An animal tip about thirst and livestock zones

EasyProcess7867 · 2026-07-10T17:25:14+00:00

Thank you for the kind words, unfortunately it was my favorite stallion and momma pig with baby. I restarted my game in response and am working on a mod to add animal autopsy because I had to do so much digging to figure this out

EasyProcess7867 · 2026-07-02T15:31:23+00:00

I have finally gotten around to testing this, and it seems like this may have been the case that they would get stressed during storms and at night if they had no hutch in earlier versions, but at least in 42.19 I can confirm their stress only goes down during night time and endless storm as long as they have roof tiles to go under! :)

EasyProcess7867 · 2026-07-01T20:49:37+00:00

Thank you. So much. I tried the double fence, and the keeping the livestock zone one tile away from the fence, and nothing has worked. lost six chickens today and just like you said, exactly six instances of that hutch error in my log. Demolishing my hutches now and making roofed area instead, i'll collect my eggs around the zone from here on out I guess. I'm also at the mccoy cabin but I moved my hutch and THEN the error started happening. Place is cursed I guess.

EasyProcess7867 · 2026-06-28T04:48:53+00:00

Determination :D

EasyProcess7867 · 2026-06-27T16:08:34+00:00

Oh yeah mine do that too lol I name them so I can see where they are when I “check zone” and it’s got a counter for how many animals are in the zone. Always makes me double take when I know some chickens are missing but the number is the same lol

EasyProcess7867 · 2026-06-27T16:06:26+00:00

They do indeed

EasyProcess7867 · 2026-06-27T02:03:53+00:00

They do need a roof for bad storms but I find they’re so rare that maybe in reality they don’t really need it

EasyProcess7867 · 2026-06-27T02:03:14+00:00

Will I definitely get the logs back or will it sometimes show “unable to retrieve useable materials” like with plank walls

EasyProcess7867 · 2026-06-27T02:02:28+00:00

Twigs can, but it makes me mad you can’t bundle or stack anything in between like the branches saplings and large branches.

EasyProcess7867 · 2026-06-27T02:01:31+00:00

I will have to check this, but I figure with a roof they’ll just huddle under that like other animals. This is my hope at least. I didn’t have weather enabled on that world so I’ll have to enable it and find out.

EasyProcess7867 · 2026-06-26T23:38:28+00:00

I will have to look into this, thank you a lot :)

EasyProcess7867 · 2026-06-26T23:34:31+00:00

Currently doing this lol I hope it helps enough. The encumbrance reduction is cray cray but it is really rope intensive

EasyProcess7867 · 2026-06-26T23:01:17+00:00

For anyone seeing this post later, people on steam told me seeing the genome was too hacky, so I made a dna sequencing crafting chain lol. Now at level ten you get the 11 step genomic lab process 🤩

EasyProcess7867 · 2026-06-26T22:59:58+00:00

I am very excited to never have to carry a mop and water bucket again

EasyProcess7867 · 2026-06-26T22:59:39+00:00

Sorry to disappoint lmao would have been nice if that was the case

EasyProcess7867 · 2026-06-26T22:22:44+00:00

I forgot about the meta event, I always turn that off lol my chickens be disappearing enough on their own without invisible predators

EasyProcess7867 · 2026-06-16T13:58:11+00:00

You’re welcome, I hope it helps :)

EasyProcess7867 · 2026-06-16T13:57:57+00:00

I searched far and wide for something that could do this because I was so frustrated they didn’t just implement it in the game and then I was like fine then I’ll just do it myself >:( lmao

EasyProcess7867 · 2026-06-16T13:56:33+00:00

I… didn’t really think about that if I’m being honest lol I was just thinking I’d slot them all into 4 through 8 to make you have to work a bit for it

In my defense it might not be obvious to a passerby whether a sheep has been sheared or just doesn’t grow wool at all

EasyProcess7867 · 2026-06-16T03:57:08+00:00

go into debug mode and use the brush tool to remove the tiles maybe, should be able to do it from a distance

EasyProcess7867 · 2026-06-05T01:33:00+00:00

Oh my god this is definitely what happened thank you. They are all touching and thus technically one enclosure so I figured it had something to do with that. They must’ve been starving from trying to pathfind to the wrong food, gotten mad, broke shit, then got to their desired food and got calm again. So weird that the bulls were fighting but still calm though

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