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Alex Encandar

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Do wild animals reproduce?
« on: December 17, 2007, 08:00:00 pm »
I want to create a giant spider silk farm, but I'm wondering if I could create a massive brood of them, which would be next to impossible by just catching them all. Anyways, just curious, thx.

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Re: Do wild animals reproduce?
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2007, 08:46:00 pm »
Im not sure, with all the animals migrating all the time, it's hard to say if they do or not.
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Re: Do wild animals reproduce?
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2007, 09:00:00 pm »
Yes, they do, but they're usually not on the map long enough.
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Alex Encandar

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Re: Do wild animals reproduce?
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2007, 09:11:00 pm »
So if I were to keep a contained group of giant cave spiders in an enclosed space, then they would grow? Oh, and I'm assuming they don't need to eat?
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Dame de la Licorne

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Re: Do wild animals reproduce?
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2007, 09:33:00 pm »
As long as you have a male and a female yes.  However, I believe that there is currently a bug where animals in cages don't breed.
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Alex Encandar

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Re: Do wild animals reproduce?
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2007, 09:36:00 pm »
No problem there, I intend to let them roam semi-free in a large room.
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Re: Do wild animals reproduce?
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2007, 09:37:00 pm »
They do.  In one of the maps I've been playing, a female rhesus macaque fell into a dry lake.  I had captured some male macaques and every now and then I'll get an announcement about the trapped female giving birth.
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Re: Do wild animals reproduce?
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2007, 09:39:00 pm »
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Originally posted by Alex Encandar:
<STRONG>Oh, and I'm assuming they don't need to eat?</STRONG>

Forgot to answer that part of your question.  Animals in cages need the "animal care" skill to stay alive, but otherwise I think they fend for themselves.  At least, I've never had a problem with animals starving to death and I just enable that skill on a couple of dwarfs.

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Quote from: Mandaril on October 22, 2009, 12:56:46 am
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Re: Do wild animals reproduce?
« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2007, 09:44:00 pm »
Ah cool, thx, I'll be suer to post pics once I have it up and running  :D
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Re: Do wild animals reproduce?
« Reply #9 on: December 17, 2007, 09:47:00 pm »
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Originally posted by Dame de la Licorne:
<STRONG>

Forgot to answer that part of your question.  Animals in cages need the "animal care" skill to stay alive, but otherwise I think they fend for themselves.  At least, I've never had a problem with animals starving to death and I just enable that skill on a couple of dwarfs.</STRONG>

i keep animals in cages just fine with nobody with that skill. i tend to capture quite a few animals and just leave em in the stockpile for a year or 2 before i ever get or train up an animal trainer

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Re: Do wild animals reproduce?
« Reply #10 on: December 17, 2007, 10:11:00 pm »
I've had a cow and a bull, both caged, have calves. Caged animals breed, even if they're both in a cage.

Now, will kobolds breed? Because that could get annoying. I'm not talking about thieves; I mean a kobold cave.

And does that mean I should expect those batmen, ratmen, at troglodytes to breed from my chasm? Because those stick around a while, right?

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