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Dwarf Fortress => DF General Discussion => Topic started by: Thisfox on May 01, 2017, 05:27:36 pm

Title: My captive breeding programme did not turn out well.
Post by: Thisfox on May 01, 2017, 05:27:36 pm
I've been experimenting with trapping and training and building a captive breeding programme for the local wildlife. I made an obvious error (it involved being distracted by a mood), and the not-quite-tame male and female giant grey langurs got away.  Now they know a few facts about the fort.
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  They have not submitted to retrapping, but they attacked an apricot-picker, and they stole a bucket. They know just enough to be not friendly towards anyone from the fort any more. But what do they plan to do with the bucket, I wonder?

I'm also surprised by the blind cave bears being generally familiar about the fort. I breached the top pinnacle of a cavern, and immediately walled over the puncture. How could they possibly be aware of us as anything other than from a moment of diagonal gap in the roof of their cavern, a year ago? Are they familiar with the vibrations we make in the walls?
Title: Re: My captive breeding programme did not turn out well.
Post by: Salmeuk on May 01, 2017, 08:18:17 pm
Not sure if you're joking but those descriptions are your civ's general knowledge of the animal, not the other way around.

I like that idea, though - "How could you let them escape?! The langurs know too much! And that suspicious bucket, devil knows what they could be up to. . ."
Title: Re: My captive breeding programme did not turn out well.
Post by: Grand Sage on May 03, 2017, 09:45:02 am
oh look, its Thisfox again... ;)

Im gonna let your mistake slip ever so slowly away.... nothing happened here... nothing at all...

ICYMI, wildlife will not become truly tame´. but you can breed them and then the kids will be completely tame.
Title: Re: My captive breeding programme did not turn out well.
Post by: Thisfox on May 03, 2017, 04:36:52 pm
Are you following me, Great Sage, Equal of Heaven? I think that perhaps this is not my problem but instead yours {grin} Hey, this is even a monkey post! haha!

I realise they will not be tame, I'm just amused by the "a few facts" in red, when every other animal is not so labelled. Salmeuk is right, it's the dorfs who have the few facts not the langurs, but I am very amused by the dangerous concept of a set of angry apes in the woods with a few facts about us, and an ornate bucket. "They know too much!" indeed.

Can't get the little bastards into the sodding traps to be retamed at the moment. And I've been dealing with a not-so-amusing ettin attack.
Title: Re: My captive breeding programme did not turn out well.
Post by: Grand Sage on May 04, 2017, 04:15:39 am
Are ettin farms a thing? ;)
Title: Re: My captive breeding programme did not turn out well.
Post by: FakerFangirl on May 06, 2017, 03:13:43 pm
Quote from: Thisfox on May 01, 2017, 05:27:36 pm
But what do they plan to do with the bucket, I wonder?
Catsplosion.
Title: Re: My captive breeding programme did not turn out well.
Post by: Splint on May 08, 2017, 04:10:45 pm
Dwarves have a general familiarity with anything that can be spotted in the upper cavern layers (1 and 2, I think) but virtually none starting with creatures that can be tamed but only occur in 3.

Now, on to the bucket: Milk kangaroos. Feed tiny langurs to make stonk and giant like them.
Title: Re: My captive breeding programme did not turn out well.
Post by: Thisfox on May 08, 2017, 07:27:57 pm
Quote from: Splint on May 08, 2017, 04:10:45 pm
Now, on to the bucket: Milk kangaroos. Feed tiny langurs to make stonk and giant like them.

Oh, that is SO why it happened! Yes yes yes!

Quote from: Grand Sage on May 04, 2017, 04:15:39 am
Are ettin farms a thing? ;)

They would be, I think, if there were a breeding pair, but it was one male ettin and he's dead now. So are three dwarves, and assorted animals.... It was an epic battle.
Title: Re: My captive breeding programme did not turn out well.
Post by: lethosor on May 15, 2017, 10:30:14 am
Quote from: Thisfox on May 01, 2017, 05:27:36 pm
They have not submitted to retrapping
Are they still partially trained (check the units list)? If so, that could explain why you can't trap them, and you ought to be able to just pasture them.