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Dick the Hamster recovered, could not figure out climbing tubes
🕑 Added 2020-07-02 15:09:47 +0000 UTCIn a massive oversight, I buried hambunker assuming Dick, like any other hamster, would intuitively know how to climb vertical tubes to get between the various levels of the bunker. I was wrong and should've done a dry run before I buried it. No harm done, Dick was irritated at the interruption of his day to day life taking care of important hamster shit but was otherwise unaffected.
The fix is probably as simple as installing longer, curved tubes that empty out horizontally so there's a ground level tunnel to enter on each floor rather than having to find the opening of a vertical climbing tube above his head, given how poor hamster eyesight is. This came as a surprise to me given that Megahab uses the exact same climbing tube setup and it took Jim and Jade less than an hour each to figure out how to use it.
So pardon the muss and fuss, pardon the interruption, it will be brief. I'll get the new tubes installed and, after letting Dick rest and recuperate from his underground ordeal for a day or two I'll put him back in and test out his ability to figure out the new tube system before I rebury the bunker.
