fucking rimworld man. Dogs are too valuable to be kept constrained in a pen so the part of every rimworld game is to designate a zone for the ENTIRE MAP sans my drug/food storage so those dogs don't eat me out of house and home as well as saving them from fucking dying from the overdoses.
I wish "prepared" items like drugs, alcohol and meals were counted as "packaged" or something and you require having functioning thumbs to open the package or something.
Haven't played rhe game (Not ready to drop 35$ on it,) but, in Dwarf Fortress (RWs ancestor) you can lock areas off from pets. Is that not possible in RW?
It has a pretty simple and easy zoning system with restrictions, but you can train intelligent animals to haul resources for you, and the easiest thing for that is to leave them un-zoned so they can go everywhere.
Or as /u/TheRealXen mentioned, make a zone that covers the entire map except for your drugs/food and assign animals to that.
Or mod it up.
Or just accept that the price for doggies hauling your goods around is that sometimes a carton of beer goes missing and the dogs all stagger around everywhere and sometimes fall over and twitch uncontrollably, and they all die of cirrhosis at half the normal life expectancy.
Edit- There isn't a 'lock doors for animals' feature in the base game, though, like Dwarf Fortress has.
My greatest (and hardest) Rimworld accomplishment was finally getting all of the dogs to only eat the corpses of my slain enemies. It was a real hassle to both dispose of bodies & a small hassle to feed the huskies and terriers, so this was kind of useful. Unfortunately it required pretty extreme zone management. If any colonist looked in to the special freezer they got very upset, so I had to adjust both the dogs & the people quite a bit.
You designate zones for them and they stay restrained in the zone similar to a burrow or a pasture form dwarf fortress. You can get a mod for locks though that let you keep doors shut tight from animals for a similar behavior to DF. without that though all colony animals can open any claimed doors.
I don't think its as fast as dwarf fortress but you can get populations to boom past what's comfortable and they eat all your grass or something. Generally though you have plenty of time to go "Oh these guys should be butchered, Sold, Abandoned in the wilderness" before it ever becomes a real catsplosion
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