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Quote from: jhxmt on March 23, 2012, 03:09:59 pm

I'm uncertain whether a kennel is even required for training larger animals now, to be honest.

Doubt it. All the trainer ever does is just feed the animal something. No adding tasks required.

Hmm.  Mine's still just hovering around the wagon with No Job. 

I noticed you posted in another thread that you've managed to get training up and running (aside: it has quality modifiers?  Cool!)...does it sound like I'm missing anything major in the above setup?

Have you checked (using 't') to make sure your kennel isn't constructed from 'F'orbidden materials?

Nope, it's made from good old oak wood - it's literally the first building I've put up on this new embark. 

Hmmm, I wonder if you need to make your kennel out of fireproof material if you want to train a dragon?

Could be interesting...but I'll be happy if I can start off with the dogs!

Do you also need to add the task to your kennel? I'm at work so I haven't had a chance to try the new version yet.

Don't think so - only tasks available in the Kennel now are "Capture a Live Land Animal" and "Tame a Small Animal".  I'm uncertain whether a kennel is even required for training larger animals now, to be honest.

1) Build kennel
2) Go to Animals screen
3) Select animals for training (and optionally a specific trainer)
4) ...? 
5) Watch as your partially-tame animals run rampant through your fort, possibly snapping and killing dwarves.

(6) Profit?  )

New version world generating now!    My old fortress was getting stale anyway.  I WANT FULLY-CLOTHED, INFREQUENTLY-VAMPIRIC DWARVES TRAINING WAR TIGERS, AND I WANT THEM NOW!

DEAR GOD!!!
I thought the Terror was over, but it just gets worse!

The Elephant has claimed to the tallest spire of the Castle and can be seen by virtually any place in the fort.
People are running in Terror everywhere now! The only safety is inside the fort.

The mental image of this just made me spit tea over my keyboard.

I'm playing 34.04 and have just had a large migrant wave.

One of my migrants has 469 kills, including a dusk bride and some insert-creature-name-here-men.  They're wearing a lot of insert-creature-name-here-men jewellery.  And they don't show up in Therapist.

Obviously I'm assuming they're a vampire.    One odd thing I noticed is that in the Wnd display, all of their limbs and organs appear yellow - everyone else's are white - despite no injuries being apparent.  Is this a known way to identify vampires, or just something odd?

I read your post in your sig link and I'm trying to visualize the process, but I must be missing something.  Immediately after breaching the wall to the magma, what if the dwarf paths down the same stairs the magma flows down in order to get to the next inlet?  Is that even possible, or does he avoid the magma either way?

You know, despite the fact that I've been using this method for a while, I've never actually thought about that.  None of my sacrificial dwarves have ever tried to path onto the lower level while/after breaching.  This is probably because the upper-level route is shorter - but I suppose if the design was altered so that the walls on the upper level were longer than the ones on the lower level, some hapless breaching dwarf might decide it's quicker to nip downstairs in front of the magma flow.

Which, to be honest, might work - as long as they can run faster than the magma, they'll still be able to get down, round and back up before it catches them. 

Good question though.  Never occurred to me.

Undead siege.  Thought I was all set, but turns out there was ONE dwarf outside my massive Gates Of Safety (tm) - fishing in the river - and even though I tried to give her enough time to get back inside, she got to the gates just at the same time as the undead horde, and fled in terror into the wilderness.  I had no choice.  I gave the order, and deep inside the stronghold a lever was pulled.  The gates creaked closed, sealing off my fortress and sealing her fate.

She fled into the forests as the horde killed off my chained wardogs by the front entrance.  She must have thought she was safe.  Hiding deep in the trees, she curled up to go to sleep.

But she wasn't safe.

I'm now watching the horde descend upon this lone, sleeping fisherdwarf.  She's doomed.  She's also the wife of one of my swordsdwarves.

*sighs*

*starts making a memorial slab in advance*   

Edit: "The Goblin Corpse punches the Fishdwarf in the head with her left hand, bruising the muscle and tearing apart the upper spine's nervous tissue through the cave spider silk hood!"

Welp.  Guess that's that.  The Fishdwarf (name of Fikod Glidebolt) now has the wonderfully healthy-sounding status of "Her head is bruised.  Her upper spine is broken.  Her upper spine is oozing [her] dwarf blood."