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[Skullkid]

Hi, could'nt find help in the existing posts... I have captured a gazillion hamsters and two legged rhino lizards and am trying to tame them at the kennel but it keeps telling me I need a small animal item. What should I do ?

[Garath]

I'm sorry, I don't know, but I want to ask in return "why would you want to?"

Just out of curiosity.

[Maxmurder]

they are tamed using the same workflow as large animals now...

[Skullkid]

Well, because I asked my butcher to trap live land animals and all he got me is this bunch of useless little living things... Otherwise, how can I release them from the traps (and hopefully get stumped on by my dwarves on their way out) ?

[Garath]

As long as you have some animal cages you should be able to free them. I did it some time ago, but have to admit, no clue how anymore.

[Skullkid]

I would know how to free them as well if they were in cages but they are in traps right now

[Snaake]

IIRC you can assign them to a built cage, if they're currently in your animal stockpile in their traps.

Good luck letting them roam completely free from the cages though, haven't figured that out yet myself.

The official reason for taming small animals is for pets for dwarves/animals for a zoo, or for trade to caravans, I presume

[dexxy]

I tried to free small vermin animals from cages a couple of times when I didn't have any animal traps. This is a bad mistake because you get spammed with a message that I forgot the exact wording of.

If the vermin animals are in cages, it's pretty easy to build the cage somewhere outside your walls, and then connect it to a lever, pull the lever, and the vermin gets out and later disappears.

Or if you have animal traps, you can build the cage, and then using "q" to assign animals to the cage, unassign the vermin. Don't do this if you don't have animal traps or you will get spammed!

I don't see much point in training vermin. Some dwarfs might be unhappy about seeing vermin, so it would be better that the vermin aren't around so they can't see them. Also if vermin take up processing power, you would be better off with a pig, dog, or bear, which is a much more useful animal to have around. May as well spend your FPS on something useful.

[Panando]

I build a cage, assign all the vermin to the cage, then when the elves come, I deconstruct the cage and sell it to them. I particularly like to exchange a lead cage full of wild hamsters for a tame grizzly bear or something.

[Snaake]

I don't see much point in training vermin. Some dwarfs might be unhappy about seeing vermin, so it would be better that the vermin aren't around so they can't see them. Also if vermin take up processing power, you would be better off with a pig, dog, or bear, which is a much more useful animal to have around. May as well spend your FPS on something useful.

Not all vermin are hateable.