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PatrikLundell

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Named wild beasts & caravan access?
« on: December 31, 2014, 04:01:38 am »

1. I just had a cave crocodile in the upper cavern that had a name ("peacehealer"), and I think I've seen named beasts before. Does having a name mean anything, such as indicating they are particularily dangerous, or something like that?

2. I'm involved with a semi mega project of walling off the overland map's edges to create a small number (4) of controlled access points for non flyers. If I were to leave a single access thet would be usable to wagons, will the caravan use that one, or can they enter the map at other location, conclude they can't reach my depot from there, and then promptly leave (I've had them leave immediately when I though I could lower the access bridge to the depot at the time they announced their arrival)?
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Sirbug

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Re: Named wild beasts & caravan access?
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2014, 09:04:35 am »

1. Creature gets named after it kills a named create. I think one is enough, but I'm not sure. It's not more dangerous, but it already killed someone who is probably your citizen
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Cool, but wouldn't this likely lead to tongues having a '[SPEACH]' tag, and thus via necromancy we would have nearly unkillable reanimated tongues following necromancers spamming 'it is sad but not unexpected'?

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Re: Named wild beasts & caravan access?
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2014, 09:09:43 am »

In my experience of embarking on rivers, visitors only arrive in places they can access you fort from. So if you have a river splitting the embark in half, they'll only show up on the side your dwarves are on.
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PatrikLundell

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Re: Named wild beasts & caravan access?
« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2014, 10:47:19 am »

Well, the croc killed a couple of Antmen, both of which had names, so the description fits.

I THOUGHT restricting access would cause caravans to arrive at the remaining access points, and wjmdhzgr's comment supports this assumption.
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