Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Why is my cat blinking?

Question

One of my Outer Barrier Wall Guardian Felines, currently attached to its Bloodlust Distance-Minimization Chain, is blinking between no background and a light brown background. I looked on the wiki, but the only similar icon is "prone", and that doesn't blink.

It has nothing out of the ordinary listed on the wounds screen; everything is white with no conditions listed. I'm running the "curses_640x300" tileset on 0.31.12 with the MinimalDF mod, which AFAIK doesn't touch anything graphical.

Answer

The way you've described the problem, the best bet is that it's continually switching between standing and prone. My first guess was that you actually have two cats on the same tile, one beneath the other, but then you'd get the spinning green line as it switched from one to the other. So that's not it.

As for WHY it's continually falling over, I'm not sure we have enough information. Cats don't eat or drink, so it's not collapsing in hunger or thirst. Extreme pain or missing limbs would appear in the view unit -> wounds menu. They probably will NOT appear in the view unit -> ztatus screen, because animals don't produce diagnosis tasks when they're wounded.

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