Variable-length animal tethers

[Ostentatio 2109]

Maybe this should only work for on-deed animals (it seems the developers aren't quite on board with "hitching posts" in Wurm Online), but I'd love to be able to tether an animal to something that still lets them move around, within a given radius.

 

Example: Lead animal with rope, use rope to hitch it to a tethering spot of some kind (tree, hitching post, whatever), and set the radius to anything from 1 to, let's say, 5. Then, the animal can move around as normal, but only within that range.

 

This might require better animal AI, since they'd probably try to pathfind out of that zone anyway, but it would be a really nice way to tie up dogs, exotic pets, etc. without having to keep them in isolated pens.