Sheep AI

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dageir
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Sheep AI

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I am having close to a mental breakdown here.
Whenever I open the gate to the sheep they start to bounce off the walls of their enclosure and on or two of them get out as they come bouncing off a wall.
Normal sheep would follow the human coming into the enclosure in expectation of food or treats. Please have a look at the sheep.
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Re: Sheep AI

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your pens are too small!
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Re: Sheep AI

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shubla wrote:your pens are too small!
Sheep are animals, not pool balls!
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Re: Sheep AI

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happen to all animals, they might have 20x50 pens and yet they still all crawl to the gate and just stand there
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Re: Sheep AI

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Domestic animals (non-leashed) being somewhat attracted to a closest food trough, would it be cool?
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Part of the charm of the animals is that they behave in a similar fashion to real life animals. I know my cat does things like puke on my bed or attack me at random times. Animals making a bee line for the exit and causing general anxiety and frustration is part of the immersion.
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Re: Sheep AI

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dageir ... you prolly just have found another noob job: bouncer at animal pens ;)
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Re: Sheep AI

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borka wrote:dageir ... you prolly just have found another noob job: bouncer at animal pens ;)
Maybe, but shooing only gives them a new chance to bounce out of the pen.
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Re: Sheep AI

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build the walls out of benches then itll no longer happen to get stuff out have a cart or wagon and a cistern in place of the benches
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Re: Sheep AI

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nosfirebird wrote:build the walls out of benches then itll no longer happen to get stuff out have a cart or wagon and a cistern in place of the benches
I prefer to make proper pens of stone or wood. Using benches makes no sense and is far from historically correct or even practical irl. It breaks immersion.
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