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I think the title is pretty self explanatory: If an animal is trained as a war animal, will it still breed? Will it breed with other trained animals? Untrained ones? What about claiming nestboxes?

Related question, if I add  the [TRAINABLE] token to a creature after worldgen, will I be able to train them as war animals?

I tried making Yaks shearable by adding the [YARN] tag, but it seems not to have worked. I'd like to go back and do it proper this time, maybe for camels and some other mammals too. What am I doing wrong here? Also, is there anything to making creatures milkable other than inserting a slightly edited version of the following under the Female Caste?

Would an alternate solution be to construct walls under any trees I plan to cut down?

I've been playing with a race of modded ☼Genetically Engineered Superdwarf☼s with higher attribute ranges; they also increase their attributes and skills 500 and 5 times faster respectively compared to normal dwarfs and suffer decay in neither. However, there seems to be some unanticipated side effects:
A) Immigrants show up not just with higher skills, but with a longer list of skills and enabled labors.
B) Strange Moods occur earlier in the fortress's life and possibly more frequently.
C) Depression-prone dwarves enter the stages of depression (tantrum throwing, depression, stumbling around obliviously) earlier in the fortress's life and possibly progress through them faster.

I figure that A) is just a consequence of modded ☼Genetically Engineered Superdwarf☼s being able to complete all tasks and learn more quickly than usual, while B could be explained by increased item production and mining rates (I don't think the number of dwarves with moodable professions has increased, but if it did that would also contribute). It's C) that boggles me. Does anyone have an explanation?

Being able to designate only non-fruit producing trees would prove quite convenient, though not as much as being able to control where certain tree types grow. It's good to know that is planned for future updates.

Every time I start a fortress, I do the same thing: once I'm past the soil layers, I strip-mine everything down to the layer directly above the first cavern. My intention is to use this bottom layer for stone and metal industries (as all the stone and ore is conveniently located there) as well as living space for my dwarves. Sadly, every time my fortress manages to ruin itself before I can complete such a pit (the last one literally went up in flames). The primary reason was always that it took so bloody long to excavate that pit even if I always devoted my miner's full attention to it. So that's why I'm asking: does a cave in produce the same stone you would've gotten if you'd strip-mined the area instead? Because if it does, then I'm going to cause the mother of all cave-ins and save myself a great deal of time.

Well, about the training aspects anyway...
Crocs, as any trainable non domesticated species, will lose training over time and will have to be retrained, and that means the trainer will have to path to the creature in question, which requires at most 3/7 water (or, I think, a ghost trainer). Having higher water levels at times will block training attempts and you'll probably run a high risk of them reverting to a wild state.

I thought that you needed to leave them alone, even to the point of foregoing train, to incubate their eggs anyways.