[Bug] Mounts prevent other animals from accessing the trough

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• 11 Jun, '24
  Corné van den Bosch Merged

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  Playing on DS:
  No animals visible in AllowList, checkbox for allowlist-only interaction isn't functional
  Animals can (and do) still drink from it though

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• 11 Nov, '22
  Teldae Merged

  Open World game. This is my tamed buffalo on Stay mode around my camp. Video below: https://youtu.be/dOgxRxmczqA I previously had doors installed in the 'stable' entrance and thought maybe this was a problem for the adult buffalo and removed them, but it didn't help. To be clear, I tamed this buffalo inside this exact stable, but it has never managed to find its way inside again after maturing. It was actually starting to die from starvation and I had to manually feed it. I also tried putting it on follow mode and going inside the stable, but it paths onto the roof as you saw in the video.

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• 09 Sep, '23
  Boku Merged

  You can lead this horse to water, but it won't drink from the nearest trough, even if it is blocked by walls, or more commonly, another tamed animal. In the image, the tamed Terrenus has a water meter below 75%, but won't take a drink from the water trough next to it. Instead, it keeps trying to walk through walls to get to a water trough that is much further away.
  
  Since animals will always block each other (and that's a good thing), then separate troughs and pens are the only guaranteed way to ensure all mounts get fed and watered. However, unless each mount has logic to seek the nearest trough among many, then there is no guarantee of a systematic way to take care of more than one mount (or, at least, when one is a Terrenus).

  

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• 01 Dec, '23
  Goatman Merged

  This is definitely needed. I tried building a stable as shown in the image with separate pens for each animal but it doesn't work as you'd expect.

  

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• 24 May, '24
  Matt Merged

  Filtered Water Trough doesn't list the nearby Moa mount (owned by a different character on my account), so it's not possible to add it to the allow-list. It also doesn't save the state of the "Allowlist-only Interaction" tick box when clicking OK.
  
  Seems to work as expected on the following in the same area: Electronic Food Trough, Dog Water and Food Bowls, Cat Water and Food Bowls.

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• 26 May, '24
  CrashingPegasus Merged

  The allow list for animal feeders and water containers is not working correctly. If you select allow only allowed animals, no animal can use the feeder or water containers. It appears if you put them on the list and then set the animal to only eat or drink at allowed spots, that works though.

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• 27 May, '24
  Elissa - Producer System Merged

  "Allow list for animal water and feeder/bowls" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-05-26), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 02 Jun, '24
  Curu Merged

  Also can't see any nearby mounts in my allowlist and can't turn the allowlist off. Animals are refusing to use it.

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• 05 Dec, '24
  Elissa - Producer System

  "[Bug] Tamed animal can't find a path to troughs" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2022-11-11), including upvotes (4) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 05 Dec, '24
  Elissa - Producer System

  "[Bug] Terrenus will not drink from the nearest water trough" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2023-09-09), including upvotes (3) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 05 Dec, '24
  Elissa - Producer System

  "[Bug] Filtered Water Trough doesn't list nearby creature to add to allow-list" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-05-24), including upvotes (8) and comments (4), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 22 Mar
  Jorel Merged

  Noted on Elysium Dedicated Server, several mounts are not immediately going to available water troughs, going to the lake instead. Despite using options like "Assigned containers only" or using "allowlist interactions only". This seemed to affect all types of mounts, moa, raptor, slinker, tusker, buffalo, horse, cow, sheep. I even had two separate electric water troughs, and both seemed to be ignored. Would also happen with the food, just not as often. When mounts were needed water they would circumvent the entire base or go through it to try and access the water in the lake.

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• 01 Apr
  Elissa - Producer System

  "[Bug] Mounts not pathing towards trough" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-03-22), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 01 May
  Lianail

  Some changes have been made over time as there are now large numbers of mounts all stacked up waiting to get to water. Only the 2 closest to the water are drinking, those behind have 0% water. For some reason, an animal's location for "Stay" is getting replaced with the location at the water trough. They will not return to where they were told to stay.
  No that animal breeding has been implemented, this problem has been compounded due to maintaining large numbers of animals in a common area. Trying to put out 20-30 food and water troughs with dedicated allow lists is not a viable option.

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• 06 Jun
  Lianail

  Now that you've added animal husbandry to the game, you start to get a lot more animals accumulated over time to maintain breeding stocks. This is becoming a major bottleneck. With 20+ animals having to install and manage allow lists for 20 different water and feeding troughs is not a fun thing. Please prioritize this fix.

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• 10 Jun
  Papa5 Blingal

  Yes they need to go back to spots or not within distance to block. So annoying to constantly. Move them so others dont starve

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