Tamed pets decay while in the pen

[Misopogon]

I lost two wolves 5-6 day after being tamed in my T3 pen.

PC Private server.
No mods.
Hunger system off.
Also food in the pen.

[Splutty]

@Guest02

pets don’t take food from food boxes if you don’t open their inventory, i assume same is in pen

This actually sounds quite likely, but applies to already grown pets. The other issue is babies dying while growing. So I think we have 2 separate issues here

[Mikey]

@Tascha

Can you confirm whether the hotfix that rolled out today is fixing this issue? I’ll test it myself later on in any case.

[Nuria]

@Mikey

What would Conan do? Certainly not cry about dead rocknoses! Okay doing what Conan would do literally is usually not a good idea, as it’ll get you shot and/or arrested, but…

@Mikey

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Those two made my day. You are funny.

@Rorik

Sadly, I’m not 100% sure it works.

Some people reported that the timer still goes down after you take it out of the fridge. I’ll enter the game later, and see how many hours left does my greater rhino have. Will do an update post later.

Just need a single piece of ice in those. Without the box wont work, that is true.

[Mikey]

Okay, so I can confirm that sticking a pet in an icebox with ice halts the timer. I had one I put in this morning (ie, pre-hotfix) and it hasn’t gone down at all. Now I’m checking whether pets in the pen are still ticking away.

[Armel]

For if it helps: Yesterday I disconect at 22h aprox. and I re-connect at 7h. When I first turn off, the pen was full of plant fibers and 2 blue turtle childs. When I entered again after the 9 hours, the two little turtles were growed and death with the pen almost plenty of fiber.
MY server is a private pve server.
I hope it helps
Edit: playing on a Ps4

[Mikey]

Pets in the pen follow this pattern, it seems (numbers are arbitrary):

Put in the pet with (say) 10 hours, 0 minutes 0 seconds left on the timer.
Leave the pet in the pen (with food of course!) for exactly 2 hours.
Take the pet out - the timer will read 8 hours left. A second or so later, it will pop back to 10 hours (and continue ticking down, as per normal).

I am not sure what would happen if one were to leave the pet in the pen for 11 hours in the above scenario (testing it currently). But I am afraid it might die before whatever “correction” takes place kicks in.

Additional info:
The pet in question was tamed pre-hotfix. Not sure if that matters. It’s a rocknose (regular).

[Splutty]

@Mikey

I am not sure what would happen if one were to leave the pet in the pen for 11 hours in the above scenario (testing it currently). But I am afraid it might die before whatever “correction” takes place kicks in.

I’m pretty sure now that’s what’s happening in my case. They die because their inherent timer kills them while they’re in the animal pen as babies.