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[Hypcso]

So I had a Caravan piss off some elephants on my map about 5 years ago. I had already built a couple of stonefall traps and cage traps so I was prepared for them. They came rushing in stomping all over my stonefall traps and 5 of them were captured by the cage traps. I set to taming them and found out that they actually BREED while tame. I was quite excited by the idea of loads of free meat,bones and decent protection wandering my fortress. 5 years later I have about 20 calves that are not growing up. Do elephant offspring take longer to grow up or do they never grow up?

[pushy]

Elephant calves take 10 years to reach adulthood.

[BurnedToast]

Keep in mind elephants are not really very good protection. They are similar to horses and mules - they won't attack enemies unless they have no choice, instead they run away.

I believe you can mod them to be trainable and then they do double damage (!) and will chase enemies like war dogs. I've never tested it myself but it's only one flag you need to add, the wiki should tell you how if you want to.

[Silveron]

Also, beware of taming Named Elephants... they have the taste of dwarf blood and will eternally thirst for more.