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« on: October 31, 2012, 02:51:26 pm »
i've had a decent amount of success breeding underground creatures.
These have not come from sieges. I just catch em underground, traps near well used entrance points, kill all useless animals, i also removed the raws of pond grabbers, as they are annoying to kill and take ages to move off the map.
Elk Birds:
Positives: Decent price for meat/eggs and produce large numbers of eggs. When they enter dungeons, they come in large quantities. Ground unit so easy to catch.
Negatives: When trying to hatch eggs, make 100% sure you've had a male there for a long period as their eggs will require them to go to starving before they hatch, usually they also don't hatch all at once either, so 6 hatch, a few minutes later another 6 (from the same mother!), and eventually, unless you are very quick with moving eggs to a stockpile, the mother will die on the nest box, she never fully is able to hatch all eggs and not die from not eating. Still, 12 hatchlings for 1 parent isn't bad.
Highly recommended for egg's.
Rutherer:
Positives: Non grazer, good value multiplier, very impressive amount of meat, come in clusters of 3-7, so easy to get a breeding pair. Ground unit so easy to catch
Negatives: No eggs (is that really a negative?), children take several years to grow.
Highly recommended for meat/skin. I've not tried butchering the kids yet, so can't say how much you get for a non fully grown one.
Giant Toads:
Non breedable?!?! Have a breeding pair from caverns, but nothing happening, makes sense i suppose seeing they should make giant tadpoles which would be awesome.
Not recommended by me, i could be doing it wrong though.
Cave Crocs:
Positives: Huge piles of eggs, good multiplier, decent amount of meat. Can be aggressive towards invaders doing decent damage (elk birds whilst somewhat similar as an egg layer do not), non grazer
Negatives: Eggs take a long while to hatch. Come in single units, so hard to get hold of a breeding pair. Hang around in water
Would recommend elk birds over them usually for eggs, and rutherer's are probably easier for meat. Although they do not graze, so easier to breed more of than elk birds.
Giant Olm's:
No info, sorry! Caught some but wasn't quite sure how they bred, didn't use nest box and didn't produce offspring, i did have a breeding pair.
Giant Cave Swallow:
Positives: Trainable, Non grazer, good value multiplier, Small amount of eggs produced.
Negatives: Very annoying to catch as they can fly over traps, come in single units so hard to get breeding pair.
Recommendations: Decent for training, would not recommend for meat/egg cooking.
Giant Cave Spiders:
No info, did not manage to even get a breeding pair. Rare, but totally worth breeding for defense if you can get em.
Bugbat's:
Not much info on these, only by accidental breeding.
Positives: Come in huge packs, non grazer, common
Negatives: no value multiplier,
Recommendations: no real reason to breed them except if you catch them and lack other units to breed.
All i got for you. As that save got really really slow and unplayable so i abandoned.
I suppose lastly:
Is it worthwhile doing in the first place?
I would say definitely. As it's high quality food, (high value) = happier dwarves. It's also in abundance, If you catch something which you don't want (i catch tonnes of bugbats) you can butcher them and get more meat, could be used for training also.
Be careful of giant cave spiders, they can and will kill multiple dwarves if left to do as they please and if they don't wander into a trap. Require a minimum of 3 dwarves (2 legendaries with crazy attributes had serious trouble getting out the web)
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