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0001187: Dwarf constantly trying and failing to recover pet vermin bird |
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2014-09-21 07:32 by Footkerchief |
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| Description |
In the fort I was working on today, one of my dwarves adopted an oriole that the elves brought. That dwarf then started spamming that he kept canceling Recover Pet because the animal was inaccessible, and he was indeed trying to chase down his oriole. A short time later, a cat killed the oriole and things returned to normal. Sometime later, however, another dwarf adopted a blue jay. This time I was able to observe exactly what happens with the pet.
It seems that the dwarf catches the pet, puts it on their shoulder, and then the pet is loose again right away, unless the dwarf has a job to do immediately, in which case the pet seems to get loose after the dwarf finishes that job. Assigning the bird to a cage helps reduce the amount of spam, but the bird still gets loose when its owner takes it out of the cage to put on their shoulder (though other dwarves will probably catch the pet and put it back in the cage before the owner notices that it's missing and before it gets outside the fortress). Oddly, this frequently results in the owner standing next to the cage, putting their pet in the cage and taking it back out repeatedly when they have nothing they deem more important to do. |
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2011-01-31 18:22 by Footkerchief |
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| Description |
In the fort I was working on today, one of my dwarves adopted an oriole that the elves brought. That dwarf then started spamming that he kept canceling Reover Pet because the animal was inaccessible, and he was indeed trying to chase down his oriole. A short time later, a cat killed the oriole and things returned to normal. Sometime later, however, another dwarf adopted a blue jay. This time I was able to observe exactly what happens with the pet.
It seems that the dwarf catches the pet, puts it on their shoulder, and then the pet is loose again right away, unless the dwarf has a job to do immediately, in which case the pet seems to get loose after the dwarf finishes that job. Assigning the bird to a cage helps reduce the amount of spam, but the bird still gets loose when its owner takes it out of the cage to put on their shoulder (though other dwarves will probably catch the pet and put it back in the cage before the owner notices that it's missing and before it gets outside the fortress). Oddly, this frequently results in the owner standing next to the cage, putting their pet in the cage and taking it back out repeatedly when they have nothing they deem more important to do. |
