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[Jackrabbit]

innocent and harmless goldmines

Easier to exploit. Beats the hell out of honest work.

even if it is harder to build a catapult and fling them to there deaths. but still, honest work is nowhere near as much fun

[Armok]

This thread is just so awesome!

*The blood god approves 100%!*

[Doppel]

So apart from megabeasts only merpeople have modvalue of 50, right? Jeebus, they are gods. (well, they will be worshipped as gods in my merpeople tallow soap shrines, hihihi)

[Foa]

So apart from megabeasts only merpeople have modvalue of 50, right? Jeebus, they are gods. (well, they will be worshipped as gods in my merpeople tallow soap shrines, hihihi)

Merpeople soap shrines!

I love the OPer!!!

[Redhades]

Bump because I'm curious. Has this whole mermaid catching and farming thing been successful?
If it was, I'd like to know what the whole setup was like in the end.

[stormbringer951]

Easier for me just to wait them to arrive on land and then air-drown. I get a tidy amount of that happening.

[ThtblovesDF]

I tryed this with carp.

The got smacked under bridges.

[stormbringer951]

Anyone tried making a carp-farm yet?

[Itnetlolor]

I made quite the livestock farm before. With cows, of course.

Having a breeding pattern of:

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BCBCVeal like freaking mad. It got so busy (in more ways than one), I had been overstocked with meat in a matter of 2 years tops.

Here's a (shameless plug) sample of what I'm talking about: http://mkv25.net/dfma/poi-13995-livestock

I wonder if it would be possible to chain merpeople in such a fashion and get similar results?

EDIT:
I figure, if mega-breeding is the greater goal, and fewer males are needed, I guess you could fashion breeding grounds in this fashion:

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MFFMProvided adequate population and ratios of merpeople. Getting those numbers may be a bit tricky initially, but waiting for the numbers to increase without slaughtering could be profitable, albeit rather time consuming. Overall: freaking worth it.

[Albedo]

You're understandably confused - males/females don't need to actually touch to breed in DF.  In fact, they don't even need to be in the same room, nor even have a path between them - just out of cages. (And there is some disagreement about the cages!)

Further, you hardly need a 1:1 ratio in any breeding program, RL or DF.  The majority of males should go under the knife asap if you have no other use for them (or females once you have reached your goal for animal population.)

The only advantage to chaining them up is to keep them out from under foot, and conveniently located to where any butcher might be lurking.

If you don't believe, take a few of the females and lock them in a room with no males.  Wait until they give birth once to make sure, and then wait.

[Tigershark13]

my gawd... this game is so...glorious...*goes to do something similar*

[Argonnek]

In case anyone else might try this, wouldn't placing a huge amount of cage traps on the shore catch them as they are washed up so they don't have to air drown immediately?
You need glass for the aquariums, cuz I don't think they will survive in regular cages.

[Neruz]

Animals in DF breed via subatomic spores; these spores are so pervasive and fast that a single male in a 16x16 map will impregnate every single female of his kind on the map in seconds.

[dood_]

Dear God, I think I love you people.

[Shad0wyone]

All that is just too complicated.
Simply drain the ocean by means of lignite blocks in iron bins!