Rotary Gate

Rotary Gate

no speed penalty fence. + Rotating animation! Adds a "rotary gate" - a center-mounted revolving gate with four steel wings, based on real-world livestock rotary gates. Colonists walk straight through it at full speed (no movement penalty), but penned livestock cannot push past the turning wings. Unlike a door it never opens, so animals can never slip out behind a passing colonist, and nothing can be hauled or stored on top of it. Build one in a pen opening or just inside a barn door to let your people come and go freely while keeping your animals from escaping. Cost: 25 steel. Work to build: same as a door (850). Like a normal fence, it only stops animals that can be penned (cattle, sheep, muffalo, etc.); small creatures and predators that ignore fences can still pass. The actual in-game type is not a door, but a fence. To move animals into the pen, place an animal medical bed inside the pen, then attempt to anesthetize the animal for surgery. The doctor will carry the animal inside.

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Aren't you tired of colonists constantly placing milk in front of doors, causing the cows to escape over and over again? The solution was a fence, but building fences always felt like, "This isn't quite right." So I looked for how this is actually done in the real world. A rotary gate!