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[Maximus]

I was recently watching a great PBS series called "Guns, Germs, and Steel".  One of the interesting points it made was how important draught animals were to agriculture (in particular, tilling soil).  I know horse-carts are somewhere in the devs, but it'd be interesting to see pack animals given a role in agriculture (creation of the farm plots as well as a sped-up or improved form of fertilization).

Of course, this'd require the invention of the plough -- wood, metal, or, since they're dwarves, possibly stone.

[Capntastic]

I think they'd work better for humans, as I dunno if plough animals would work so well at tilling mud in a dark cave.

[John Hopoate]

quote:Originally posted by Capntastic:
<STRONG>I think they'd work better for humans, as I dunno if plough animals would work so well at tilling mud in a dark cave.</STRONG>

Mules and Donkeys used to pull minecarts before the whole process became mechanised, they still do in some parts of the world.

[Woodstock]

Yep, such as in the novel, Germinal.

[Toady One]

And then, the cave mule.  Offspring of the stone horse and the rock donkey.