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MrLurkety

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"Taming" animals in adventurer mode.
« on: June 01, 2017, 09:25:11 pm »

I think we should be able to have wild animals as companions.
By giving them food, (and a bit of time; it would work better if they were children, of course.) adventurers with a good enough skill should be able to train animals and have them count as companions.
You could make a whistle menu to have stuff like "come here", "attack", and custom ones.
Please help flesh this out, as it is only a bare bones idea; I just think having a wolf pack to lead would be awesome.
Imagine sending the giant wolves against a hydra, before wading into the fray!


If this was even considered for the game at all, it, of course, would be very low priority. I just thought this would be cool.
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Shonai_Dweller

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Re: "Taming" animals in adventurer mode.
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2017, 09:57:13 pm »

Essentially everything which an NPC is able to do, the player should eventually be able to do. So that includes beast  taming. Of course there's a lot to cover in Adventurer including generally making the world an interesting place to wander round and do stuff in so it'll take a while.

For an idea of what's being considered or not, take a look at the development notes (including the big list of stuff, which is a bit old but has quite a few more long term things on it).
Coming "soon": http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev.html
The big list: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_single.html

Also Threetoes stories (one of the aims of Dwarf Fortress being the ability to theoretically randomly generate all the stuff which happens in them and other generic fantasy stories). http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_story.html

For example, the dev notes (big list) includes this:
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Req302, ADVENTURER PROFESSIONS, (Future): Need to be able to tame the lizards you find, wood work, make clothes, whatever.
which covers your suggestion.

Browse through them, then come back and suggest something not covered. Or suggest how some of this stuff could be implemented (since most of it probably hasn't been thought about in much depth yet).
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Re: "Taming" animals in adventurer mode.
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2021, 10:41:56 am »

Imagine silently petting while prone random carnivores until you have an army of them.
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Re: "Taming" animals in adventurer mode.
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2021, 11:24:25 am »

@Shonai_Dweller
That second more comprehensive list says it's outdated at the top though, is it really accurate anymore?