Field Change
2011-05-14 08:46 king doom New Issue
2011-05-14 09:30 king doom Tag Attached: 0.31.25
2011-05-14 09:30 king doom Tag Attached: animals
2011-05-14 09:31 king doom Tag Attached: pasture
2014-04-06 11:23 user11 Category Dwarf Mode -- Interface, Animals => Creatures
2014-04-06 11:24 user11 Summary Elk birds starve to death trying to hatch eggs. => Elk birds starve to death trying to hatch eggs because of [GRAZER] tag.
2014-04-06 11:25 user11 Note Added: 0024676
2014-04-06 11:25 user11 Assigned To => user11
2014-04-06 11:25 user11 Status new => acknowledged
2014-04-06 11:26 user11 Category Creatures => Dwarf Mode -- Pets
2015-01-03 11:58 bjh21 Note Added: 0031666
2015-01-03 13:41 user6 Relationship added related to 0004113
2015-01-03 13:41 user6 Note Added: 0031668
2015-01-03 13:41 user6 Status acknowledged => resolved
2015-01-03 13:41 user6 Fixed in Version => 0.40.13
2015-01-03 13:41 user6 Resolution open => fixed
2015-01-03 13:41 user6 Assigned To user11 => Toady One
2015-07-01 15:45 Loci Tag Attached: not fixed
2015-07-01 21:17 lethosor Assigned To Toady One => lethosor
2015-07-01 21:17 lethosor Status resolved => acknowledged
2015-07-01 21:17 lethosor Tag Detached: not fixed
2015-07-01 21:17 lethosor Resolution fixed => reopened
2015-07-02 12:51 Loci Note Added: 0032834
2017-10-21 05:13 king doom Note Added: 0036801
2017-10-21 09:13 FantasticDorf Note Added: 0036802
2017-10-21 09:15 FantasticDorf Note Edited: 0036802
2017-12-16 16:27 mrmagolor Note Added: 0037335