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Determines whether creature can show up on "tame" maps (includes elephants), which will generally avoid dwarves, although they may chase and/or attack them if they get too close. (in other words they just prefer to be left alone

Source: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Creature_token#ixzz0wzgY9XxG

It may actually limit it to benign areas, like the savages token does. These tokens and the [GOOD] and [EVIL] ones don't affect the creatures' reactions to one another and you, just restrict them to certain biomes. Currently all animals seem to be neutral until provoked at least, and unspeakably cruel to anything they set eyes on at most. the beastmen tribes are an entity anyway, so this won't affect their hostility in the first place.

There really isn't an entity token that controls a civilization's feelings towards your dwarves except the ethics tags, which, (along with the biome and location tags) according to Toady's comments in the entity_default file, currently do nothing on layer_linked civs, like the beastman civs. They'll be hostile by default until he changes this, and there doesn't seem to be a way to keep them underground while also letting them use the ethics and location tags. You can put them in caves like kobolds, but that's as close as you can get.

So i just met the prince of my civilization while wandering around outside, just barely after starting out. Truly a grand coincidence. Wonder why he's out in the smallest town when the capital is miles south of here across the mountains... Apparently all of his siblings have been captured and/or killed because they're all referred to in the past tense.
I also found the general and his 9-year-old youngest daughter (he apparently has 4, all but this one were kidnapped and married off after turning 13.) in the same town. I wouldn't consider it a grand idea for so many important people to be wandering around in the smallest outpost. I guess it gets them away from the orcs, but now everyone's being kidnapped by the tigermen.

Immediately after posting that I went back and found out why the prince is in such a precarious position;
Turns out, he's crazy. Everyone else is probably there to keep an eye on him.
Worthy of a bug report? am I crazy?(relatively speaking...)

Right now, I have to say it's the mandrills and macaques. Nothing else is so aggressive, so intent on getting into my fort than a pack of thieving monkeys. Not even the subterranean wildlife trying to path to the surface works this hard to charge through my dining hall.

A third concept is that they really meant 'to cherish your childhood'. The first reaction was thoroughly hilarious though.

Another related challenge;
You should start a zoo based around all the wild animals you can find. Don't tame them, leave them feral and let them breed (some of them will, at least, they just don't usually stick around long enough to give birth. I think it relies on whether they have the [CHILD:# years to adult] token, along with having both genders?) Try to increase the smallest pops to something that isn't utterly pathetic (tigermen, 8, alligators, 5). Remember that if you abandon, wild animals kept in cages will only survive if the cage is linked to a lever, wild animals left to run around won't die, but they might kill each other. Pets always die upon abandonment, and hostiles in cages will be released unless their cage is linked.

This of course comes from word of someone else, don't remember who, or where. Sorry If I read incorrectly.

Quote from: Schilcote on August 14, 2010, 08:54:40 pm

Argh, why does stockpiling have to be the highest priority task in existence? Designate a food stockpile and the entire fortress shuts down...

I'm with you on that one. Dumping and stockpiling should be at the bottom of the list.

Ideally, Toady will eventually let us designate the priority levels of various jobs through the (upgraded) in-game interface.

You may want to ensure that the dorf locked in the room doesn't have many friends/has become immune to tragedy on a previous occasion, otherwise you may break the record for shortest time spent between sane but miserable and absolutely berserk.

You must feel truly gifted to have received such a thing.

or the axe dwarf you mentioned will work...

A trio of Ogres beat an Elven caravan to death with sunberries.

A dwarven caravan just left, but one speardwarf stopped three tiles from the map edge starring after the caravan. He has changed on the units list from merchant to friendly.

That's an interesting bug. Was he doing anything while he was there?