Critter Pick-Up

The Critter Pick-Up is a ranching building used to control critter populations and move selected critters to a designated spot for wrangling. Duplicants with Ranching I will bring the chosen critter to the Pick-Up and wrangle it there, after which the critter can be moved to a Critter Drop-Off. It also serves as the automatic target for excess critters, helping keep stables within their intended population limits.

Unlike many ranching-related buildings, the Critter Pick-Up has no room size or room type requirement and can be placed anywhere, including outdoors. It can be used to handle critters that cannot normally be wrangled directly by calling them to the Pick-Up, which avoids the pathing problems that older wrangling behavior could cause. Only critters enabled in the building’s critter list will generate wrangle errands, so unselected critters are ignored. Multiple Critter Pick-Ups with different settings can be used together to manage different critter variants, such as keeping one Puft Prince while allowing other Puft variants to be auto-managed.

• Critter babies and adults are treated as separate filter entries, so a stable can be configured to move adults elsewhere without affecting eggs or young critters.
• Gassy Moo requires its lower-left portion to reach the Critter Pick-Up before it can respond to a call and be wrangled.
• It cannot be used to move fish.
• The building has a base overheat temperature of 75 °C and will overheat in the Oil Biome if built with Copper Ore or Iron Ore; Gold Amalgam is the safer material choice there.

Automatically wrangled critters are selected based on the building’s settings and population limits, making the Critter Pick-Up an important tool for keeping ranches organized without constant manual intervention.