So things did not turn out so bad with the flying elephants afterall. I built 20 cage traps before they left the map, but the crafty buggers flew right over them. No Dumbo in our circus this year. It is now the 24th of Limestone, so we're in early fall. Time to start worrying about the start of caravans, although I have no idea how many or when they will arrive between all these civilizations.
But this is where things get interesting.
I continued building roughly as planned with the cavern. It turns out robots need oil though (for their sexy robo-tans), so I planted a few fields below the cavern, irrigated by it. Perhaps I will prepare an underground tree farm someday soon.
Anyway, over the course of the summer lots of animals wandered onto this map in the heart of deepest
Africa Absolute World. We caught a solitary
Giant Jaguar who was hunting the flying elephants. He is the animal I most want to get breeding, as soon as I can find him a lady Jaguar.
Soon after I caught a pair of male
sandshrew.
Followed by an entire
herd of
Giraffes. We now have 2 bull and 4 cow giraffes caged up in the basement. I think I'll keep the best looking male and 2 females, and turn the others into very tall sandwiches.
Of course the
giraffes were being chased by a flock of
Buzzards, who then hung around harassing our pet
iguanas (fertile little bastards didn't notice) until I could get the cage traps reset. It's like the
buzzards kept circling the cages until they could get caught. Clearly life in the Badlands is rough on these guys. I'm not sure why they're so fat.
When I thought the wildlife had calmed down enough to stop walking into my traps, I went to oversee the production of chains from the copper wire we'd discovered above the cavern (possible our great-great-grand-robots). I'd like to have at least a pair of each animal chained or caged up in my zoo area before the first traders come. Accidents are fine, but I don't want an extinction.
Here is the zoo as it currently stands:
As soon as I was done being distracted with that, our first wave of migrants came. I'll be naming them in a little bit. There were only 5 though, so we currently have 12 robots. They brought a
Pidgeotto and a baby
Bulbasaur with them.
Just when I thought the animal influx was over, I checked the units page and it turns out the other machines caught 8 more animals while I wasn't looking. A
male and 2 female Armadillos, and the best 5 catches of the game...
3 Large Radscorpions, pincered and poisonous and ready to breed.
and
2 Fire Geckos. They breath fire and they have a toxic substance in their stomachs that bursts into flame when exposed to the air. Sadly both female. But hey, at least they can get impregnated the next time a fire gecko wanders onto the map.
So I have 22 caged animals that need taming. I need to turn a few of them into meat. Then it's time to prepare my minions for battle.
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