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Does this happen with 100% of roosters? What percent turn out gay?

'Sterility' effects roughly 25% of all creatures.

This is due to being gay, being uninterested in a relationship that produces children, or asexual.

Essentially, there needs to be a 1 bit in the "interested in children" flag area in the orientation field of the creature, which has about a 75% chance of happening.

Of interest, if you embark with 2 males and 2 females, you have an 87.8% chance of ending up with a viable breeding pair.  With 3 males and 3 females your chances of getting a breeding pair is 96.9%.

I find that the animals I usually bring (Cats, Dogs, Peafowl) are cheap enough that I can stand to bring more of them at embark by culling some of the fluff from embark (Replace all the pigtail cloth and yarn with sheep yarn, dump the crutches and splints, dump the axe for a few chunks of wood, dump the buckets, etc).

Pigs, if you bring them, are a bit harder to justify the extra embarkation expense.  However, I see wild boar often enough that I've stopped bringing pigs.

Quote from: Mimodo on August 31, 2014, 08:06:27 pm

When a random citizen transforms into a were beast in the middle of the dining room and brutally butchers over 20 children plus a couple of others.

This happened to me in my last fort; the affected woodcutter turned into a werebadger in the dining hall, and my military refused to attack him. Thankfully, he was holding a sock, so he only murdered one monkey and crippled one citizen.

Werebeasts are fun that way.  The werepanda that I ran into a few weeks ago wrestled a hat off one of my lumberjacks, chased him around for a while whapping him with it, fell into the river, turned back into a human, and drowned.

I could just imagine him as he sank to the bottom going, "Well, that certainly could have gone a lot better."

Of note, do not be lulled into a false sense of security by DF's initial install size of 50MB.  Depending on if you have auto and backup saves enabled, it can very, very quickly grow to over 1GB.  DF is not a game to throw on that old 128MB thumb-drive you have sitting in the shoe-box under the bed.

For thumb-drive players who want to do backup saves or worlds with long history, I highly recommend at least a 4GB thumb drive.

Not that that's a big problem at all.  These days you can snag an 8g drive for around $5, or a 32G drive for around $15.  Just, don't try re-purposing an old 512meg thumb-drive unless you keep your world small, history short, and/or disable backup saves.

That said, if you snag yourself a 3.0 USB stick of more than 4GB and drop DF on it, you'll not see any discernible difference between playing off that and playing off an SSD*.  You know, in a situation of both tested against each other on the same PC.  Your mileage is going to mostly vary on what PC you're plugged into at the moment.

*Tested just now on my home PC.  My 3.0 USB stick had exactly the same frame-rate as my SATA 3 SDD.  Likely because most of the game is front-loaded into memory, so saving, loading, and page-loading are the only places you'll actually see any difference (I did not time my save-load time, just subjectively noticed that there didn't seem to be much difference in save and load times). It seems that those performance hits get buried behind the active-game FPS killers anyway, so no big deal.

Quote from: Tacomagic on August 31, 2014, 04:53:07 pm

Is the flashing regular, or intermittent?

Regular.

Quote from: Tacomagic on August 31, 2014, 04:53:07 pm

Maybe upload the save so we can take a peak at the dog and see if anything is up?

What files should I upload?

Just zip up your region folder.  We basically need the whole folder to load the save.

Quote from: Akura on August 30, 2014, 12:20:28 pm

What kind of flashing?

It looks like the following:

Quote from: Dunamisdeos on August 30, 2014, 12:28:31 pm

It could be injured, or scarred.

No.

Typically brown like that indicates crouching.  No idea why it would be flashing, thoug.  Is the flashing regular, or intermittent?

Maybe upload the save so we can take a peak at the dog and see if anything is up?

Quote from: Girlinhat on August 31, 2014, 12:19:04 pm

"Your might has broken."

It's not over until it's OVER.  I've gone from 70 dwarves with a blossoming economy of spider silk, caged megabeasts, and steel forges, down to one adamantine-clad soldier sleeping in the dining hall, stepping over the corpses of his compatriots as he risks total insanity... and back up to 130 with a flourishing military.  It's not over until every dwarf is dead, and as long as there's one dwarf with a good arm, then there's a way to grab an axe.  And really, what can't you survive so long as you've got an axe?

Did you build an epic room or something for that one surviving dwarf?

Was probably one of those "doesn't care about anything" dwarves.

A vile force of darkness has arrived!

*only 13 dwarves, no soldiers, no weapons*

I hear you.  Had a good one in 40.09:

7 Dwarves vs 35 undead.  Hadn't yet gotten around to building a lockdown bridge.

Ended pretty much as you'd expect.

So I could remove all climbing tags (optional) and see if it makes a difference. I hope that this can be done on a running save.

Active worldgen... mh, maybe lower population per site, or less sites per civ?

Seems likely.  Haven't tried population capping, but I had toyed with the idea.

However, since you can't cap the world population after you've already genned a world, it's a hard one to definitively call without several trials... and probably a T-test.