Pets Randomly Eating Drugs is Poor Balance

[Thirite]

Animals going extremely out of their way to go eat hard drugs/luciferium isn't balance, it's punishing the player for having drugs and animals concurrently. Which makes no sense at all.

[Mehni]

The cynic in me says it's a gameplay "feature" for marketing purposes. I see a lot of screenshots over on the subreddit of chickens getting high on yayo or snakes getting stoned. It's much the same on the Steam Workshop. Animals doing drugs is outrageous enough that people want to share it with their friends, and talk about RimWorld.

Or, as Tynan would put it, it's the storytelling aspect of the game.