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Quote from: forsaken1111 on March 29, 2012, 07:43:35 am

As far as I know 'wild' creatures will never become tame but you can advance the training level over generations, so a semi-wild creature may have 'trained' children and so on.

I'd love to know if this is the case - anyone else see this? No reason why it's not, and curious to see. Gotta get my cave crocodiles breeding then, while they are in their semi-wild state.... hmmm. To the croc-lab.

Giant cockatiel chicks hatched with the mother's training rank (exceptional, triple bar), fell back one step in training to the probable father's level, but now seem to be stable at that * and aren't losing anything else. So far, so good. The only hard part was limiting access to the eggs.

Giant rats bred exceedingly well and quickly, but there was a rat tantrum spiral when one of the mothers reverted and all the semi-wild young escaped in the chaos. All rats had to be euthanized to stop the madness, either with the military or at the butcher's shop.

The goblins also brought me a custom snail as a mount, which was considered domestic and easily fully trained. It sat peacefully guarding my entryway for a while with no signs of any problems. Unfortunately, it attacked a human caravan on sight and had to be euthanized. I suspect training only erases the creature's grudges against the civilization that trained it and it was still an enemy of the humans. I think this bug could be exploited to have a crocodile pond or evil snail pit that's harmless to dwarves  but lethal to unwanted traders.

1. Everybody can go insane and kill eachother from not having shoes, pants, and a shirt. Armor does not count.

2. Vampires sneak into your fort posing as normal dwarves and hunger for the blood of legendary weaponsmiths. They are unstoppable before they strike unless you catch the odd number of "is a former member of"s in their description. They also never eat or drink like a normal dwarf...

3. If you're near a tower, nercomancers show up with five billion zombies and then convert your refuse stockpile into hordes of highly aggressive goat hair. You can gain their powers in adventure mode by conquering a tower!

4. Werecreatures show up, decapitate a goat, then transform back to human and flee in shame. Dwarves who get bit and don't die turn into uncontrollably aggressive were-whatevers once a month and fully regenerate every time they do.

5. Kobolds are back and run off with your artifacts. Also, beware biomes with keas.

6. Everything that dies in some evil biomes gets back up again. It does this an unlimited number of times. Even if it's in 50 pieces and on fire. Pieces of werecreatures get back up and then transform into fully regenerated cloned were-zombie-wtfs.

7. Evil regions also have evil weather. This carries every possible syndrome you know and love from FBs, plus the possibility of nearly unstoppable contagious dust zombies that simply won't die.

8. Hammerers have returned. They hammer things. Especially vampires using the new z-justice screen.

9. You can train almost anything you want with a trainer and a kennel and an animal training zone, but if you let it out and it's not given refersher training once in a while it goes psycho and kills everything. Cue fortress being destroyed by a swarm of formerly tame giant rats.

On the plus side, you now have a use for all the bins and bins of leather the traders bring you. Open up the manager and queue a ridiculous quantity of leather trousers, robes, shoes....

Your fortress will soon have a thriving used clothing export industry.

Well, it's a start.
Is there a place on the wiki or somewhere where all of these usage hint tokens and stuff are?

The wiki has lists of all tokens. You'll need the search bar to find the others.

You may have good luck with the FLEEING usage hint...

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Interaction_token

Goblin fortresses aren't physically in the game yet even though they show up on the world map, and how many goblins you get depends mostly on how much wealth you ship out on the caravans. Lots of gold toys equals lots of goblins.

If you see "tower" on your world map... that's not goblins. It's something much, much worse.

Pitting room is currently 11x11, its full of Gobbos and its hardly made a dent on my stocks, perhaps 300 was too low an estimate. 18 x 18 you say, does that take into account each pitting hole? Looks to like it'll need to be bigger, for my needs at least. Thing is my current pitting room is atop a gleaming white Rock Salt, Alunite and Quartzite tower so extending the pitting room is going to be quite the task if that is indeed the only solution to my problem.

Will you have a use for all the cages when you're done? Dump cages, atomsmash. If they're magma-safe they can be cleansed with the universal solvent.

That awkward moment when you realize you've left beds on repeat for the last two years.