Animal units

[AdelineJ]

Hello !
I would want to know the definition of animal units, defined in <bAnimal> in CIV4UnitInfos.xml.

• the unit is barbare, can't enter in bordures
• the units is not barbare but it can't explore and enter in tribal village

Thanks you !
AdelineJ

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

A unit marked <bAnimal> cannot enter cultural borders. It is usually used with barbarian animals only but if you set it to 1 on any unit it will stop it from entering land owned by any player or moving if it is already inside. It may also be used by the part of the code that spawns random barbarians as animals spawn early in the game but not later.

 

[merijn_v1]

It also determines if a vanilla scout gets it's bonus vs. animals or not.

 

[AdelineJ]

I tried and I think I found : the animal units can be produced by gamers (but you have to modify <iCost>-1<iCost>) and they can't go to the case where there is resource or tribal village. And, as merijn_v1 says, <bAnimal> contributes to bonus of scout.