Game Development: Dormant Doe

[jock]

update: most animals seem to be going into hibernation as described now, only seen that one death so far out of maybe 60-100 unfed livestock. Hopefully that means it's at least just an edge case but still a bit scary WRT an alpha male being one of the unlucky victims - but so far it's only been a female which is less concerning.

They should really go in to hibernate 1 food tick before to stop the bug you had where if they tick and death tick at same time. Death takes priority.

[mushtop]

Looks like I had a second death, this time an adult goat female. Didn't notice when this one died, not as close to the minehole. So I guess factor in that maybe up to around 5% of your animals will die when going into hibernation, haven't seen any males die yet but probably try to avoid leaving a solitary male before letting their food run out just in case.

[ChimericalPresence]

best patch of the year

[Detharon]

Looks like I had a second death, this time an adult goat female. Didn't notice when this one died, not as close to the minehole. So I guess factor in that maybe up to around 5% of your animals will die when going into hibernation, haven't seen any males die yet but probably try to avoid leaving a solitary male before letting their food run out just in case.

Maybe it was already starving when the patch was introduced. I don't think the intention of this patch was to prevent the animal starvation deaths altogether:

Animals will, if they fail to find proper nutrition a couple of times, but are on a claim, go dormant, rather than starve to death, indicated by the animals lying down, appearing to relax.

I imagine that if you keep waking him up it will eventually die. Interacting with the animals wake them up.

Likewise, I've seen animals in my village go into hibernation mode while weren't very hungry. For example, I left a horse inside a house and the next day it was hibernating, as nobody interacted with him and there was no food nearby. Since horses don't eat much, it would take much more time for him to actually die.

[jock]

Looks like I had a second death, this time an adult goat female. Didn't notice when this one died, not as close to the minehole. So I guess factor in that maybe up to around 5% of your animals will die when going into hibernation, haven't seen any males die yet but probably try to avoid leaving a solitary male before letting their food run out just in case.

Maybe it was already starving when the patch was introduced. I don't think the intention of this patch was to prevent the animal starvation deaths altogether:

Animals will, if they fail to find proper nutrition a couple of times, but are on a claim, go dormant, rather than starve to death, indicated by the animals lying down, appearing to relax.

I imagine that if you keep waking him up it will eventually die. Interacting with the animals wake them up.

Likewise, I've seen animals in my village go into hibernation mode while weren't very hungry. For example, I left a horse inside a house and the next day it was hibernating, as nobody interacted with him and there was no food nearby. Since horses don't eat much, it would take much more time for him to actually die.

Be funny if when you render them and it does the check out of order so they die.