warrenchmobile replied to Cage floors should allow the sunlight effect for crops to grow to pass through September 30, 2021 @ 2:25:17 pm PDT
I saw a video on Youtube by Firespark81 where he claims to have solved the problem. The video is a couple of months old so the deathsquito AI it relies on may have been changed.
It works something like this:
One builds a wooden rectangle at least 3 meters high around one's barley patch. Firespark81 placed wood posts at each corner so that the posts slightly protruded out side the walls. To these he attached wooden beams so that the tops of the beams were even with the tops of the posts and the inner surface of the beams was flush with the outer surface of the posts. If the length of the wall resulted in support problems for the beams, he added wooden posts between the corner posts.
At the time of the video, the AI pathing of the deathsquito made it fly around the wall looking for a gap. If it could not find one, then is attempted to fly straight up over the wall.
It would run into one of those wooden beams. Thwarted.
Firespark81 noted that occasionally a deathsquito would bounce outside of one of the beams and up high enough to get a line of sight to the interior of the barley patch.
He added a second, higher tier of wooden beams supported by one meter posts. One again the corner posts for the second tier protruded slightly outside of the first tier posts. They were connected along their tops by the second tier of wooden beams. A deathsquito might get lucky and bounce out and over the first tier beam but be brought up short by the second tier beam.
In trying to describe Firespark81's creation, I thought of it as standing atop the wood wall and stepping or hopping less than a meter up and out to the first tier of beams and then stepping/hopping less than a meter up and out to the second tier of beams.
That led me to wondering if placing a single tier of wooden stairs up and out from the outside edge of your enclosure's stone walls might not work as well. There would be a gap at each corner. I think angle beams would cover those. Also, how many times would a deathsquito need to bump his head on a wooden stair to destroy it?
In any case, it would not look nearly as elegant as the cage floor atrium. But would it work?
It works something like this:
One builds a wooden rectangle at least 3 meters high around one's barley patch. Firespark81 placed wood posts at each corner so that the posts slightly protruded out side the walls. To these he attached wooden beams so that the tops of the beams were even with the tops of the posts and the inner surface of the beams was flush with the outer surface of the posts. If the length of the wall resulted in support problems for the beams, he added wooden posts between the corner posts.
At the time of the video, the AI pathing of the deathsquito made it fly around the wall looking for a gap. If it could not find one, then is attempted to fly straight up over the wall.
It would run into one of those wooden beams. Thwarted.
Firespark81 noted that occasionally a deathsquito would bounce outside of one of the beams and up high enough to get a line of sight to the interior of the barley patch.
He added a second, higher tier of wooden beams supported by one meter posts. One again the corner posts for the second tier protruded slightly outside of the first tier posts. They were connected along their tops by the second tier of wooden beams. A deathsquito might get lucky and bounce out and over the first tier beam but be brought up short by the second tier beam.
In trying to describe Firespark81's creation, I thought of it as standing atop the wood wall and stepping or hopping less than a meter up and out to the first tier of beams and then stepping/hopping less than a meter up and out to the second tier of beams.
That led me to wondering if placing a single tier of wooden stairs up and out from the outside edge of your enclosure's stone walls might not work as well. There would be a gap at each corner. I think angle beams would cover those. Also, how many times would a deathsquito need to bump his head on a wooden stair to destroy it?
In any case, it would not look nearly as elegant as the cage floor atrium. But would it work?
2:13 am, October 1, 2021