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[TheFlame52]

Caught my first cave croc, a male. Now to wait for some females to come along...and some giant olms and giant toads too. My instruments will be made only from the most valuable bones and leather!

The most valuable?

[cochramd]

Look, I already killed the only roc showed up, and I somehow doubt that there's even any others for me to catch, since sometime after its death the world passed into The Age of Straplusted. I've already used up all his bones and leather, so these guys will have to do.

Also, why aren't cave dragons more valuable than other cave beasties? Considering their dangerousness and rarity, they should at least get the 5x that elephants and giraffes do.

Edit: Oh great, yet another strange mood. Just what I need, more wealth to lure goblins to my fort. My fort's already worth over 72 million dwarfbucks; when the goblins come, they'll come in greater numbers than I've ever seen them before.

[TheFlame52]

Also, why aren't cave dragons more valuable than other cave beasties? Considering their dangerousness and rarity, they should at least get the 5x that elephants and giraffes do.

Wait, elephants are more valuable than cave dragons?

I'm sticking that in Underhaul if I ever get around to updating it.

[cochramd]

Also, why aren't cave dragons more valuable than other cave beasties? Considering their dangerousness and rarity, they should at least get the 5x that elephants and giraffes do.

Wait, elephants are more valuable than cave dragons?

I'm sticking that in Underhaul if I ever get around to updating it.

Yep, cave dragons only have a 4x modifier, while elephants, sea monster, sea serpents, giraffes and rhinoceroses all have a modifier of 5x.

Dammit, there's a giant toad in a stuck in a tree that I can't cut down. Now how am I supposed to ever catch more crocs?

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

Magma?

On a more serious (and applicable) note, have you tried markdwarves? And miners digging to a nearby pillar/down through the ceiling? And then masons building a platform and falling down and drowning when they dodge/freak out because they see a terrifying toad just shoot from the pillar.

[Spehss _]

A marksdwarf saw a giant cave crocodile during his patrol, and chased after it. He shot every bolt he had into the thing before wailing on it with his crossbow until both the crocodile and the dwarf were passing out from exhaustion and overexerted. The giant cave crocodile eventually woke up, and basically tore the unconscious marksdwarf to shreds, earning itself the name of Splattervoice.

I then watched the giant cave crocodile crawl slowly (its legs were ruined by the markswarf's shots) across the caverns towards the cavern entrance into the fort, past all the dwarves hauling wood by the cavern entrance. No interruptions, no peeps about a huge-ass cave-dwelling dwarf-eating lizard crawling by the dwarves. It crawled across a cage trap and was captured. Weird how it didn't scare anyone.

Now I have a caged wild named giant cave crocodile with a taste for dwarf blood. Wonder what I should do with it. Don't think I can tame it now that it's killed a dwarf and become an enemy of the civilization.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

Nope, you can't. But you can make a pit for it to live in, and have it eat invaders.

[cochramd]

Nope, you can't. But you can make a pit for it to live in, and have it eat invaders.

Sounds about right, though I've trained animals that had murdered one of my dwarfs before.

As I went to dig him out, the giant toad left the map, and another cave crocodile came onto the map. I caught him, making a total of 3 males caught. A female just wandered onto the map, and hopefully I'll get her too.

Also, today I took a moment to reflect on exactly how bizarre it is that I'm luring crocodiles a great distance over land and into my traps with lead statues.

[Button]

You couldn't train a critter with a taste for dwarf blood in 34.x, but I never had a problem with it in 40.x, as long as it didn't already belong to a civ.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

Hmm, really? My info's from DF2012, so that could be true. Try it and see! (I assume no responsibility for the inevitable deaths of your dwarves.)

[Staalo]

Adi Faceinches, a macegoblin from a nearby human civilization, made a petition to join my fort. I approved and recruited her to a special Foreign Legion militia squad. Now she's at the clothes stockpile, crying from joy after putting on a single smelly used sock from a laundry bin. CRYING. A SOCK.

I'm sorely tempted to name her "Dobby."

[Bakaridjan]

A dingoman axeman just showed up. Oh please, oh please request to stay. I'll even make you your own cute <small> set of candy armor.

[Dust Bunnies]

So, I've started up a new fortress...
Everything is going pretty well, except for the overcrowding, lack of water, being small, etc.

So, to help fight the overcrowding, I'm gonna build a gulag, where I send fairly disliked or unknown people to their deaths.

That way nobody will notice.

[cochramd]

Caught that female croc. I'm letting her mill with the males in a pasture right now. However, I'll wait until I've got more females before I put down any nestboxes.

[Button]

Caught that female croc. I'm letting her mill with the males in a pasture right now. However, I'll wait until I've got more females before I put down any nestboxes.

Or you could put down a nestbox and get more females that way