Pen Audit

Pen Audit is a quality-of-life mod for diagnosing animal pens quickly and clearly.
Vanilla will tell you when a pen is invalid, but it does not do much to show why. This mod adds a simple audit tool directly to the pen marker so you can check the enclosure, spot leaks, confirm outside access, and get a quick read on shelter and visible feed conditions.
The goal is not to replace vanilla pen mechanics or automate the whole system. It is meant to be a practical troubleshooting tool that is easy to use, easy to understand, and safe to add to an ongoing save.
If people want more checks, better reporting, or additional safe auto-fix options, I will keep expanding it based on requests.
- Adds an Audit pen button to pen markers
- Checks whether the pen is properly enclosed
- Detects leak paths and shows where the enclosure is failing
- Checks for an outside-connected gate or door
- Reports roofed shelter coverage inside the pen
- Shows rough visible forage and stored feed inside the pen
- Draws a simple overlay while the marker stays selected
- Optional Fix issue button for safe one-tile breach blueprint placement
- Works mid-save
- Built to stay simple, practical, and stable
- Red = leak route from the pen to the outside
- Yellow = nearby cells worth checking around the breach
- Green = gates or doors that connect the pen to the outside
- Build a pen marker as usual
- Select the pen marker
- Click Audit pen
- Read the report and follow the overlay if a leak is found
- If your version includes it, use Fix issue to place a matching blueprint for a simple one-tile breach
- Pens that look closed but are still invalid
- Missing or misplaced fence segments
- No usable outside gate or door for roping animals in
- Pens with little shelter
- Pens with poor visible grazing or no stored feed inside
- This is a diagnostic tool, not a pen overhaul
- It only runs once you press the audit button, this mod does not impact performance.
- The feed and forage readout is meant as a practical estimate, not a full nutrition simulation
- The auto-fix feature only attempts safe, limited fixes and will refuse messy cases instead of guessing
Links
GitHub Repository [github.com]
Feedback
Your feedback is important! If you enjoy the mod or have any suggestions, please let me know in the comments. Or add me on Discord: Funstab.
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