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em1LL

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How to prevent hunters from killing certain animals
« on: April 26, 2014, 09:19:54 am »

I have several dingos on the map. How can I prevent hunters from killing them and catch them for training?
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Witty

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Re: How to prevent hunters from killing certain animals
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2014, 09:35:52 am »

You can't directly (although that would be nice). Best thing I can think of is restricting your hunters to the caverns with burrows.

The only way to catch a creature so it can be trained is to catch it in a cage trap.
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Re: How to prevent hunters from killing certain animals
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2014, 03:41:59 pm »

if the dingos are moving in a pack, I suggest building a large number of cagetraps in an area that they're likely to pass through because once the head dingo is caught the others will hang around his cage instead of pressing on. If you have a bunch of cagetraps you get a bunch of dingos
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Re: How to prevent hunters from killing certain animals
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2014, 12:31:25 pm »

Don't hunt.
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Re: How to prevent hunters from killing certain animals
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2014, 08:38:05 am »

I have several dingos on the map. How can I prevent hunters from killing them and catch them for training?
You can't train dingos at all.
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